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Where does it say that?

Where is it you think you've seen it before?

The more recent Quanta article covers it much better https://www.quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-finds-maths-elusive-...

Whereas in this new tiling there's a single shape and its rigid transformations.

Rigid transformations of a single shape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_transformation

Also known for his studies of quadrilateral meshes with equal edge lengths.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~alchern/projects/ChebyshevNets/

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Chebyshev_nets/

I wonder how much the openings affect the drag.

The original discussion first posted here:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/109511663915548794

How would that be able to work? - as it doesn't write the same character exactly the same twice, with both random variation and adapting the letters either side.

I've always heard the bakery referred to as "Gail's"

I'm guessing Rushdie is the only specific case referred to in the article because they can assume that the vast majority of their audience will consider what happened to him abhorrent.

However, they then slip into much more general terms, as though by induction any writers facing any kind of social consequences for expressing their bigoted views is the same as the fatwa.

That they neglect entirely to make any mention of Adichie's own case seems disingenuous.

This whole discussion is rather vague from the start - the only specific example given in the article is Rushdie, but the quote I responded to was much more general.

The point I made is that inciting harassment of people's children at school is an entirely different thing to making them lose their job (and we've just agreed that there are some things people can write which they should lose their jobs for), and it's a mistake to lump those things together as the same "unconscionable barbarism" as she does here.

Okay, so it sounds like you do agree with what I actually wrote.

Who said anything about a friend-enemy distinction?

I'm talking about when someone writes things which reveal that they hold values or beliefs which make them unsuitable for a role they hold.

To clarify - say a schoolteacher writes expressing their strongly held personal racist beliefs (without specific reference to how this relates to their teaching role) would you consider that a reason?

"There is a difference between valid criticism, which should be part of free expression, and this kind of backlash, ugly personal insults, putting addresses of homes and children's schools online, trying to make people lose their jobs."

That conflates some very different things.

Of course posting someone's children's schools because of something they wrote is unacceptable.

There are absolutely things that people can write which they should be removed from their job for though, and where it is appropriate to campaign for this as a response.

An elastica curve doesn't depend on the stiffness of the material - as long as it is linearly elastic.

Both types are used - pinning and sliding. See figure 3.19 in https://www.levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf

An interesting question, since you could record the positions of the whales, but that alone doesn't fully determine the curve. I guess you'd have to also record the distances along the spline between those pinned points.

Talking of ducks, some think that the spline weight 'ducks' could be the origin of the expression 'have your ducks in a row'.

There is a neat connection between a rolling hyperbola and an elastica though: https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/14337538508177858...

Excellently integrated pun!

That's incorrect. That curve is Bernoulli's elastica, which is different from a parabola (though for small deformations they can be a reasonably close approximation).

No - it's an elastica, which cannot be represented exactly as a bezier. Raph Levien's work is a great read on this https://www.levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf

and

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2008/EECS-2008-...

or in the sense of homeomorphisms being without tearing

I'm right with you there. Hating and boycotting FB and all their products is the clear ethical choice. I sincerely hope the company goes out of business.

Can you share a link?

I'm disappointed they didn't also look at the odds of hitting someone, aside from what happens if it does. If it's landing somewhere random within an 800 ft radius, and there are 100 people within that range, how likely is it to hit one of them?

First of all - my sympathies - it's hard enough managing this condition in yourself, and controlling it for someone too young to communicate must add a whole extra level of difficulty.

What's the current thinking on a low carb diet for T1 infants?

I'm T1 and during the periods when I've eaten very low carb I had amazing control - once I got my basal adjusted right I was using only tiny amounts of Humalog and my curve was the flattest it has ever been. It felt more like very occasional nudges to something that wanted to move straight, rather than constantly batting back and forth between 2 lines.

That said, I do eat moderate carb these days, because I find that I can still manage good enough control - after decades of practise and with close monitoring and a fair bit of work - and it's more convenient for eating with others, not to mention cheaper. I found my energy levels and concentration on low carb were good after a while, but the process of switching is tough, and it's not something you can easily dip in and out of. If my highest priority was easier and more reliable control with minimal treatment though I would absolutely choose low carb.

I realise that for a growing child, the nutritional concerns would probably be rather different though.

It's funny how the two most idiotic and repulsive replies in this thread (this one and the pro-eugenics one - ah HN, you keep surprising with new lows) both include "forgive me".