Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

@tbrunner@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez to me, it looks like a poor ghetto in the making but maybe it's an improvement. I'm unfamiliar with the topic.

@BenjaminHCCarr full text: https://archive.is/rYPRw

@freemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type) i.e. it's weird to call something else a stack.

@HipsterDM @ned another test: the percentage of urinals that are unflushed as you arrive in the men's room.

@freemo like for mushrooms, only the dry weight is reliable!

@freemo is this a freemason bootcamp thing? 😅

@lowqualityfacts #science

Yhsiop, March 2024.
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#art #artistonmastodon

@freemo yes, but not really considering that panels could easily be cut into shapes other than rectangles. Even ovals are relatively rare. Original shapes tend to be distracting and get reclassified into "wall art between painting and sculpture".

@freemo for practical reasons, I reluctantly settled on foot/inch-based formats for my paintings: 18:24 and 24:36 (inches:inches). It doubles the surface area but doesn't preserve the aspect ratio (3:4 vs. 2:3). It's not too bad because if I double the surface area again, I'm back to 36:48 = 3:4. So instead of being always 1/sqrt(2), it alternates between 3:4 and 2:3.

It matters to me when dividing a 4 ft by 8 ft plywood panel without wasting too much.

@freemo I knew about the height:width ratio being constant at sqrt(2) but didn't know about the surface area considerations.

I just found out by accident that the A0 paper format is designed to have a surface area of 1 m²! An A4 sheet is obtained by cutting an A0 sheet in half 4 times, giving a surface area of 1/16 m².

It came up while playing with formulas to price artworks based on their dimensions. I was using sqrt(height * width) to obtain the side length of the equivalent square and I was surprised to get a round number for sqrt(21 * 29.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
#paper #math #art

@johncarlosbaez
As a prefix, "meta-" can mean so many things, I'm not sure. Maybe it means "modified sequoia" as in "metamorphism" (geology)?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/meta-

@dpiponi

They say "I forgive but I don't forget" but it misses the main point of forgiving, which is to not be haunted by the memory of the incident.

I forgive to better forget.

#thoughts #psychology

@LouisIngenthron Congress lobbying is a US specificity and so far I've been happy with blaming it but it's not something I studied closely.

@LouisIngenthron yeah. I think the example of the French government getting it done is a good example that it could be done in the US as well. You still need to click some buttons but the forms are all pre-filled for you and of course, it's free. This online service works better than many French companies's websites. It's extremely surprising to me. There must be cultural and historical factors I'm not aware of.

@LouisIngenthron foreign income and other complicated situations are one reason why it can't be completely automated. Lobbying/corruption by tax software companies is another.

For what it's worth, it's much easier in France than in the US. i.e. the threshold where you need to pay someone to get it done is much higher in France.

@dpiponi @johncarlosbaez yes, and they typically use the terms "tallest trees" vs. "largest trees" for the correct species but they don't point out the subtlety.