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by katastrofa
Yesterday, 11:03 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness
Replies: 65
Views: 38170

Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

I never asked my cats what they think about the concept of time. They must understand it well since they are masters at calculating time derivatives up to more than second order. Speaking with an unintended and long undeserved tone of an authority (acquired during my PhD research in the field), the ...
by katastrofa
March 17th, 2024, 4:14 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Replies: 228
Views: 42304

Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day!

YCjXkV1aaC8 I stopped colouring my hair blue-black about a year ago, encouraged by my bf. It's copper-red against the sun and curling like the girl's in the video (nothing as beautiful though). Maybe I'm Irish :-D https://cats.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/irish-cat-compressed.jpg BTW, all ya sham...
by katastrofa
March 17th, 2024, 4:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: RIP thread
Replies: 441
Views: 113089

Re: RIP thread

I shared with this author the penchant for observing the world, rather than prodding it with measuring devices or even a camera lens (a caution I adopted after studying quantum physics - collapse, bias, and all the observer effects we can’t even know :-D ) I believe I once made a risky statement he...
by katastrofa
March 16th, 2024, 11:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: RIP thread
Replies: 441
Views: 113089

Re: RIP thread

Frans de Waal
I don't know if he was an inspiration, but surely a refuge for me - in his books, research and anonymous social media interactions.
Now sure if anyone here could bother reading his books, but here they are:
frans de waal - Google Search
by katastrofa
March 16th, 2024, 12:09 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: guess a country
Replies: 177
Views: 24416

Re: guess a country

Unfortunately disappeared before I fully woke up :-(
by katastrofa
March 16th, 2024, 11:17 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: guess a country
Replies: 177
Views: 24416

Re: guess a country

I woke up to a “vision” last week too. What shape can you see on my cheek?
by katastrofa
March 16th, 2024, 10:24 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness
Replies: 65
Views: 38170

Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

I like the "postquantum" name to it though :-)
by katastrofa
March 16th, 2024, 7:59 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40269

Re: Politicized science

The most frustrating part for me is that we even have tools and means to design the fine-grained targeted policies. There's enough data, numerical method and computational power to write simulations a la psychohistory from Asimov's Foundation (as someone told me was what I was really doing! :-D): fr...
by katastrofa
March 15th, 2024, 4:13 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40269

Re: Politicized science

Don't know any Dutch, but Swedes are very sociable and tend to hang out in larger groups a lot. Doesn't happen in Norway :-) Also the population concentrates in the southern 1/3 of the country. Go to Torino (particularly hit by Covid afair) and to Stockholm in the summer and the difference in the av...
by katastrofa
March 15th, 2024, 2:38 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Politicized science
Replies: 94
Views: 40269

Re: Politicized science

" I used Norway and Denmark to compare with Sweden in order to minimize effects of cultural and demographic differences." That's imho a very incorrect assumption. I'd be tempted to make it myself if I haven't lived in Norway for the last couple of years (and didn't know from experience in ...
by katastrofa
March 13th, 2024, 5:24 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: GCHQ latest
Replies: 17
Views: 394

Re: GCHQ latest

:-D
Enjoy GCHQ game?
by katastrofa
March 13th, 2024, 3:51 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: GCHQ latest
Replies: 17
Views: 394

Re: GCHQ latest

Water bottle could be H2O... And cars could be standing in the Q and the whole scene takes place by the C. GCHQ GAME?
by katastrofa
March 13th, 2024, 3:43 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: GCHQ latest
Replies: 17
Views: 394

Re: GCHQ latest

JOIN OUR GAME would work (including spaces), but Y no Braille?
by katastrofa
March 13th, 2024, 3:31 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: GCHQ latest
Replies: 17
Views: 394

Re: GCHQ latest

I thought the road marking was 8-bit ASCII: three 1's and five 0's or the other way around, but only the first I check can represent a blank space. I also checked Gestuno for sign language, but spread fingers are a non-English letter: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Manalfabeto.p...