MD5 is the hashing algorithm used to produce the unique identifiers for each level.The MD5 hashes are 32-character hexadecimal strings like 8640032d0030e7dd5fe7a44997716126. You can find out the MD5 hash for a level by looking at the URL of its image on the level's page on the website. It also shows up in a few other places.
The 'i' key isn't really meant to be used by anyone except me, so it should probably not be so easy to press accidentally. You can feel free to use it, though; nothing will go wrong if you do. |
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Question: If you press the 'i' key during play, you get a request for an md5. What is an md5? |
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Next Time Make One That Is Not Blocked In The School County District. |
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Free maps for everybody, yay! |
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Do you like get lots of free maps now that you work at Google? Google make lots of maps. |
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Darkened means I've done all the streets in that neighborhood so it has been dispensed with. It's hard to see progress otherwise at this point, because mostly I am missing a small street here and there rather than some kind of large grid area. The short-term goal is to finish all of the neighborhoods on this side of the rivers ("continental Pittsburgh"), which is about half of the area of the city proper. After that I'll try to finish the whole thing. I always either start or end a run (usually both) at my house, CMU, or maybe someone else's house if I stayed the night. Occasionally I'll grab a ride somewhere or hoof it home from the Waterfront or something like that, but I'd consider it cheating to drive out in order to run a section and then drive back.
I have some ideas for visualizations of the data, like coloring each route differently or plotting elevation vs. distance to show the route and start point trends and distances, but I think I'm kind of saving these as a reward for finishing the first phase. I'm getting really close now... if it weren't for the Great Race and training and travel I'd expect to finish by the end of the month. I completely agree: the maps are the essential way for people to understand what it's about. |
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Cool- I had heard about this from several people and had missed the visual (the part I really car about) for the post before. Maybe you mention it but it's not so clear whether you run to these parts of town to begin your "street goals" or drive out to them to begin... I'm also surprised that your map seems to suggest you only run within the neighborhoods that are blackened, which I'm willing to guess is not the case. Have you considered changing the colors of the routes rather than general sections one at a time? I'm not sure how interested you are in generating some sort of audience for this project, but it would be nice to see a few neighborhoods slowly eroded to make the bit by bit approach to completing some neighborhoods more apparent. After all, it is amazing b/c it's a human effort and more detail in your mapping would highlight that. |
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7641. NC Gal (h203.10.21.98.dynamic.ip.windstream.net) –
22 Sep 2008 12:14:47
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
My husband and I moved into a rental home with our 2 small children 1 year 1/2 ago and I immediately felt like the air was thick and musty in the house. I contributed that to the fact that the house is very old, yet it had been rented out previously so it was lived in. I began noticing a lot of moisture in the bathroom and that I had a harder time breathing in that room more so than the others. There were water rings around the baseboard of the bathroom. Then one day last year I noticed a small mushroom (not like the one in the picture) with a long white stem and small pinkish,tan little mushroom top on it. I thought it was interesting, but plucked it, cleaned the bathroom and moved on with my day. Last December I began developing breathing problems, wheezing, fatigue, etc. I noticed that the problem began after I tried cleaning what I thought was mold from the baseboard in the bathroom. In Feb of this year, I fell extremely ill and was diagnosed with pnemonia. I was on every antibiotic you could find and was on bedrest for 3 months. In June, I was diagnosed with asthma at 29 years old and was told by my doctor that the bathroom could have caused it. I went in the bathroom today and found another little mushroom growing from where the tub meets the wall. That is when I wanted to find out a little more and it led me to this site. We only have one bathroom and I realize that it will take extensive time for our landlord to fix this problem so I know that we will probably have to move. I wrote this for anyone who may not be taking the mold/mushroom thing seriously since I am currently suffering with a number of ailments at just 30 years old all steming (no pun intended) from the mold/mushroom in the bathroom. |
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Oh no, it's happening again ... |
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7639. chris casinghino, currently in san di... (cse-dhcp-10-158.ucsd.edu) –
21 Sep 2008 22:32:08
[ Inverse Mutton-chops! ]
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7636. Mike Kenny (pool-70-19-231-84.bos.east.verizon.net) –
20 Sep 2008 21:53:42
[ DDFW ]
Yeah, I've heard that too Scott, the thing about 'depressive realism'. I'm inclined to believe it. I guess we humans tend to have a bias towards overconfidence in our judgments, and depression seems a natural tincture for that.
