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Do you know about Roger Fuckebythenavele? www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
We have a rule in our household that the word “pedantic” is not to be used pejoratively.
Happy Exelauno Day to all who celebrate!
A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image
In life, you can be a Krauss or you can be a Carroll. Be a Carroll.
Doug's an incredibly smart guy. I'll definitely watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vnj...
(I'm completely down with the idea that bovine gender is a social construct, but I wouldn't have thought that "bull-cow" and "he-she" would be independent degrees of freedom.)
I know it's not the main point, but I do find it a bit puzzling that the cow is male. Why isn't he an interrupting bull?
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cow
I got mine a while back. This is great news. I have a strong family history of Alzheimer's, and the prospect of dementia frankly terrifies me. Sign me up for anything that'll reduce the risk.
I got my shingles shots, because shingles sounds horrible. But significant reduction in dementia risk is an even better reason.
Another Day, Another Elsevier Scandal
Some weeks ago, in early January, I saw a story in the Irish Independent about Brian Lucey, a Professor in Trinity Business School. That story was subsequently featured in Retraction Watch which you can read if you can't get past the paywall at the Irish…
You already knew that Dolly Parton is a treasure, right? In case you didn't, now you do. It's science.
When thing seem grim, it's good to remember that there are people like Dolly Parton out there.
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cow #smbc
Me too. A reminder: 5calls.org has phone numbers and suggested scripts for this sort of call.
Close reading is a powerful method.
People think physics is hard, but it's so much easier than setting up an experiment in an area like this that actually measures what you want to measure.
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
Important reminder of the devastation wrought by the Musk/DOGE dismantling of USAID. Hundreds of thousands dead, many more to come. The greatest crime of the 21st century (so far).
The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
When you mentioned Mercator, it never occurred to me that it wasn't the same guy.
And I'll add Mercator to the list of long-ago mathematicians who seem to have been far ahead of their times, right under Nicolas of Oresme.
I didn't mean to take you aback! I seem to have just gotten the wrong idea that I was supposed to understand something more from what you'd said than I was actually supposed to.
OK. If all I'm supposed to get at this stage is that looking at things mod 12 is produces a nicer, simpler set of patterns than looking at things other ways, I'm convinced.
(I do understand how the curves are generated, just not what the results mean.)
To be specific, I understand why it matters that N=12 has a particularly small error. But I don't understand what I'm supposed to glean from the shapes of the curves obtained by connecting points that are equal mod 12.
Thanks for trying, but I think I'm still missing something fundamental. I guess maybe I'm not supposed to understand it until I read your book!
I confess that I’m still missing the point of this. I guess I’ll have to read your book.
