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the number tournament

what is the best number? you decide! submissions will stay open until I decide to close them.

hello, tumblr! we've all had a lot of fun voting in polls and putting our favorite blorbos and blorbinojn against each other, and now I think it's time for.......

THE NUMBER TOURNAMENT

uncountably infinite options to choose from, but only one can be the champion! I mean, only one number can be the champion. the number "one" may or may not end up being the champion.

anyway submit your favorite numbers! any type of number is valid, even things that aren't numbers as long as they're sufficiently numerical! I'm gonna keep submissions open until I have enough to make a well-seeded bracket from the most popular options. go wild!

I’ll also add: get an RSS reader app.

Most individual comic websites will have an RSS feed you can subscribe to, meaning that you don’t have to memorize/write down each comics’ update schedule or check the website to see if the comic has updated.

Before I knew about RSS, I would choose to read on Tapas or Webtoon if a comic was available there because following a comic on its own website was just less convenient. But with an RSS reader, I can follow dozens of comic websites, get notified and see all of the updates in one place, and keep track of which updates I have already read.

I personally use NetNewsWire on IOS as my RSS app, but there are plenty of good ones.

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

one propaganda, because there isn’t enough of that yet

-1, 0, 1, and 2 are the most important numbers. they are the basis of the integers, each of them providing something unique that every other integer builds off of.

all the other types of numbers, from rationals to reals to complex to transcendental, build off of the integers.

NaN, on the other hand, is the basis of nothing, and isn’t even that interesting on it’s own. I’ve been programming and dealing with floating-point numbers for years, and do you know how many times NaN has come in useful? precisely zero. even calculations that ‘should’ result in NaN, like dividing by zero, usually don’t even use it, instead just throwing an error. why? because an error is more useful than a NaN the vast majority of the time.

you know what NaN is? floating point filler. there were a bunch of bit representations left over (16,777,214 for the standard, 32-bit float) and the designers of the IEEE 754 float decided to make them all NaN because they didn’t know what else to use them for.

Number Tournament: ONE vs NOT A NUMBER

[link to all polls]

1 (one)

seed: 10 (46 nominations)

previous opponent: tau

class: absolute unit

definition: the only positive integer that cannot be classified as either prime (exactly two factors) or composite (more than two factors)

NaN (not a number)

seed: 26 (20 nominations)

previous opponent: mute

class: ERROR

definition: ERROR

i achieved my wildest little creature dreams this weekend and turned my regular bed into a mossbed and it’s everything i’ve ever wanted in a snooze spot

i hauve a cold

This is actually really smart, though. Human expressions are made through lots of relatively subtle motions of our malleable faces, which could be impractical for a robot. Very near that same depth of expression could be achieved with as little as like two motors in each of those triangular ears.

Of course, Wheatley is already incredibly expressive without those ears, but the Valve animators achieved that feat by keeping Wheatley in motion. If you looked at a static image of Wheatley, it might be a lot harder to figure out his emotions. Those ears would solve that.

on the furry au (yknow, the au where everyone is furries, which every piece of media has) chell is a regular furry, you see glados and wheatley never looked human in the first place, so my take is that they look exactly the same except they have triangular pieces of metal attached on top of their heads which look like animal ears for no sensible reason

entered a manic state yesterday and did a Hardware Store cover in some obscure 90s tracker

sometimes plushies make me cry because it’s like. they’re little guys made to be loved. their only purpose is to be held and hugged and loved. we made them because we love making things and we love loving things. and they’re so cute

unsure if this is about Minecraft or executive dysfunction

It sucks that there's only 20 minutes in each day. If there was more than that I would get more stuff done I'm sure