I guess my attitude is our minds are instrumental and if a certain way of thinking makes you miserable, it makes sense to try to stop it unless there's some compensating benefit. Thinking positive does actually really make you feel better. Thank you cognitive psychology!
It sounds like DFW had depression that was really intractable, given he was using electroshock therapy, which I guess is usually only used when two antidepressants don't work. DFW seemed smart enough to understand depression inside and out, so I'm inclined to think he was just up against a tough disease that got him and what can you do? |
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7635. Tom 7 (h-74-0-114-139.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
20 Sep 2008 14:49:23
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
Yum, mushroom pizza! |
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7634. mushroom lasgna...yum! (pool-71-184-197-233.bstnma.fios.verizon.net) –
20 Sep 2008 13:57:05
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
look up peziza domiciliana,
it is the "lasgna noodle mushroom" i have one in my bathroom too!
looks like it would be something edible, but it's NOT so dont even try! |
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7632. Cortney (pool-138-88-177-129.res.east.verizon.net) –
18 Sep 2008 20:50:05
[ DDFW ]
Given that drug treatment for depression often involves getting certain neurotransmitter levels up, or changing receptor efficiency, maybe there's some kind of brain chemistry connection between those that seem smart and developing depression? |
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7631. Scott/Graue (ip70-179-119-114.dc.dc.cox.net) –
18 Sep 2008 17:24:19
[ DDFW ]
When I was around 12 and being evaluated for possible depression, a counselor told me research had shown depressed people had more realistic worldviews than the rest of us. (Which of course led me to believe: Then I'm fine. Everyone else is an idiot.)
Nowadays, I don't believe that statement. I mean, there is stuff in life that's both bad and unavoidable, and it may take some smarts to realize that, but why make a big deal out of it?
Keeping things in perspective requires a different kind of intelligence that I guess even geniuses can struggle with. |
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7630. Tom 7 (h-67-100-130-210.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
17 Sep 2008 21:38:47
[ DDFW ]
Yes, from the "Alas poor Yorick" line. I actually don't like the title of that book, though I will admit to feeling a little bit better about it with time. I am basically just not a Shakespeare fan. (Except that one of my all-time favorites is his, also from Hamlet: "Brevity is the soul of wit.")
I'd say the thing that's most disturbing to me (I mean suicide is almost always sad and it's sad to lose a great writer) is to see how frequently people that I consider much smarter than me, like people that I imagine really get it, end up depressed and sometimes suicidal. I am not close to that kind of bleak worldview, but I hate to think that if I were only able to understand something that I don't, that I would feel that way too?
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7627. mike kenny (user-208-64-116-220.lahey.org) –
16 Sep 2008 08:55:27
[ DDFW ]
"...Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
"This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger."
--david foster wallace at his speech at kenyon college--the link: http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
death by being too cerebral? the tool of intelligence that seems a powerful tool ends up in some cases to cause some kind of terrible pain? the phrase "infinite jest" came from hamlet apparently, which is apropos. |
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7623. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-200.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
16 Sep 2008 00:23:08
[ DDFW ]
Richard Wright today too! At least that dude was old. |
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7622. jetfuel (c-67-183-131-170.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) –
15 Sep 2008 23:12:14
[ DDFW ]
Scott: I feel that way too. Most recently happened to me with Mitch Hedberg. No idea such a funny guy existed until he didn't. |
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7620. Scott/Graue (ip70-179-119-114.dc.dc.cox.net) –
15 Sep 2008 22:49:11
[ DDFW ]
I'd never heard of him. Why do I only find out about cool people once they die?
Maybe someone could give me a list of novelists, comedians, and musicians to hurry and familiarize myself with before they die. I'd appreciate that. |
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7619. Jake (h-74-2-112-11.snfccasy.covad.net) –
15 Sep 2008 20:51:27
[ DDFW ]
Total shocker.
If you haven't read his essays, I recommend them highly. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is awesome; Consider the Lobster is pretty good too.
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7618. Ryan (c-76-125-235-165.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
15 Sep 2008 20:32:57
[ DDFW ]
I guess he wasn't a genius. |
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7617. Cortney (pool-138-88-177-129.res.east.verizon.net) –
15 Sep 2008 20:31:13
[ DDFW ]
Did you finish Infinite Jest? If you haven't, perhaps that can be a final tribute to him? |
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