Unity particle playground waterfall1/3/2024 Sometimes the quick solution is also the best solution. You may want to increase the max particles of the steam and remember to remove the spray particles. This is a simple trick to have a lava waterfall: change the color of the texture like this: Move it in your scene until it is at the bottom of the waterfall. SteamĬreate a PS and named it "PS_steam". Move it in your scene until it is at the bottom of the waterfall.ĭuplicate it and move it until it's at the top of the waterfall. SprayĬreate a PS and named it "PS_spray". They are very, very simple, so anybody can create textures like that. Note: the textures are made with Paint or similar. If you want to add some particles in order to add more effects to your waterfall, here are a couple of ideas. You must adjust the tiling of the textures in the three materials conforming to the size of your planes.Īlso, you must adjust the speed: the vertical plane should be faster than the others.Īnd. Save the file and add this script to all planes. WF_("_MainTex", new Vector2(0, TextureOffset)) Public class Waterfall_UV : MonoBehaviourįloat TextureOffset = Time.time * WF_speed Create a new script in c# (name it "ScrollUV").The "core" of this idea is to use the Animated UV Map.Add to all three materials the texture "waterfall_texture".Create three materials with the Mobile/Particle/Alpha Blended shader (called Waterfall_bottom, Waterfall_main, Waterfall_top).Create three planes as in the example below.This tutorial is written in order to suggest a simple way of putting a waterfall inside a game without losing FPS. For this reason, high-level solutions are not recommended for a mobile game. In a 3D game, water is made with specific shaders and components (like particles) that cost a lot of time during the rendering phase. We can do it with a couple of items, without killing the performance.īut first, I'll explain to you. some spray where the waterfall starts and ends.Look at the scene with attention: what parts is it made of? We can start with a deconstruction technique. I would really like to put a waterfall like that in my game. Speakers: Morgan Hill (Bit Reactor), Leslie Harwood (ZeniMax Online Studios), David Johnson (Undertone FX), Jessica Kutrakun (MAXIS EA), Inmar Salvatier (MAXIS EA), Vince Riley (MAXIS EA), Nan Li (MAXIS EA), Magnus Lehmann (Riot Games), Ashley Sparling (K9 Digital), Piero Macgowan (Bit Reactor), Ken Whitman (Bit Reactor), Greg Foertsch (Bit Reactor), Nate Purkeypile (Just Purkey Games), Hector Antunez (Bit Reactor), Gaurav Mathur (Penumbra), Jeff Skalski (Yellow Brick Games Inc.This is a great waterfall, isn't it? I love it. Game Career Seminar: Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer Part 2: Portfolio Reviews Login with the email address you used to register. Download the Informa Tech Events app to gain access to the Game Developers Conference 2022 virtually. The recording of the video will be available to watch-on-demand within 36 hours of the session start time on the virtual platform until April 1st at 5pm PT.Īll registered attendees will be able to build their personal schedule in the virtual GDC event platform and mobile app. In-Person/Virtual Livestream: offered on-site and will be livestreamed to watch on the virtual platform at its scheduled time.In-Person/Virtual: offered onsite and the recording will be available to watch-on-demand within 36 hours of the session start time on the virtual platform until April 1st at 5pm PT.Virtual: offered in the virtual platform at its scheduled time.Check the session’s listing to see if it will be recorded for GDC Vault after the conference. In-Person: offered on-site, not available within the virtual platform.Use the Viewing Experience filter to see which sessions will be available on-site, on the virtual platform, or both: All days/times are displayed in Pacific Time. Virtual sessions will be available to watch on-demand through April 1st, 2022 at 5pm PT. Use the experience filter to view sessions and roundtables that will be available on the virtual GDC event platform. View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by pass type, topic, format and viewing experience.
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Footlight ridgewood1/3/2024 Regan also fronted the band called BatS for a number of years, toured the country, and recorded albums. Regan, in addition to having been a bartender both in Brooklyn and Boston for many years, helped facilitate the location for NYC Talent Showdown at Dixon Place in the Lower East Side. She was the assistant tour booker for Mark Bauer at EKG Booking and started tour booking on her own under the name Reality Bites Booking where she helped touring bands book shows throughout the country. Laura Regan, on the bar of the Foot Light Club Gabo Rodriguez will utilize his connections to music scenes in Brooklyn, San Juan and Buenos Aires to book the shows at Footlight Club In fact, both owners have been doing a lot of great things for the artists and the neighborhood prior to opening this bar. There has been outspoken skepticism of new bars opening in such a great area, but it is clear from interviewing Regan is that she and Rodriguez have every intention of making this bar a local establishment that respects existing mainstays in the neighborhood. Laura and co-owner Gabo Rodriguez of Supercrush Studios have been working very hard to create a bar well suited for the developed and diverse neighborhood it is joining. Kindly note: photos are of a similar unit in the building.Have you walked past that closed down bar in Ridgewood on Harman St and Seneca Ave with the crazy neon signs and the blacked out windows thinking someone needs to do something with this place? You will thrilled to learn that hey, someone’s doing something with this place! Ridgewood resident, bartendress, and musician Laura Regan is fulfilling a longtime dream to finally open her own venue. 