Here's another critter we had visit in February. It's a weasel in his winter clothes. In Norwegian weasels are called røyskatt, which translates to "cairn cat", røys = a pile of loose stones (cairn) and katt = cat. "Røyskatt" is a much cuter name than "weasel" imo.
Thank you goobster! Stop by any time for a beer, or an akvavit. Or better yet we can drink karsk, the local drink: put a one crown coin in the bottom of a coffee cup. Fill with coffee until you cannot see the coin any longer. Then add moonshine until you can see the coin again. Skål!
OK! I think it's a difficult question because it's really quite meaningless. All of our logic, all of the way we think, is developed from our interaction with the universe, in very fundamental ways. I am in my bed. My bed is in my room. Therefore I am in my room. In this way our logic develops. Mathematics is the body of knowledge that grows from this logic. It is a human construct and it does such an amazingly good job of describing the universe because it grew from the structure of the universe. So when we find a surprising result and then find an example of that result in nature, we are even more surprised and get a feeling of being small surrounded by The Big Mystery. "Was the math there or did we make it?" ignores the fact that we ourselves are a part of the mechanisms of the universe. To me, creating and discovering are the same. I am just happy I can take pleasure in the process! (I suspect that the universe itself is an emergent phenomenum that comes from the simplest of rules, "1+1=2" or even simpler, like "1". It only really makes sense to me to think that the universe is just one particle.)
Wow! Nice work mk! Here's the same fjord from the other side of the hill, with my dog, at dawn.
Oooh! I might get a prize for this one! Thought I had a pneumothorax, a small hole in the lining of my lung. Just takes some antibiotics to fix, or so the google-machine told me. I was on my way to Paris for vacation and didn't want to bother until I got home. Got home and made an appointment to see the doctor after the weekend. I saw the doctor 11 days after the first indication of trouble. Turns out if I had waited a few more days I'd have been dead. They drained 3 liters of fluid out my lung in 24 hours, and continued to drain a liter a day for a month. Lymphoma. 3 years chemo, radiotherapy, surgery, the works. Moral: when it hurts to breathe, it's probably not nothing!
Inspired by veen, here is a fractal hubski animation. I know it would have to be a tricky sticker to animate. This has recursion level 4: And here's one with recursion level 6: Each group of 8 "satellites" has a total area equal to its "planet". The initial orbital distance of the first ring of 8 satellites varies in this animation (in the Hubski logo, they are spaced one satellite diameter away from the planet). Subsequent orbits are of the ratio of sqrt(2)-1, or approximately 0.4142. This makes the satellites of neighbors overlap precisely. I was pleased to find the ratio of sqrt(2)-1. I've done a lot of cool math with sqrt(2)+1, and so this is a new direction to explore!
Dude you are a genius. I love these. I make a lot of fractals myself. I love the first and the "pushing back the dark" one. Brilliant work!
I made a new necklace with 5 fives, but I'm away at a convention and don't have a picture of it today. So instead I will post one of my pictures that I really like. It seems to mostly elicit shrugs, but some folks have really loved it. It got gallery time and a tiny bit of press. It's called Pisces and it's based on binary counting numbers.
Congratulations! This will be fascinating to watch develop. Good luck TC!