Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

@hajistar yes, they have many lookalikes and I was disappointed more than once before after finding and picking the wrong kind of Lactarius (milk caps). I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area and it's about peak season for candy caps right now. I can identify them fine now that I've encountered them several times. The nice thing is that each mushroom has a strong scent once dried, making them really safe to consume (except for food allergies in some people; like for all new foods, it's advised to not eat too much at first). The characteristics to look for when identifying are those listed in the books for Lactarius rubidus: rubbery cap, watery latex, characteristic smell when fresh (and more). Burning a piece of fresh mushroom with a lighter reveals the maple syrup scent that's otherwise only present in dry specimens.
Regarding eating: the general recommendation for all wild mushrooms is that they should be cooked. Some species can be eaten raw, but I don't know about candy caps. Many species lose their bitterness when cooked and some lose their toxicity, while others taste great even raw and are deadly. There's not much to worry about for candy caps, though. There are no deadly species in the Lactarius genus and the whole genus is easy to identify due to the presence of latex.

The hardest part in all that is to find them. I usually find interesting mushrooms when I *don't* look for them!

#mushrooms #foraging

@xtaldave I also get triggered by these. Every time.

Candy cap #mushrooms in the neighborhood. The owner of the patch had no idea! They're very fragrant mushrooms once dried. Their smell is reminiscent of maple syrup. They go for about $1/g on eBay ($30/oz)!
https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Lactarius_rubidus.html
https://ebay.com/itm/374436001206

L’histoire (History), 2023

https://mjambon.com/gallery/all/#img-20230102 #art #abstractart #emergentism

Interface homme-machine (Human-Machine Interface), 2022. Acrylic on wood panel.

https://mjambon.com/gallery/all/#img-20221231

Happy new year!

#earthstar #mushrooms #wow

[in response to a FB post about "inorganic" mushroom farming]
Note that in chemistry, and generally in science, "organic" is said of anything that contains carbon such as carbohydrates, proteins, DNA, psilocybin, and pretty much any large molecule involved with living organisms. "inorganic" is anything that doesn't contain carbon such as table salt, water, many rocks, and metals.
It is to be distinguished from the marketing term "organic" which means something like "I don't need no school to know what's good for me".

Un repas équilibré (A Balanced Meal), 2022

https://mjambon.com/gallery/all/#img-20221230-2 #art #abstractart

Life in Plastic, 2022

https://mjambon.com/gallery/all/#img-20221230-1 #art #abstractart

"vertex-transitive" is what I was looking for. Woohoo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex-transitive_graph

If I understand what a graph automorphism is, what I want is a name for the graphs that satisfy:

For each vertex pair (u, v) there is an automorphism f such that f(u) = v.

A symmetric graph is not exactly that, and I'm a bit confused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_graph

How do you call a graph where all the nodes are equivalent in the sense that each node sees the same graph structure from its own perspective? "isotropic", maybe?

Examples:
- a polygon
- an infinite grid
- a complete graph
- a toroidal grid
- n nodes 0 ... n-1 such that each node i is connected to nodes { (i+offs) mod n | offs in offsets }, given a list of offsets i.e. a subset of [1, n-1]

#math #graphtheory

@mattmcirvin for my use case, I'd like narrower columns. Such setting is available in Tweetdeck and it works well.

@Hotweatherisbad I've been using OCaml for 20+ years. I currently work on Semgrep at r2c.dev. The market is small which has its pros and cons. In the field of programming language analysis, compilers, etc., it's all good. Outside of these traditional niches, OCaml can be a great language but it will get blamed by people who don't understand programming but think they do if anything goes wrong.