egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ What's the vaguely-7-like symbol in raptop's joke? I'm gathering simplified Chinese isn't hermitian :(
<queqiao->
⟨egg⟩ transliterated, it says *neko* dagger equals *koneko*
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<queqiao->
⟨egg⟩ Where indeed dagger denotes the hermitian adjoint
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<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ oh, 猫 ) gatto
<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ oh, 猫 = gatto (edited)
<raptop>
子 ~= child
<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ And the dagger?
<queqiao->
⟨egg⟩ well it is the conjugate transpose/hermitian adjoint
<raptop>
^
<queqiao->
⟨egg⟩ it’s a pun on co- vs. 子 *ko*
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<queqiao->
⟨(ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells)⟩ and here is me forgetting all my knowledge from my QM class
<raptop>
It's a good idea to review the reflection/transmission properties for when your cats encounter a finite barrier. (Say, a cardboard box)
<queqiao->
⟨(ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells)⟩ also, I swear `en.wiktionary.org` makes me sound at least half a figurative order of magnitude more intelligent than I actually am
<queqiao->
⟨(ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells)⟩ ah yes, *that* was where the joke came from
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[Principia] eggrobin synchronize pull request #3076: Test passage in the compatibility paths, add a save by Reach - https://git.io/J4Rma
<queqiao->
⟨Quadrupole⟩ A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems; a comathatician is a comachine for turning cotheorems into ffee.
<queqiao->
⟨Quadrupole⟩ A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems; a comathematician is a comachine for turning cotheorems into ffee. (edited)
<queqiao->
⟨Bornholio⟩ can't imagine many places more likely for this to apply...
<queqiao->
⟨Bornholio⟩ I feel "egg"sistential dread when I see humor here.
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<queqiao->
⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ "Insurance companies hated this one trick, so they made it illegal."
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ too many people think you can hack the law like you can hack a computer and the judge isn't going to go "nope, i wasn't born yesterday"
* raptop
looks at Roth IRAs
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<queqiao->
⟨Butcher⟩ Judges really don't look kindly on people playing silly games with the law.
<raptop>
Also, there were some dramatic counterexamples recently wrt to US politics, though that seems a bit off-topic for this channel
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<raptop>
...does https://sparcs.asu.edu/about work for an example spacecraft/mission (UV, cubesat, wants a sun-synchronous crepescular orbit)
<raptop>
Granted, it's looking up instead of down
<queqiao->
⟨vevladdd⟩ Btw you can arrive at Hitler's page after 6 clicks from any page
<queqiao->
⟨(ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells)⟩ *creates article with zero links*