egg|nomz|egg 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> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<whitequark>
котя is feeling quite fine recently
<whitequark>
she settled in a stroller outside of the apt but inside of the house, and comes to the apt a few times per day
<egg|zzz|egg>
are the neighbours still complaining that she tries to eat their dogs?
<whitequark>
haven't talked much with them but presumably yes
<whitequark>
since she hasn't become any less vicious
* Qboid
gives APlayer a Hopf microscope/graph hybrid
<APlayer>
!wpn soundfury
* Qboid
gives soundfury a torx conotoxin-like turbine
<APlayer>
Also, sci-hub.cc seems to be down? I've read they had a lawsuit in November and the domain was closed down. Any alternative domains remaining?
<kmath>
<larsjuhljensen> Publishers shutting down Sci-Hub domain names is an exercise in futility as long as the @Wikipedia entry links to t… https://t.co/AaPjEyd3CE
<egg|zzz|egg>
la,hk,tv,tw
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: ^
<egg|zzz|egg>
um
<egg|zzz|egg>
s/ofh/Player/
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg meant to say: bPlayer: ^
<BPlayer>
egg: Ah, thanks a lot! Although the Wikipedia page edit seems rather recent, I only found the old domain names yesterday.
<BPlayer>
Anyway, the reply that says it's blocked on the DNS level was most useful to me, I'll just memorize the IP adress and go with that
<APlayer>
Humm, that Sci-Hub Wikipedia page... German version first sentence, roughly translated: "Sci-Hub is an illegal library with a web-archive of academic papers, which are only available behind a paywall otherwise." English version first sentence: "Sci-Hub is a website with over 64.5 million academic papers and articles available for direct download."
<APlayer>
So much for Wikipedia neutrality
<Ellied>
er, well, saying it's illegal is not really biased because it's true in most places
<APlayer>
The two different versions have a totally different flavour to them
<APlayer>
Sure, the topic is controversial, but the fact that you can clearly read two different implications from the articles serves to prove that neither of them is objective and neutral enough
<bofh>
Also like, I think "illegal library" sort of cuts to the point of "how badly have we fucked up as a society that a library can be *illegal*" too.
<Ellied>
^
<APlayer>
That's a point indeed. This is a single word in German, "Schattenbibliothek". It /is/ a composite word indeed, but not in the sense "I will just slap two words together to combine their meaning", it has evovled its own sort of meaning.
<APlayer>
Literally it translates as "shadow library", which totally sounds like xkcd material
<kmath>
<BoogTweets> *Flicks cigarette after a long drag* Here's the thing. If Santa knows when kids are naughty or nice then he knew Rudolph was being bullied
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<kmath>
<whitequark> also our kitten grew up fully indoors to a fairly large cat and he is dumb as fuck and afraid of everything for no… https://t.co/r2NP7UwNoG
<kmath>
<mcclure111> Why is not-programming so much of programming
<UmbralRaptor>
Proposed hot take: Some people look at a problem and say "I know, I'll use machine learning." Now they have no idea how many problems they have, or what they are.
<kmath>
<mbeisen> i have an idea @mnitabach @drugmonkeyblog @doc_becca -- post two copies of the paper on @biorxivpreprint one with e… https://t.co/qEmAcKdO29
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<UmbralRaptor>
Note to self: do not confuse "bysmal" (underwater) with "bismal" (contains bismuth)
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: well it's more like "βυθός" means something like "depth of the sea, deep water" (it's actually cognate to English "deep" via metathesis from the PIE root) & ἄβυσσος therefore means something like "unfathomable"
<bofh>
or "bottomless"
<bofh>
abysmal is just that borrowed into Latin with an adjectival modifier :P
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: yeah I know
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<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: but "unfathomable" and "at depth" seem somewhat similar
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<bofh>
well the notion of at depth implies that one can, in fact, hit bottom :P
* egg|zzz|egg
gives bofh a bathyscaphe
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: you could be at depth in the abyss :-p
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ἄ
<Qboid>
U+1F04 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA (ἄ)
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
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gives UmbralRaptor a fish
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a scream
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a pagan solenoid which vaguely resembles a particle
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Fiora
* Qboid
gives Fiora a parabolic sturgeon
* UmbralRaptor
lowers the bathyscape into a Kerr black hole.
<kmath>
<mbeisen> perhaps more controversial: 8. this whole system is insane and we should abandon it in favor of actually describin… https://t.co/MDav3zlNjm
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: publish in maths! that way it's alphabetical
<egg|zzz|egg>
(and those who read your paper know that so they don't read into the author order)
<soundnfury>
wait, are the names of principia releases implied to be coauthors?
<soundnfury>
also, does a coauthor convert copapers into ffee?
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<Ellied>
or vfefe as the case may be
<soundnfury>
nah, that's what a mmander-in-chief turns cotweets into.