1661 Summerfield Street is located within close proximity to the L train at Halsey St and near a handful of bus routes. Locals enjoy a range of cool low-key spots like The Footlight, Ridgewood Chocolate, Nowadays, Queens Brewery, and Evil Twin Brewing, to name a few, and there's plenty more to explore. Ridgewood, recently referred to as the Williamsburg of Queens, shares its border with Bushwick, reflecting the area's alternative and unpretentious vibe. Many homes feature private balconies or terrace, with the two garden duplexes featuring a patio and private backyard. Oversized windows provide each home with tons of natural light, and multiple closets can be found throughout each home. All bedrooms include ample closet space, are queen or king-size, and allow for additional furniture. The open floor plans provide an ease of entertaining and spreading out, with the kitchen seamlessly blending into the spacious living rooms where you can easily include a large couch, dining nook, and work-from-home nook, without feeling so cluttered. Building features include on-site laundry, parking, roofdeck, and fitness center. Homes that include a private balcony include stunning Manhattan skyline views the absolute perfect sunset backdrop for any occasion. Many homes include oversized breakfast bars, and all allow for a separate dining area, if desired. Each home has been beautifully crafted with a modern-day luxurious touch including quartz countertops juxtaposed with pristine white cabinetry and glistening white herringbone backsplash in the kitchen, where you'll also find a stainless steel appliance suite including induction range, built-in microwave, and a sleek integrated dishwasher. Brand New Move-In Ready No-Fee Expansive Residences with Open Floor Plans, Many with Private Outdoor Space and Skyline + City Views, Stunning Stainless Steel Kitchens, Hardwood Flooring Throughout, Great Closet Space, Oversized Windows, Versatile Layouts, Luxurious Finishes, and Fitness Center, Roof Deck, On-Site Laundry, Video Intercom, Keyless Building Entry with Parking & Storage Available Welcome home to 1661 Summerfield Street! This stunning new building has been developed with the most discerning eye, boasting expansive open floor plans lined with hardwood flooring and stunning condo finishes. Pulp riot absinthe1/3/2024 Cool: Many of the base colors lean more toward this category.Let’s look at some of the base colors and what undertone they’d be best on: Those with cool undertones have to be a little more careful and may look best with more pastel varieties, while those with warmer undertones can be a little bolder with deep, vibrant colors. When thinking of fashion colors, you want to be careful not to choose a color that will wash you out. The rule of thumb is that hair colors with the same undertone as your skin will work best to make you look stunning. Warm undertones tend to be golden, yellow or peachy while cool undertones are pink and bluish. If you really can’t tell, you might be neutral which means you have more flexibility with colors. If they appear blue or purple, your skin is cool-toned, but if they’re green or olive, you’re warm-toned. To identify a hair color that would positively accentuate your features, you first need to know what your skin undertone is.Ī quick way to judge would be to look at the veins in your wrist in natural daylight. Reds, oranges, and yellows are warm colors while blues, purples, and greens are cool. When you think about colors, you need to break them down into two categories: warm and cool. Check out the HC Lookbook to see some of the amazing color creations our professionals have done and maybe find some inspiration for the color you want to achieve. Pulp Riot has 16 colors to fulfill your vivid hair goals-and with the color knowledge your Hair Cuttery Professional has, they will be able to formulate endless color options. Firefox mouseless addon1/2/2024 I have played with Conkeror and it has strong promise, but it's not quite mature enough for me to switch to daily use.Īnd if you are a Vim junkie, you can use the Firefox plugin called vimperator, which converts Firefix to a purely vi interface. It is self-documenting, featuring a powerful interactive help system. