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Feeling depressed and anxious about the state of the world? Try working on a 375 year-old math problem from the Platonic realm, which should be completely psychologically safe . . .
youtu.be/QH4MviUE0_s

Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · 26d

Working through my to-do notes for the final touches on my video, but I’m not sure what I had in mind to do about the last item

A to-do list with messily written items; visible are:
24 cell bars
Nupert clippin’
Show nupert
n=18 static
Patch mtx blank
BORING [!]

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now you have a great idea that has not yet been done!

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Jul 9

Are you aware that there is "idroqen.c" in ffmpeg? This momentarily confused me today.

github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpe...

github.com

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Jul 8

omg me too 🥺

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Jun 27

I have been boggled for a long time about Mindset

Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Jun 22

Both cancers!

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · May 26

There's a coffee-themed contest going on at my 3D printiverse and I noticed a conspicuous lack of stovetop coffee makers among the entries. So instead of working on my video I made one.

makerworld.com/en/models/14...

A classic stovetop espresso maker 3D printed in glow-in-the-dark plastic (periwinkle), sitting calmly on the stovetop, which is not lit.

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · May 25

Yes that was very cool! The short that inspired / piloted the series was worth watching as well.

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · May 24

I’m glad you found this! :)

Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Apr 18

I was the too-polite person in this story when I acquired a handwriting sample from Douglas Adams in ~1999. What was actually going through my mind was: Of *course* I want Douglas Adams to own my pen! I assume he was never absentminded with it again, cherished it, and asked to be buried with it

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Mar 30

When I’m doing a mental competition for “worst living human”, I often remember that he gave us the gem “Nobody has the right to tell me I haven’t read the constitution!”

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Mar 14

Took the day off to work on some computation geometry for #PiDay!

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you, Wikipedia, for this intuitive way to way to remember which axes "roll," "pitch," and "yaw" are.

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · Feb 28

Ha, I was listening to Aesop Rock just as I saw your post and was curious to see where he would stack up (he “won!”). Guy is something else.

#μTan()Forever

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