00:37 <UmbralRaptop> SnoopJeDi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe,_Fi,_Fo,_Fum,_and_Phooey

00:37 <galois> [WIKIPEDIA] Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey | "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who traveled from Earth and circled the Moon 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. NASA gave them identification numbers A3326, A3400, A3305, A3356 and A3352, and their nicknames were given them by the Apollo 17 crew, Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald..."

01:32 <SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptop, !

02:23 <UmbralRaptop> o_O https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06674

13:53 <mofh> !u Φάρος

13:53 <galois> Φ: U+03a6 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI

13:53 <galois> ά: U+03ac GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS

13:53 <galois> ρ: U+03c1 GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO

13:53 <galois> ο: U+03bf GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON

13:53 <galois> ς: U+03c2 GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA

13:53 <mofh> !u φάρος

13:53 <galois> φ: U+03c6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

13:53 <galois> ά: U+03ac GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS

13:53 <galois> ρ: U+03c1 GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO

13:53 <galois> ο: U+03bf GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON

13:53 <galois> ς: U+03c2 GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA

15:57 <UmbralRaptop> https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1151409334666125312 seems entirely too related to egg's interests

15:57 <kmath> <erik_kaars> Thread: everyone knows that medieval art is filled with snails fighting knights, but there's actually a whole medie… https://t.co/hti6Aqaclp

22:07 <egg|cell|egg> Meow

22:33 <egg|zzz|egg> https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1151613063801556998

22:33 <kmath> <whitequark> tfw you can see a quick bugfix turning into an open research problem

22:34 <egg|zzz|egg> https://twitter.com/bofh453/status/1137386068976836608

22:34 <kmath> <bofh453> <@eggleroy> we've done so many things in Principia that at this point we generate a new research problem every time we fart, basically.

22:34 <whitequark> lol

22:40 <egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: when scritching ANBOcat under the chin it reflexively starts moving its hind leg to scratch that area

22:40 <egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: mofh also noticed that when scratching near the ear it is the front paw that moves

22:40 <whitequark> uhuh

22:41 <whitequark> i think there are central pattern generators for those motions

22:41 <whitequark> i'm not sure if anyone's ever researched them closely and iirc i wasn't able to find good references

22:41 <egg|zzz|egg> have you observed anything like that with other cats?

22:42 <whitequark> yes

22:42 <egg|zzz|egg> interesting

22:42 <whitequark> the scratching motions are always very stereotypic, and often are triggered in ways that suggest they aren't exactly conscious decisions

22:42 <whitequark> or more like

22:42 <whitequark> not related to fine motor skills is a better way to say it

22:43 <whitequark> it's like licking

22:43 <whitequark> the tongue movement on its own can get stuck in the middle of the cycle

22:43 <whitequark> or similarly it's synchronized with the head movement

22:49 <UmbralRaptor> hrm https://www.hsfoundation.org/programs/science/51-pegasi-b-fellowship/guidelines-and-application/

22:51 <UmbralRaptor> So, there was a (storm induced?) power failure at GMU today. All the fire doors closed, but electronic locks continued to function 😬

22:51 <egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: yeah tongue stuck out is a frequent incidence

22:51 <egg|zzz|egg> also very derpy

22:53 <egg|zzz|egg> Σ:þ

22:53 <UmbralRaptor> … how do you pronounce that?

23:13 <egg|cell|egg> Feline state machine

23:16 <UmbralRaptor> finite state meow