I’ve heard a bit about these because I have a relative who is learning Korean and complains to me about all the count words
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I’ve heard a bit about these because I have a relative who is learning Korean and complains to me about all the count words
Judgemental Rowlet
"Tech killed online education" is a heck of an outcome.
bsky.app/profile/andr...
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Bluesky is sending me down a multilingual plesiosaur rabbit hole
An XKCD-style cartoon with 2 stick figures talking. Her: XKCD is second nature to us nerds, so it's esay to forget that the average person probably only knows KXCD 327, 386, 927, 936, and 2347 Him: And 2501, of course Her: Of course Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
Someone pointed me to marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen..., so obviously I had to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ll...
Furlong? Depends on the animal
Cursed Units 3 is out now! I want it to be known that I recorded the tablespoon bit on Australia Day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbf...
A diagram of ratios between volume units in the imperial, US customary and metric systems
Cursed units 3 coming soon... 👀
An analysis of what now
(But as I have now learnt, the actual story is also super cool)
At first I thought you meant that sheaves were a cognitohazard designed to cripple the German war effort, which is an incredibly funny concept
Summer of Math Exposition 4 results are out! I was not expecting to win, but I did get a shoutout which I am super grateful for
3blue1brown.substack.com/p/some4-prizes
#SoME4
@3blue1brown.com Just announced his teacher's picks award selection. Go check them out!
3blue1brown.substack.com/p/some4-prizes
For more, the full list of entries is available on the SoME4 site
some.3b1b.co
A web search for "long common words." Google's AI Overview responds with "Long common words you might actually see include" followed by two asterisks and a very long string of left angle quotation marks
Um
Found this water dragon on a windowsill in Urunga
I was going to point out that "6000% percent lower" is nonsense, and the title should say "a 60th of" or "60 times lower" or similar. But there are already dozens of people calling this out in the replies, which restores my faith in humanity somewhat.
Opening of the 69th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society
nice
Oh no
#metazooa
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess.
metazooa.com
I got thoroughly nerd-sniped, but I think this is the answer for 2D. Each of the 4 terms covers rays through one edge of the square. I haven't used integral of sec since high school!
Cursed unit enjoyers will appreciate this video by @alexander-the-ok.bsky.social
youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc
My experience was that Hollow Knight is very “spacey” (you just need to move to the right positions on screen) which makes everything feel frantic and chaotic, while Nine Sols is very “timey” (you just need to parry with the right rhythm) which makes everything feel controlled and precise
My favourite thing about Silksong is that one of the first abilities you get is the “Silksong silk skill silkspear”, just filling the S quota straightaway
Me lying on the Harvard bridge next to the smoot markings
Doing fieldwork
A bunch of mushrooms freshly picked
Honey mushrooms growing around a tree
Chicken of the woods mushrooms growing on a tree
Hen-of-the-woods mushroom being picked, and a dog is there too
A successful mushroom picking expedition with Pavel Etingof and the MIT maths crowd
Coincidentally, I made a video about temperature and entropy at the same time as 3B1B and Spectral Collective
youtu.be/gRPv4rd_6O4