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.
<egg|zzz|egg>
(why the hell 23)
<SilverFox>
that's when you realize your life is falling apart
<whitequark>
SilverFox: too real
<SilverFox>
*finger guns*
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: yeah I need to unfuck my piecewise decomposition, I've been working around not really figuring out what is going on at the lower end of [1, 2**n] by shifting up the interval to somewhere where I could easily write the parts but that breaks down. There's definitely something happening at 23 though.
<UmbralRaptop>
SilverFox, whitequark: I'd say 19-20, and 23-26, but those are survivable. 30, though…
<SilverFox>
naw naw, 30 is midlife crisis territory
<kmath>
<whitequark> pros of having a laptop with a carbon fiber topcase: lightweight, pleasant to touch, doesn't dissolve in sweat, doe… https://t.co/YkvFRDWYHA
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<whitequark>
it wasn't котя, котя is not careless enough to drop anything
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<UmbralRaptop>
hrm
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark and котя
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<egg|zzz|egg>
um
<UmbralRaptop>
Congratulations on your new mathematician!
<kmath>
<FioraAeterna> @whitequark here's an odd paper: the number of moles on your body is positively associated (P=0.0001) with telomere… https://t.co/qrDccEoiha
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
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<awang>
\o
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<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: blargh I'm confused by this piecewise analytic mess for the approximation of the root
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: oh, at 23 γ > 1, so then things become discretely different I guess
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah seems it's that, but things become messy in a different way every time γ passes an integer so generalizing the piecewise mess seems annoying
<kmath>
<Gankro> Reminder that the inverse ackermann function — the function which is bounded above by 5 for all numbers in practice… https://t.co/un7sfgZjfp
<UmbralRaptop>
Another mathematical cat?
<egg|zzz|egg>
CS I think?
* UmbralRaptop
needs to add an e_14159 quote to the gist.
<SnoopJeDi>
My favorite way to describe Graham's number is "it's an upper bound on a number derived from this really interesting property that dwarfs the number of particles* in the universe. Incidentally, the number itself *might* be 13."
<UmbralRaptop>
"Obviously there is some room for improvement."
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, I saw our local symphony orchestra play several of the Brandenburg concertos last night, I did not properly realize how badly I'd needed it.
<SnoopJeDi>
Was reminded of you finding that hilariously-large collection of music on a NASA (?) FTP server ~ 1y ago
<bofh>
and yep, NASA SOHO raw data archive ftp, rofl
<SnoopJeDi>
lmao yes I forgot it was SOHO but that makes it all the better
<SnoopJeDi>
SID has always sounded rathy harpsichord-y to me, I wonder why that is
<SnoopJeDi>
It was a really noisy audience though :(
<bofh>
I think its filter has a somewhat similar response to that of a harpsichord's string resonance, but I'm not sure. It does to me too.
<bofh>
Plus it has 3.5 voices, making it perfect for Bach.
<bofh>
Also ugh. Noisy audiences are the worst :( Also ones where people clap at the end of each movement -- I get that you like the music, and it's great music, but sigh.
<SnoopJeDi>
the worst of the noise was actually the symphony's fault: they handed out MINTS
<SnoopJeDi>
that's just setting the less-empathetic audience members up for failure when they hold onto their mint for a few minutes and then decide they want one in the middle of the performance >:|
<bofh>
UGH.
<bofh>
Please tell me that at the very least they did that at the start of intermission and not, like, before the start of the performance? :/
<SnoopJeDi>
both
<SnoopJeDi>
...yea :(
<SnoopJeDi>
these are both perfect to listen to though, they played #s 2, 3, 4, 5
<SnoopJeDi>
although not in that order, they ended with 2 (that poor trumpeter)
<bofh>
yeah, those are the correct four to play
<SnoopJeDi>
lol the flourishes in No. 5 played on SID
<kmath>
YouTube - Frank Vignola Shreds Beethoven's 5th
<bofh>
NICE
<SnoopJeDi>
yea it's a *really* clever arrangement and I like that it isn't afraid to take some liberties with something "sacred"
<bofh>
Same, that's the sort of stuff I want to hear more of.
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<UmbralRaptop>
SnoopJeDi: random silly question: do you use STAMPEDE?
<SnoopJeDi>
the HPC facility?
<UmbralRaptop>
Yeah.
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* UmbralRaptop
is getting emails that they're shutting down some of it?
<SnoopJeDi>
naw. my computing needs are actually very mundane, I do most of my stuff on my little i5, and the bigger runs I'll be doing will probably be handled nicely by one node of our in-lab cluster.
<SnoopJeDi>
Not sure TAMU has ties to it though, we're not hostile to UTA's dept or anything but we're also not particularly close
<SnoopJeDi>
A lot of people use the Brazos cluster and HPRC's Ada is also pretty common (I've been very close to joining some of their ML-y workshops for professional development reasons)
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<e_14159>
UmbralRaptop: Which quote?
<UmbralRaptop>
"what we do isn't actually a science, and the computers are optional" or something like that.
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: argh, this depends on the congruence class modulo n of the integer part of the magical constant
<egg|zzz|egg>
(ok n is much larger than the magical constant so really it just depends on its integer part)
<kmath>
<OkuusFabFacts> Okuu applauds the United States' redoubled efforts to trigger global thermonuclear calamity and restore the hell of… https://t.co/OskTM0pw2Q
* UmbralRaptop
should probably play some Tohou at some point.