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EDIT: The Minims: i saw somewhere that Brienne was run by monks..

ive unfortunately (ego quoque!) degenerated to link/comment taiji for now,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134920

A way to resolve the elite defo conundrum by separating out the laptop class (but merging car dealers into the working class?)

>as a dean i was … sitting under … swords while being perceived as the sword…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev–Popov_ghost#Appearance...

are these triangles determinate, or is there a search process involved?

(maybe I ought to be looking for "ghost faces" that'd simplify my existing edge & vertex model of computation?)

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Uh (first off) its the german sense of vertex, not the anglo sense lol

(Image Search for “3-gluon vertex” to get a language independent sense)

On (regrettably still halfass’d) reflection,there are necessary subtleties which your question is stalking but it will take me a few days or weeks to page in

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Aha, I'm an idiot, sorry.

(but now I'm reminded —physics envy, mind you— of a "renormalisation" in regex engines. Recall the definition of A*:

    A* == ϵ | A | A*A*

Mathematically, it doesn't make any difference if A also matches epsilon. However, when generating code, if it does, it's very useful to treat the above as asking for:

    A* == ϵ ⨁ A† ⨁ (A*A*)†

where A† recognises only the nondegenerate, "squarefree", portion of A.

Otherwise one risks getting stuck recognising ϵ an infinite number of times (leaving squares in is harmless); anyway the presence of the ϵ means that during* recognition of A*, there is one incoming edge but two outgoing.)

* speaking in terms of left to right traversal, but we can also go right to left, which (by a folk theorem) means we can also calculate bottom up. I'll have to reflect upon what A* might produce, edgewise, in that last case.

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Mutual envy hits the sweet spot imho.. to me the (median) Informatiker has superior naming/notation/training. Recall that bit with Moitra et al cutting the Gordian knot of thermalization vs entanglement. (That dude couldnt touch-type to save his bacon, pls forgive the (reverent) gossip)

Here: how far is this regex from non-associativity.

[& this connection is exactly what i was hoping for! I’d hoped the regular in regularity structs would trigger smth, & save us both weeks (of procrastination, in my case)]

Was i born decades earlier, i might have wandered into a VC “human capital destruction” job, since i have a roughly equivalent mix of traits..

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> how far is this regex from non-associativity

The binary ops, sequencing and alternation are associative (monoidal).

The unary op, kleene star, blocks reassociation.

However, it is occasionally useful to use the associative-adjacent identity A;A* == A*;A (and more generally, A^n;A* == A*;A^n;A* == A*;A^n == ...)

A Chirurg, an Architekt, and an Informatiker are discussing whose profession has the most patina. The Chirurg points out that when God removed Adam's rib to form Eve, He was doing surgery. The Architekt points out that when God made Heaven and Earth out of the Chaos, He was doing architecture. The Informatiker just smiles broadly and then asks, "Und? where then think you the Chaos came from? a cereal Gimmick?"

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What about a self-organised criticality mobile of threads and swords with smaller swords hanging from them by (beams and) threads; usually just the daggers are dropping on the poors, but every once in a while one of the top threads fails and entire polearms or scythes descend upon a populace?

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#:~:text=h...

(had Lenin been less confident in world revolution, could he have asked creditors to take a haircut on their Imperial Russian bonds?)

Lagniappe: https://gagosian.com/media/images/exhibitions/2009/alexander...

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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5529908z.texteImage

Mostly figured out the deal with the Leningrad (just noticed the logo animation..)

Shnurov runs a restaurant in Peterburg, “Cococo”, those are prob his employees, and the drink could well be his fave counterseasonal laptop class drink

(Who is his man in Hainan i wonder)

Update:

Lions for ZA?

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Ah, I had the wrong clip.

Closest I found so far to that blue and white package was in Singapore, and the site kept trying to FOMO me: "Jessie Ni just bought ${PRODUCT}" etc.

Next thing you know, the websites will be wanting me to 讨价还价?

Then again, spout pouches are easy enough to get in your own livery, and filling stations run anywhere from USD 1'500 to USD 45'000 depending upon how many pouches you plan on filling per setup op. I'll have to see if Shnur has any CoCoCo house branded goods.

Or is it Matilda getting the Hainan goods? https://www.forbes.com/sites/annabel/2020/11/16/how-russian-...

> Shnurova had faced challenges before. She had studied biochemistry but [that was] incompatible with being half of one of Russia’s most glamorous couples. And so she ... became a restaurant entrepreneur.

I suppose this way Shnur will always have a place to play on weekends, even if his style is not so compatible with the CoCoCouture concept?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlYp6IZsV4

PS. meanwhile, in past-orientation, Zhihu shows me ads for water from "ancient aquifers". Hard to argue with geologic patina!

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the offerings at kokoko.spb.ru, how they triage the (upper mid to top) market!

1. Slavophile, past (god save the tsar!)

2. Laptop class, cosmopolitan future (tomorrow the universe!) Here be tropical dragons..

3. “Car dealer” class gastropub, present (dont worry abt that hangover)

In liberal democracies there tends to be no gap between 1,2,..(or 1,3) thank Bibendum??

I think i’ve a reasonably good handle on other-people’s-ikigai.. a shared meal or 2 can lead to some confidence intervals on their future returns — measured in ikigai!

Ikigai trading, otoh, a very delicate matter..

Edit: possible to trisect hn based on how adversarial the relationship to those who pay is ( no tops, but plenty of semiretirees in the uppest house)