UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: yeah, but I would be willing to believe that that's accurate
<rqou> egg|zzz|egg: so here's what i get: https://i.imgur.com/dYJneWA.png
<rqou> but my machine's font selection is awful and i hate it, so take this with a grain of salt
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: since they use the entirely-simplified ideograph anyway, they might simplify the grass https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B3
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: yeah your machine appears to fall back to zh-Hans for zh-Hant and possibly ko (you can look at the entire table to check)
<rqou> i haven't had time to go and digest @eevee's "fontconfig is awful and eurocentric" article yet
<egg|zzz|egg> 者 differs uniquely in korean for instance
<kmath> https://twitter.com/jtuttlekeane/status/920802179228643328 <jtuttlekeane> Bill McKinnon—Ceres is more oblate than it should be. Maybe a fossil figure from a paleorotation, or bottom-loading… https://t.co/tV2fhurHuO
<bofh> Fontconfig *is* utterly awful tbh.
<rqou> !u 者
<Qboid> U+8005 CJK IDEOGRAPH-8005 (者)
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: I'm quite happy with what my windows 10 machine does tbh
<rqou> my korean output for that is identical to zh-hans/zh-hant
<egg|zzz|egg> really nice font fallback everywhere, my cuneiform etc. work
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: yup, no ko then
<rqou> korea gets shafted too apparently
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: what about 骨 for Hans vs Hant
<kmath> https://twitter.com/jtuttlekeane/status/920802179228643328 <jtuttlekeane> Bill McKinnon—Ceres is more oblate than it should be. Maybe a fossil figure from a paleorotation, or bottom-loading… https://t.co/tV2fhurHuO
<rqou> !u 骨
<Qboid> U+9AA8 CJK IDEOGRAPH-9AA8 (骨)
* egg|zzz|egg gets pinged by the oblateness :D
<rqou> the "square shape" is in the lower-left for zh-hans, zh-hant, and ko on my machine
<rqou> it's in the lower-right for ja and vi
<rqou> afaik that's totally wrong
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: ok, it's broken on your machine in all but ja and zh-Hans
<rqou> but vi is picking a unique serif font
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah but that's just because it's completely broken :-p
<rqou> ironically, i usually prefer serif fonts for chinese, but my machine doesn't want to do that apparently :P
<egg|zzz|egg> on my machine it's ok except vi (which, well, always gets the long end of cjkv as I said)
<rqou> but this is how capitalism works: zh-hans -- #2 economy in the world, our shit better work; ja -- #3 economy in the world, definitely not china, also weeaboos
<Qboid> [#2] title: Porting geometry to c++ | | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/principia/issues/2
<Qboid> [#3] title: Porting geometry to c++ | | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/principia/issues/3
<rqou> zh-hant -- that rogue province that is going to stop existing as soon as we can figure out how to do so without starting wwiii; ko -- you guys use chinese?; vi -- you guys exist?
<rqou> :P
<kmath> https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/921151232743321602 <FakeUnicode> You can group/rank and rate most emoji, but you want to avoid it with https://t.co/7SW6Lddvyf Because that would j… https://t.co/FcdmdqencO
<bofh> rqou: what about HK for that matter? I thought they used zh-hant as well?
<rqou> yeah i guess
<rqou> but HK has other problems
<rqou> why is zh _one_ language? thanks europeans
<bofh> Yeah that's immense bullshit.
<rqou> i should go over to europe and stupidly change ca-es into something retarded like es-fr-but-not-quite
<rqou> that'll go over well :P
<bofh> ROFL
<rqou> too soon?
<bofh> I mean that's basically the level of Chinese "dialects" tbh.
<bofh> Relatedly, Wu Chinese is neat.
