Alexandre Muñiz
@two-star.bsky.social
Math puzzles, choral singing, Irish and Morris dancing, SF, fantasy, and romance reading, shiny object collecting.
Come for the welfare check, stay for the welfare checks.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d agoA Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.
Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...
Lisounours@lise-l.bsky.social · 2w agoIls étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
I’ve probably doodled this dozens of times, but I just really like this knot.
OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.
Faster Fourier Transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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Sunday zen I wanted to make a game about folding paper, but the nature of my attempt only allows for a handful of puzzles. In related news, here's a handful of puzzles! Frame the dots with the cut out circles by folding.
Fold
Fold the paper until a dot shows through every hole.
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I discovered yesterday that I had been incorrectly assuming that @helsig.bsky.social and @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social were the same person. Apparently there are (at least) two highly creative and talented Daniel Wilsons.
For non-Portlanders, the bridge that the plane flies under is the Hawthorne bridge, which is a favorite of bicyclists because there is very little vertical gain from the approaches on either side. Which means there is also very little clearance to fly under. So, yeah, do not do this.
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 2w agoi have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.
My oldest child (who lives an hour ahead of me) slid this into the family chat at 6:30 this morning and I was DETERMINED to do it first this year. I am defeated again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi9...
9/21/21
YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe
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When Charlie Brown woke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a big pumpkin.
JosephScrimshaw@josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m mixed on the latest reboot for the Halloween movie franchise
Today, @sightline.org's @andersem.bsky.social and @aarporegon.bsky.social presented to the Oregon Senate Housing Committee on the importance of supporting policy efforts to allow more Oregonians to age in place. One key way to make that happen? more elevators! #orleg
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
(the birth of emancipation was Benjamin Franklin Butler, a man who bought his generalship so he could have his army buy its uniforms from his textile mills at a price he set, finding himself in charge of some runaway slaves and saying "i have never given any man a refund and I'm not starting today")
Yay, we're doing quizzes. Welcome to LiveJournal! I think the little Midwestern I have in my PNW English comes from my mom via my grandpa. But there are quirks in my idiolect that the quiz doesn't catch, like the middle syllable in "tomato" rhymes with hat, and "cómoda" instead of dresser.
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
Rachel Leggett@rleggos.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen y'all see the shot I think I just got, you'd best believe it's not AI
This is some of the best historical fantasy out there. (It's a secondary world Rome with magic, but the setting hews a lot closer to our own world than most "secondary world version of country X" fantasy.) And $2.97 for a whole-ass trilogy is a crazy good deal.
Cass Morris@cassmorriswrites.com · 2mo agoHeyyyyyyy in honor of WorldCon, I've put the Aven Cycle on sale in both ebook and print! linktr.ee/cassrmorris
There are 6 ways to place 1 | and 1 – stripe on L4 through cell centers. For Z4, there are 3. Can these pieces tile a 6×6 square with continuous stripes? We're lucky: the total stripe length is a multiple of 6, & the number of crossings works. One unique tiling exists, up to symmetry. #TilingTuesday
The thing about trying to play the nativism card against Trump is that Trump is kicking out brown people, and you're just trying to kick out some beef. There are a lot more bigot voters than there are specifically rancher bigot voters, so I don't see how you can win here.
Senator Tammy Baldwin@baldwin.senate.gov · 2mo agoAmericans don’t want foreign beef flooding our markets. Our dairy and beef industries are already suffering because of the president’s trade wars, and instead of lifting Wisconsin farmers up, he’s selling them out with this careless move. This is NOT America first.
It's Balatro, and I'm not sure I could survive a whole year eating banana, ice cream and popcorn, and drinking, uh, Splash.
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
We're having the flooring replaced in the house because my mom is planning on selling it. She reminded me that I picked this linoleum pattern in the laundry room when I was 7. Even then, I liked geometric tilings. #TilingTuesday
This book is an incredible read. Absolutely brilliant deal go get it now
Effie Calvin@effiecalvin.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Queen of Ieflaria is now just $1.99 until Daughter of the Sun's release on Sept 1st! If you've been holding off on checking out the series, this is the perfect time to jump on! My books are sapphic romances set in a fun, hopeful fantasy world filled with magic and monsters. 🧡🦄📚💜🌈📚
Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
There are 12 3·½ ◣, (tri-half-weight-tans) if we allow partial half-tan overlaps. They tile a full-weight 3×3 square as shown. Two pairs of pieces have the same shape. A problem where they aren't interchangeable: find another tiling that maximizes the symmetry of the tan diagonals. #TilingTuesday
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮
