The Sphinx's Lair

12:03 AM

First two words? "Yes. I" ?

(both short words/letters)

(coming from one who sees more than one word in . . . a word.)

(sometimes when I play along it spirals out. Think it's the same old thing right now. Play without. Signed, same old thing._

lauir

12:25 AM

. . .

Someone pry my fingers from this keyboard.

Put those fingers back on a keyboard. Differently.

Or on tabloids. Again differently.

Until then, ding daddily doodle!

Rubio

re: lauir: youtube.com/watch?v=0f_WEIrv-KI

lauir

^ oh wowowowow!

I scream for a piece of cream and receive more than I drempt.

(Because I read more than was written.)

One of these days I'll desrv what others shell out. Keep it up and keep us tryng.

Again, I'm "susceptible." Hit on base and I'll back it up, for better or worse.

Sometimes I'm first up, though. Welcome shrinking violet.

All I do is flail away, sometimes with a rounder, always in an attempt to let the next uppance.

Am I the only one here who speaks English? Not USAish. Trueish.

That's how I learned. Through TV when they themselves didn't know how,

and yet here it is our common lingue.

And yet I help others without a common langue put it into spell.

(That inconsistency in spelling was intentional.)

Are y'all just watching tatters of someone who knew how to stitch?

Rubio

12:52 AM

I enjoy that you make of the English language a lump of clay which you can and do reshape to your design

lauir

Pure poetry.

When we come across whatever we come across, we have a choice. To come across or to come across.

@Rubio, you strike every chord.

English is the most absurd melange.

Like others of my near-death experiences.

If you can stir the spoon, just be glad it's not your bone.

How grim! Remember I have a sense of humo/ur and am grateful to be here.

Some of my favrite places are remnants.

And that's not even one of my favrd places.

My favte places almost killed me. I kept going back just to find out.

Really, you are witnessing what happens when someone who knew better went place after place where they should've known better and, one in a million, lived to tell.

That's why I have no fear by now.

I was downvoted and solved by Deusovi!

Doesn't get much better than that.

Unless you were cliffiside on a landslide that mudslided into the transcript that showed up here.

That is more than wordswise.

And that is another reason I champion real around here.

If you haven't solved cliff/building-edge hangers you haven't lived.

Others, !$#@$@#$@$$#@@#$#@, didn't.

Signed [revised], don't hang out with me.

Unless it's the last thing in your mind.

Can't believe these sentiments aren't you-know-what stained upon receipt. They are upon capture.

Gareth McCaughan

1:22 AM

@thecoder16 @Apep @ffao @EricTressler I have now done as proposed in my answer to that metaquestion. puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/57583/…

lauir

How the trees grow tall! (I didn't know what that meant at first.)

Sphinx

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Q: How many tries to roll a 6?

Suppose you roll a (fair, 6-sided, perfectly ordinary) die repeatedly until you roll a 6. As is well known, the expected (i.e., long-term average over many trials) number of rolls required is 6. Now suppose we ask this question conditional on never having rolled any odd numbers. That is, suppose...

lauir

It was undeleted?!?!?!?

Those trees just keep growing.

Again, inscrutable as is, the doggone gods pay attention.

Things just improve.

One of these days we'll have unlimited energy from unsequential information transfer. Until then, see you here!

(That was technically accurate. Your move._

Talk about puzzling! I can back every detail but don't know where it leads. Someplace good, I hope.

Dawgs!?!?! At least say you're chewing on the bone. Please.

This minew is the next step.

Help us along. The overseer has fewer than 20 years left. I have less. If this place isn't for information science, where is?

^ that was vague. Here I just ask for another facet that reflects illuminarily.

Gareth McCaughan

1:50 AM

Not exactly undeleted. I made a new question and merged the old one into it. Because reasons.

lauir

thank you once again

Gareth McCaughan

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A: Should Elchanan Mossel's dice puzzle be undeleted?

I think the following things are reasonably clear: It's a very nice puzzle and some nice answers were posted: it would be a shame to lose those. At present it is basically copied from another source, without giving it due credit (though it does, indeed, credit the original source of the puzzle ...

lauir

Again, I grew up in a place where nothing was secret. What a wonderful world.

(Not that I ever actually grew up.)

@Gareth, the most beautiful cat wandered into my world, a couple of years ago.

That's literal, but the allegory is metaphorical.

I've stroked everyone else who wandered.

Recently one who did stroked me back.

Now I'm embarrassed, but just can't help it.

Get it?

Back to loud music! (screw the prelim 5 seconds)

Yes - The Gates of Delirium

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"choose and renounce" <--- only words that make sense out of all that.

The backyard feral cat doesn't undestand a lick of English but loves loud music.

I tried both.

Help the cause/

Or at least scroll ahead to 9:odd.

(Those were all setups. Am I the only here who reads the typeset words of live standups?)

(Yes, I am also offended by those acts.)

(And, surprise, I'm offended by the narrowmindedness of everyone including mysellf.o\

)

Again, abstraction is where we communicate at the moment.

We'll never meet in corpora.

So we have a mediplane where this goes.

See you (t)here!

(No corrections? If I call my editor-in-chief, . . . +

lauir

2:50 AM

Dawgs! Start at 11:47 amd don't stop.

Yes - The Gates of Delirium

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Sphinx

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Q: How to Define the Intersection of a Rotated "Rectangle" in Spherical Coordinates

Can anyone tell me what is the intersection between the following two surfaces? The portion of a radius-1 spherical surface defined by four points: (r1, θ1, φ1), (r2, θ2, φ2), (r3, θ1, φ3), (r4, θ4, φ4) The portion of a radius-1 spherical surface defined by four points: (r1, θ1, φ1+x), (r2, θ2,...