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Hacks for Travian

What is Travian?

As per Jimmy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travian

Travian is a persistent, browser-based, massively multiplayer, online real-time strategy game developed by the German software company Travian Games.^[1] It was originally written and released in June 2004 by Gerhard Müller. Set in classical antiquity, Travian is a predominantly militaristic real-time strategy game.

Travian has been translated into over 40 languages from the original German version,^[1]^[2] and has over 5 million players on over 300game servers worldwide.^[3]^[4]^[5] In 2006, it won the Superbrowsergame Award, in the large games category.^[1]^[4]^[6]^[7]

Travian is programmed in PHP and runs in most modern browsers. Its creators may have drawn from an earlier German board game,The Settlers of Catan, for layout^[8] and the resource development theme

Get onto gettertools.com/ts8.travian.com.3 its awesome for calculation

Read from http://travian.wikia.com/wiki/Travian_Wiki when you are waiting in the game (yes there is waiting)

Early Game

1) Use Gold to take 25% bonus in Lumber and Clay

2) Use crop finder to locate your second city away from your enemy alliance and near a safe area for your alliance

3) Put troops on evasion and kill and plunder with Hero but Hero bonus should be for killing not crops

4) Try and Capture an Oasis Early and Try and Get your best troops early. This means doing more Academy and Hero upgrades.

5) Choose your capital wisely if you have reached multiple cities- Un selecting a city as capital breaks all buildings above level 10 back to 10 and breaks some buildings (Mason) completely.

6) Try and hit 50 points every day in daily tasks

Mid Game

1) Use Gold to take 25% bonus in Lumber, Iron and Crops

2) Rally Point should be way up

3) Try and hot 75 points daily tasks.

End Game

1) Spare some gold for this part

2) Be fickle and lie low.

3) You will need a lot of crops or you will die

(to be continued)

The inevitable weaponization of the weather

Reasons I think weaponization of the weather (or climate) is inevitable

1) The weather is an inter connected system with many zero sum scenarios to nation states. This includes sharing of water resources and moving manufacturing in offshore locations

2) As climate change effects gradually cause increase variance in climate, this will lead to added hardship for populations. The economics branch of mechanism design might be better suited to simulate what a few degrees more or less in temperature will lead to riots, happier populations, economic stimuli just as agricultural studies focus on rainfall prediction, crop prediction etc.

3) Nation states have always had weaponry on a game theory basis. The weather being an interconnected system can be both dampened and enhanced in it’s adverse variance by man made means, and the interconnectedness can ensure deniability . Example a man made out of time El Nino effect can hamper rainfall in Indian monsoons and bring change in politics in that democracy

I still hope nations do not weaponize the weather. Unfortunately I am quite sure some of them are already thinking of both predictive and defensive mechanisms for countering climate change without any thought of how this affects other countries.

(This is continued from https://decisionstats.com/2011/05/24/weather-modifying-weapons/ , https://decisionstats.com/2011/05/08/weather-weapons/ , https://decisionstats.com/2010/01/20/dude-wheres-my-water/, https://decisionstats.com/2010/01/05/climate-die-oxide/ and https://decisionstats.com/2008/11/17/carbon-footprints-in-the-snow/

A lot of my earlier writings on weaponization of weather have been marked more by conceptual theories, added tit bits and a wee bit of creativity. I apologize for the immature lack of scholarly rigor in earlier writings as I work alone to refine my skills. )

How Search Engines Allows Copyright Infringement

Add the words- free download and search engines will show you all the links for the download of the copyrighted material .

Now why would anyone want to use the word “free download” . Unless search engines come up with a better filter to commonly used keywords for copyright infringement- this loop hole will stay.

Step 1

Use the chrome browser for convenient searching of “name of copyrighted material” + “free download”

Step 2

Scroll down page of Google Search Results

Step 3

Download using whatever that particular website does

Step 4

Dont be Evil. Yup. That’s my friends

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Step 5

Use Image Search to write blog post ruing your poverty

FOAS is now going to reduce your tax if you support open source

Announcement from the retiring founder of http://www.foastat.org/

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FOAS is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California. It has federal tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3). FOAS has a worldwide mission to to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.

