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New computer arrived last week! It has so many cores, it would be a crime not to call it hardcore (clux takes full responsibility for that terrible pun).

Is done, unless I can find some more places to improve. Fortunately, I think there's such a small gap for improvement so if I don't get it in the next few days or so, I will finish this haphazard gaming project. I'll try to stitch the original captures together in one high quality avi and find some hosting soon. In the mean time here are the time table. Note, this is done on easy difficulty with all items. Speed was the only focus.


1'39 - Astral Academy
2'05 - Academy Hallways
1'24 - Wolvercote Catacombs
0'59 - Dragon Graveyard
1'31 - Crystal Caverns
1'29 - Crypt of the Damned
1'43 - Forsaken Dungeons
1'10 - Throne of the Lost King
1'39 - Fangle Forest
1'04 - Shadowthorn Thicket
2'07 - Ruins of the Perished
1'08 - Heartland Mines
1'50 - Bramblestoke Village
2'09 - Iron Forge
0'55 - Tower of Sarek

22'52 - Trine

+0'43 - Path to New Dawn (DLC in v1.07)



The game is great fun. Ninja rope in a 2D platformer, I shouldn't need to say more. It is like playing a more sophisticated part of worms 2. If you haven't played it, and plan on playing it, maybe you shouldn't watch these. Otherwise, embrace the hypnotism of the eternal swinging ninja rope and triangle flying.

I will try to add it to SDA soon, but for now here is a low-quality youtube playlist.

Edit: A month later and I improved 47s in total in two days on hallways (5s), graveard (8s), perished (7s), sarek (5s), bramblestoke (7s), forge (11s) & lost king (4s). Now it is really done.

Edit2: The speedrun is in the verification process on SDA, and a new level was released in the patch: another climbing level. It's been added to the playlist with a time of 43s. Capped this in 60fps so it went super smoothly.

From Google Analytics.

Yesterday, my daily visits improved by, wait for it;

15,288.89%

Thank you girl-toy. I will summon your powers in the future!
Perhaps when I figure out how adsense works.. Ahh, big business.

The girlfriend is, on the other hand, very suprised, but pleased with the outcome. Thank you my fellow faphunters.

My girlfriend posing in a bikini by Longum for your benefit. Hope you enjoy, and remember that when these kind of shots appear here, this should dramatically simplify your facebook stalking needs from our behalf. Go ahead, remove us from fb, do yourself a favour.

By the way, you really do not want to look at her like that, she might like it as much as you do.

Also, as a final warning to parents who still continue to defy my admonishments about browsing my site. Herein lies only semi-naked girls serving only as a depressing reminder of our bodily deterioration. For the normal internet demographic it serves different purposes. We youngsters call it research.

My name is clux, and I’m a pirate.

“Yarr, clux!”

yarr..

I started downloading in my teenage years on napster as a result of peer2peer pressure, but later I moved on to more powerful stuff like direct connect and bittorrent. I felt like all the information of the world was ready to infuse with my brain on mouseclick demand. Generations’ worth of music was ready to play after a little loading; I told myself I would just duplicate those files a little more before I went to bed. I only had a small circle of likeminded users to call my friends, and my social ineptitude only aggravated my addiction. Little did I know I was trapped in a downward spiral; a gateway to death metal.

My bitstream IV is clocking in at hundreds of Gigabits a day, and still increasing, but nowadays people look down upon us. “Why would you autodownload everything via a feed” they’d say. They could not understand. The ease. The efficiency. It’s simply too great.

Then we have the filecatchers; the most soulless of the lawyers. Always looking for us delinquents, monitoring the activity on major torrents, forcing us to move underground; to less stable releases. Monsters, they are, other releases are encoded by newbs and does not conform to the strict regulations of scene releases. They know what they are doing. They want us to stop using. Try our free program they’d say, tis just like bittorrent. But then you have to pay to download unless you want lots of ads or Beyonce. I’m a student! Do you want me to sell my body for music! I had a friend who did that, but he said he got DRM from some guy who wasn’t protected. I don’t want to end up like that.