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways. It's "About:"Ĭonkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. If you really want to go far down this path, there is the Conkeror browser. Fortunately, Camino adheres to the Apple standard, allowing me to have my cake (having CTRL-N move down one line, as it was Meant To Be) and keyboard-driven browsing. While this sounds minor, it bites me every time. Firefox has apparently overwritten the CTRL-N key to do nothing (overriding the operating system). This is a big deal for me because the Emacs key bindings are deeply ingrained in my fingers (and most of OS X, as it turns out), but Firefox doesn't allow this. This is going to sound odd, but one of the critical things that it supports is the ability to type a partial URL in the address bar (which it will auto-complete) and hit CTRL-N to move the cursor down to the first (or subsequent) matches. Camino is very lightweight (if "feels" lighter than Safari) and it supports my browsing habits. Recently, I stumbled across Camino, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox, which means that my 2 favorite keyboard shortcuts work. Conversely, one of the things I hate about Firefox are all the plug-ins! I tend to find useful plug-ins and add them, which adds to the weight (and start up time) for the whole browser. I maintain a love/hate relationship because one of the cool things about Firefox is all the plug-ins available. This added to the spacebar to scroll down and shift-spacebar to scroll up and you can get a lot done in a browser without a mouse. I've found my address and never taken my fingers off the home row. From there, I can hit the slash key and start typing "London". In my new mouseless browsing mode, I go to the home page, hit the apostrophe and start typing "contact", hit enter and now I'm on the contact page. How many times do you go to a web site and you know the name of the link you want already? For example, if I need to go to the ThoughtWorks web site to get the address of the London location (this happened earlier today), I know (or can guess) that there is a "Contact" link on the home page, which takes me to a list of offices. The apostrophe does something similar, but it restricts the matches to URLs only. When looking at a web page, the slash starts an incremental find for text within the page. I love the keyboard affordances it provides, especially the slash ("/") and apostrophe ("'") shortcuts. One of my recent tendencies is mouseless browsing. Consequently, after The Productive Programmer came out, I continue to find new ways to make myself more productive. After it's off to the publisher, you can't turn off your interest in the subject. Press the ”/” (slash) key and type the link text - the first matching link will be highlighted and you can press the Enter key to follow that link.Once you write a book, you become really immersed in the subject matter. If you are on Firefox, you don’t really need any add-ons to open links from the keyboard. There are no settings to configure but the extension may not play nicely with websites like Twitter or Gmail as they have their own keyboard shortcuts. And you can cancel the search mode by hitting the Escape key on your keyboard. If there are multiple hyperlinks on a page that match your typed text, you can easily cycle through the matching links by pressing the Tab key (or press Shift+Tab to cycle in reverse direction). Hit the Enter key to follow that link or press Shift+Enter to open the target web page in a new tab. Once you have installed the extension from the Chrome Web store, type a few characters and the first matching link on the page will begin to wiggle (see the animation below). This is a new Google Chrome extension that lets you click and open any link on a web page by typing a few characters that are in the anchor text of the link. Power users and keyboard ninjas who absolutely hate it when they have to take their hands off the keyboard should try Dead Mouse. Simple math iq test with answers1/2/2024 Notice that in each line the new numbers are incremented 1 more from the previous line. Suppose the answer in each line is the running sum total of the previous result and the new numbers. It turns out the running total can also lead to the answer of 96, if you decide to fill in the pattern a bit more. So what is the answer? Is it 40 or 96? While we cannot know for sure what the puzzle maker had in mind, there is a way to reconcile these two approaches. This pattern results in an answer of 40, and many people suggested this answer is more valid. To solve the puzzle, do the same for the final line. Some people felt the pattern was a running total: add the result in the previous line to the new numbers to get the new answer.įor the next line, take this result of 5 and add it to the new numbers to get the new answer.ĭo the same thing for the next line: add the previous line’s result of 12 to the new numbers to get the next result. Furthermore, many other IQ tests have this sort of pattern where you take two numbers and find a hidden equation that involves simple operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation.īut some people interpreted the problem differently and arrived at a different answer. The answer of 96 is valid according to this interpretation. That is:Īpplying the pattern to the last equation gives the answer of 96. The answer that jumped into my mind is to add the first number to the product of the two numbers to get the answer. They are about identifying a pattern in the set of equations and applying it to the unknown. The first equation is true, the second and third are false, and the answer to the equation should be 19.