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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@MarCandea J'avais un voisin diplodocus à l'époque, j'ai arrêté de compter les nuits blanches que ça m'a valu :(

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@MarCandea ... ba évidemment, les casques/écouteurs ça n'a été inventé que bien après l'extinction des dinosaures

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Anyway, right now I'm at a point where Frodo is about to leave the Shire, and what I really like is the gradual escalation from mild preoccupation (Gandalf telling Frodo to be careful with the ring) to a sense of worry, urgency and doom. It just feels very real.

#tolkien #lotr #lordoftherings

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I'm considering reading up to wherever @shire_reckoning is in the books, and then follow its pace to get a sense of how the story's time flows.

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Having not read a whole book for way longer than I'm willing to admit, I'm proud to say I've started reading the Lord of the Rings again.

First and last time I read it was about 15 years ago; back then I only knew that it was a fantasy novel about a quest to destroy the dark lord's dangerous […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 8d

[GenAI hate]

The (totally unnecessary) first 4 minutes of this video are pure genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHzaU

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Replying to my own message to call all my fellow #outerwilds enthusiasts. The above mentioned game's gameplay is nothing like it, but it had the tiny cozy planet vibes in common ::)

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Note to self: try to narrow your target audience down before writing a programming-related blog post — "literally anyone" is a little too wide

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Very well observed; and yet all math people will still need instantiated examples when learning about a new notion. Though those examples may themselves be abstractions of more concrete things.

Basically I think there's numerous "levels" of Platonism; doing math […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Define "a repeat"... but the answer will most probably be no anyway. You can't tell that a function is periodic without knowing its value for every input.

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Exactly my type of game! A cute 3D walking simulator in a tiny ecumenopolis (i.e. a planet-wide city); looks hand-drawn. Runs great on mobile too.

https://messenger.abeto.co/

I suspect @konstantinosd would be interested :)

Messenger

It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

messenger.abeto.co

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Try Ravel!

Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14d

I guess what makes this special is he talks about the whole thing as if he were the chef.

Like, in other shows of this type I've seen, the host will usually give a bit of context (about the restaurant and the chef, their history...), they'll film their reaction to eating the food, and often […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14d

May I get to be as enthusiastic and captivating about any subject as that show's host is about food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfhVuZyhIxA

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Ça vous dit quelque chose le fait que quand quelqu'un·e vient vous raconter ses problèmes, des fois iel a besoin de discuter des solutions possibles, et des fois iel a besoin seulement qu'on l'écoute sans proposer de solution ? et que c'est bien d'essayer de sentir (voire demander explicitement) […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Taking your example literally, you're talking about a "vector field": you have a space with "amount of banana/milk/etc." as dimensions (but I assume "goodness" is not one of them?) and at each point in that space, you can assign a value for "goodness". In that […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Hey someone posted my blog post on #hackernews ! It got a couple interesting comments, sadly I don't have an account there so I can't respond to them 😢

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272022

#haskell

Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell | Hacker News

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Pretty sure that guy is an allegory of Académie Française

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20d

J'ai acheté #hollowknight mais je savais pas que
* Il était si gros
* Il était si difficile
Et moi je suis nul et pas spécialement attiré par la difficulté dans les jeux vidéo 😭

J'hésite à regarder un let's play à la place, je me demande si ça me ferait louper quelque chose

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22d

The rarest #tolkien book is probably this joint multilingual collection of poems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_the_Philologists, which was printed privately in 1936 and maybe only 14 copies survived WW2 (the exact number is not known). I believe something like 8 copies are held in […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Just learnt about the world's largest permanent scale model of the solar system, which takes up all of Sweden's length, making it "only" 20,000,000 smaller than the real deal.

The Sun is figured by the Avicii Arena, the largest spherical building in the world […]

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A map of Sweden with points for the location of each object in the model. The Sun, Earth, and other planets are in Stockholm, while other objects range from the very South to the very North of Sweden.

Aerial photo of the Avicii Arena in Stockholm, representing the Sun

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Cognissart @cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

I'm a little lax with #SciArtSeptember
Here are days 4 and 5
Riverbank and Corridor
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery

#art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist

Stitched artwork depicting a waterfall and foliage on the bank

Stitched artwork depicting a path through beech woodland which resembles a tunnel

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Cognissart @cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

#SciArtSeptember day 1 fluid.
This is an old one from 2020 "Wild Atlantic Wave" - I need to do more of these!
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery

#wildatlanticway #wildatlanticwaves #art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist

A tiny embroidery hoop (about 4cm diameter held in the artist's hand for scale. The stitched artwork depicts a breaking wave with highly textured foam and the wave crest in shiny silk yarn in shades of grey

The same artwork viewed in close up and at an angle to show texture

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Dan Piponi @dpiponi.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

@MartinEscardo I think the truly miraculous thing mathematicians achieved is broad agreement on whether something has been proved. This even seems to be true when the parties involved disagree over what constitutes a proof because there's enough agreement between mathematicians that they can […]

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

@MartinEscardo As always, there's a related xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/221/

Random Number

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