🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Ya know... looking back on the various algorithms I invented I'm not really sure how much of it is luck (trial and error) and how much of it comes from knowledge (math, algorithms, etc)... I have invented a few fairly well used algorithms that are novel and performant that were systematic trial and error in the end and don't resemble my original plans on paper at all. I have others that are a mathematical symphony that just git together well from the first go.

Then again I only create new algorithms when I'm learning new ideas or revisiting them, usually inspired by the thought process it takes for me to understand an idea and apply it in other somewhat abstract ways. So maybe invention is just an extension of learning in a way. Afterall i often find when I am learning I try to predict the next logical step, such as with math. Which is sort of like inventing the idea yourself if you haven't turned the page in the textbook yet to get the answer.

Perhaps the people who are inventors of anything are also the ones who learn through exploration rather than just repetition.

#science

so I just tried some imported Bulgarian Feta for the first time.

It was really really good. Still had the sharp taste of feta, and a similar crumbling texture. But it was creamier, you could taste the milkyness just a bit more (even though it was firm like feta).. It had some strange but delicious flavors I couldnt really place.. My whole breakfast was a few cubes of feta and 2 pieces of the jerky I made (trying to go low-carb, maybe keto)... Really nice!

New branch of particle physics maybe... Exciting!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/milestone-evidence-for-anyons-a-third-kingdom-of-particles-20200512/

#QotoJounal #Science #Physics

I think one of the most common and harmful thought we all have is "I can be excessively self-indulgent now as long as I make up for it later". It is at the root of most drug addiction, procrastination, failure of greatness, weight problems, and social problems. A habit best broken.

I have a feel a psychologist would have a thing or two to say if they saw my self-written exemplar I use when practicing my Copper plate script...

#calligraphy #art #writing

Just inked up some Iroshizuku ink for the first time in over a year. I dont usually use water soluble inks. It is performing better than I recall.

I have this really weird hankering to do some linear algebra all of a sudden, but I dont have anything to do. Havent had to do any too recently so thought I'd ease back in with some sort of a simple problem... maybe ill try deriving the matrix for a single layer perceptron...

Do me a favor, if you spend any time at all writing using a pen, get yourself a fountain pen. They are so much nicer.

Ohhh found an old paper I wrote 7 years back explaining rotations in N-dimensional space.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjW3wQ-MKaCSGdGUG1zYVpFWHM/view?usp=sharing

#math #mathematics #linearalgebra #vector #vectors #geometry #QotoJournal

hmm i have to dig up my earlier paper on So(N) rotations... Im starting to doubt my doubts on the importance of double-rotations...

Anyone out there understand or is an expert on double-rotations (not to be confused with simple rotations) when talking about 4D space?

#Math #Mathematics #LinearAlgebra #vectors

Interesting fact of the day. In ancient egyptian culture the saying "Eaten the heart" was a reference to grieving without justification, which was one of the mortal sins that would keep you out of their version of heaven.

It was one of the negative confessions recited by the dead during the weighing of the heart against the feather of Maat (sometimes called the feather of truth).

#history #Egypt #QotoJournal

Seems we have had a good number of legitimate new signups on QOTO today. I think I've approved 5 new users myself, not sure how many other moderators have gotten.

The history of europe is such an amazing thing to expiernce. As an american it was a surreal expiernce to walk around a city and see things standing that, at times, were thousands of years old.

venice italy was particularly remarkable in this respect. It is hard to do construction there due to the lack of roads so often when old brick structures break they are repaired with bolts rather than replaced. Virtually all the architecture there is quite old as a result. You can feel it.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/pantheon-sinkhole-roman-paving

@design_RG Going to buy this at your suggestion:

https://www.amazon.com/NOMU-Peri-Seasoning-2-Pack-4-58oz/dp/B076GTHSVD/ref=sr_1_21