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Oh I really like this take on the genre, little potted biography to go with the hand, enjoyably inadequate information, appreciate also the inclusion of the keyboard so we can see one of the major habitats of your hands. The lifeworld of the hand. Also I agree that owls are based
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Do you happen to have the source for your banner pic on Tumblr? It's a lovely and well-chosen representation of the ISS, I'd love to track down the artist if there is one.
Oh man I'm gonna have to go look. I downloaded that in January 2014 (on my old laptop that's currently in a different state from me) from some wallpaper aggregator, probably via an image search. Reverse image search came up with a bunch of that sort of result but I did find this DeviantArt post from 2009 which might be it.
Also some Reddit commenters pointed out the station is upside down, which is something I could have noticed myself if I had closely at the image at some point since learning how the ISS flies.
I wasn't going to say anything independently, but if you're sorta soliciting fannish externalities... I tend to describe you as one of my three favorite living authors, alongside Ada Palmer and Gene Wolfe, and I'd be happy to see you start writing more frequently. I'm particularly enamored of the ways that you look to modes of being that are unusual to see in fiction but very concrete for people like mathematicians, scientists, and moral realists. Horrors from Hilbert Space, so to speak.
This is extremely flattering, thank you!! And also I really like that description.
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if it’s the second one, why the fuck are you in my justice space? > Because your justice space proscribes and celebrates hurting people, as long as they're the wrong kind of people. Same reason bullies like to become cops.
Well, yes, but I don’t want them to be there or do that.
People who like to hurt other people should not try to disguise that as fighting for ‘justice’. I know they are going to do that either way, and I know I can’t stop them, but I wish they would fuck off and leave the rest of us alone.
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You should really update it every two or three million years at least. The odd land bridge or two may not seem like much, but sooner or later one of them’s gonna interfere with ocean circulation and then people won’t know *what* you’re looking like these days.
I don’t understand.
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I am also feeling a bit lonely, since Many of my friends are off in Helsinki for Worldcon reasons and many of my other friends are having unrelated vacations where they don't have internet access. But I am with them in spirit by way of having strong opinions about the Hugo nominees this year. The awards ceremony is this evening so there's still time for you to develop some strong opinions also, if you wanted to.
this is a good ask
I don’t read much fiction these days, but I will see if I can develop some strong opinions on something my friends care about
Everyy leaf on the tree is the page of a different book from somewhere in the universe. Xenoanthropolgists wander the forest, trying to assemble the languages and technologies of alien civilizations.
“This is just in Korean.”
“So?”
“I thought it was from random places in the universe, what are the odds -”
“Oh. It only does books. Turns out that’s us and like two other planets. But one of those planets has a plant where if you break an icicle off it, it sings a song...”
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Depending on how far you want to stretch 'spatial', you could include integers here as well- certainly we first got interested in numbers because they can be used for quantifying physical objects. So I'm not even sure how much number theory and algebra are in separate bins.
Huh, maybe. When I think about why the definition of a field (like the naturals) includes multiplication but not exponentiation, the first argument that comes to my mind is spatial (grouping things in squares and cubes).
But do you get anything interesting out of the other “hyperoperations” (exponentiation, tetration, etc.), the way you get primes and stuff out of multiplication? Everything I can find about discrete logs/roots (analogue of factorization for ^ rather than *) is in modular arithmetic. I’ve never thought about this but I have the feeling there’s some trick that makes all these reduce to factorization, or something. In which case, just having + and * makes sense.
The reason I am unsettled by these things is that sometimes I hear math characterized as “the study of abstract structures” or something like that, and I always wonder about that -- if there are different types of “abstract structure,” do we know about all of them? Are we grouping them in a natural way?
I try to sit down and think of “mathematical structures,” imagining that I am about to tell someone all about this exciting “study of abstract structures,” and I’m like, “well, there’s my old friend Squishy Space, and of course there’s Unsquishy Space, there’s Space That Holds Stuff, there’s Shapes You Had to Draw on Graph Paper in School, there’s Especially Spacey Space and its Special Hills, um,”