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: hey zh-Hant has zh-Hant-HK too
icefire has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<rqou> bofh: not if you ask me :P (i speak Cantonese instead)
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: and vi is also powered by "but you don't use that script anymore anyway"
<rqou> you can blame europeans for that too :P
<egg|zzz|egg> eggsactly
<rqou> although the same thing happened to Zhuang and that one wasn't (directly) the europeans' fault
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: yeah I mean there's yue-Hant-HK, but the industry standard (CLDR etc.) has become to use zh for cmn
<bofh> rqou: you and your 10 tone contours :P
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: so here's how it looks here https://i.imgur.com/AaIs98S.png
<rqou> egg|zzz|egg: there's also the "very formal, not distinctively cantonese" dialect used for official business in HK
<rqou> huh, you also have a sans-serif zh-hans font
<rqou> er, wait. the table explicitly requests that
<egg|zzz|egg> I have windows's default
<bofh> huh, there's sans-serif zh-hans? bleh.
<rqou> yeah
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: also a sans-serif zh-Hant font evidently
<rqou> zh-Hant is the biggest cluserf*ck ever
<UmbralRaptor> Note to self: vi ≠ vi
<rqou> zh-Hant can be basically anything
<bofh> granted, I've gotten weird stares for thinking SimSun is a good font, but that's b/c it's easy for a foreigner like me to distinguish glyphs in, especially at small font sizes.
<rqou> fun zh "feature":
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: well yeah, it's the thing whence the others originate (which also means vi should fall back to that for half-decency rather than zh-Hans with serifs!??#@$)
<rqou> "计算机" = computer, "計算機" = (pocket) calculator
* egg|zzz|egg zooms in
<rqou> "计算机" is the simplified form of "計算機"
<rqou> yes, changing simplified/traditional (indirectly) changes the meaning :P
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: okay we're reaching https://twitter.com/eggleroy/status/911413105971908609 levels of nonsense
<kmath> <eggleroy> 貓 = 猫 ⊗ ℂ
<rqou> it's because the characters literally mean something like "calculating machine"
<rqou> and mainland china adopted it to mean "computer"
<rqou> but taiwan somehow adopted it to just mean "calculator"
<rqou> taiwan chose "電腦" "electronic brain" for "computer"
<egg|zzz|egg> whence we deduce that calculator = computer ⊗ ℂ
<rqou> which i have _also_ heard in the mainland
<rqou> but "计算机" seems more common in the mainland
<egg|zzz|egg> aαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαаaαа
<rqou> in HK i've also heard both
<rqou> and the (sf bay) diaspora uses both
<rqou> or at least the "old" sf bay diaspora
<rqou> because there's multiple groups at this point
<rqou> isn't it great? /s
<rqou> geopolitical drama for everyone!
<egg|zzz|egg> conclusion: egyptian hieroglyphs are simple
<egg|zzz|egg> also akkadian-sumerian identification
<rqou> at least it's a dead language and can't grow new warts and "features" over time
<egg|zzz|egg> s/rian/rian-hittite/
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg meant to say: also akkadian-sumerian-hittite identification
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: well for hieroglyphs we can discover new stupid ways of laying them out
<egg|zzz|egg> "I'll just stick that egg on the back of the ram where there's some room"
<rqou> but you don't need to decide "how do i write 'computer' in hieroglyphs"
<bofh> 00:21 <@rqou> yes, changing simplified/traditional (indirectly) changes the meaning :P
<bofh> yaey </sarcasm>
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yes, it complexifies the vector space,
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: you should do that if you teach linear algebra
<rqou> also, because CN tries to get people to not use english, and because HK tends to need to use _both_ chinese and english, we've now got an amazing pile of chinese-ified english computer terminology
<rqou> e.g. "美國信息交換標準碼"
<rqou> which means "ASCII"
<Iskierka> ... y'all chinese people need acronyms
<rqou> ironically, the chinese term for "Unicode" is actually much shorter -- "統一碼"
<bofh> so that's actually sensible IMO :P
<rqou> Iskierka: we have acronym-like constructs too
<rqou> usually used in article titles
* Iskierka is presuming the full thing means the full spelling of ASCII, so unsurprising unicode would be shorter
<egg|zzz|egg> rqou: so is there 美國信息交換標準碼 art
<rqou> yes, it's literally "United States information exchanging standard code"
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: oh, that reminds me
<rqou> whereas Unicode is just "unified-into-one code"
<bofh> (it's where I learned tensor products from initially myself)
<rqou> here's an official HK government glossary of IT terms, it's lots of fun: https://www.ogcio.gov.hk/en/infrastructure/methodology/glossary/doc/IT_Glossary.pdf
