Rmond @Rmond@qoto.org

@ClaraListensprechen4
I'm right there with you...

We are the very model of a modern social Mastodon;
So if you have a question, it's the forum you can ask it on;
We know the heads of state and all the scandals they're embroiled in;
And all the entertainer's egos where we'd like to stick a pin;

(or something like that)

@stonepages
I just spotted another report of investigations into submerged ancient artifacts and remains:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/biggest-clues-lives-early-americans-hidden-underwater-submerged-prehistory-180981891/

@peterdrake
I hope that when you get to "H", you'll try Hnefatafl, one of my favorite ancient games.
There are dozens of different historical board sizes and rulesets, but the Copenhagen rules seem to be the most evenly balanced and absorbing.
It's listed on cyningstan(dot)com, and there are Android apps.

@stonepages
This is encouraging. As I look more deeply into ancient building sites like Catalkoyuk and Gobekli Tepe, the phrase reoccurs, "There are no known predecessors to this building style".
Looking at bathymetric measurements, it seems like most of those predecessors would be sitting on what was dry land at the time, now kilometers away from current shorelines.

@Seafoot
I'd passed by Sir Terry's work before, as "just fantasy". After reading "The Colour of Magic", I was hooked on his wit and compassion.
Here's the guide I used. I bounced around a bit, but in each branch, the reading order worked well:

https://imgur.com/a/Yqipw

Time again to enact our traditional #SpringEquinox observance:

"Hey, it's the Equinox."
(sips coffee)
"Yep."
(also sips coffee)

...................................
#equinox #sundial

@pzmyers
Well, yes... Ham got something right, but seems he was trying to head full speed in the opposite direction

@gikkt
Having grown up on "hard" sci-fi, I had passed up Pratchett, thinking the books were "just fantasy".
I read "The Colour of Magic" and was hooked. I found that my local library had 38 Pratchett books; I had a wonderful 6-month binge.
Pratchett respects all his characters, and he has a biting, brilliant, and insightful sense of humor. (yes, present tense: GNU TerryPratchett... this will make sense later)

@ZachWeinersmith
Great question...
"The best way to predict the future is to create it" (Lincoln, Drucker, and many others)
If the prediction was for a price rise, people would buy, and force prices up.
If the prediction was down, people would sell, and force prices down.
I think a sufficiently large investor, ignoring predictions entirely, could force the market one way or the other and profit.

@RL_Dane
As a few replies pointed oiut, Esperanto does have a unique international perspective; it was intended to be a universal second language, and there are speakers all over the world.
I've been learning it for several decades now. One of the best aspects for me is that it's entirely consistent; no need to memorize odd cases and idioms.

@medigoth
This sounds approximately logarithmic: the last ten years occupies the same mental and conceptual space as the previous hundred, which is about the same as the previous thousand, the previous ten thousand, and so on into the millions and hundred millions.
I wonder if there's a way to chart this mathematically vs. psychologically.
The same has been found with kids' hand-drawn maps of the world: their homes take up most of the map, and the farther things are from their direct experience, the smaller they're drawn.

@fionaorkneynews
Thank you for letting us know about the article. I look forward to seeing the range of the coming stories, and finding out more about this aspect of Orcadian culture.

@ZingerLearns @edutooters
Socrates on the introduction of writing:
"... it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not... "
"those who think they can leave written instructions for an art, as well as those who accept them, thinking that writing can yield results that are clear or certain, must be quite naive..."
"...how could they possibly think that words that have been written down can do more than remind those who already know what the writing is about?"

@ZachWeinersmith
Nice idea! Like a "Mountweazel" for AI art.
Possibly better: The town of Agloe, NY, was a fake town to detect copyright infringement, but someone near there named a store after the town the map said they were in; now the place exists (from a Gizmodo dot com article).

Testing a speculation: The shadow of the full moon at midnight around the Winter Solstice should be in the same place as the shadow of the sun at noon on the Summer Solstice.

Result: Yes, pretty close! (dim, overprocessed pic, taken a half-hour before midnight)

#solstice #WinterSolstice #astronomy

@ZachWeinersmith
I like the "coming at it sideways" concept of introducing math ideas: either presenting a project that needs new math concepts to achieve, or finding fascinating art that can be generated via math.
It sounds like she may enjoy Vi Hart's videos.

@tonic
This looks good. Thanks for creating and posting it.
I have one ailing plant, and your app gave sound results.
That last question, though: "Ec , Ppi , Run Off & Training Technique" , I don't know what any of those refer to, so couldn't give any useful input.