Tweet Archive 2020 10
Replying to @SeamusBlackley
“For my bread is of white emmer, my beer is of red emmer. Evening and the Morning Boat bring it to me, and I eat my portion under the branches”
Almost completely unrelated, #TIL that Poul Anderson is Greg Bear’s father-in-law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson https://twitter.com/TodayILearnedOf/status/1310753937365053440
Neat visual proof that the space-filling truncated octahedron takes up exactly half the volume of its bounding cube. https://twitter.com/Numerus_A/status/1312975730108633090
RT @MatHempell: @Beakmoo The “mac” in “mac and cheese” is short for “macaroni and cheese”
Replying to @rich_lord and @_frktl
Late stress test: the Analytical Engine https://twitter.com/plan28/status/569827262893305856
A lovely interview with Roger Penrose, upon winning the Nobel Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bmJalWKTj8
If animal behavior is mostly instinct that means that these eyes - the thoughts behind them - are ten thousand years old.
RT @sixveeceear: #pixelartday #ドット絵 #pixelart
Replying to @sixveeceear
Amazing! https://mobile.twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1293340668530745345
Replying to @andre_ourednik
If you press ‘i’ in Golly, or the ‘i’ button on the left, it shows you information about the pattern.
Replying to @andre_ourednik
NP-replicator.rle.gz (as shown in your second image) replicates fine, every 6.34x10^10 timesteps. I just verified in Golly 3.4.
RT @paniq: apparently these good people solved the explosion in steps when the ray gets close to the surface during SDF sphere marching (th…
Well Tilly, Star Trek Discovery 3 is now available on Netflix UK, that’s what just happened. https://twitter.com/i/status/1109228968459161602
Gravity is not a force. It feels like one because we live in a reference frame that is accelerating upwards - we see objects in free-fall move along parabolas because we’re accelerating past them. With this new web app you can change the reference frame: https://timhutton.github.io/GravityIsNotAForce/
Replying to @tim_hutton
A recent @veritasium video explains these concepts: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU
This video shows a similar warped reference frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdC0QN6f3G4
Replying to @NNNenov
If it fills space it could be a tetragonal disphenoid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disphenoid
We had a bad smell in a shower room that doesn’t get used much. It took a bit of thought to diagnose the issue as a slight bug in the amazing invention that is the u-bend: If not used for some time the water in the u-bend can evaporate, allowing sewer gases to get into the house.
Replying to @AlanDeAsha1
You’ll be hit by a medium-sized planet that has been accelerating up to meet you.
“What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/198068-another-thing-that-got-forgotten-was-the-fact-that-against
Replying to @tim_hutton
In other words, if you step off a tall building you will simply hover there for a few seconds - before being hit rather hard by a medium-sized planet that has been accelerating up to meet you.
Replying to @pietrosperoni
No, I just poured some water down the drain.
RT @lucystonecarver: It’s shameful that genuine #foodpoverty exists in England while the wealthiest people avoid fair taxation and plead ha…
Replying to @glaemart and @wblut
A duck playing an accordion.
Eadweard Muybridge’s famous Cat Running Up Stairs. With helpers.
Replying to @robinhouston and @ciphergoth
DNA, more recently.
And more generally, that giving companies what they ask for isn’t always in their best interests - something that neoliberal politicians are paid well to not understand. https://twitter.com/D_Shariatmadari/status/1322529561662361600
Replying to @0chroma_ and @paniq
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/this-woman-cooks-everything-in-a-coffee-maker/361351/