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A cartoon of two Christmas trees side by side, both with Lego-like block shapes. On the left is “Riemann’s Christmas Tree,” composed of vertical bars. On the right is “Lebesque’s Christmas tree,” composed of horizontal bars.

Pleased to report that the game with these cards was eminently successful to play during Christmas dinner cooking!

@skeletor Sign on a church near Mountsberg, Ontario:

“Gratitude turns what we have, into enough.”

@matematico314
Ah! One of my all-time favorite classes was a course on the Lebesgue integral taught by the inimitable David Bressoud. We studied it in historical order: encountering problems as mathematicians encountered them in the 19th century, proving a theorem one week that turned out to be false the next week, sharpening definitions as we went in true Lakatos style. It was wonderful.

Thanks for the meme-y memories!

If you ever need to put on a sock when you can't bend a knee: this is a fantastic trick.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Aa3-QHy8OWg

@shoq It will take decades to reconstruct what DOGE and OMB have destroyed. It was a slash and burn effort, with departments being instructed to destroy their documents and data backups.

@ross Yeah, I'm not necessarily recommending the EUPL for general use at the moment, I'm just personally willing to fuck around and find out.

@lzg to be fair, I did the same through a company called Module Masters I think, and to my surprise a tech actually called me to discuss the part I had sent in. He couldn't get it to fail in his testing, so wanted to confirm I really needed a new part. Pretty top notch service imo.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with mathematics!

@molly0xfff Great googly moogly! That’s a lot of work.

Not exactly a New Year's resolution, but I really want to learn how to make good pastry crusts next year. Not just make the dough and roll it out, but bake it so the stuff rises a bit and isn't soggy.

Goal: I want to make pork pies and mince pies for next year's holidays.

@JessTheUnstill ah, I'm sorry! I missed that.

When you really want the internet, but the internet doesn’t exit yet.

I wonder how many services like this existed. The old Netflix (Qwikster, heh) is maybe the most famous one?

Here's another one:

Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem. US politicians put party first and country a very poor second. So they are quite prepared to stand by and watch the moral economic and social destruction of their country simply in the hope they will win the next election.

The USA is the manifestation of all that is wrong with first past the post politics. It produces acute polarisation and binary choices which do not reflect public opinion.

It produces no more than vacuous confrontation

@rbreich
When Reich said "Trump changed Washington D.C. into Washington D.T." I was like, hey, nothing new, I almost believed it !

@cstross ooh. Tempting. Black market Stross translations into German. I'll sell them only in person at the Prater. Behind the bar. Upon hearing of this heinous offense ......

@admin you’re on a server with one user.