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by gilleain 3y ago
The Nigerian Prince has millions of dollars, though. That is his credibility. After all, no one gets rich by accident.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Good point, sadly i have no idea
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by gilleain 3y ago
The 'visit source' button links to an Amazon listing of Penrose's book
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by gilleain 3y ago
Sure, it's fair to say that most mathematicians would have similar journals (I guess? - has anyone asked :)) I'm not a mathematician, but I have journals with pictures of knots, protei folds, chemical structures, graphs (Eulerian)
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by gilleain 3y ago
Interesting. So 'chiral' is another word for 'handedness' - your hands are chiral, in that you can't rotate your left hand in such a way that it looks like your right hand (yes I know what the Greek word for 'h
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by gilleain 3y ago
Lots of conversations on RLHSTP (Richard Herring's podcast) about comedy that end up in similar discussions : https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/
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by gilleain 3y ago
So job interviews will incorporate Voight-Kampff test-style questions? "The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Very nice - I like the irregular square/triangles and the Versailles-like ones. I was about to ask if the code was available, but then found the programs page. Thanks.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Apparently M. C. Escher liked the snub square tiling. Well it says that on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_pentagonal_tiling (which is dual to the snub square) according to the ref on wikpedia which is " &quot
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by gilleain 3y ago
Nice looking shape. Maybe this was not your point, but the difference with the hat/spectre tile is that there is no periodic tiling (with a reflected hat).
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by gilleain 3y ago
> or mentioning their name X times Reminds me of this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W34wyKZlWQ (Mitchell and Webb, 'People Person' sketch). Yes, it's obvious when people do this, and unconvincing.
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by gilleain 3y ago
No, pretty sure it was the same guy - I've seen one or two of the knock-off videos, and it's not as interesting (and as you say, fake). There's mention on the wiki page for Primitive Technology that he had problems with re-up
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by gilleain 3y ago
Nice. A few points: * This protein acts as a PETase - see also < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37659327 > - but may work at room temperature, and more efficiently * The term 'artificial protein' is a bi
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by gilleain 3y ago
Weird, I was sure that there was another channel - maybe the logo changed and that fooled me, or it was some beautiful dream. Sorry about that. edit: Argh, I have a horrible feeling that I used to watch some copycat channel that re-uploaded
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by gilleain 3y ago
Could be, yes. It's nice to see stuff that is not sponsored by some VPN, and has no "like, subscribe, etc" in it (although I understand why people do that). Also, for me, there is a real-life Minecraft feel to it all. I guess
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by gilleain 3y ago
Videos by Primitive Technology are so weirdly fascinating. It seems unlikely that a video with no dialog of a guy making bricks from scratch would be compelling viewing, but it is. Not to mention that the hut he's making the bricks in
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by gilleain 3y ago
I see, thanks.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Which is where, exactly. It is not obvious :)
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by gilleain 3y ago
I'm not sure if there is a neat relation between labelled (coloured) simple graphs and hypergraphs, however there is (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph ) : > Hypergraphs can be viewed as incidence st
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by gilleain 3y ago
Also known as a 'loaded question' (< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question >) - I really don't think that questions like "Did Alameda have an essentially unbounded line of credit?"
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by gilleain 3y ago
Agreed. I think that some people - SBF included - could take to heart the idea that sometimes they are not the smartest person in the room. Or even that being 'smart' is not the always the most important thing to be at every poi
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by gilleain 3y ago
Right, but Picasso's performance was of _himself_ alongside his art. This guy is making a performance out of the act of making the art, and then people's real-time reaction to that art.
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by gilleain 3y ago
For me the weirdest one was the comment: > "What if he was your son??" I mean ... what of it? It's the strange idea that the critic is 'attacking' the artist and making him feel bad for no reason. So this random
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by gilleain 3y ago
That's what the critic suggests, yes: > In fact, the only way I can understand Rodriguez’s incredibly thin-skinned reaction to my article is that he has managed to rise to this status of apex visibility without any kind of critical
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by gilleain 3y ago
> English word Oops! Hah. It's a town in Northern Ireland. Actually it had not occurred to me that the gh is silent. Guess when you know how to say a word it's 'obvious' when of course it's not
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by gilleain 3y ago
yes they are not great jokes. 'laphroaigh' is la-frayg i guess. More < https://www.thrillist.com/spirits/scotch/how-to-pronounce-sc... >
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by gilleain 3y ago
Yeah I jut looked up some examples from this list < https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249 > starting with 'Frome'. The first video hit had someone pronouncing it rhyming with 'home&
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by gilleain 3y ago
A review of a book about Ibn Sina (aka Avicienna - < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna >) and al-Biruni (< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni >) who were Persian polymaths of the
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by gilleain 3y ago
Ok, but the problem here is that the article would either have to use his actual name ('Esunertos') which almost no one would know, or it would have to summarise: >coin bears the name "Esunertos," which can be transla
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by gilleain 3y ago
Interesting question - it seems like there were Welsh mines in Roman times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolaucothi_Gold_Mines > They are the only mines for Welsh gold outside those of the Dolgellau gold-belt, and

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