īut riddles like this are not about literally interpreting mathematical symbols. MindYourDecisions now has over 1,000 free articles with no ads thanks to community support! Help out and get early access to posts with a pledge on Patreon.Ī mathematician might take a literal approach. "All will be well if you use your mind for your decisions, and mind only your decisions." Since 2007, I have devoted my life to sharing the joy of game theory and mathematics. I explain what many believe to be the correct answer in the following video. The problem went viral and generated over 3 million comments with people arguing about the correct answer. This riddle was posted to Facebook with the claim that only one in a thousand will figure it out. (rated 4.2/5 stars on 22 reviews) Kindle Unlimited Math Puzzles Volume 3 is the third in the series. Math Puzzles Volume 2 is a sequel book with more great problems. Volume 1 is rated 4.4/5 stars on 87 reviews. Math Puzzles Volume 1 features classic brain teasers and riddles with complete solutions for problems in counting, geometry, probability, and game theory. The puzzles topics include the mathematical subjects including geometry, probability, logic, and game theory. Mind Your Puzzles is a collection of the three “Math Puzzles” books, volumes 1, 2, and 3. Multiply Numbers By Drawing Lines This book is a reference guide for my video that has over 1 million views on a geometric method to multiply numbers. The Best Mental Math Tricks teaches how you can look like a math genius by solving problems in your head (rated 4.2/5 stars on 76 reviews) The Irrationality Illusion: How To Make Smart Decisions And Overcome Bias is a handbook that explains the many ways we are biased about decision-making and offers techniques to make smart decisions. (rated 4.2/5 stars on 224 reviews)Ĥ0 Paradoxes in Logic, Probability, and Game Theory contains thought-provoking and counter-intuitive results. The Joy of Game Theory shows how you can use math to out-think your competition. (3) The Irrationality Illusion: How To Make Smart Decisions And Overcome Bias (2) 40 Paradoxes in Logic, Probability, and Game Theory (1) The Joy of Game Theory: An Introduction to Strategic Thinking Mind Your Decisions is a compilation of 5 books: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you purchase through these links, I may be compensated for purchases made on Amazon. Gpx editor re1/2/2024 Once you’re done exporting, use gotoes to combine the files. If you have power data in your file, you’ll want to export the TCX version. Just export the TCX or GPX files from Strava by following the instructions in our article on exporting your data. Notes before you start: The merged file will have to be uploaded, but first, you’ll need to delete the original/separate activities. Unfortunately, you will lose all the kudos and comments on those activities. You’ll need to delete the existing activities on Strava before uploading the merged file.
Edge reflow tutorials1/2/2024 It doesn’t seem to cause a problem, but I don’t know what causes it. Note: One thing you may encounter is your computer beeping after turning the setting on. To enable Generator for a specific file, go to: File: Generate: Image Assets. The next thing to realize is that the Generator function is file specific and needs to be turned on for each file. To enable the plugin, go to the plugins section on the left and in the resulting pane, click on Enable Generator and OK to save the settings. This brings up the Preferences dialog box. Still, there are some steps you should observe to make sure the plugin functions correctly. To fix that, I downloaded the Generator plugin, installed it and after that, the connection functioned properly. In getting this system to work, I found that Reflow initially didn’t connect properly with Photoshop. To get started, download and install the latest version of Photoshop and then after that, install Edge Reflow CC. Using the Generator plugin offers a different (and more streamlined) approach. The bottom line is that would be incredibly time intensive. The font is then applied via CSS in the regular fashion, e.g.Prior to the creation of this plugin, a designer would have to build the layout, and then once they received approval, they would have to cut the layout apart into individual components. To do so, add a small JavaScript snippet to the section of the page like so: 1. Previewing and Selecting Adobe Edge FontsĪdobe Edge Fonts is an impressive collection of free to use web fonts that can be loaded into any website. So whether or not Reflow ever becomes a fully functional website creation tool, there are some really useful things you can do with it right now, and we're going to cover five of them. With this feature you can design individual elements to will be used in your site, then copy out their CSS for use in your production-ready site project. You might have to remove some unwanted layout code for things like margins or heights, but most of the styling code is good to be pasted straight into a CSS file. If you're familiar with Photoshop, you could liken this to creating layer styles and saving them out for later use. This will give you a popup window with the element's CSS for you to copy and paste: To do so you just click the element you're working on to select it, then down the bottom of the screen click the icon at the end of the breadcrumb trail. You can control colors, backgrounds, borders, shadows, glows, curved corners, opacity settings, filters and more in a very familiar environment.