If you write me an email out of the blue, without any explanation or context, and assuming that I already know what you are talking about, I have news for you: I have no clue what you are talking about. #AcademicLife
#PhysicsFactlet
The Lorenz system is a common example of chaotic dynamics and of a strange attractor.
Points with very similar initial conditions initially evolve very similarly to each other, until their trajectories diverge from each other, and start moving on a "butterfly"-shaped fractal. #Physics#Chaos
Any time you want to buy a piece of optical equipment that is essentially a black box and costs multiple tens of thousands of €, consider the option to give me half the money and 2 weeks instead.
If the "best commercial option" available is bad, the cost-effective way to deal with it is to seriously wonder if you really need that product/service (and it will likely turn out that no, you don't really need it).
I seem to have passed the 2k followers, so I will do what I used to do on the birdsite, and make a brief (and invariably incomplete) list of people I follow, who have less than half of my follower count, and who I think you should follow. (I will exclude people who are not really active here on Mastodon)
@robinhouston Mathematical thoughts and musing. @sfera314 Visualizations of Math and Physics @lana AI, but mostly follow for the dog 😉 @DrMLHarris Science news @narain Computer science @UnsolvedMrE Recreational Math @thosgood Math, usually above my level @RobJLow Musings about Math&co @ben Making videogames @testtubegames Making educational videogames about Physics @BrunoLevy01 Computing and computational Physics
Oh I feel this viscerally! @troy_s and I have talked almost daily about color and perception for over a year, and we struggle each day to make ourselves understood because we are coming at the topic from completely different backgrounds and perspectives. Myself from a color science and perception background and he from an arts, film and photography angle. Yet we are finding a richly fertile nexus of ideas that is really exciting. If we don’t kill each other first, I think we will produce some really important research artefacts!
"Definition. The Attentive Reader is a quasi-mythical being whose existence has been postulated, and often tacitly assumed, by textbook writers. Citations show that the Attentive Reader has, in addition to an eidetic memory for the work itself, an infinite attention span, and an uncanny knack for predicting and rationalising the wild turns of the author's arguments.
Usage example: The Attentive Reader will have realised there is a microscopic disparity between the conclusion of Lemma 1.2.3 and the hypothesis of Proposition 153.1.23. This can be explained by an appeal to the Robinson compactness principle (as modified by Heimholtz)."
13 years too late, I finally played Limbo.
I liked the first half. It is a good mood piece, creepy enough without being explicitly gory, and with some ok puzzles.
I didn't like the second half, because the puzzles all become of the "I know exactly what I have to do, but I keep messing the ultra-precise timing of the button-pressing necessary to actually do it".
They are shutting down "The Crew". Not my kind of game, but it is a more and more common practice for companies to decide to kill remotely a game you paid full price for. And my fear is that videogames are just the spearhead.
Ross has been a long time Cassandra about this problem, and has just released a video-essay about it (actually, you can just listen to it. The video part os not very important.)
He is trying to find out if this can be legally challenged, and looking for people with more experience to give advice (@pluralistic ?) https://www.accursedfarms.com/posts/dead-game-news/dead-game-news-the-crew-r853/