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by gilleain 3y ago
I bought a Vigotech VG-X4 and did get it to work.It was around 200 dollars. However there were a few issues - bit fiddly to construct (the same might be true of the axidraw i guess) and windows only. Found some software online to drive it o
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by gilleain 3y ago
Sure, and the whole 'left' and 'right' system comes from 18th century French politics :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political...
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by gilleain 3y ago
The biologist example is, respectfully, ridiculous. Would you expect experts in criminal psychology to be serial killers?
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by gilleain 3y ago
'Eschew' is probably the word you want instead of 'eskew'.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Those are some interesting detailed examples, yes. The construction methods are still known for many patterns, however: http://gilleain-torrance.net/assets/images/blog/orosi-trypty... for example. There is a
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by gilleain 3y ago
Huh, guilloché patterns remind me of the work this guy does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyI2tke3smI by hand, though! He's an amazing drawer.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Nice. I've been tracing and painting a lot of tile designs recently and it has given me an appreciation for how even quite simple seeming designs have a lot more to them than it seems at first. Balancing the ratio of space to color, pl
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by gilleain 3y ago
"Sun's method takes an approach called individualization and refinement..." Which is what many standard methods for graph isomorphism use, if we are talking about the same thing.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Given the reference to Henry VIII's bollocks, it is certainly Thomas, not Oliver. Thomas Cromwell oversaw the founding of the Anglican Church, partly to satisfy Henry's need for a legitimate male heir.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Possibly. However proteins already use 20 (or 21) amino acids, and do post-translational modification of these. In addition, they use cofactors, metal clusters, and other ways to tweak the chemistry they have available. As an analogy, it se
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by gilleain 3y ago
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that past a certain point in history, the life that could thrive depended on an environment that no longer exists. For example, the Great_Oxidation_Event ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by gilleain 3y ago
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36238560
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by gilleain 3y ago
As another interesting semi-related topic, what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superacid - they are super! Also one of them is magic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_acid :)
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by gilleain 3y ago
How bizarre. Great link, as it also goes into the lack of centres to actually carry out composting in the UK (at scale). However it doesn't go into _why_ there are PFAS in 'compostable' materials. At a wild guess, they are to
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by gilleain 3y ago
I have no particular bias (I think!) either way, and certainly no background ... However. That wiki page has Kaczynski under 'Alleged subjects' not under 'Documented subjects'.
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by gilleain 3y ago
The only character in Warhammer who is unambiguously good is of course Kremlo.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Oh man. My mother's house has so many clocks with a variety of opinions on what the time is. I have to average them to get an estimate of what the real time is.
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by gilleain 3y ago
You could try the google search console - it gives you a view on what hits/clicks have come in over time. edit: Hah. I notice it suggests using it at the top of the page if you use 'site:..." - and I only get 5 results for my
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by gilleain 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't have the mathematical skill to answer these questions! It might be worth looking at the original papers - quite readable, I understand - to see how they constructed the proof that their tiles are aperiodic. After
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by gilleain 3y ago
Yes, exactly. Also this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVwelta1fE Helped me understand an example of a monotile that can tile aperiodically but also has a periodic tiling.
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by gilleain 3y ago
Heh, not knowing anything about music, I gave it the only test I could think of - 'Cornflake Girl' by Tori Amos. https://www.nevertwenty.live/view/tfC0-pVpQWw I assume it was getting the notes right? Nice int
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by gilleain 3y ago
I recently bought this book : "Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands: Principles • Materials • Practice" (Thames and Hudson Ltd, edited by Khaled Azzam). It has a section on making similar (ish) geometric tiles, although the desc
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by gilleain 3y ago
... which is https://oeis.org/A005132 ...
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by gilleain 3y ago
Past discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848517 Am I right in remembering that at one point the OEIS ran on a single machine that Neil Sloane ran himself? Personally, I used to use the database for counts of
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by gilleain 3y ago
Is that not what version control is for? VCS is the ultimate hoarder! It keeps all your code back to the first commit ...
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by gilleain 3y ago
There's also 'Group Explorer' by Nathan Carter. https://nathancarter.github.io/group-explorer/index.html The book is also very nice. edit: Oh right, that's linked from this page ...
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by gilleain 4y ago
I think it's a mixture for me. I can certainly enjoy some music just as pleasant noises, or even as meaningful to _me_ rather than the meaning that the maker put into it. For example, I've always loved 'Cloudbusting' by
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by gilleain 4y ago
... and what if a bunch of experts declare that the works are genuine, only to find they were wrong? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren
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by gilleain 4y ago
Honestly I find the question of Elon's competence fascinating. One point of view is that he's just a con-artist, a marketer of his own genius, and other people do the actual work. Another view is that he is really a genius, who ha
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by gilleain 4y ago
Force push : not just for Jedi.

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