Īnd while Reflow doesn't give you code export tools for a full site, it does give you the ability to output copy and paste CSS for one element at a time. To me, the biggest perks it currently offers are its Photoshop-like CSS controls which allow you to see the effects of your choices in real time. That said, while Reflow is perhaps not a complete website creation tool, it does have some features that can make it a very useful website element design tool. So while things may change in the future, for now we can only assume that for those who wish to have a functioning site at the end of their design process, Reflow may not be such a good fit. There is some talk of full export tools being added at an indefinite point in the future, but then other talk says Reflow will only ever be a design tool and will never incorporate a workflow for complete site creation. For many designers, however, creating a site twice over makes Reflow a tool that is as yet too inefficient to adopt for the purpose of responsive website creation. So, after going through the process of designing your site in Reflow, you have to put it together a second time in order to create code that a live site can use.įor some designers this is just fine creating a functional prototype which clients can green light is an integral part of their process. There is no direct control over the HTML and CSS that makes up the design, and Adobe make it very clear that the code output for previews should be considered just that preview code and not of production quality. You're as yet unable to go ahead and export your design as an actual website. However, at the moment that's as far as you can get. You can preview your design both within the tool and in Chrome, and you can set breakpoints, make your design responsive then preview it for mobile through Adobe's Edge Inspect tool. This means you can open up Reflow and use its visual design interface to create fully functioning design prototypes, with color schemes, layouts, form elements, links and text content in place. Edge Reflow is a relatively new program from Adobe, having been announced in 2012 and released in February 2013, with the elevator pitch of enabling you to "Design the responsive web" and "Create beautiful responsive designs". The tricky part is that right now you can't actually use it directly to create responsive websites, only responsive designs. Preconcepived notion definition1/2/2024 a preconceived notion (=an idea that you have before you have enough knowledge or experience ) The police were accused of twisting the evidence to meet their preconceived notion of his guilt. an abstract notion In art, how can you represent abstract notions such as peace or justice? a romantic notion (=one that is based on how you want something to be, not how it is in real life ) He rejected the romantic notion of rugby as a game for gentlemen. a simple notion You cannot rate the project according to a simple notion of ‘value for money’: there are too many factors involved. an absurd/ridiculous notion They had the ridiculous notion that they could make a living from singing. adjectives a vague notion (=an unclear idea ) He had only a vague notion of what might happen next. reject/dismiss a notion Aristotle rejected the notion that the body and the soul are separate. challenge/dispute a notion Copernicus challenged the notion that the Sun goes around the Earth. reinforce a notion (=make an idea stronger or easier to believe ) The research reinforces the notion that fathers have an important role in their children’s lives. support a notion There is no evidence to support the notion that girls are treated better than boys in school. accept a notion Probably 95% of scientists now accept the notion that human activity is causing climate change. ► see thesaurus at idea 2 → notions COLLOCATIONS verbs have a notion He didn’t have a clear notion of what he had to do. accept/challenge/reject etc a notion They reject the notion of group guilt. notion that the notion that human beings are basically good She had no notion what he meant. She had only a vague notion of what she wanted to do. ○ W3 AWL noun 1 IDEA an idea, belief, or opinion notion of misguided notions of male superiority The traditional notion of marriage goes back thousands of years.This website also provides you English Grammar, TOEFL and most common words.