März 2013 Archiv

Mut.

Manche Leute kaufen einfach so eine neue Shampoo-Sorte.

Andere lieber erst mal die alte und die neue. Sicherheitshalber.

Musical Doughnut.

The topology of the syntonic temperament's tonnetz is generally cylindrical. Any syntonic "equal" tuning (i.e., a tempered width of the perfect fifth which divides the octave into a number of equally-wide intervals) snaps this cylinder into a torus(the shape of a ring doughnut, a hula hoop or an inflated tire), showing that it has a topology equivalent to S1×S1.

Wikipedia: Tonnetz

Oilives.

Ich sehe keinen Fortschritt in der heutigen Lebensmitteltechnologie. Auch nicht in sprühbarem Olivenöl.

Станислав Евграфович Петров.

Second, the computer is, by definition, brainless.

the guy who saved us all

WTFormality.

Much philosophy of logic is shaped, explicitly or implicitly, by the thought that logic is distinctively formal and abstracts from material content. The distinction between formal and material does not appear to coincide with the more familiar contrasts between a priori and empirical, necessary and contingent, analytic and synthetic—indeed, it is often invoked to explain these. Nor, it turns out, can it be explained by appeal to schematic inference patterns, syntactic rules, or grammar. What does it mean, then, to say that logic is distinctively formal?

John MacFarlane