Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 12

Scrub jay neighborhood outreach program meets continued success.

This is the Fortingall Yew in Scotland, and at between 2000 and 3000 years old, it's one of the oldest living things in Europe.

Yew trees are dioecious, meaning that individual trees are mostly either male or female. But some yew trees are both. Others, transition from one to the other over time. The Fortingall Yew was once a male tree, but it's recently started growing female flowers and producing berries.

So it turns out, trees can be both nonbinary and trans too.

Good news! Your baby has wheels.

Happy two year fediversery to me, and @djsundog and everyone else who joined mastodon in late March or early April.

Has it really been two years?

#Sneakers #WeAreNameless I had forgotten just how snappy the dialogue consistently is in this movie. And I think when I saw it as a kid, I was too young to appreciate how good the cast was.

They say that a teaspoon of a neutron star weighs as much as the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's cool and all, but which recipe is asking for that ingredient??? What could you possibly be making??? And what have you done to the oven?!!?

Second chapter up!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17940785/chapters/42366761

#fanfiction

I just noticed what looks like part 1 of a fun read by @bstacey :

"Sporadic SICs and Exceptional Lie Algebras I"
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/02/sporadic_sics_and_exceptional.html

Before you ask, here's a suggested reading which mentions SIC's in its title: "Symmetric Informationally Complete Quantum Measurements"
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310075

So the SIC problem is about finding all SIC structures in any dimension.

#sporadic and #exceptional #maths

"What does God want with a starship?"

"For real, mate? I might be God but I'm not above joyriding around the fucking galaxy!"

Every week I learn about some new weather phenomenon that if I saw when I was a kid would have made me believe that fairies and magic are real

Looks like brexit's on it's way to happening in the worst possible way.

As a semi-anonymous purple orb I can't really post a paypal but if you could buy my bad computer art that'd be grand: https://itch.io/s/16825/oh-shit-i-need-to-stockpile-food-in-hell-country

The second post in my series on Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum measurements and exceptional Lie algebras is now up: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/02/sporadic_sics_and_exceptional_1.html

This one includes an unexpected application of a biodiversity measure.

#quantum #physics
#mathematics