Thoughts
This wasn’t a place I ever expected to be. Seems like a lot of people are wanting to leave Twitter. This post on Mastodon got thousands of favourites and boosts: https://mathstodon.xyz/@timhutton/109316834651128246 (which in itself is pretty crazy!) With great popularity comes great maintenance burdens. But there are lots of incoming PRs with people improving the little script, which is…
Well that was an interesting couple of hours. I was trying to update Jekyll on this blog and kept getting an odd error: Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of true into String in /_layouts/post.html jekyll 3.7.4 | Error: no implicit conversion of true into String I eventually tracked the error down to this old post from 2007 which has code like this: --- layout: post title: yes --- Words…
This post made me realise how little I've been using G+ lately, and how a...Tim Hutton - 2018-08-24 22:46:14+0000 - Updated: 2018-08-24 22:49:07+0000This post made me realise how little I've been using G+ lately, and how almost everyone has long since moved on. For over a year I've only been here at all because there are just a handful of awesome people still posting here. I've loved posting here…
Me: You know, our kitten trains itself by play too. <br><br>Daughter half loo...Tim Hutton - 2018-08-22 22:02:14+0000 - Updated: 2018-08-22 22:02:14+0000Me: You know, our kitten trains itself by play too. Daughter half looks up from phone game: Huh?Me: She'll be a great hunter one day. With no formal teaching.Daughter: What?Me: But she'll only ever be able to use her claws. You can use anything.…
Mattias Malmer pointed me at an interesting space-filling shape that I hadn&#...Tim Hutton - 2018-07-04 02:36:07+0000 - Updated: 2018-07-04 09:32:07+0000Mattias Malmer pointed me at an interesting space-filling shape that I hadn't seen before, with curved faces.It was discovered by an architect, Peter Pearce, in the 1960's. He called it the 'space filling bcc saddle tetrahedron'.Packaging…
Today I learned that John von Neumann had a beautiful dog called Inverse.Tim Hutton - 2018-06-26 15:00:08+0000 - Updated: 2018-06-26 15:00:08+0000Today I learned that John von Neumann had a beautiful dog called Inverse.Today I learned that John von Neumann had a beautiful dog called Inverse.Shared with: Public+1'd by: Félix de la Fuente, Thad Meyer, Doug Hackworth, Whitt Whitton, Rubén Perblac,…
Google+ postTim Hutton - 2018-06-23 22:12:25+0000 - Updated: 2018-06-23 22:12:25+0000Shared with: Public+1'd by: James Buddenhagen This post was originally on Google+
We made a 1.4m polar zonohedron dome out of cardboard.Tim Hutton - 2018-06-23 22:12:26+0000 - Updated: 2018-06-23 22:12:26+0000We made a 1.4m polar zonohedron dome out of cardboard.Shared with: Public+1'd by: Gavin Baker, Rubén Perblac, Gerard Westendorp, Dean Calahan, Arnaud Chéritat, Yuri Velichko, Michal Čaplygin, Whitt Whitton, Doug Hackworth, Greg Egan, David Eppstein This post was originally…
Building a 1.4m high polar zonohedron dome ('zome') on Saturday. Firs...Tim Hutton - 2018-06-18 14:55:31+0000 - Updated: 2018-06-18 14:56:22+0000Building a 1.4m high polar zonohedron dome ('zome') on Saturday. First strip cut out of cardboard.Building a 1.4m high polar zonohedron dome ('zome') on Saturday. First strip cut out of cardboard.Shared with: Public, Tim Hutton, Gerard Westendorp+1'd by:…
The theory goes that you can't die in the multiverse because there is alw...Tim Hutton - 2018-05-17 13:46:09+0000 - Updated: 2018-05-17 13:46:09+0000The theory goes that you can't die in the multiverse because there is always a subset of increasingly bizarre universes where you survive.Which means that I must apologise to those versions of you that are trapped here, because this universe is…