eww

When I used to rub my eyes, I saw great storms and swaths of color dance and change, now, being an educated kat, I see fractals with symmetry molding, as if I were seeing a 2D projection of a higher dimensional fractal.

You saw fractals? Better consult a doctor...

Hmm, are questions like stackoverflow.com/questions/11528267/… off-topic? On one hand, they are asking for an off-site resource; on the other hand, there's only one canonical source...

@zaq 4/8 answers point to the same source. And I did say one canonical source, not one source.

What do you mean by "part of the game"?

Oh. I mean, they are answers to the question... or at least some are...

Well, yeah. I was thinking more along the lines of "is it canonical enough to not really be a tool rec?" I suppose not.

Probably more of a troll, but I'm not sure how seriously the CMs take admissions like that.

@bjb568 I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but we do AP Calc AB and BC over two years. From what I've heard, literally nobody else does it. Perhaps trying to cover for the fact we don't offer any courses beyond BC. (If we went to a community college and took multivariable, for example, the high school would have to pay for it)

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huh? No @James today?

But there's me! Yay! No? Okay ...

\o/

:D Wanna know the stupid thing. Whenever I see some strange or funny chicken gifs these days, I think "Telkitty would like that"

nightmares

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@SantaClaus We have the same thing at my school, but we also have it in one year.

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sd 3k

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@SmokeDetector why?

@ShadowWizard Post manually reported by user zaq in room Charcoal HQ.

boom

@Bart but you don't have pattern like @James has

@rene you prefer flower gifs?

@ShadowWizard From a distance, I read that as “You prefer flower girls?”

Infinite Flower Recursion

@tchrist rofl! This might be better..... :D

@tchrist jsfiddle.net/yahavbr/x2Lmd48c/embedded/result

Use this when you want lots of lines :P

heh, lol

Spamming lines is cooler :D

flower gif is now safely buried.

huh? Who?

oh, you mean @hichris123? Surely he won't kick that lovely flower away to the dark sandbox! :D

What did you do, @ShadowWizard... ;P

@ShadowWizard why should a flower be kicked?

:D

flower bashing started

H&I is increasing at a very constant rate. Related to the Triage changes or what?

No, it wasn't that...

I turned off a setting that eliminates half of the items entering the queue.

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Neither a Certificate nor a Certificate.

Wow, a glimpse into the past.

@bjb568 where you saw that??

cincinnatistate.edu application

@zaq how does it feel like that your bot got more than double your reputation? ;-)

Will the bot start bounties as well?

@zaq just be careful your bot won't get a mind of its own... ;)

You're probably correct. That is also how I understand it works

@zaq But couldn't that just be due to deleted answers/questions?

I expect him to have 10 more ...

Yeah, it works as we thought it would and this proves it

I have decided to major in underwater basket weaving at MIT.

...

@zaq :p

Underwater basket weaving is like a meme on the MIT admissions blog.

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@zaq bjb might want to be prepared. ;)

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It's religious spam.

IMESHO

I thought Chris was in college and <censored>boy in high school.

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@zaq Strike the rising and it's correct... :/

@tchrist Well, I'm glad I came off that way. :)

@hichris123 At least you didn't need censoring, although if you keep talking that way....

... sigh...

@zaq Yeah, I'm a junior now, but I'm applying early.

This year I'm doing MIT early action (November) and Caltech and Stanford regular deadline (January). If I get accepted to any, I'll go, otherwise I'll do another year in high school.

@zaq I'll have 7½ if things go my way. (plus 2½ homeschooling)

s/secondary school/secondary and primary school/

Well, plus one if you want to include Kindergarten.

God, I'm old.

I still remember that car ride going to Kindergarten on the first day.

I'd wanted to go to Kindergarten a year earlier and I was disappointed to hear that I wouldn't be, unlike some of my preschoolmates which made the age cutoff. Still, in that car ride, I turned over all the nuggets of knowledge I'd received from Pre-K. let's see… cat is spelled see ayy tee, I thot, not having learned to sound out words. see ayy tee? … What if I don't know something somebody else in my class does know? I'll have to learn a lot this year

I was in the PM Kindergarten class, so I went to a building near the front of my Elementary school for some unstructured time before going to actual Kindergarten. I didn't know the people there. I didn't know what to do there. They'd already showed up, some of them as early as 7:30, what was an hour before.

In this little temporary building, in the first week I learned that Wednesday is spelled wehd nehs day, but I couldn't remember the individual words. I couldn't sound out words yet. When I read, I'd just look at the familiar shapes of words.

Over the next year of Kindergarten I'd learn to read and write better, I'd grow exasperated at how we had to keep writing the same 26 letters over and over again since some kids kept flipping them (by then I totally knew my chirality and could even tell which hand was which!), I'd learn to hate the really fat pencils that traded off ergonomics for ease of gripping by tiny, untrained hands, and I witnessed the separation of those who knew things and those who did not.

From pretty early in my Kindergarten experience, I was exposed to the concept of kids being "held back" or getting scores worse than mine on the horribly easy tests that we took. I still remember during the first week of Kindergarten when we were asked to write something about Kindergarten using the word itself that essentially nobody knew how to spell. They were expected to figure it out, which most of us did by looking on the wall where in big bright letters the word Kindergarten was stapled.

The teachers told us to not tell our peers of this discovery.

@zaq Meh, I'm just reminiscing since I said I'm old. :)

@bjb568 homeschooling??!

Yup. I'm a 4th grade dropout.

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Who from Stack Exchange do I talk to about rate limiting on get requests?

@TinyGiant As in, you are getting rate limited? Send a message via the contact form at the bottom of the page.

@JonEricson No, I want to avoid it

And respect the rate limits

While also making a large number of requests

Use the API.

Some of the things I'm doing aren't available with the API, I have used the API whenever possible

You could ask on meta for them to be added. We're probably going to update the API for Docs at some point.

I have done that, multiple times, to no avail

The things I'm doing aren't things that normal people do

'Cause I ain't quite normal, eh

This for example

Probably one of the most useful that I've written, but unfortunately it is getting people rate limited

I'm using all publicly available AJAX routes, so the rate limiting information should be available somewhere, if not publicly

I would just like to be able to talk to someone who knows that those limits are, so I can operate within them