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> 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. | We can haz pdf
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<raptop>
!wpn
* galois
gives raptop a scared limiting resonance
<egg|anbo|egg___>
TIL Halley’s method is actually de Lagny’s
<egg|anbo|egg___>
de Lagny’s 1692 paper is eggstremely interesting
<egg|anbo|egg___>
proposes to compare the costs of numerical methods by counting the number of idealized individual operations (single-digit add/mul/sub, double-by-single-digit div, write a digit, draw a line)
<egg|anbo|egg___>
MMIX but MDCLXLII
<raptop>
!!!
<egg|anbo|egg___>
(and also it invents Halley’s method, afaict in the same generality as Halley’s paper ; Halley merely says « this de Lagny person did this very cool thing » and in the process translates it in Latin)
<egg|anbo|egg___>
and also it uses sexagesimal fractions of a second so I must revive that twitter thread
* raptop
blames Claudius Ptolemy for that bit of notation
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<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: what should I do re. the matrix thing
<whitequark>
egg|anbo|egg: let me look into how it's done for non-freenode channels
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: also, cool old paper ^
<egg|anbo|egg>
s/LXL/XC/
<egg|anbo|egg>
egg|anbo|egg___: s/LXL/XC/
<galois>
egg|anbo|egg thinks egg|anbo|egg___ meant to say: MMIX but MDCXCII
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<raptop>
hrm, it looks like in order to be more userfriendly, current versions of excel will generate more confusing charts that are harder to use as scatterplots
<raptop>
!wpn
* galois
gives raptop a Matra unreliable chicane
* raptop
blinks
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<UmbralRaptop>
!8 has ANBOcat coauthored any papers recently?
<galois>
UmbralRaptop: no
<SnoopJ>
!wpn ANBOcat
* galois
gives ANBOcat a sextupole stannic catastrophe
<SnoopJ>
!wpn UmbralRaptop
* galois
gives UmbralRaptop a magnetized riot
<UmbralRaptop>
uh
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn SnoopJ
* galois
gives SnoopJ a war exam
<UmbralRaptop>
erm
* SnoopJ
fails the exam
<SnoopJ>
☮ ✌
* UmbralRaptop
is legit unsure how I'd do
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