off-topic 2018-06-15 | Slack Archive

seancorfield00:06:53

I think the most recent concerts I've been to were Amanda Palmer / Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots); Throbbing Gristle; Morrissey. All in small venues.

Fahd El Mazouni07:06:32

Hi ! are there any academics around here ? I have some questions I would like to ask you, I need some input 🙂

borkdude09:06:30

@alexmiller your son has great taste

gklijs13:06:41

I went to the Foo Fighters last Monday. It was really crowded, but a nice show, even while Dave had problems with his voice.

bronsa13:06:57

I went to see A Perfect Circle yesterday, they killed it. King Crimson gig in november, can’t wait

Aleksander13:06:47

Went to Amanda Palmer earlier this year as well. Amazing concert!

borkdude14:06:01

@bronsa whoa, King Crimson 🙂

bronsa14:06:19

second time I get to see them, I’m hyped :)

seancorfield15:06:29

@dev964 Where did you see AFP?

Aleksander15:06:20

London, Union Chapel

Aleksander15:06:32

one of the best venues in town

seancorfield16:06:59

Oh yeah, that concert was wonderful (she recorded it for her Patreon supporters as I recall).

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seancorfield16:06:32

Peter Hammill did an amazing concert at Union Chapel years ago.

Philip Hale18:06:46

Amanda Palmer and Morrissey must have been pretty different crowds

seancorfield20:06:56

AFP was supposed to be Morrissey's support act but she got sick and had to cancel 😞 It was the third time I'd seen Morrissey (and would have been the first time I'd see AFP).

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tristefigure19:06:04

Computing via natural erosion of sandstone https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17445760.2018.1455836

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tristefigure20:06:04

Here is a more intelligible ~~paper~~ abstract about what this is all about by the way https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Natural-Erosion-of-Sandstone-as-Shape-Optimisation-Ostanin-Safonov/14a770eafbe689bbb5aedd3770ead55677ff2cf7

eggsyntax20:06:53

Here's a decent article on the shape optimisation one. This really is so cool :-) https://m.phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-erosion-unusual.html

eggsyntax20:06:59

(the article is still just a summary, but it's at least a bit more than the paper abstract is)

eggsyntax20:06:55

And here's what appears at first glance to be the full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17777-1

andy.fingerhut20:06:00

As long as you want your processing capacity measured in something like picohertz, I guess

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