Tom Ritchford

@ana@starlite.rodeo Before I left Amsterdam, I noticed that "guy skirts" had become quite common at concerts, different cut to women's skirts, low hue values, looking very comfortable and stylish. Now we live in Rouen, a very progressive city. I know more queers here than in Amsterdam, but no guy skirts yet! (dunno if there's an official name for them). If I were less than 60, I'd be a trend setter, but I have settled into a style I like...

@martinvermeer@fediscience.org @WGAvanDijk@mastodon.social @prettyhuman@piipitin.fi Forget about Mars, what about "Mars"? I'm referring to this story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm where they send people to "Venus".

@rbreich@masto.ai Infinite growth is the philosophy of a cancer. We live on a finite planet. Infinite growth means its death through exponentially growing consumption and exponentially growing waste.

@catvalente@mastodon.world every day this week, I am contacting two companies that advertise on CNN to tell them that I will not do business with them for one year.

@theuni@social.tchncs.de @geospacedman@mastodon.social @vladimir_lu@hachyderm.io @larsmb@mastodon.online haha! People don't recognize satire on the internet, endless studies have shown...

@theuni@social.tchncs.de @geospacedman@mastodon.social @vladimir_lu@hachyderm.io @larsmb@mastodon.online Assuming you aren't joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_sequence "The possible letters are A, C, G, and T, representing the four nucleotide bases of a DNA strand – adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine"

@mbonsma@mastodon.social I saw the initial claim, disagreed, came here, this is the key point. You have some nice, orderly definition of jigsaw pieces which you haven't explicated in this thread which does not allow for topologically complicated pieces. For example, what if many piece have thin "tendrils" which are as long and as wide as the whole puzzle? (I won't even go into what might be possible with jigsaw pieces that aren't measurable sets, see the Banach-Tarski paradox!)

@jpgaubier @adam_harvey Those index fingers seem unnaturally long...

@stillmoms@mastodon.social @mbonsma@mastodon.social Oops, I'm sorry, you're right - "proof" didn't appear in there, I thought it did. Yes, my standards are lower for non-proofs. 😃 I don't see a puzzle with long or thin shapes in it as being "unrealistic" though. One of the simplest non-trivial tiling puzzles are pentominos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino#Constructing_rectangular_dimensions which have both long and right angle pieces.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Americans claim to love democracy - as long as other people vote the way they want. Most Green voters have never voted for either R or D! America has vacillated between right-wing D and far-right R for a century; now the game is almost over. If Obama had jailed the banksters, made things better for the poor, ended the foreign wars of choice, and not pushed fossil fuels, Trump would never have won. https://archive.thinkprogress.org/obamas-worst-speech-ever-we-ve-added-enough-new-oil-and-gas-pipeline-to-encircle-the-earth-e5e24a156910/

@SazeracLA@tenforward.social That made me cry. Humans being decent, why is it so rare?

@Sfwmson@universeodon.com @catvalente@mastodon.world never heard of this morally empty person, but he seems to be worth millions. Note how this dish rag blames his daughter, because he does not have the spine to take responsibility for his own actions.

@Routhinator@tenforward.social I should add that no one on my team uses AI, because the codebase is so big that AI gives very bad answers...

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Oh, and I should add this: 90% of Americans don't live in a swing state. Voting third party is mathematically the best use of your vote if you aren't in a swing state (and I am in fact a mathematician so I can say that with confidence). Instead of the tiny number of people who vote their conscience, you should be yelling at the tens of millions who just sit at home and do nothing.

@fdroidorg@floss.social Signed! Quibble: it's spelled "provenance", without the "i". 🙂 Thanks for doing this. It's not just the freedom to use our own gear the way we want it, it's the lack of desire to have American companies to tell us what to do.

@aral@mastodon.ar.alhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare Adjusting the respiration of a few key individual Americans would be far more effective than any form of stand-up warfare would be.

@stillmoms@mastodon.social @mbonsma@mastodon.social "Topologically complicated" might be simple as a bunch of long, thin right-angle pieces. The proof seems to assume that puzzle pieces are neatly bounded by small circles, which is very specific, you can think of all sorts of interesting puzzles where this would not be the case. If you're going to claim to have a proof, the conditions need to rule any edge cases where it doesn't work, or it isn't a proof.

@BBCRD@social.bbc This is a very encouraging post. Your commitment to transparency and carefully explaining what's going on is also admirable. Hope to see you here for many years to come!

@Routhinator@tenforward.social Man, I have no idea (as someone who's been in the field for over 40 years). I worry if I lose my current job I'll never get another one. And AI is almost directly responsible for my paycheck, even though I don't directly work on it.

@fraying@xoxo.zone Are you fscking kidding me? Up until now I thought that JKR was simply a bad writer who interpreted her personal dislike for trans people as a universal, but this brings her into a whole new zone of active and conscious evil.