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Well, if your lanes are going to take teleports, you actually have to use them effectively. I never end up using mine well when I take it because I'm bad at remembering that my F key isn't Smite, but you made some bad calls on it that actually really hurt you. For example, in the one game against the Penn State people, you had a key decision on whether to send Bryff or Heimer to defend against a splitpushing Shy while the rest of the team pushed mid. You chose
[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="11" id="3453308"]We do a massive amount of GPU computing at our company (we have an entire GPU cluster). The problem for NVidia is that we, and everyone else, have discovered that we can get as good performance with the consumer level cards as we can with the high-end professional ones. They've recently modified their driver EULA to try to prevent this, but it doesn't surprise me that they're also addressing it by simply increasing prices a
As somebody said, I doubt that these cards are aimed at gamers. It can be advisable to write certain classes of programs (generally those that are highly parallelizable) to use GPUs instead of CPUs. nVidia has this big CUDA framework for doing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA I would assume that cards at this kind of pricepoint are for this - you make a supercomputer with these at a research facility.
[quote who="pacov" reply="4785" id="3450579"]fug it. I'm going to get educated about hearthstone today and give it a go. Prob won't play much, but def will check it out.[/quote] Hearthstone is extremely similar to Magic the Gathering, so if you've ever played that, you are about 90% of the way there. I remembered enough from my time with that a long time ago that I could get into it very quickly.
For those of you who play Hearthstone - I'm Krazikarl#1918 in Hearthstone (and Diablo 3). I haven't been playing a lot of Hearthstone in the last few weeks, but if others are playing it I'd probably show up more. I'm not so great at constructed in Hearthstone - I like playing midrange decks, which currently suck. And I can't really be bothered to read up on how to build the most OP decks. But I think I'm pretty good at arena anyway.</p
Eh, its fine. It just means that my bot lanes won't autofeed a bunch of deaths in midgame when they push the lane against a Pantheon jungle. NOT THAT I'M THINKING ABOUT ANYBODY IN PARTICULAR.
[quote who="pacov" reply="4764" id="3448735"] Also - interesting article about jungle camp priorities that I didn't know. the tl;dr is that it is more beneficial to kill the smaller camp minons first (only talking wolves/wraiths/dbl golums). You end up taking less damage as a result. http://cloth5.com/optimizing-damage-minimizing-damage-taken/ [/quote] Eh, I think this was generally known - wasn't this why
Hrm, I didn't realize that Titanfall was out. Will probably have to check that out some this weekend. Although I might not have a whole lot of time then. I've been playing more Diablo III anyway, since that game is WAY better than it was at release as they have prepared for the expansion in a few weeks.
[quote who="pacov" reply="4710" id="3444256"]Think we are just going to disagree here - you aren't factoring in all the variables. 1 - you will have more hp than annie without dorans shield. You have it from health quints.[/quote] Excluding quints, Annie has ~50 more health if you don't take Doran's - you have higher base, but she has more from the item overall. If you throw in the quints (and assume she doesn't take health quints), you have about 25
[quote who="pacov" reply="4707" id="3444226"]there is higher dmg potential at level 2/3 over annie, but it requires actually making use of leona's passive... which can be proc'd by any dmg... including a long range q from sivir... [/quote] At level 2 with no AP, Annie QW does 165 damage. Leona QE does 140 even if you count both sunlight procs. If you want to count AP - Annie has roughly double the AP scaling (and Leona isn't likely to have any anyway
[quote who="pacov" reply="4705" id="3444150"]So, in the lobby I see I'm up against a bot lane annie. I get leona. Leona with a halfway decent adc craps all over annie early/midish. Once we hit level 2, barring a damaging gank, we should have lane control and be zoning them out.[/quote] Not really. You keep insisting that "Leona counters Annie", but then I see people pick Annie into Leona all the time in LCS and Diamond streams. I just don't see it
[quote who="pacov" reply="4702" id="3444007"] anyone know off the top of their head my placement series stats? I'll have to look it up if anyone doesn't know. I've played 8 games. 2/1 tonight. Previous 5 games = smeh if I remember right. [/quote] You are 4-4. I believe that you are right around Silver I right now from what I can determine.
You should do better Leona builds in ranked. Maxing Q first over W hurts me. I can kind of see not taking Doran's Shield to start I guess, but not having any points in W until like 30 minutes is kind of crazy.
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="2076" id="3441862"] This relates in a general way. And should please those who consider me a quack. [/quote] Yeah, the line of criticism from your link is certainly fair in some cases. But it doesn't really apply to this specific field. Its a MASSIVE problem in Biology and medical fields. There is enormous pressure from corporate sources (which are a much bigger source of funding than most fields in bio/medicine) to produce
[quote who="starkers" reply="2077" id="3442086"]And who stands to gain the most from it should the world accept these findings?[/quote] Well, thats pretty easy. The money is overwhelmingly on the ANTI Global Warming side. Most practical research is done by graduate students and postdocs. A grad student generally makes ~20-25k a year. Postdocs are currently at about 30-40k. Those numbers are for physics, since thats the field that I'm familiar with,
[quote who="Jafo" reply="2070" id="3441358"]Oh...I'm entirely aware of 'significant figures' but you see....where it DOES NOT apply to Architecture is in the regulation of dimensioning standards.[/quote] This isn't an architecture conversation. This is a science conversation. And we have been very careful to qualify our statements by saying things like "IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS...". You might say something like "well, you are talking about rooms, so
[quote who="Jafo" reply="2067" id="3441338"]But even then...'140' is wrong.[/quote] Please read the link that I included. Specifically, the bit about using significant figures and multiplication (and note that it includes some equations which are actually not correct from a purely mathematical perspective, but are correct in the context of sig figs). I'll quote the relevant part: "When multiplying or dividing numbers, the result is rounded to the&n
All of this does feed into Global Warming, the topic here. Global Warming models are sophisticated physical models which use a lot of math, but as we are trying to show above, this is NOT the same as a purely mathematical model. It is just easier to do this with a few basic examples, rather than trying to jump to modeling something as ungodly complicated as the entire planet. After all, if we can't agree on how to compute the area of a room by multiplying two numbers tog
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="2056" id="3440943"] Nice to know: mathematical solutions are worthless. Pretty much takes care of the AGW argument. We can all go home now.[/quote] Yeah, because he gave an example of ONE situation in which a purely mathematical solution is not applicable, it logically follows that ALL models which have math are worthless. Because that's how logic works.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="2040" id="3440377"]10x10=100 ....not 'about 100-ish'.... [and I'll need to 'model it first to be sure'] Please stick to your parrotted 'opinions' on Global Warming and leave Mathematics out of it. It is clearly NOT your sphere of education. Physics and other mathematical sciences are NOT approximations of some arbitrary bullshit guesswork.[/quote] Eh, I might have missed part of this conversation, but let
Well, that quit by me was pretty cool. My computer had that fun once in a month crash where the graphics card decides to murder everything. Not even a blue screen - everything just dies.
[quote who="pacov" reply="4664" id="3439228"] keep going karl![/quote] Ok - 4-0 now with an easy Vi win. My top lane got crushed since he didn't save his masteries, but my bot lane was really good and carried.
3-0 in placements now. It was a good thing I was playing jungle WW so I could carry it. My team was actually good in teamfights, but they tried to lose it in early/mid game.
