“Anyone who works in scaffolding cannot avoid the number 48.3.”
What other numbers are immediately recognisable only to someone who works in a specific field? (Not counting maths or computing, because we all know about those.)
It's a funny coincidence that I was reading Buckminster Fuller yesterday, and today I stumbled completely unexpectedly on one of his omnitriangulated* domes.
* – Or is it? I distinctly saw a pentagonal opening at the apex.
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Dome fans will enjoy Spoleto.
Whitley Bay looks ready for some #BeachSpectres
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoletosfera
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‘If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you think’, the Walrus said,
That they could get it clear?’
#BeachSpectres
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Can we train a language model to talk like Buckminster Fuller? That would be fun.
“locally infinite and inherently indeterminate”
“opinionatedly fortified”
“omnitriangulated”
etc.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@christianp/116662341169679954
Anyone else going to #BeachSpectres this weekend? If so I’ll see you there!
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robinhouston
I've already seen a couple of seals out there! @christianp I hope you've trained them to make #BeachSpectres
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John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais:
"I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]
