Each year, #mathsweek is a few weeks after the equinox. So, this year some mathematicians were given the job of studying time. They started out by counting seconds. However, they quickly got bored and after 24 hours they called it a day. @diasdunsink.bsky.social
As part of #mathsweek, there is a special Lá na Mata organised in Galway, including @davidstifter.bsky.social, @cathal.bsky.social and others. So, I have a few as Gaeilge maths jokes...
I think there must be a joke like this, but my Irish is not good enough to shape it. A new ring road is built around a small town with radius 0.5km. John decides he will walk around it to measure its length. It is a long walk, but he accidentally goes the wrong way around, and ends up with a pie.
Múinteoir: Dá dtabharfadh Micheál dhá úll duit, is dá dtabharfadh Ben trí úll duit, cé mhéid úll a bheadh agat? Sharon: Seacht n-úll Múinteoir: Ní h-ea! 2 + 3 = 5. Sharon: Ach bhí dhá úll agam cheana féin!
As part of #mathsweek, there is a special Lá na Mata organised in Galway, including @davidstifter.bsky.social, @cathal.bsky.social and others. So, I have a few as Gaeilge maths jokes...
Sad to hear of the sudden death of Mike Coey, a magnetic personality both literally and figuratively! A great loss for #trinitycollegedublin and for physics in Ireland.
Death in a Shallow Pond by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social is a fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving.
I enjoyed that! Is there much on the shallow pond and people having different risk appetite? You can imagine people treating a 1% chance of saving 100 people differently from a 100% chance of saving one person, even if they are the same from an expected utility point of view.
Tarbh (OIr. tarb) is the genitive plural. The genitive singular is tairbh/tairb. You don't necessarily need an article in old placenames. Here's the entry from e-Hogan (pp. 1079-80 = Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goidelicum, digitised by Donnchadh Ó Corráin c. 2015). It is online at... /1
