[Martinus]

Originally posted by CP5670
As far as mission building goes, mostly real history, other missions and of course, math. (I don't write much aside from mission text and cannot model a thing)

[color=66ff00]Just interested; exactly what is it about mathematics that inspires you? As a person who really doesn't understand it I have a natural difficulty seeing why people would be interested in it. Why does it 'rock your world'?
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[beatspete]

what inspires me?  Usually memories of my favourite bits of freespace.

[tEAbAG]

I smoke my inspiration:

[Nico]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Just interested; exactly what is it about mathematics that inspires you? As a person who really doesn't understand it I have a natural difficulty seeing why people would be interested in it. Why does it 'rock your world'?
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coz that makes you busy when you have no social life.

[Nuclear1]

Bah, ainsi la langue française m'inspire. J'aime pousser l'oreille géante branche des boîtes de civière de chat. J'aime également pousser les admins à plusieurs reprises jusqu'à ce qu'ils m'interdisent.

Bah, also die deutsche Sprache spornt mich an. Ich mag shoving riesiges Ohr anschließe Katzesänftekästen. Ich mag auch die admins immer wieder stoßen, bis sie mich verbieten.

[Nico]

Originally posted by nuclear1
Bah, ainsi la langue française m'inspire. J'aime pousser l'oreille géante branche des boîtes de civière de chat. J'aime également pousser les admins à plusieurs reprises jusqu'à ce qu'ils m'interdisent.

"bah, so the french language inspires me. I like to push the giant ear out of cats stretchers boxes. I also like  pushing admins multiple times until they forbid me."

ok, as a reminder: babelfish is bad, m'k?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Venom


"bah, so the french language inspires me. I like to push the giant ear out of cats stretchers boxes. I also like  pushing admins multiple times until they forbid me."

ok, as a reminder: babelfish is bad, m'k?

You know, that's what I thought the gist of the sentence was but I guessed I must have been reading it wrong

EDIT : Anyone care to translate the german to see if it's similarly pythonesque?

[StratComm]

Yes, Babelfish is consistantly cryptic in the sentences it produces, no matter what language you are going to/from.  Try translating that back to English and see what it does.  Personally, I consider an algorithm bad if it can't return the original entry, but that's just me.  It's still about as good an electronic translator as you are going to find.

[karajorma]

I know Babelfish will almost certainly have done a bad job. I'd just wondered how bad it did with the german. Using babelfish again won't tell me that cause then it's had two attempts to screw up

[CP5670]

Just interested; exactly what is it about mathematics that inspires you? As a person who really doesn't understand it I have a natural difficulty seeing why people would be interested in it. Why does it 'rock your world'?

I like the stuff mainly because it's completely abstract, fully precise and also beautiful at times. If you have ever taken a course in any sort of number theory (especially analytic), you might see what I mean about the last.

Yes, Babelfish is consistantly cryptic in the sentences it produces, no matter what language you are going to/from. Try translating that back to English and see what it does. Personally, I consider an algorithm bad if it can't return the original entry, but that's just me. It's still about as good an electronic translator as you are going to find.

I think one of the funniest things to do with it is to translate into every available language and then back once each to end up with what is supposedly English. It creates a complete mess of the text; here is an example I posted some months ago:

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[Gortef]

Originally posted by CP5670

I think one of the funniest things to do with it is to translate into every available language and then back once each to end up with what is supposedly English. It creates a complete mess of the text; here is an example I posted some months ago:

 

The map of the east, that one is classified with him, in easy the front part of he he the work that does not changed anything, contract of the side of }rho{ of Deneb. of the thing of it penalizes and the Suivret that is and in the most inferior piece of the movement that does not make to know division 21,3,5 in the GTVA that is approved.... .... ....

(My head hurts allready)

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Just interested; exactly what is it about mathematics that inspires you? As a person who really doesn't understand it I have a natural difficulty seeing why people would be interested in it. Why does it 'rock your world'?
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Dude. Math rocks. Its like... perfect. Physics is cool, but it always comes down to probability in the end. Nothing is as perfect and internally and externally consistent as maths.

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael


Dude. Math rocks. Its like... perfect. Physics is cool, but it always comes down to probability in the end. Nothing is as perfect and internally and externally consistent as maths.

pb is, perfection is boring

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by mikhael


Dude. Math rocks. Its like... perfect. Physics is cool, but it always comes down to probability in the end. Nothing is as perfect and internally and externally consistent as maths.

I prefer physics. Maths usually boils down to so many laws that no longer logic, but just learning the equations.

[diamondgeezer]

Mate of mine reads physics at uni - he reckons some of it is more like philosphy then actual science, like writing an essay's worth of bull**** about his theories on temporal pardoxes and being given an A.

[Nico]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Mate of mine reads physics at uni - he reckons some of it is more like philosphy then actual science, like writing an essay's worth of bull**** about his theories on temporal pardoxes and being given an A.

well, that's when you're a studient

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Stunaep


I prefer physics. Maths usually boils down to so many laws that no longer logic, but just learning the equations.

Physics boils down to really fruity paradoxical craziness (which is why its beautiful). Quantum teleportation is an excellent example. It makes no sense. The function just becomes suddenly discontinuous.

Math on the other hand stays entirely logical all the time. It is entirely internally consistent. The rules stay the same in every part of a problem domain.

Of course you can't be serious about physics without being serious about math.

[an0n]

Back on-topic:

The only things which have ever inspired me are my own evilness, lust for power, lust for money and hatred of the human race.

Other than that, everything I do is down to my survival instinct.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Venom


pb is, perfection is boring

[color=66ff00]Exactly, perhaps that's why I've never really liked maths, dealing with absolutes makes no sense to me.
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[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by CP5670
mostly real history

Come to think of it, I think this what Eddie took a lot from too. He always drew rough sketches in modern history class. They didn't make any sense back then, but I can recognise some of them in renders I see at his site.