FOAS now has 501(c)(3) federal tax exempt status. All donations to FOAS, retroactively from September 2012, are now tax deductible.

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What is FOAS- http://www.foastat.org/

The mission of the Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS) is to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.

FOAS works to ensure the continued success of the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), one of the few major open access journals that is free for both readers and authors. We also promote the use and development of free software for statistics, such as the R language and environment for computational statistics. We encourage members and the academic community at large to publish reproducible research that is publicly available online, e.g., in an open access journal or on an open access pre-print server.

You can join FOAS to show your support for free statistical software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics. Membership is free and open to all. Members receive periodic email updates from FOAS, and may wish to join the FOAS-members list, join the Facebook FOAS Group, or follow FOAS on Diaspora.

Consider making a donation to FOAS. All donations are currently being used to support the operation of JSS.

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eh, Google how about routing less money through the Irish and giving some to Californian open source…

Related- cultural icon to non open source companies.

Talking on Analytics #rstats #analytics #bigdata #sas #conferences

This is a post that lists down my talks or conferences on Analytics and will be updated as I keep talking.
It also lists sponsors.

1) Big Data Big Analytics – http://krishnarajpm.com/bigdata/abstract.pdf Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning and Game Theory Approaches for Large Scale Data Analysis 9 July 2012 – 14 July 2012 Sponsored by Mathematical Sciences, Division of Science and Engineering Research Board at Bangalore India
Department of Science & Technology Government of India. (sponsored airfare-hotel accomodation-honorium)

Big data Big Analytics from Ajay Ohri

2) Data Analytics using the Cloud- Challenges and Opportunities for India at 1st International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges(ISBCC-2014) March 27-28, 2014 VIT University, Chennai, India Sponsored by BRNS (flight)

http://chennai.vit.ac.in/isbcc/

Data analytics using the cloud challenges and opportunities for india from Ajay Ohri

3) Open Source Analytics at OSSCamp 2014 http://osscamp.in/

http://osscamp.in/events/6/open-source-analytics-overview-r-python-and-others

Open source analytics from Ajay Ohri

Attended-

1) First Big Data Conference -New York sponsored by Aster Data (flight-stay)

https://decisionstats.com/2011/06/24/interview-first-big-data-conference/

2) Data Mining 2009 Sponsored by SAS Institute ( flight-stay)

https://decisionstats.com/2009/10/24/sas-data-mining-2009-las-vegas/

Interviews

1) Using R in HR Analytics -HR Tech Europe 2012 http://blog.hrtecheurope.com/2012/08/more-r-in-hr/ also http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/using-r-in-the-human-resources-department.html

2) R for Business Analytics- Analytics India Magazine

http://analyticsindiamag.com/interview-ajay-ohri-author-r-for-business-analytics/

3) Data Mining Research People Award 2010: Data Mining Blog http://www.dataminingblog.com/data-mining-research-interview-ajay-ohri/

4) Statsjobs – April 2008 http://statjobs.blogspot.in/2008/04/interview-with-ajay-ohri-data-mining.html

Awards-

1) Blogger of the Week Social Media Collective http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/67268

2) Member of the Month (2 times) on Analyticbridge $250 awarded twice

http://www.analyticbridge.com/group/memberofthemonth/forum/topics/ajay-ohri-february-2009

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If you need me to talk on analytics – drop me a line at http://linkedin.com/in/ajayohri and I can talk.

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Talk on Open Source Analytics at OSSCamp Delhi

I presented on how open source has helped business analytics grow. This was at the unconference (my first unconference) at http://osscamp.in/

Open source analytics from Ajay Ohri

NSA and SSL

from-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/nsa-heartbleed_n_5134813.html

“NSA was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability, until it was made public in a private sector cybersecurity report,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement to HuffPost. “Reports that say otherwise are wrong.”

Thanks to Mr Snowden , NSA slide showing how NSA had cracked SSL before???

http://www.businessinsider.in/Leaked-Slide-Shows-NSA-Celebrated-Victory-Over-Googles-Security-With-A-Smiley-Face/articleshow/24950436.cms

In an NSA presentation slide on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” however, a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where their data resides. In hand-printed letters, the drawing notes that encryption is “added and removed here!” The artist adds a smiley face, a cheeky celebration of victory over Google security.