Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by vinnyvichy 737 days ago
s/virtu/epsilon of licentiousness/ ?

EDIT: not "viti"

Going to flip through your recommendations (at least) with an eye (3rd) towards ergodicity (or even Hurwitz spaces)

EDIT: don't worry too much about Galois -- you make me wonder if I had not read his letters (esp the fine print in his last testament) too carelessly.
1 comments
082349872349872 735 days ago
For every epsilon of licentiousness, there exists a delta of venus, such that...? (as an algebraist, it seems analysts spend an awful lot of time chasing tails!)

I have been brought up in a culture where seduction follows a sequence ("running the bases"); are there cultures where that does not suffice, and seduction requires more sophistication: a net*, say, or even a filter?

* in line with the genre fiction cover kind of net, someone once won a competition we had at uni for "best line to get a member of the appropriate sex into your room" with 75 pound test, eg https://fr.aliexpress.com/i/839412765.html

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9nx7e9IGM (Scholes, Meriwether, and Merton would've done well to listen more to this one?)

link
vinnyvichy 733 days ago
The epsilon of tail-chasing beats the delta of (phallic) symbol pushing!

Re: uni- Cantabrigian?

Yes, for "better" seduction technik, you should restrict your search to uni culture.

link
082349872349872 733 days ago
No, although I do have a fair amount of shelf space devoted to a CS book series (published by that breakaway technical college somewhere in the fens) all of which are in shades of what I would've called green, but a cantab colleague informed me was in fact blue.

If either of us had had any irish gaelic, maybe we would've agreed upon glas? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...

link
vinnyvichy 733 days ago
No iG but likewise my uni can be said to have Brythonic roots. (As opposed to merely Anglo-Saxon)
link
082349872349872 733 days ago
Tonnerre de Brest ! Swansea by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013890
link
vinnyvichy 733 days ago
No, I was referring to that one female Pilgrim whose descendant founded my uni.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_(surname)#:~:text=Brigg....

link