Tweet Archive 2018 11
Beautiful tactile cups made by simulating #reactiondiffusion! https://twitter.com/nervous_jessica/status/1058031381702459398
RT @paulkrugman: Some thoughts on fiscal policy and how it went all wrong https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/the-perversion-of-fiscal-policy-slightly-wonkish.html
Replying to @divbyzero
Yes, the mug handle problem! Even with our timer dial it could still work, if the mechanism would just return the turntable to the starting position when you open the door.
Replying to @divbyzero
Maybe at the same time we can fix our current planet’s orbit so that the orbital period is divisible by the planetary rotation period.
This is a HUGE shift in public opinion, as measured by very large new poll of 20,090 people. Now 54% remain, 46% leave. (In 2016 it was 48% remain, 52% leave.)
https://www.channel4.com/news/major-new-brexit-poll-shows-voters-swinging-towards-remain
Replying to @ElectionMapsUK and @Survation
Maps from https://www.channel4.com/news/major-new-brexit-poll-shows-voters-swinging-towards-remain
#Brexit now 54% remain, 46% leave. (In 2016 it was 48% remain, 52% leave.)
RT @JBergounhoux: “One day we’ll look back on when we used to take out a screen from our pockets to look at it and we’ll find it weird beca…
This is the Christmas present I want this year. Tweet me what you want and we will do a Not-Secret-Santa. https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/969367368228003840
RT @Porter_Anderson: .@EmmanuelMacron in #Paris at l’Arc de Triomphe: “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying ‘Our interests fi…
RT @apgox: Fully self-directed replication https://cp4space.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/fully-self-directed-replication/
Replying to @romepix
A neighbor of mine has an England flag on a flagpole and when it’s windy I lie in bed tortured by the constant tink tink tink tink of nationalism. (Or possibly football support.)
From the UN report: “Poverty is a political choice. Austerity could easily have spared the poor, if the political will had existed to do so. Resources were available to the Treasury at the last budget… but the political choice was made to fund tax cuts for the wealthy instead.” https://twitter.com/FabricatedFrame/status/1063417526607114240
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
Exactly this. And England used to be formed from many smaller kingdoms but you don’t hear people bemoaning the loss of sovereignty for Mercia, because the trade benefits of shared sovereignty are enormous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy
Management is a Taylor expansion.
Each additional layer of managers is an extra derivative, getting a slightly bigger picture and hopefully able to predict a little further.
(Let’s hope the function is analytic…)
Replying to @tim_hutton
Not so long to wait: https://twitter.com/johntwolives/status/1064483954302967808
Replying to @chriscorrigan
“Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.”
Replying to @chriscorrigan
“This is a tautology but it’s a unique tautology in that it requires no information to go in but an infinite amount of information comes out of it. So I think that it is arguably therefore the prime cause of everything in the Universe.” http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/
Our cat just came in smelling of fish. I’ve thought about putting a camera on her to see where she goes but I fear it would just show us a series of other people’s kitchens.
Replying to @chriscorrigan
It’s more than that. In emergent systems causality itself is an emergent property. Self-consistency is achieved in the limit as the rules of the system converge to conform with their output. The universe is the only example I know of, however.
RT @HackedOffHugh: Very interesting piece about the true scale of benefits fraud. Way, way less than is thought (thanks to lies and distort…
Replying to @HypercubicPeg and @Sabetta_
Now I’m imagining them explaining to the woolly mammoth that “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”
Replying to @BarbaraFantechi, @eglerean and @stevenstrogatz
Genuine question: what’s the attraction of spaghetti being so long? It just seems unwieldy to me. I enjoy it for the appearance I guess but I’ve never really understood it.
Replying to @alisonmartin57
When I crocheted the Chen-Gackstatter surface I also started with the inner loops: https://twitter.com/tim_hutton/status/903195483778273280
Replying to @vihartvihart
Yes, politicians on both sides are all theory and no experiment. They don’t make very good scientists.
Here is @bengoldacre on the subject: https://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/