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<B787_300>
bofh: why you looking at white tio2
<bofh>
B787_300: raisins
<B787_300>
?
<B787_300>
what do dried grapes have to do with this
<bofh>
reasons
<SnoopJeDi>
raisin d'être
<bofh>
*snicker*
<B787_300>
what
<SnoopJeDi>
games with homophones
<SnoopJeDi>
well, not approxiphones
<B787_300>
well i dont know french which might complicate things
<SnoopJeDi>
raison d'être means "reason for being"
<SnoopJeDi>
so it's semantically not far from bofh's actual answer of "reasons," in addition to another play on "raisin" :P
<kmath>
<michael_nielsen> The determinant of a matrix is how much the matrix expands or contracts space. More precisely: it's the volume of t… https://t.co/sunLccVjlD
<UmbralRaptop>
Why couldn't someone have told me that 10 or 15 years ago?
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<B787_300>
wait what
<egg>
UmbralRaptop: well, it's that * orientation
<egg>
UmbralRaptop: because contracting space by a factor of -1 is a rather weird concept
<egg>
UmbralRaptop: with a determinant of -1, you are volume preserving but orientation-flipping
<egg>
UmbralRaptop: this becomes clear if you try to generalize to something that's not an endomorphism; for homomorphisms of inner product spaces that are not equipped with an orientation, you don't have a determinant, only the absolute value of the determinant
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<hdevalence> i’m trying to use the realistic orbital dynamics mod for kerbal, except the binary didn’t work properly and now i’m… https://t.co/8RnDgh22MN
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<egg>
rqou: probably
<egg>
rqou: who is this person? they seem to be followed by many
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #2028: An encoder for base 64 - https://git.io/fpNqZ
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 7 commits to master [+6/-0/±21] https://git.io/fpNui
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[Principia] pleroy 39cd8ba - Base 64 implementation.
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[Principia] pleroy 33ba500 - A test.
<kmath>
<stephentyrone> @rygorous If you’re really lucky, they explicitly acknowledge that they’re using an approximation. I’m pretty sure… https://t.co/s4q9Ho6Tgx
<kmath>
<rygorous> @stephentyrone also you can spot theoretical physicists by how they use small-angle approximations for trig functio… https://t.co/tQz9VCE1B4
<kmath>
<Rainmaker1973b> A beautiful and creepy artificial Sun is visible in this forgotten footage of the British nuclear tests for Project… https://t.co/GW0QoUdI2F
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<UmbralRaptop>
;8ball Am I going to have to redo a selection criterion for one observation set, the fitting parameters for that and another, and then find a way to rapidly rerun both?