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: I had never heard the term scalar product for multiplication of a vector with a field element and I find it abhorrent
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: SAME, that confused the fuck out of me
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: because in french produit scalaire is the inner product (the one that gives you a scalar)
<bofh> scalar product is an inner product damnit
<egg|zzz|egg> genau
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: yeah, I know, same for libavcodec
<bofh> scalarproduct_float_sse is the dot product :P
<rqou> except now you're working with libav
<egg|zzz|egg> was it written by french people
<rqou> iirc approximately tied with imagemagick for number of security vulnerabilities
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: I think that bit of lavc dates back to Fabrice Bellard code
<rqou> :P
<egg|zzz|egg> okay so that explains the terminology :D
<bofh> rqou: uhm, ffmpeg lavc is nowhere near as bad as imagemagick.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: also fields should be called K, not F, what is this degenerate notation :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: more seriously, it seems very coordinateful
<bofh> okay, I've never seen K used until you brought it up :P I think F is an America-ism, inspired by Dummit&Foote.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: it's an english thing
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: it starts coordinateful and becomes less so as it goes on, which is the opposite way from I'd do it, but again - this was aimed at second-year undergrads
<egg|zzz|egg> what with fields being called fields and weder Koerpern ni corps
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: I mostly just rediscovered it just now and was curious what you thought.
e_14159 has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
<rqou> alright, enough distractions from you guys
<rqou> time for me to do problem sets
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: well good, if you have undergrad they are pure and coordinate-free, why show them coordinates
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah, the latter part looks like how I learned it from skimming distantly at 2:40
e_14159 has joined #kspacademia
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: okay what is the "is * a sandwich" meme about https://twitter.com/nicklockwood/status/920174295682355200
<kmath> <nicklockwood> *sees long discussion thread between smart Swift compiler peeps* this should be good… “Is a spoon of peanut butter a sandwich?” oh.
<egg|zzz|egg> (I assume that's related to whitequark's result on the nonexistence of sandwiches)
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: I'm not sure, but I know ChemTwitter has a lot of "is X a sandwich" memes with the hotdog being the official sandwich of ChemTwitter :P
<egg|zzz|egg> also this is not new but it's good https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/684940119099465728
<kmath> <whitequark> one day I'll open a bar. Offer sandwiches in sizes: single, half, double, and ppc_f128. Call it "FPU Lounge"
<bofh> ROFL
<egg|zzz|egg> the replies too
<kmath> <UINT_MIN> @whitequark "Today's special: the NaNwich. It's incomparable! The sandwich with no equal!"
egg|phone|egg has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
<rqou> this stupid "draw circles and write down the 'Jacobian'" stuff is bullshit (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
* UmbralRaptor gives rqou a Jacobian integral.
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: people are silly about definitions.
<kmath> https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/920712214318866432 <emptywheel> Leahy: CATO is not a left wing group by any means. Sessions: Well, they believe in open borders. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ My favorite comment so far:
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: o_O
<UmbralRaptor> Oh a less wtfy note, do you follow MAVEN? https://twitter.com/MAVEN2Mars/status/921105883840598016
<kmath> <MAVEN2Mars> @gdibracc @NASAGoddard @NASAGoddardPix @AAS_Press @AAS_DPS Key points: #MAVEN is seeing previously unobserved magne… https://t.co/MLdT3pc2AO
<kmath> <NASAJuno> I’m being followed by a moon shadow. #Jupiter’s moon Amalthea casts a shadow on the planet in this #JunoCam image… https://t.co/dvIDRZNDl7
<bofh> UmbralRaptor: apparently not, I should fix that
<bofh> also that NASAJumo tweet reminds me a lot of https://mobile.twitter.com/CanberraDSN/status/870165443226378241
<kmath> https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN/status/870165443226378241 <CanberraDSN> "Oh, I'm bein' followed by a dish shadow, dish shadow, dish shadow." ??? #DSS43 #earworm https://t.co/Lw6Chz4WJ0
<bofh> ...I just used the phrase "...because 6 is closer to 1 than it is to \aleph_0..."
