lexi

@orthoplex.bsky.social

Miauw, ogen dicht!

the other day at #gpn24 we were talking about vowel length in Latin/Greek borrowings, and I suggested "you can say epicenter but not... eepy-center" and now we can't stop calling the airbnb the eepycenter

I am pleased to report that my concerns were taken seriously, and the first 21 of these 23 entries have now been renamed, for the sake of clarity, to "Ooguri-Vafa invariants of disk domain wall degeneracies for brane I in the O(K) -> P^1 X P^1 geometry." 😌

lexi@orthoplex.bsky.social · 2y ago

The OEIS is undoubtedly an invaluable resource, but oh my god, Neil, could you please not title *23 consecutive entries* “Disk domain wall degeneracies for brane I in the O(K) -> P^1 X P^1 geometry.” asdlkfjhasdklfjhasdkf

RD is a 45 year old man, presenting to the emergency room with dicrotism. "-crotism" from Ancient Greek referring to a condition related to the heartbeat or pulse. "di-" also from Ancient Greek pertaining to the cardinality of the set containing deez nuts.

here's mental math challenge: can you numerically approximate the roots of the polynomial (x+1)³ to eleven decimal places within half an hour? if so, give yourself a pat on the back, you just outclassed sympy (: