| Quantum Computation |
[Sep. 17th, 2009|05:15 pm] |
I'm making a diversion from FFXI stuff to talk about what my career is likely to be centered on: Quantum Computation. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zeten is probably the only one who *might* read this, but whatever.
( Uber nerdy stuff. )
tl;dr: pew pew lazorz! |
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| One last vacation... |
[Jul. 23rd, 2009|11:52 pm] |
Things have been pretty good for me in Hades. Got most of the af I needed for blu sch and whm. Finally finished my conserve mp build on Rdm (1/36 Goliard body...), but I have yet to get a useful shadow mantle proc.
On another note...
LOLGETIT!? |
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| Dorp? |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|12:38 pm] |
So last night, Nid popped first window and we claimed with 4 people, two of which had no macros (tank and healer).
( Dragon! ) |
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| Dead week |
[May. 4th, 2009|02:52 pm] |
The week before finals, "dead week", we have no classes and presentation days for seniors. I think I finally figured out why its called dead week... all the seniors are dead.
Thesis presentation done. To go: 2.5 papers, hum homework, robocode, fields final.
Ugh... |
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| Thesis: Vanquished! |
[May. 2nd, 2009|12:25 pm] |
For better or worse I turned in my thesis (didn't get to review it as much as I would have preferred but meh). Now 2.5 papers, a final, robocode, and a thesis presentation...ugh.
I also had this weird dream that there was a Grandia 4 out. I can't remember anything else about it other than it being really good. I loved the first bit of Grandia 3, too bad they threw it all away. It's quite easy to draw the line for where the game starts to suck: when your milf of a mother leaves the party. Either way, Grandia 3 had the best combat system I have ever seen in an RPG.
As far as FFXI goes, couldn't do much because of thesis but I finally got my own ixi cape. Yey saving 2 mil. Now I gotta debate if witch sash is worth 2 mil for the 2 macc...or just wait for sandy to have all the campaign zones. I still haven't gotten to play with the whm update but hopefully when this week is over!
And on a side note: Holy 1080p batman.
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| I'm doing science and I'm still alive... (I think) |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|03:08 pm] |
The moment I got accepted into a graduate school, senioritis hit me like a bitch. As a result, I fell behind in all of my courses including some by a couple months. I am also way behind on my thesis and just grinded this weekend to get some stuff written (due this Friday). After thesis is done, I get to work on my thesis presentation and catch up on all my classes. joy.
On a lighter note, holy FFXIII demo batman. I think all the high quality videos were pulled out of YouTube, but it looked REALLY good. So far I really like Lightning's character, and I hope they find a good english voice actress.
Minor FFXI note: I haven't gotten to play lately but I'm enjoying Ex. Being with players who are attempting to optimize every action is nice, and I often have discussions with people about the best way to maximize spellcast.
One thing I want to work out: in terms of hp healed/mp cost for Cure V, what is the ratio of benefit from additional MND vs the benefit from Conserve MP. I was basically wondering if cobra gear would be at all useful for cure V. I started punching out some stuff. It looks like the ratio of the benefits is approximately 1:1. I'll just stick my code here for reference in case I wanna dig later. I will have to work out how stuff is floored. My guess is each term is floored separately, but I'll have to verify.
hpHealed[MND_, {hms_, VIT_}] := (hms/3) + ((VIT/2) + 1) + ((13/9)*MND) + 404 +
If[MND > 119, (MND - 119), 0];
manaCost[conserveMP_] := 135*(1 - conserveMP/100) + 135*(11.5/16) (conserveMP/100);
ratio[MND_, conserveMP_, {hms_, VIT_}] := hpHealed[MND, {hms, VIT}]/manaCost[conserveMP]
I assumed a base conserveMP of 25 due to /sch trait. Values I used were from wiki: hms = 306, vit = 64.
I assumed 3 additional conserveMP from either cobra hands or feet.
With ~100 MND, 3 conserve MP = 4.5 MND.
With ~130 MND, 3 conserve MP = 3 MND.
I am not familiar with whm, but I believe those MND values are easily surpassed in those slots. Oh well. I was bored in class.
The conserve mp gear is still useful for stuff like reraise and protectra/shellra. For capped cures, it is clear you want max -enm on cure IV. I was wondering how most whms do their cure III builds. Max conserve mp, -enm, or find a good balance? I haven't looked into this much since my whm is 49, but once I'm done with school stuff I'll be rushing to play with the new toys it got this update.
PS: IM me if you are interested in what grad school I will be attending. AIM: smartguyakash |
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| WTF BSG |
[Mar. 21st, 2009|12:10 pm] |
So BSG aired its final episode...and wtf!?
( Spoilarz ) |
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| Cerb and Reunion |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|09:19 pm] |
Man, today was really fun. As I was working on my Sch spellcast macros, I get a tell from Virgil asking for help on Cerb. I got there to see V and Aldem swinging on it as pld, Jas singing, and Jung on rdm. Tried to get a couple more people, but no dice. Eventually while our plds were tickling him, we finally are able to get Aneyus on sam, and Kael on blm.
Then a nice surprise: Teia shows up to help! Maki and Sharpsmash too! It was a reunion!
Reminded me of the good old days, lowman cerbs, letting a gates through to mpk the random miner, or the CFH cerb that the entire server decided to kill.
Afterwards, we grabbed a nice reuion picture.
It was really nice to see everybody again.
PS: To the people that were there: sorry I sorta went off on that guy from censura.
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| Sch Gear |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|03:48 pm] |
I hit 73 Sch this weekend, and I started thinking about the ideal nuke build.