<UmbralRaptor> Hah
<bofh> "On Sunday alone, wildfires burned at least 300,000 acres in Portugal—more than is normally burned in an entire year." JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
<UmbralRaptor> Only 71 days left in this year!
<kmath> <xaprb> Remember, everyone who confuses correlation and causation ends up dead.
<kmath> <ThePatanoiac> Feathers became pages when books evolved from birds. After learning to repeat human speech, printing it out was the next logical adaptation.
<awang> Is complaining about Visual Studio (or my lack of understanding of it) considered off-topic for this channel?
<UmbralRaptor> On topic, but there's a risk that egg et al. will help you out.
<UmbralRaptor> Speaking of egg|zzz|egg, https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/921217708284305409
<kmath> <elakdawalla> You haven’t lived until you’ve watched a rap battle about TRAPPIST exoplanets in which one contestant has an outRAGEous French accent #DPS17
<rqou> hmm, the crazy batshit notation this robotics course uses actually does work out for computing things
<rqou> it's just that it intuitively makes zero sense
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a triple obsolete macropod
awang has quit [Quit: Lost terminal]
awang has joined #kspacademia
awang has quit [Quit: leaving]
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell bofh,ellied so a while back I wanted to link this video (probably in the context of green LEDs or something), finally found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yusrrOPM43o
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<kmath> YouTube - The First Light Emitting Diodes
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a cryo paraboloid-like heptagon
awang has joined #kspacademia
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
SilverFox has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
egg|phone|egg has quit [Ping timeout: 383 seconds]
SilverFox has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|cell|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|mobile|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
egg|cell|egg has quit [Ping timeout: 204 seconds]
<egg|work|egg> bofh: there are a lot of videos of WWV around leap seconds on youtube O_o
<egg|work|egg> bofh: also, RFCs by radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pboi9bg0hfc
<kmath> YouTube - WWV Frequency Reduction Announcement - 1976
<Iskierka> people are silly. "upside-down u" to describe the button on a nook ... that is the exact same shape as the n in the "nook" logo
<Iskierka> it's an n!
<egg|work|egg> !tell rqou hm, on my work machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language-dependent_glyphs seems to work pretty well; they're all in consistent sans fonts, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, ja, and ko are all distinct, and vi seems identical to ja rather than zh-Hans (which I don't believe for a second is accurate, but that's still better than zh-Hans)
<Qboid> egg|work|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<egg|work|egg> I think I may have installed all of noto on this machine though so maybe that eggsplains things
ferram4 has quit [Ping timeout: 383 seconds]
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|mobile|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<egg|work|egg> huh, we have one principia download from KZ
<UmbralRaptor> egg|work|egg: Guess what will be displaying the next Союз launch!
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptor: :D
<UmbralRaptor> Note the 4 different kinds of chaos. o_O
<kmath> <HumanoidHistory> A cat walks near a Soviet-era Buran #space shuttle at a museum in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 2016. Photo… https://t.co/l2mbJT0ZfJ
<Qboid> bofh: egg|zzz|egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [20.10.2017 06:47:15]: "so a while back I wanted to link this video (probably in the context of green LEDs or something), finally found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yusrrOPM43o"
<bofh> ooooooooh
<kmath> <skoczela> Also a good pitch to zombies. https://t.co/Ak7oId3ruA
<UmbralRaptor> Also Fun, the other article.
