escherplex

25 ms·

211.
by escherplex 11y ago
IE, cross-sections or projections. Would be interesting if there were a way to render a Klein bottle using techniques similar to those used when 'impossible triangles' are modeled with boards and 2x4s in fields which then seem to
212.
by escherplex 11y ago
Yeah but last time I heard, a Klein bottle being only a one sided surface can only be rendered in 4D space with the 'passing through' funnel not breaking or intersecting the curved surface and this can't be rendered in 3D sp
213.
by escherplex 11y ago
Given that English is a hybrid language anyway and historically has demonstrated a willingness to accept loaner words from any source, a solution could be to adopt the 160 symbol IPA. According to Wikipedia, seems like everyday English coul
214.
by escherplex 11y ago
Very Zen. The failure to recognize the limitations of one's received cognitive instrumentation. And this instrumentation is empirically oriented so without empirical validation what have you got? And with emphasis placed on theories wh
215.
by escherplex 11y ago
You're right. The new one looks like a US pb release of the original yet at UK book sites these are presented as separate entities in their summaries. Found that out by skimming Cheng's Twitter page. Thanks for the info.
216.
by escherplex 11y ago
Not if this is considered a particularly difficult UK Maths GCSE exam question, which over 90 percent couldn't answer: Hannah has 6 orange sweets and some yellow sweets. Overall, she has n sweets. The probability of her taking 2 orange
217.
by escherplex 11y ago
If not in any particular rush, you can get a UK copy of 'How to Bake Pi' at http://www.bookdepository.com/ (best price, free shipping, and they take paypal). Plus it turns out that Eugenia Cheng just released ano
218.
by escherplex 11y ago
Seriously. Unless you want something dogging your tail to shoot past and you're outfitted with a very robust landing gear assembly. Doesn't look like those conditions are being met here.
219.
by escherplex 11y ago
Good point. When you blow-up the image in Photoshop and see the pixelation around the perimeter of the forward wheel assembly and little elsewhere it does suggest a bad hack job.
220.
by escherplex 11y ago
Or if the main character in the allegory lacked plumbing fixtures altogether and were named C3PO?
221.
by escherplex 12y ago
If you haven't already, I'd suggest downloading 'Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904)' by Lafcadio Hearn (free for Kindle or as an .html from Project Gutenberg). Although sympathetic but culturally chauvinistic by
222.
by escherplex 12y ago
Probably something more like 'Ekhjelpe! Ek hefi ratað eða get ek ei standa'.
223.
by escherplex 12y ago
'Shouganai' struck me as more urban where the locals chatter at 200 words per minute. If you ever visit the back-country like Okayama Prefecture and pose one of those 'riyuu o fushigi ni omoi masu ...' (wonder why ..) qu
224.
by escherplex 12y ago
Agreed. At the extreme one configuration culminates in a sclerotic dystopia and the other into a dysfunctional freak-show. But even if someone were smart enough to scare-up and responsibly impose a configuration which optimized individualit
225.
by escherplex 12y ago
True. Tight hierarchical social conditioning from birth. If reasonably fluent in Japanese and of European stock what is an all too frequent response to unorthodox queries? Shikataganai. In English that's usually translated as "it
226.
by escherplex 12y ago
Concur. With this scheme it seems you're just adding fuel to the fire. If a synthetic acetaldehyde dehydrogenase supplement could be scared-up (converts acetaldehyde into acetic acid) then hangovers could be a thing of the past. FWIW c
227.
by escherplex 12y ago
You're right. Try bringing the "Checker Shadow Illusion" as a .jpg into Photoshop or GIMP and check the color values. Surprisingly in both A and B locales they're 120,120,120 (RGB). More curious is experimentation with t
228.
by escherplex 12y ago
These are just nervous jokes following the ongoing demise of antibiotics. But, having to resort to venipuncture for treatment of hemochromatosis must be tough. Hope your phlebotomist also prescribed some chelating agents to reduce frequency
229.
by escherplex 12y ago
Leechcraft (OEn) to medecine (OFr) and then back to leechcraft? Interesting progression you got there :)
230.
by escherplex 13y ago
Valid points all but we're using 20/20 hindsight to render judgments on received conventions during a time in which the more logical metric system exists. A quick glance at 'Knot (unit)' in Wikipedia supplies a 'rat
231.
by escherplex 13y ago
Found BBC has the Royal Society - Boyle manuscripts archive online at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/boyle_papers/boylepapers_index.ht... A casual but chronological search of the material suggests Y^e was colloquial
232.
by escherplex 13y ago
Initially tried using WinHTTrack on the document folder but DL rate was only 25kB/s. So if mentally you resort to sublimated-OCD mode the whole notebook can be downloaded, one page at a time, then combined and cropped in Acrobat for of
233.
by escherplex 14y ago
"Tehran will not be falling over itself to buy because of concern that Indian grain may be tainted by fungal disease" That's what I was wondering. There is something making the rounds called Ug99, a form of wheat rust capable of destroying