CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:53 am**

Hey, my name is Thad, and I am a HUGE anime fan. I used to hate anime, but a friend of mine got me hooked. The first anime I watched, and really enjoyed, was Trigun. IMHO, it is still the best.

I actually found this site while searching for TMNT pics. My jaw dropped when I found this site, I was like, "No way!". I didn't think it would be to good, because I had seen this kind of thing before, but I read the welcome/policy thread, and it actually made sense. I am really excited about finding other Chritians who watch anime, but who do so with a christian mind. Other 'christian places are either anti-anime, or they also watch hentai/ecchi etc. I am really excited to get to know you guys. If your ever on AIM, drop me a line. I love talking on AIM, just let me know who you are, and will all be cool.

If you've gotten this far, thanx for reading. :dance:

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:57 am**

Hey there! I'm really glad you found us! (I love it when people are excited to find out that we're here.) Hope to see you on the boards!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:30 am**

Welcome! Enjoy your stay!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:47 am**

Hajimemashite!

I did see your AIM this morning, but unfortunately you sent it while I was still on call.

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:58 am**

welcome

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:19 am**

Welcome to the nuthouse!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:21 am**

Welcome!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:31 am**

bojur mesime :sweat:

I kant spaell

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:28 pm**

Thanks for the great welcome guys.

I really appreciate it.

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:57 pm**

Hey! Welcome to the forums!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 2:27 pm**

Yeah, Isn't it amazing? I'm rather new and thought so too! Welcome and make yourself at home! ^_^

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 8:28 pm**

Hi-ooooooooooooooo!!!

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:11 pm**

Nice to have you here-jya! Please feel at home!

Oh, did you perchance bring snacks? :2D

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:11 am**

Welcome to the forums, I'll catch you on aim.

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:25 am**

Oh yeah, I'll hunt ya on AIM too-jya! :2)

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:19 am**

Hello! What does your name mean BTW? I see the letters SVD and immediately think Singular Value Decomposition, which is probably wrong. :lol:

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:49 am**

SVD? Nani? [looks confused]

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:03 pm**

I get this question a lot, because I use this name for everything. Ok, here is what it means:........*drum roll*...... NOTHING. :sweat:

It is simply the license plate to my old chevy astro van. Nothing more nothing less. I got sick and tired of having to come up with some wierd or cool name that no-one else already had, so I used that, and no-one else ever has it. It's easy for me to remember my name for everything too, if it's the same. So that is the deep dark secret behind my name. :sweat:

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:18 pm**

Well, that explains it-jya!

We *could* make a meaning anyways, like:

Super Viper Driver

or

Sloppy Venison Drippings

or

Silicon Violet Ducks

wow...

:2)

PostPosted: **Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:15 pm**

um...just thought I'd pop in add my voice to the welcome committee...*ahem*:

HELLO^_^....

PostPosted: **Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:09 pm**

Is that really what it stands for Thad? I wanted to ask about that for along time but I kept my mouth shut.... heh
Anyway, I can't really welcome you cause you sent me here... :grin:

PostPosted: **Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:34 pm**

Hi to you too, Danni0524!! Nice to have another person in here!

Did you bring delicious snacks too? ;2)

PostPosted: **Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:23 pm**

DanekJovax wrote:Well, that explains it-jya!

We *could* make a meaning anyways, like:

Super Viper Driver

or

Sloppy Venison Drippings

or

Silicon Violet Ducks

wow...

:2)

I was just more familiar with the acronym representing the mathematical operation (which is why it immediately popped into my head)...

PostPosted: **Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:52 pm**

Well, that's just you, TECHNOmancer.

By the way, what the heck was SVD again? Refresh this ojiisan mind, onegaishimas! ;2)

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 5:15 am**

The Singular Value Decomposition is a common matrix operation, often used in least-squares problems. It can be thought of as being similar to an eigendecomposition.

For the SVD, given a real NxM matrix X of rank r, it can be decomposed as:

X=USV(H) (H) indicates the conjugate transpose ie. Hermitian operator

U is an NxN unitary matrix
V is an MxM unitary matrix
S is an NxM diagonal matrix, with r elements called singular values.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:06 am**

Ah, that's why I don't remember it. I stopped studying math short of differential equations, and I think SVD was in that part of the curriculum in my day.

I should get more into higher math... like I want my brain to be effected from a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. ;2)

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:26 am**

We had to do a fair bit of math in undergrad, let's see:

Several calculus courses (including vector calc.)
Differential equations
Probability and Stats.
Functions of a Complex variable
Linear Algebra

Plus a bunch of other stuff taught as an aside in my other courses (like Fourier and z-transforms). Did a lot of math in my grad courses too, and had to pick up more during various research problems.

Unfortunately, the bars over here don't sell PGGBs. We have to make to do with the more common stuff.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:51 pm**

Thanks for reminding me why I didn't pursue a career in any math-related field, Technomancer. :lol:

But the real purpose of this post--welcome to CAA, SVD997 and Danni0524!

And for Danek, I'll break out the chocolates.

Spiritsword

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:35 pm**

Chocolates!? Who said that?!

I hope they're the Hershey's Special Dark.... yum yum yum!

:2D

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:37 pm**

Welkkomen.

CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hey all!

Hey all!

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