<egg|work|egg> !wpn bofh and UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives bofh and UmbralRaptor a monad
<UmbralRaptor> !def monad
<kmath> <Chritchen> @1011XX @whitequark Monads don't exist. Problem solved. Everyone back to normal life
<UmbralRaptor> Ah, a sandwich then.
<egg|work|egg> a ppc_f128 sandwich?
APlayer has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|cell|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|cell|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
<APlayer> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg an atomic uranium dynamo
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn APlayer
* Qboid gives APlayer a soft inverse ⚠
<APlayer> Sounds fun
<APlayer> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an icy trie/set hybrid
* Ellied is vaguely given to wonder why laptop headphone DACs go high-impedance when nothing's playing, inviting all sorts of crosstalk to yell out of the speakers/headphones
<Qboid> Ellied: egg|zzz|egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [20.10.2017 06:47:15]: "so a while back I wanted to link this video (probably in the context of green LEDs or something), finally found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yusrrOPM43o"
<Ellied> my right channel buzzes whenever I move the trackpoint with nothing playing
* APlayer found a game where you have to land things. Interestingly, fuel tanks located pretty much in the middle of the landing platforms tend to explode and destroy your ship
<Ellied> you can fairly easily fix that by just setting up a service to launch aplay /dev/zero in the background (other audio has no trouble playing over it) but it's still strange
<APlayer> Also, Ellied: mouser.com shipping costs were 20€ to Germany, in case you are interested :P
<Ellied> wheee alright probably better look for something more local
<Ellied> There must be some component distributor close to home over there, no?
<APlayer> Yeah
<APlayer> There should be shop loacted about 100 m from me, but it's a private business and they are closed by the time I return from school
<APlayer> I'll have a look during my vacations in two weeks, if my father does not obtain the parts from his work by then
<Ellied> actually those MOSFETs I recommended (IPP80N06S4L-05 and IPP80P04P4L-07) are Infineon, which is based out of Germany :P
<Ellied> you might be able to get them more easily than I can
<APlayer> It's just a matter of finding the correct vendor
<Ellied> yeah
* egg|cell|egg pokes GreeningGalaxy with a green diode from the seventies
egg|cell|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
egg|phone|egg has joined #kspacademia
<APlayer> Ellied: Uh, the MOSFETs you recommended seem rather over-engineered for this task, don't they?
<APlayer> It's just that I am a bit on a room budget
egg|cell|egg has joined #kspacademia
egg|phone|egg has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<APlayer> I have about 15 * 18 * 22 mm of space for the whole circuit, and it'd be nice if I didn't have to switch to this "large" sort of MOSFET and be able to use the "small" one
<APlayer> Well, no, I can extend the 18mm dimension somewhat, but not unlimited
egg|zzz|egg is now known as egg
<egg> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied a Legendre ネコバス
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a solvable vibrator
<egg> !wpn APlayer
* Qboid gives APlayer a furious-sounding nabla
<egg> !wpn whitequark, котя, and порошок
* Qboid gives whitequark, котя, and порошок an infinite diagonal cardinal
<APlayer> What is a nabla?!
<egg> !u ∇
<Qboid> U+2207 NABLA (∇)
<APlayer> "Im Englischen wird der Operator als „del“ bezeichnet."
<UmbralRaptor> Vector calculus fun. Blame Oliver Heaviside.
<APlayer> That moment when you manage to achieve something in about 1/10 the time it would normally take you to do, and you have no idea how you did it...
<APlayer> I've got to go for now... Be back soon!
<UmbralRaptor> \o
* UmbralRaptor pokes egg with snapseed for cropping photos.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: but there are two diapsids! also the landscape is pretty
APlayer has quit [Ping timeout: 204 seconds]
<UmbralRaptor> Also a crane in its natural habitat?
regex has joined #kspacademia
<egg> UmbralRaptor: yup
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a signalling motor
APlayer has joined #kspacademia
* egg pets UmbralRaptor with a kitten
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn APlayer
* Qboid gives APlayer a skew tube
<UmbralRaptor> kitty!
