David Bulger
@dbulger.bsky.social
Math/computing professional, fiction fan, serial dilettante
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On Arrakis, a time signature might CAUSE first (and last) contact with the enemy.
February 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
On Arrakis, a time signature might CAUSE first (and last) contact with the enemy.
Oof, bluesky's video compression algorithm was not expecting that
February 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Oof, bluesky's video compression algorithm was not expecting that
At least it hasn't hallucinated a face
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
At least it hasn't hallucinated a face
As far as I can make out, barely anyone even here in New South Wales is interested in Aussie Rules. I think it's all League. Happy to be corrected, though. (When the wind is right, I can hear the cheering, but I've no idea what it's about really.)
January 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As far as I can make out, barely anyone even here in New South Wales is interested in Aussie Rules. I think it's all League. Happy to be corrected, though. (When the wind is right, I can hear the cheering, but I've no idea what it's about really.)
I saw the other day that San Antonio had been penalised by 5 yards. I thought it sounded like an inordinate administrative nuisance for business owners just inside the old city limits, who'd now have to re-register in Helotes or wherever.
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I saw the other day that San Antonio had been penalised by 5 yards. I thought it sounded like an inordinate administrative nuisance for business owners just inside the old city limits, who'd now have to re-register in Helotes or wherever.
Yeah I always thought another reason was that chaos theory was starting to become known, but it looks like I was wrong about the dates, as Lorenz coined 'the butterfly effect' in the early 1960s.
January 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Yeah I always thought another reason was that chaos theory was starting to become known, but it looks like I was wrong about the dates, as Lorenz coined 'the butterfly effect' in the early 1960s.
Got me wondering whether they ever met. Seems they were friends: donswaim.com/bierce-ambro.... They must've had each other in stitches.
Ambrose & Henry
donswaim.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Got me wondering whether they ever met. Seems they were friends: donswaim.com/bierce-ambro.... They must've had each other in stitches.
I know there were some cool things about the recent TV adaptation but holy heck am I annoyed that they gave Seldon a sinister agenda. Asimov, & Foundation particularly, were stridently against all this BS antiintellectualism, & we could do with some encouragement to listen to experts occasionally.
January 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I know there were some cool things about the recent TV adaptation but holy heck am I annoyed that they gave Seldon a sinister agenda. Asimov, & Foundation particularly, were stridently against all this BS antiintellectualism, & we could do with some encouragement to listen to experts occasionally.
My wife had a couple of fish called Gyre and Gimble, and we ended up referring to the tank as The Wabe.
January 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My wife had a couple of fish called Gyre and Gimble, and we ended up referring to the tank as The Wabe.
Your gracious response has me wondering whether I could have made the correction more tactfully!
January 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your gracious response has me wondering whether I could have made the correction more tactfully!
Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" is dystopian & literary. I enjoyed it a lot; somewhere I have a list of my favourite quotes from it.
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" is dystopian & literary. I enjoyed it a lot; somewhere I have a list of my favourite quotes from it.
Yeah I came here to say 'negroni' but everyone else is being so wholesome & earnest
January 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Yeah I came here to say 'negroni' but everyone else is being so wholesome & earnest
Of something that's not quite the right colour: "It's the canary in the gold mine."
January 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Of something that's not quite the right colour: "It's the canary in the gold mine."
Best of all, now that we have "instead of suffering," perhaps we can throw away "life hack"
January 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Best of all, now that we have "instead of suffering," perhaps we can throw away "life hack"
"harmful and historically inaccurate," two things I can't stand in a genocide
January 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"harmful and historically inaccurate," two things I can't stand in a genocide
Unitarity of the quantum operators in the translation group representation. Looked at the right way, it's just linear algebra; nothing very mystical, I reckon.
January 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Unitarity of the quantum operators in the translation group representation. Looked at the right way, it's just linear algebra; nothing very mystical, I reckon.