Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 8

ok I think I have maybe reached a new low of nerdism, but,

John Gustafson's 'posits' floating point format is a thing of beauty and I am in awe

the bits! they align!

also, exponents of exponents of exponents

when your numbers aren't quite numbery enough? MOAR EXPONENTS is definitely what you need.

https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf

via https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/08/new-approach-could-sink-floating-point-computation/

via @enkiv2

SOMEbody once asked me
To go see Pagliacci
To cure whatever's getting me down
Then I burst into tears despite laughter and the cheers
I am the famous traveling clown

Hey now, you're a big shot, you think you're so big
Well I'm Ozymandias and look what *I* did

All that's left there is sand
Only shooting stars light the land

Somebody once told me
There's a statue in the Gobi
That's mostly gone from over the knees
Visage lying in the sand
With a sneer of cold command
Cuz the sculptor knew how to please

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Empires falling and statues crumbling
Check out the words he left behind
On the statue in the desert that nobody can find:

My account is mostly cat pictures lately, but it's just that they've been being really cute since we moved to the new house.

For colonisers interested in learning about decolonisation, "Decolonisation is not a metaphor" by Tuck and Yang is mandatory reading.

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554

garbage cat alliance

Something something rational actors efficient markets something something queen of the social sciences

The Cumin Instrumentality Project

Steven Universe movie this fall!

https://ew.com/tv/2019/07/09/steven-universe-the-movie-poster-villain/

does NERV do it in-house or do they hire dental contractors

have unusually large orders of industrial toothpaste and mouthwash in NERV's budget ever raised outsider suspicions

(did Pen Pen "take care of" them?)

can evangelions be compelled to brush and floss by themselves or must they be piloted

afterward, where do they spit

(is it LCL?)

did NERV engineer a massively upscaled, ruggedized dental floss that could stand up to the rigorous deman

@staticsafe Here's a similar thing that's readable for people who can't/don't want to do video. https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84