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English notion no‧tion / ˈnəʊʃ ən $ ˈnoʊ- / The dictionary has mainly three features : translate English words to Thai translate Thai words to English, copy & paste any paragraph in the Reat Text box then tap on any word to get instant word meaning. This English to Thai dictionary also provides you an Android application for your offline use. It has more than 500,000 word meaning and is still growing. This dictionary helps you to search quickly for Thai to English translation, English to Thai translation. It does not only give you English toThai and Thai to English word meaning, it provides English to English word meaning along with Antonyms, Synonyms, Examples, Related words and Examples from your favorite TV Shows. This dictionary has the largest database for word meaning. This is not just an ordinary English to Thai dictionary & Thai to English dictionary. (16) It is the evidence that determines all this, not any preconceived opinion or ideological view. (15) They should not want me to reduce the text to two paragraphs that will fit their preconceived ideas. (14) I really had no preconceived ideas about what the experience would be like. (13) They can have preconceived ideas that they will be less able to do their jobs. (12) He makes me laugh without challenging any of my preconceived ideas. (11) I think a lot of people have a very preconceived idea about who I am, which is fair enough because that's the nature of media. (10) More generally, she was able to demolish a few of her own - and other people's - preconceived ideas. (9) In order to support preconceived ideas and policies many subjective and false assumptions are made. (8) But researchers think he may have had preconceived ideas about what the data should show. (7) Challenging preconceived ideas saying goodbye to long standing fears. (6) On the future of banking in Ireland he has ├ö├ç├┐no preconceived ideas of what is right and what is wrong├ö├ç├û. (5) Obviously Gary had never read a romance book in his life, but his preconceived ideas did provide entertainment for the rest of us. (4) According to the popular director and it might even be better to not have too many preconceived ideas about the period. (3) It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it. (2) Most people have preconceived ideas of what these people look like, but they often appear to be the epitome of family decency. (1) If we are to truly assess what is going on in the world it is necessary to put our prejudices and preconceived notions aside. De quadratura circuli1/1/2024 In those days philosophy, theology and natural science were closely linked: the physical structure of the universe had deep theological implications. Those were tumultuous times for the Church Nicholas was at the center both of bitter jurisdictional controversies and of intense disputation about the exact wording of dogmatic texts, where the placement of a comma could assume cosmic importance. Nicholas’ principal occupations were ecclesiastical politics and administration (he was named Cardinal in 1449) and, relatedly, theology/philosophy. They came, with an entourage of distinguished Greek scholars who stayed, and lectured, in Florence contributing to the surge of interest in humanistic learning which led to the new age. He is often described as a transitional figure between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and in fact he was personally involved in one of the great events that mark that transition: Pope Eugene IV sent him to Constantinople in 1437 as part of a delegation to negotiate the participation of the Eastern Orthodox hierarchy in the Council of Florence. Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was one of the leading intellectual figures in early 15th-century Europe. Other circles, lines and points used in the constructions are shown in black. It will intersect the green circle at a second point Y the length y of the segment FY will be the reciprocal of x, since by standard plane geometry XF⋅FY=EF⋅FG=1. Choose one of the intersection points X of the two circles and draw the line through X and F. For any x between 1/2 and 2, for example 1/π−−−√, a circle (blue) of radius x is drawn with center F. A circle (green) is constructed with EG as diameter. The construction starts with a segment EF of length 2 extended by FG of length 12. Then by plane geometry DB2=AB⋅BC=AB, so DB has length x√. Choose one of the points D where the (green) circle with diameter AC intersects the perpendicular through B. A segment AB of length x is extended by a segment BC of length 1. Then the composition of two more standard straightedge and compass constructions could start from that diameter and generate first a segment of length1/π−−−√, and from that one a segment of the reciprocal lengthπ√.Įxamples of straight-edge and compass arithmetic: If the triangle had perimeter 1, the circle would have diameter1/π. Nicholas’s plan was start from an equilateral triangle and construct an isoperimetric circle this is the content of the First Premise in De Geometricis Transmutationibus. This means a construction relating a segment of length 1 (the radius of the circle) to a segment of length π√ (the side of the square). Literally, squaring the circle means devising the straightedge-and-compass construction of a square whose area equals that of a given circle. This was the first of Cusa’s writings in which he addressed the problem of squaring the circle. In 1445 Nicholas of Cusa wrote De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometric Transmutations) my account is based on a recent translation into French of all of Nicholas’ mathematical works: Nicolas de Cues, Les Écrits mathématiques by Jean-Marie Nicolle (Honoré Champion, Paris, 2007). But that was in another country and besides, until now no one has known about it.” It continues with the exposition of the main ideas relating the conjecture to statements in algebra, and is certainly what Stephen Miller had in mind when he wrote, in the AMS Notices, after John’s death, “His 1960s papers on the 3-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture are both brilliant and hilarious at the same time.” It begins with the declaration: “I have committed the sin of falsely proving Poincaré’s Conjecture. In 1965 my late friend and colleague John Stallings wrote “How not to prove the Poincaré conjecture.” This work appeared in the Proceedings of the Wisconsin Topology Seminar and is still available on John’s Berkeley website. Stony Brook University Nicolaus of Cusa: Quadrature of the Circle – Schiller Institute The solution would have made him famous forever… Nicholas of Cusa was attacking a problem dating back to the ancient Greeks. Adguard list1/1/2024 The registration only requires your email and payment info.