GeekTASTIC, man. Also: John Sheppard is as gay as they come.
I just won the first collection of Farscape season 2 for FIVE BUCKS on eBay! Woohoo! Hopefully I'll get good luck like that for most of them, cause I am going to want to buy them all. I watched the third and fourth episodes of the first season last night, and awww. So much love! Especially the third one (forget what it was called - something about Genesis, with the bug things) because wow, John cares for Aeryn a *lot* already. They're so sweet. :D
I totally win at geekery. Want to know why? For my probability and statistics paper, my teacher asked us to come up with an example of how the technique we were talking about could be applied. He said, and I quote, "Be creative!" So what did I do? I used Stargate Atlantis! *beams* Here's the excerpt from my paper...
"This knowledge can be useful in many contexts. For example: fighting a war against evil life-sucking aliens! The situation is this: you have one large warship with hyperspace capabilities, beaming technology, and, most importantly, a force shield. You are embroiled in a galactic war against an alien species that uses humans as its food source. You have devised an ingenious new way to fight the aliens. The plan involves taking a nuclear warhead aboard your warship, jumping through hyperspace to a location where an enemy ship is known to be, beaming the warhead onto the enemy ship, detonating it, and jumping away before the explosion reaches you. The problem, however, is that when you arrive, you have to take some time for your chief scientist to hack into the defenses the enemy ship has against your beaming technology and disable them. During this period of time, the enemy ship will attack you with its large cannons and hundreds of small fighter jets.
The question you want to answer is this: what is the probability that your force shield will last long enough under this onslaught for you to complete the mission? In order to answer this question, you can use order statistics. Your brilliant scientist obtains a set of values for the random variables by performing a virtual simulation of the situation using known data about the amount of firepower an enemy ship possesses. These values represent how long the force shield lasts each time based on a randomized amount of successful hits from the enemy forces. Order statistics can then be used to calculate the probability that the smallest of these values (X(1)) will be greater than the amount of time it takes to complete the attack and jump away. This information can then be used to help decide how likely the plan is to be successful and whether you should go through with it, or if the potential cost would be too high.
My professor seems like quite a geek himself, so I hope he'll be amused *g*
In other SGA news, I made this icon last night, and I'm in love with it. It's from my new favorite picture (see behind the cut) and the word was something someone used in a fic (for some reason I think it was you Mona...) and I developed a strange affection for it. I looked it up - the first definition is having a dislocated hip, lol, but the second one is standing so that one hip is lower than the other, which is EXACTLY what John Sheppard does when he's slouching/leaning all pornographically like he does. Mmph. So, yes.
That picture, by the way, is from http://www.jasonmomoa.com/ which has some FABULOUS candid shots from behind the scenes. I heart David Hewlett! :D
Omg, BSG FINALE IN 45 MINUTES! This is gonna be INTENSE O.O
I totally win at geekery. Want to know why? For my probability and statistics paper, my teacher asked us to come up with an example of how the technique we were talking about could be applied. He said, and I quote, "Be creative!" So what did I do? I used Stargate Atlantis! *beams* Here's the excerpt from my paper...
"This knowledge can be useful in many contexts. For example: fighting a war against evil life-sucking aliens! The situation is this: you have one large warship with hyperspace capabilities, beaming technology, and, most importantly, a force shield. You are embroiled in a galactic war against an alien species that uses humans as its food source. You have devised an ingenious new way to fight the aliens. The plan involves taking a nuclear warhead aboard your warship, jumping through hyperspace to a location where an enemy ship is known to be, beaming the warhead onto the enemy ship, detonating it, and jumping away before the explosion reaches you. The problem, however, is that when you arrive, you have to take some time for your chief scientist to hack into the defenses the enemy ship has against your beaming technology and disable them. During this period of time, the enemy ship will attack you with its large cannons and hundreds of small fighter jets.
The question you want to answer is this: what is the probability that your force shield will last long enough under this onslaught for you to complete the mission? In order to answer this question, you can use order statistics. Your brilliant scientist obtains a set of values for the random variables by performing a virtual simulation of the situation using known data about the amount of firepower an enemy ship possesses. These values represent how long the force shield lasts each time based on a randomized amount of successful hits from the enemy forces. Order statistics can then be used to calculate the probability that the smallest of these values (X(1)) will be greater than the amount of time it takes to complete the attack and jump away. This information can then be used to help decide how likely the plan is to be successful and whether you should go through with it, or if the potential cost would be too high.
My professor seems like quite a geek himself, so I hope he'll be amused *g*
In other SGA news, I made this icon last night, and I'm in love with it. It's from my new favorite picture (see behind the cut) and the word was something someone used in a fic (for some reason I think it was you Mona...) and I developed a strange affection for it. I looked it up - the first definition is having a dislocated hip, lol, but the second one is standing so that one hip is lower than the other, which is EXACTLY what John Sheppard does when he's slouching/leaning all pornographically like he does. Mmph. So, yes.
That picture, by the way, is from http://www.jasonmomoa.com/ which has some FABULOUS candid shots from behind the scenes. I heart David Hewlett! :D
Omg, BSG FINALE IN 45 MINUTES! This is gonna be INTENSE O.O