( Sch Nuking, not epic like Kaeko's )
I also started thinking about an ideal Conserve MP build for Rdm and Sch. This is because there are a lot of spells (Protect, Shell, Reraise) where you don't really need any other stat mods to make the spell stronger (such as haste, enhancing magic, enmity reduction).
( Rdm+Sch Conserve MP ) |
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| Where the fuck is Vivix!? Followup. |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|02:57 am] |
Well for most of last semester, I was gone from the game to prepare for grad school applications (GREs and all that stuff). Well, the results finally paid off. Admission decisions are being made, and from the first letter I got accepted to one of my top choices! That day, I decided to skip class because my grade wouldn't really matter! (Fuck yeah senioritis.) It was a huge relief for me since I honestly had no idea what I would do if I didn't get in anywhere. Here is how I felt:
PS: I won't mention the school until I have heard all the results and decide where I want to go.
( Recent Happenings IRL )
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| Anthropology |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|03:42 pm] |
Just as a heads up to FFXI people, I am currently attending an Anthropology class entitled Life Online. I will be using this blog for the class, because I'm too lazy to get another. Plus, I feel integrating the two would be the best way to get an A :)
For the people in the class, this is a blog I use for my online game, Final Fantasy XI. Sorta weird, but there are actually a decent number of people who do this for their online character (just see my friend's page).
Now a link to my favorite comedian, Russell Peters. |
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| Where the fuck is Vivix!? |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|05:27 am] |
In two weeks, I have an exam that will determine what I will be doing for the next six years! Ugh...
edit: Its also five hours before my E&M midterm, and I can't fall asleep...
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| Summer fun! |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|09:01 am] |
Summer research was pretty good for a period of about 4 weeks, but then it got lame again once I finished the programming, and now I think I'm pretty much just here in case the computer explodes while its running my code.
FFXI has been treating me well lately. Got some nice gil outta ZNM, and a non-gimp hmp set (at work atm, forgot to ss it at home).
( ZNM )
( Dorp! )
( Random )
Finally...
(I still got it!) |
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| Work sucks, I know. |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|06:58 pm] |
Haven't been updating lately since I started a new job (first full-time ; ;). 8 hrs is long >.>
First some other general stuff before I talk about the update.
After a long hard day of casting thunda...sometimes its just nice to kick back...
(Oh man, what a pimp!) |
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| Showoff time! |
[May. 12th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
BLM has been my main since the day I started the game, and I felt like showing off some phat lootz! I would be nowhere without EDI and my friends, so thank you.
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| RL & FFXI |
[May. 3rd, 2008|02:08 pm] |
Couldn't decide if I wanted this to be purely FFXI or a bit of RL stuff. I guess a tough week made me decide to include some RL shit.
I am a currently in my junior year, pursuing a bachelor's degree in physics. I want to attend grad school so I can avoid the real world for a few more years :P. I'm pretty nerdy, since among other things I watch stuff like Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. Enough RL stuff, time for moar FFXI!
We finally have started tier 3 Einherjar. We have had a couple problems with this event. Quoting Raiko since I think her explanation is perfect: "Our Einherjar runs have always suffered from our fluctuating roster and the fact that quite a bit of our members aren’t hardcore FFXI players. Our turnouts would vary from 16 to 30 depending on the day of the week, college / university exams phases, holidays, moon phase and many other random factors. So naturally, our main focus was getting as many people as possible access to tier 2+. The two major problems with this were: - People who needed tier 1 wins only randomly showed up and thus missed those wins repeatedly
- New recruits usually started at zero since apparently no one other than EDI and SA even attempt Einherjar on Garuda"
Many months later, we are just starting tier 3. Have gotten pretty lucky on mobs so far, so 2/3 atm. I don't mind Einherjar; I think the event itself is pretty fun. As stated many times before though, the system could use some tweaking.
Started randomly doing 6 man hydras for fun and a little bit of gilz. Here is what I thought was a pretty good SS:
Finally, one more SS for Teia:
Next post will probably be some stuff about BLM.
update edit: Just did tier 3 Ein. {Mark of Einherjar} GET! |
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| First Post |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|03:26 am] |
After twotarus started their LJ, I decided to start my own simply to show off screenshots with my gimp resolution and post comments. Background information: My character is Vivix on the Garuda server of Final Fantasy XI. I am a main BLM with also SMN, RDM, BLU leveled (the latter of which I just hit 75 on a couple hours ago). My linkshell is EvilDeedzInc (quoting Sirus: "The 'z' makes us E-thugs").
Since a picture is worth a thousand words...
Here are Grimey and I showing off our recently completed salvage sets. We actually got the last pieces we needed on the same day, which was pretty awesome.
Did I mention I like the dance emotes? I just thought this was an awesome pose >.>
LS is split on this one. Frankly I think its awesome but w/e. For the record, I did NOT make these dats. I found them on ffxidats. This is why me > Richardd.
Finally, I would like to end my first post by sharing my most favorite moment in game...
That would be us 6 manning Jormungand. It was quite an epic four hour fight late at night. This moment was really significant for me because it reminded me of how much I progressed in the game: The little Taru BLM outside Windurst nuking Mandragora (which I still do from time to time >.>), to the noob BLM in sky begging for Genbu to drop Zenith Mitts (1/21, fucking turtle), to this. A big thank you to EDI, because as Spotless said, "none of us would have been able to pull that off without the gear and skill we acquired from EDI."
PS: The username "Cast Thunda" comes from sorta an inside joke in the LS (or maybe outside, not 100% sure). It seems the solution to any question about blm playstyle is to "Cast Thunder". For example, if you are nuking Kirin, the correct way to do it is to "CAST THUNDA!". |
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