ĪdGuard VPN employs only one protocol, simply called the “ AdGuard VPN protocol.” Instead of picking one of the ready-made VPN protocols, the company has opted to create its own from scratch.ĪdGuard was looking to solve a couple of problems with its in-house VPN tunnel:.It comes with an automatic kill switch.It doesn’t log any risky information that could trace your traffic back to you.AdGuard VPN uses a proprietary stealthy protocol called “ AdGuard VPN protocol.”.Here are the main points to keep in mind: AdGuard VPN performs rather well in that regard so we gave it an 8/10 for online security. It achieves this by masking your real IP, encrypting your traffic, and refraining from harmful logging. The main task of any VPN is to encrypt your private information. If you use privacy-focused browsers, however, your speeds may dip a little further due to additional encryption. These will usually be the ones closest to your physical location. We watched YouTube clips, a few animes on Crunchyroll, and a lot of shows on Netflix without a single buffer circle.įor bandwidth-heavy online gaming sessions, we recommend going with the servers with the lowest ping. It offered smooth browsing, fast downloads, and seamless streaming sessions. Using AdGuard VPN day-to-day was an absolute pleasure. Online gaming, streaming in full HD, and downloading content shouldn’t be a problem. It wasn’t that great, to begin with, so if your upload speed is poor, you might experience some lag due to speed drops.Īfter our speed test, we can conclude that AdGuard VPN is an excellent choice if you require sheer speed. Naturally, as we moved further away from the US, the pings were increasing, resulting in greater speed drops.ĪdGuard VPN affected our upload more severely than our download speed. Connecting to any server (no matter how far) was almost instantaneous. With that in mind, here are the results of our AdGuard VPN speed test: ServerĪs you can see, AdGuard VPN dishes out great speeds. Therefore, this table should be viewed as an indicator of potential speeds. Based on your location and connection speed, you might get different results. We haven’t experienced any major speed fluctuations during daily use.įor this AdGuard VPN review, we tested the speed of its Windows client from the US.Speed dips are minimal, so you can expect almost your original connection speeds.Here are our main observations regarding the AdGuard VPN speed test: Based on our results, we give AdGuard VPN 9/10. Furthermore, we check for any daily fluctuations to see whether providers throttle bandwidth. We then compare it to the results gathered on different servers. We first begin our speed tests by determining our benchmark speed (without the VPN). This way, we can gauge how encryption affects overall performance and see speed fluctuations between different locations. That’s why we test VPN speeds across a number of select servers in different destinations. However, this problem can become more prominent on slower encrypted connections. If your internet speed is decent, you’ll hardly even know that you’re using a VPN. The fastest VPNs are the ones that manage to mitigate speed losses caused by heavy encryption. Speed is one of the most important aspects of any VPN. We’d like to see the addition of live chat and crypto payments in the future, but that seems like a long way away at the moment. Power users will find a number of advanced features that will cater to their needs perfectly. It keeps zero harmful logs and never shares your information with third parties. AdGuard VPN offers servers in 52+ locations. It uses AES-256 encryption and allows reliable geo-unblocking anywhere in the world. Its proprietary protocol provides excellent speeds paired with always-on camouflage. The VPN app is intuitive and easy to use, without any misleading menus or hard-to-grasp options. Is the final result as good as its adblocking counterpart? Can AdGuard compete with other top-tier VPNs?įind out in our full AdGuard VPN review below.ĪdGuard VPN is beginner-friendly yet powerful. In 2020, the team decided to use their experience in privacy protection and released their very own VPN. Its parent company, AdGuard Software Limited, was founded back in 2009 in Russia but moved to Cyprus in 2014.ĪdGuard is primarily known for its top-tier adblocker. AdGuard VPN Review (2022): A Lightning-Fast VPNĪdGuard VPN has come a long way from a simple Chrome extension to a fully-fledged VPN service. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |