Mair A-W

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Post #3509325
"How was invoice day?", said Tom, vocally.
Post #2694619
@aaronc81 an issue with today&#39;s Loconundrum? Wouldn&#39;t let me choose my starting station, but after I solved it from a different start station, the route from my new start station goes VIA the one I originally tried... so there fairly obviously is a route to it from my first guess attempt, which leaves the second option in the screenshot: something&#39;s gone wrong on your end?
Post #2694618
Just another Sunday night in the shire
Post #2164069
Bank holiday weekend! Time to learn Galois theory! Step 1: fetch your yak...
Post #2164065
Bank Holiday Galois Theory progress: Thursday: watched 1 min of the intro, lecturer recommended the use of sagemath, which is no longer in Debian. Installed conda, installed sage, uninstalled sage, reconfigured conda, installed sage, watched the other 7 minutes of the intro pt1, laptop ran out of battery. Friday: watched 2 min of intro pt2 then got stuck on the lecturer&#39;s expression for &#39;2&#39; (screenshot). Today I will finish the intro chapter 💪 !
Post #2164063
RE: https://embracing.space/@IngaLovinde/116505500106104407 evidently need to listen to @Eigenraum #45 https://eigenpod.de/eig045-umzugshilfe-mit-claudia/
Post #2164061
Not finished back issues of Eigenraum and π=3 podcast yet, but this month I am looking for maths podcasts in French. Je cherche des podcasts sur les mathématiques en français. Qui a quelque chose pour moi? Collection so far / trouvés jusqu&#39;ici: https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/musique-maths?p=2 https://www.radiofrance.fr/savoirs-plus/podcasts/l-oreille-mathematique Et cette liste: https://www.monclasseurdemaths.fr/espace-enseignants-lyc%C3%A9e/des-podcasts-sur-les-mat...
Post #1678498
Nicely done, masto
Post #1678494
Weekend to-do list: - (Learn to) rebuild bike wheel - Port UbuntuTouch - (Learn to) repad old flute - Hoover - Dismantle old phone - Learn Galois Theory - Install solar panels Probably I&#39;ll just sit in the garden.
Post #1678492
Got the #balkonsolar up!
Post #1678490
The best way to math! (from: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-powerful-new-qr-code-untangles-maths-knottiest-knots-20260422/)
Post #1678489
After noticing that the &quot;share result&quot; copy/paste from #pastpuzzle includes information about how far off each guess was, trying a meta-puzzle of deducing the solution based on other people&#39;s result shares, without looking at the question. Yesterday&#39;s made a sort of &quot;meta meta&quot; puzzle with a lot of people getting it in one or two guesses -- a date people remembered, i.e. in their lifetimes. Today&#39;s was more puzzly, but I managed to pi...
Post #1678487
Yesterday&#39;s pastpuzzle was (I thought*) completely solvable from just two rows of one person&#39;s results under the hashtag here. Today&#39;s was trickier -- almost no yellow squares (which in hindsight was a hint in itself). After browsing the hashtag for a while I had a handful of possibilities for the last pair of digits, and a handful of possibilities for the century -- but a handful times a handful is too much to carry -- and a bunch of notes like &quot;d2 is not 2+d4...
Post #1678485
RE: https://mamot.fr/@cathy/116455457229186361 ... @TeaKayB relevant
Post #1672206
We heard you like bikes so we put a bike on your bike #carryshitolympics #brompton
Post #1158444
Five years since I had done any of this rag rug. Took me a little while to remember how I was even doing it. One episode of @Eigenraum podcast and I now know it&#39;s possible* to play tunes with the electric toothbrush, why the Pythagorean comma is called that, what oeis sequence number 1 is, and I&#39;m two more rows through the rug. Maybe I&#39;ll finish it *this* decade. *ish.