For the last couple of years I have been using ip blacklisters while delusionally believing things would remain the same, but they are clearly not. I have a disease. And until I admit I am powerless to this disease and place my faith in a higher power, I am going to continue to alienate those around me.

Even if they aren’t the sharpest people.

Thank you.

It’s been a while since my last status update on here, but unusually important events have been going on in my life. Events that might put this site under scrutiny. Scrutiny that can cast a shadow of self-doubt over any self-conscious blogger, not to mention one with the prospect of being hired. In all honesty, I should probably have cared more about leaving my inappropriate email on my CV. Incredibly surprising story short, I was hired, and am now known as the analsandblaster.

In the interest of preserving my defective cautiousness, I will only say that I work just outside of London, am supposed to be programming in C++, and there’s a ton of really cool and powerful technology in use over here. Excitement++ in other words.

There has not been much programming for me so far, as I have just received two giant books filled with specifications and standards required to understand anything. Which leads me to what I really came here to talk about.

I have discovered a pretty good recursive measure of how well you truly know a topic. Say you are given a technical book, and you are a good student who Wikipedias for everything that seems important but do not understand. If such a result returns a page containing other critical definitions also necessary to Wikipedia to understand the original, you would have to make a recursive Wikipedia call. If you average 3 recursive calls (or 3 sub-calls from the original in some branching fashion) then you will find it very frustrating to be a good student. If you average close to 0, you are an expert filling in the blanks, but anything over 1.5 means you know very little.

This number is essentially the measure. I was going at a pretty solid 1 today, so I propose we call this unit of measurement one clux after my mediocre performance, and measure it in sub-wikis per wiki, defining the edge measurement to be infinity for 0 wikis.

if this gets adopted, I am either bound for a new nick, or mediocrity

This is just an official note that the tournament system I thought would be finished a week after graduation, is now actually finished. There are also a few usability changes, so I will list the most significant ones. Read on for details, but if you just want the quick intro, check out the public showcase tournament to see how things look/work. If you are not a registered user, it is also the first time you can actually view the event system as well.

As a small effort in self-gratification after finishing uni, I have been looking into getting tournament scheduling possibilities coded into clux.org. Initially, I planned on doing this last year before it went live by hooking it into the already unreasonably complex (for this site anyway) event system - which you can only see by registering - but it turned out to take a little more mental effort than I expected. In particular, the problem of how to order seeds into the tournament bracket seemed a bit random. I think it's worked out now however, so I thought I'd share. Venture on if that interests you.

Oh, and my custom renderer is installed for the maths geeks (so for this site: myself), so all maths is now properly rendered in cool transparent white font gifs. As a maths graduate (which feels awesome), this is pretty much a necessity!

I am unofficially a first class master of mathematics! My fourth year results arrived in my inbox today, which means I get to throw the canonical square hat in the air at the 19th of July! Oh, and ding: Achievement unlocked! Nothing like putting the good old gaming spin on serious achievements, and I reckon this one would be worth a couple of thousand G's - which is Xbox achievement currency for the uninitiated. The Xbox logo was easier/cooler to shop than the steam one, which is why this unfamiliar lingo is put forth. The shopping action still took me way too long for this.. Oh well!



Anyway, these are my last results ever. If anything I do ever gets posted up here, they should be amongst them.

Matrix Analysis & Algorithms 71
Algebraic Number Theory 80
Galois Theory 67
Topics in Number Theory 83
Elliptic Curves 83
Lie Algebras 59
Project 76
Computational Linear Algebra & Optimization 77

Second batch of shots from Norway summer with brothar in his new place. The good times are abundant (mostly thanks to awesome girl), and the chilling is endless. Incidentally, my fourth year marks should be released today, this should distract me from that fact.