<APlayer> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an Apollonian bracket
<UmbralRaptor> Presumably that is used to mount an Apollonian gasket.
* egg ponders food
<APlayer> Qboid gives us so much stuff, I wonder if there was enough distributed to build something complex
<APlayer> Oh well, I am off for chess club. Friday night is relaxing time :D
<egg> UmbralRaptor: bofh: re the "I've never understood this" segment in this post, I don't think I have either https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/5HXj3QHQ6yb
<rqou> !wpn Qboid
* Qboid gives Qboid a theory with a cylinder attachment
<Qboid> rqou: egg|work|egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [20.10.2017 10:03:27]: "hm, on my work machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language-dependent_glyphs seems to work pretty well; they're all in consistent sans fonts, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, ja, and ko are all distinct, and vi seems identical to ja rather than zh-Hans (which I don't believe for a second is accurate, but
<Qboid> that's still better than zh-Hans)"
<rqou> what's the point of !tell?
<rqou> bouncers are superior
APlayer has quit [Ping timeout: 383 seconds]
<egg> rqou: well I don't have one, also sometimes I don't catch up with the whole backlog
<bofh> the latter, mostly.
<e_14159> egg: You might not have a bouncer, but your mean presence-ness is about 2.3.
<egg> :D
* UmbralRaptor would have eggspected egg yo understand resonances. >_>;;
<egg> UmbralRaptor: can you eggsplain them to me?
<UmbralRaptor> No. :(
<bofh> "Similarly, Mimas is in a 1:3 resonance with stuff in the the gap between Saturn's B and C rings." this is always disorienting.
<UmbralRaptor> I assume something with perturbations.
<soundnfury> yeah if you're in a resonance then you're getting a repetitive series of gravity assists no?
<soundnfury> which then changes your period slightly, alters the next gravity assist, and depending on some hessian somewhere is either a stable or unstable resonance
TonyC has joined #kspacademia
<kmath> <SamusAranX> @FioraAeterna I can't wait for the first millenial scientist to invent something important then name it Background… https://t.co/rjwHHxrfnc
awang has quit [Ping timeout: 204 seconds]
<kmath> <sarahkaplan48> Do you love science? Do you want to write creatively and cover breaking news? Are you a vampire and/or coffee addic… https://t.co/oFyrgYZo1p
ferram4 has joined #kspacademia
<Qboid> 10d 0h 0m 0s left to event #12: 무궁화 5A호/Falcon 9 v1.2 [at 2017-10-30 19:34:00]. Say '!kountdown 12' for details
xShadowx|2 has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
awang has joined #kspacademia
awang has quit [Client Quit]
xShadowx has joined #kspacademia
<kmath> <NeolithicSheep> "The pilot was calm and explained that [cows] like to lick planes" https://t.co/aTKA9Tuvx8
awang has joined #kspacademia
icefire has joined #kspacademia
regex has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
<bofh> why am I reading a paper about different forms of Late Assyrian cubits and their measures?
<bofh> https://www.jstor.org/stable/4200421 for the morbidly curious. Dates to the reign of Sargon II.
<bofh> (I blame whitequark)
<UmbralRaptor> Incidentally, it seems that cuniform has a bunch of units available.
<UmbralRaptor> (Principia easter egg?)
<bofh> How convenient. Best part is it does look like we have standards for the majority of Sumero-Akkadian ones at least.
<UmbralRaptor> ^_^
<kmath> <sharp_roll> Thank You Upperclassman! https://t.co/oCKtfarZ3J
awang_ has joined #kspacademia
awang_ has quit [Client Quit]
awang_ has joined #kspacademia
awang_ has quit [Client Quit]
awang_ has joined #kspacademia
awang has quit [Ping timeout: 183 seconds]
awang_ has quit [Ping timeout: 198 seconds]
awang has joined #kspacademia