If anybody’s interested I published the model for dynamics with infinite carrying capacity to Wolfram Clouds so feel free to mess around with it and see if it meets or confounds your intuitons.
Resilio Sync is an app I use to self-host files on my mesh network. I had assumed it would allow download over HTTPS when sharing files to third parties but I was wrong.
I've now uploaded it to Github for frictionless access:
I’m an economist and an applied mathematician and also a naturist (or nudist), whatever term you wish to use is fine by me.
Like most I’ve observed how the gender balance tends to skew male and I’ve often thought about the pros and cons of “no single male” policies that some venues enforce: on the one hand, I wish everybody to be as comfortable as possible; on the other, I risk being excluded myself (being male and currently single, but then again, I have plenty of naturist female friends whom I can attend with). I’ve also wondered if and how such a policy works.
Long story short, I got bored over Christmas and Boxing Day and was a bit restless to flex some mathematical muscle, so I ended up writing a paper based on my speculations almost by accident.
It’s totally safe for work (except the title, the only content is text, equations, and two dry diagrams produced in Mathematica).
I’d really appreciate any feedback.
And if it’s not your thing... well please believe me we’re humans too and it’s just a preference. Plus, we get to see more of our friends!
I’m an economist and an applied mathematician and also a naturist (or nudist), whatever term you wish to use is fine by me.
Like most I’ve observed how the gender balance tends to skew male and I’ve often thought about the pros and cons of “no single male” policies that some venues enforce: on the one hand, I wish everybody to be as comfortable as possible; on the other, I risk being excluded myself (being male and currently single, but then again, I have plenty of naturist female friends whom I can attend with). I’ve also wondered if and how such a policy works.
Long story short, I got bored over Christmas and Boxing Day and was a bit restless to flex some mathematical muscle, so I ended up writing a paper based on my speculations almost by accident.
It’s totally safe for work (except the title, the only content is text, equations, and two dry diagrams produced in Mathematica).
I’d really appreciate any feedback.
And if it’s not your thing... well please believe me we’re humans too and it’s just a preference. Plus, we get to see more of our friends!
Not delighted to read that I’m supposedly 62% through my life.
EDIT: exploring a bit, it’s clearly using a very crude model for lifespan. It’s not using a rigorous “given that a person has lived T time, what is the expected residual lifetime” conditional probability model but a brutal “average life span” calculation. Several of my sprightly relatives are maxed out at 100%.
My Graf Castell Tiago fountain pen.
My Barbour Kontiki jacket.
My iPhone Pro Max 17/Apple Watch Ultra 3/Airpods Pro 3 ensemble.
My Lapham’s Quarterly subscription.
My LimeSDR/Raspberry Pi 5 16GB setup.
My Pokit Pro.
My Mathematica 14.3 license.
My Oliver’s People reading glasses.
My tailored suits.
To be clear NetInfo is not an alternative. It's just not generic enough and not really a good fit for Windows. NetInfo is too much a Unix solution, so there's no cross-realm/domain "forest" functionality, no support for SIDs, etc.
Being somebody whose absolute favourite book is The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake (1998), this is the kind of stuff I come here for. So much more interesting than shop talk about the framework of the week, blockchain hype segueing into AI frenzy, and making fun of people who get stuck in VIM (I once got stuck in nano when for some reason the Control key became unmapped for unknown reasons eventually solved by spawning a new shell, killing the killalling the process, and resetting the terminal, so yeah — I might be an old hand but making fun of people is so not funny).
I’m glad the real hacker ethos of making stuff arbitrarily convoluted by mixing and matching various computational-equivalent substrates results is some truly bizarre results. An instant classic of the genre.
I have a 2010 Toshiba Regza TV that has never been connected to the internet and is from the time when “1080p” was the new hotness and there was a kerfuffle going on about 3D televisions. Lots of HDMI 1.2 (?) ports, and a lot of legacy connectors including a SCART for when I want to bring a tear to my eye by watching VHS tapes from my youth. Attached to a 3rd generation AppleTV that could take a round and not drop the line; a device still supported but also too ancient for the flamboyant new Liquid Glass UI. Also attached: a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 8TB HD. Amongst other things it’s the authoritative node for my Resilio Sync mesh of media and ebooks across all my devices.
I’m a happy camper. Newer stuff would feel like a downgrade. Couldn’t care less about 4K video. Never wilfully seen sought it out, unimpressed when I see it.
I still go to the cinema regularly, alone. Something very deliberate about going to a place to pay a price to go into a specific space to do a specific thing. Pandering to second screen audiences has produced some of the most profoundly insulting media in living memory.
https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/james.junghanns/Published/G...
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