Σ(i³) = (Σi)²

@cstross
Once the nutritional aspect of food becomes obsolete (since the nanoengineered ATP pumps redundantly implanted in four different locations of my body take care of energy supply), eating becomes a purely aesthetic experience; not unlike sex after the reproductive connection has been […]

@christianp The input field is mm/dd(/yyyy) but the output is dd/mm(/yyyy). That feels ... inconsistent. As someone who grew up in Europe and now lives in the US I'm cool with either (and I always write my dates with "Jan", "Feb" etc instead of a month number to avoid this kind of nonsense) but […]

@johndcook Why is the angle defect for the octahedron 240°? Four equilateral triangles on a corner, so it should come to 360-4x60=120° [?]

@julesh Come to think of it, cats do expect to be worshipped while in return not giving a shit about you. That sounds like most deities I've ever heard about...

@julesh Out of curiosity: which German VPN are you using? I've been toying with the idea of having an endpoint outside the US for a while now, but don't know how to judge the various offers...

@christianp
"shall statements" vs "is statements".

What conveys the right meaning to you:
a) DO NOT TOUCH
b) DANGER, 10000 VOLTS

The first expresses how the writer wants the world to be, the second one says how the world is. For every (a) encountered there will be a smartass that says "don't […]

Heads up for the Haskell nerds: functional programming in Real Lifeᵀᴹ

https://events.zoom.us/ev/ArYZWTHwHadF1z5rFGmggUTZiZcBn08S86TAk2t3vsjUSgYSY6Mt~AglGQ71j0a2GnjEYXo0S5S9Kwqezl26KKT5Tif00hENXAQMrQLF9fFjFaA

@j_bertolotti @mickeykats.bsky.social
Bluetooth is not magic. There are 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 why you have to sacrifice a goat occasionally to keep it working.

@julesh My brain continues to insist that "RL" stands for "Rocket League" and continues to be much more amused by writing like your second paragraph than is really warranted...

@julesh What is my code is both stateless and tasteless?

"You're not far left," a buddy says.

In a world with fascists controlling every part of the federal government, I'm disinclined to argue with "far left" as a description. At least it clearly distinguishes me from the Nazis.

Two checker boards in slight offset to each other...

Same as last week, but with slightly tweaked parameters
#TilingTuesday

@julesh Is there also a page with a "List of individual sand grains"?

@cstross Everything posted by Mr Trump conveys more information if you read it with a Russian accent. Try it.

Maps and Statistics Human plague still occurs in the western US, with most cases in northern New Mexico and Arizona.

@julesh Wow - I had no idea that was still a thing (and apparently not super uncommon):
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

(Now that world map at the bottom is a bit weird: South Sudan has been a sovereign country since 2011; time to update your borders, CDC)

@mattmcirvin 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 your family would come to share your fascination if you cooked some of it and offered it up for dinner...

@futurebird This was written in 2013. Nothing has changed since then. https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

@fatsam

I keep posting various things for #TilingTuesday that I tinkered with in 2015, so here's a super simple one:
Make a regular checker board with the usual two kinds of coloring; but instead of "black" and "white" make each coloring its own checker boards with […]

[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

A country is just an administrative division with a superiority complex

@johncarlosbaez The C gates are colocated with the B gates but you have to go in the opposite direction to get there...

The Trump gang took down a bunch of legally mandated climate assessments. Meanwhile, in actual reality, the climate doesn't give a fuck:

“We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before. While the world is debating the […]

For some reason some people liked that last picture even though it's really not a tiling and shouldn't be tagged for #TilingTuesday , Is there a common tag for #GenericFunPictureMadeWithMathThatIsNotATiling ?

Big whirls have little whirls
that feed on their velocity,
And little whirls have lesser whirls
and so on to viscosity
—Lewis F. Richardson, 1922

@bruces I wish people would stop using the word "hallucination" as it obscures the reality of the problem: a hallucination is a(n unexpected) *malfunction* of an (otherwise functional) pattern recognition system. What LLMs do is empathically NOT a malfunction: the systems are working exactly as […]

A bunch of lines drawn on a colored background

#TilingTuesday

@christianp
I have a number of them from over the years:

It worked yesterday.
Today, it won't work at all.
Windows is like that.

@christianp
The eternal question:
Why is Microsoft like that?
We can only shrug.

(a haiku about many of my work days)

@johncarlosbaez I don't think your alt-texts are accurate: the white little balls attached to the carbon atoms are almost certainly Hydrogen, not Oxygen...

@julesh 2.5MB/floppy? That's some kind of floppies you have there...