I second this request. I really enjoyed the GPLP Dante's Inferno episodes. Would be nice to be able to rewatch them again.

I'm a 3 hour 45 minute drive from National Harbor, MD. I'm curious when LRR would be having their main panel/events if applicable? I'm debating if I could make it on Saturday/Sunday

That's really helpful Master! Thanks so much

Lord Hosk wrote:Also, make sure you dont forget when judging how much effort to put in.

Oh snap, I almost forgot. But then again, there was something quite special and epic about the 14 point run that happened way back in DB2 or whatever it was.

Indeed, perhaps there isn't really enough data to get any kind of accurate prediction. But the math is interesting nonetheless.

I just found that the Weibull distribution is like an exponential distribution, but incorporates a failure rate that increases or decreases over time. This is exactly what is needed I think to incorporate fatigue into the model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull_distribution

So, as a mathematician and long time fan of Desert Bus / LRR, I sometimes find myself thinking of ways to possibly contribute to next year's event. I came up with the question of how one might optimally choose the order of drivers so as to maximize the number of consecutive points obtained. This que...

Am I the only one here who isn't as big a fan of Checkpoint? Don't get me wrong, it can be entertaining. I just think CP was a bit of a forced niche and wasn't really playing to the group's biggest talents. But the weekly sketches and any offshoots like Friday Nights and CH are really what keep me i...

Mark de Clive Lowe's new project: I'm really diggin' this guy's music. Part improvised, part planned. Combines jazz elements with acoustic/electronic dance styles. And he does is LIVE. Quite a multitasker.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mdc ... bum-church

Just realized the last two videos went directly to YouTube instead of to the Escapist.

The "what's in your bag" bit was pretty clever and comedically relevant given the recent string of lame internet videos addressing that very question.

every time I miss the window for asking questions. Sigh..

Not too bad actually. It would be just 267 hours.

And to make the team bus even for 1 year (8760 hours) would cost in the range of 3.6*10^(258) dollars (many orders of magnitude more than the number of elementary particles in the universe)

This song is freakin' awesome. I think I'll be seeing em' play at the Vanguard in NYC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNI-2i6t7Zs

Cuong Vu - Vina's Lullaby (currently one of my favorite ballads) Recently, I've also been listening to: Chris Cheek, Lettuce - Lettsanity, and also some Jojo Mayer & Nerve Probably most people in these parts are like "i don't like that stuff. sounds too esoteric and jazz sucks." But I ...

Recently I've been listening to some of comedian Bill Burr's Monday podcast. It can make for some funny commentary:

www.billburr.com/podcast

Given the money/resources/whatever and no work obligation, I think I'd want to live in Taiwan or Shanghai for however many years necessary to improve my Mandarin to fluent levels. I also really would love to live in New York City since they have perhaps the best improvised music scene. So maybe that...

Currently I'm in my first postdoc way the hell out in Finland, and I'm working on a problem which has been exceedingly difficult to tackle (in mathematics by the way). It can be so freaking frustrating that it makes me wish I was doing a job that wasn't so self-defeating, like pastry chef or somethi...

Being a jazz musician myself I'm always biased toward music with instrumental improvisation of some sort, but still Christmas songs get kind of tiring to me. It's hard to find renditions that aren't a bit tacky. Unfortunately, most stores play pretty cheesy stuff. A couple of my favorite renditions ...

The only significant problem I see is the potential shipping costs outweighing the cost of the item by quite a big margin

I need to do a new version, to fix a bunch of things. Fugi's loop starts really slow, then speeds up Yup. 1:30 Jer stops looping Yeah. 2:05 Striped-shirt girl (sorry, I don't know your name) on the middle right stops looping Liz. Yes. 2:09 Blue-shirt girl on the left (sorry, I don't know your name ...

Nice work and interesting skim, as I myself am a math PhD, though optimization/machine learning is not my area. But I actually did some work for a big data analytics company this past summer, so most of it resonates.

I'm really excited at how serious and professional the preparation and improvement efforts have gotten over the years. Should be the best DB yet. Indeed, the night owl hours are some of my favorites due to some of the more interesting conversations that can happen among a more close-knit group and t...

I am really amazed at how, except for Eclipse (this required some research on my part), all the Twilight movies have come out right around the time of Desert Bus. Like clockwork.

Being this will be the last in the film series (hopefully?), I suppose a special challenge should be in order.

I don't think I would miss much if the hardcore red states on that list actually seceded.

So, here's the something I thought of regarding duplicate challenges from multiple people. If you get 100 people requesting Caramelldansen, you're probably going to see it come up every single time you refresh for dance challenges, even if it's random. And then after you've done it once in a given ...