Blanket physics is harder to understand than Calabi-Yau Manifolds (files.catbox.moe)
from Gork@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz on 18 Apr 2024 04:11
https://lemm.ee/post/29731747

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Kowowow@lemmy.ca on 18 Apr 2024 05:08 next collapse

One reason I like queen sized blankets

doublejay1999@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 06:05 next collapse

Oh god that’s brilliant

someacnt_@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 08:41 next collapse

I thought it was only me

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net on 18 Apr 2024 10:03 next collapse

My brother once got so tangled in a duvet cover, we had to cut him free.

TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca on 18 Apr 2024 11:41 collapse

Does your brother usually wear a helmet, by any chance?

jaybone@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 13:46 collapse

Maybe they put him in the dryer with the sheets. My duvet cover is like some kind of Bag of Holding that swallows pillow cases and never wants to return them.

WarmSoda@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 2024 00:01 collapse

I had a friend whose younger brother used to get trapped in the dryer.

jaybone@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 2024 07:32 collapse

I think I saw her video about that.

Num10ck@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 10:35 next collapse

i read once that untangling fabric is the hardest part of domestic robots. we don’t have the math for laundry.

Natanael@slrpnk.net on 18 Apr 2024 11:39 collapse

And we still can’t replace human seamstresses, reliably automating many processes is STILL hard

prole@sh.itjust.works on 18 Apr 2024 12:23 collapse

Completely unrelated, but I just noticed that “seamstress” still seems acceptable, despite shifting more toward gender neutral vocational titles. The only other one I can think of was “stewardess” which was changed to “Flight Attendant.”

Is there a difference between a tailor and a seamstress? Or is the latter just the female version of the former, and therefore an archaic term?

jaybone@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 13:52 next collapse

Stitch Attendant

blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 13:59 collapse

Maybe quit letting the hackey sack fall then Kyle!

prole@sh.itjust.works on 18 Apr 2024 15:06 collapse

Stall that shit on your perforated Rod Lavers…

…in all quad flavors, lawd save us

blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 19:46 collapse
nxdefiant@startrek.website on 18 Apr 2024 14:17 collapse

I think sartor is the old male version of seamstress, but nowadays it’d probably just be “garment maker”.

I vow for the old British “haberdasher”.

prole@sh.itjust.works on 18 Apr 2024 15:05 collapse

Haberdasher is good. Would the female version be a Haberdasheress?

drolex@sopuli.xyz on 18 Apr 2024 11:07 next collapse

WARNING: If your compact Kähler manifold whose first Chern class is vanishing is also Ricci-flat, then it is a Calabi-Yau. Proceed with care.

  • Risk of non-Riemaniann metric
  • Holonomy equal to a subgroup of SU(n)
  • Possibility of mild singularities
Natanael@slrpnk.net on 18 Apr 2024 11:39 collapse

[insert stop doing $topic meme]

KittyCat@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 13:07 next collapse

More like half awake me trying to take the laplacian of my pillow for my very important dream test.

dessimbelackis@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 13:52 next collapse

I used to see a local band named Calabi-yau. Their sound was kind of a rush-inspired math-rock. Really talented guys. Guitar player got hired by google and moved so the group kind of retired

CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 14:03 next collapse

Wow, I had no idea the Calabi-Yau Manifold was a real thing. I thought it was just made up for Barotrauma, since that was the only place I heard of it. It sounded Lovecraftian enough so I never questioned it lol

jaemo@sh.itjust.works on 18 Apr 2024 14:40 collapse

There’s a great book by Greg Egan called Diaspora that explores the idea that every atom is a Calabai-Yau manifold, and the aperture to a wormhole via Kaluza-Klein handwavery. It’s a bit of a heavy read at times but super interesting.

vaderaj@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 2024 15:36 collapse

The function just can’t converge haha