/me is jealous of Nathan using algorithms at work.

I just do foo.string1 = bar.string2 or something like that all day.

@feersum What does your job comprise?

@MartinEnder Something for you:

@flawr Which part did you not understand?

(In case you don't know this guy: He actually has a degree in engineering and builds all kinds of stuff from - more often than not - used wood.)

@feersum The foo part :D

I just wondered what field you're working in.

The database retreiving field I guess.

Like CRUD except only the R.

TIL about CRUD.

@flawr haha, I'm more impressed by the guy's craftsmanship than the actual knife, but that's pretty cool :D

Sometimes I really wonder whether programmers actually spend more time for programming than for coming up with fancy acronyms :)

@MartinEnder He has tons of other project. (binge alert)

At least us mathematicians know why not to cut the cake into circles.

...but the crumbs are the best!

CMC: What convex shape has the least efficient optimal tiling of the plane?

(That means if you try to reduce the area of the gaps, what is the best ratio of gap per surface unit you can get?)

are rotations of the tiles allowed/required?

Wikipedia says it doesn't know.

Yes, you can also use irregular tilings.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_packing 2nd para.

@flawr the real question is, if I use isosceles triangles, do they have a ratio of 1 because I can't rotate them, or do I have to rotate them to minimise the gaps, giving them a ratio of 0

@MartinEnder ah I see, yes in this case you'd get 0.

@feersum intersting. CMC: get below a ratio of 0.9 :)

@feersum Hey, this is a super rare thing for me. I'm excited too, and (being a team lead) I made sure I was working on this project

o/

@SimplyBeautifulArt \ö

@SimplyBeautifulArt You are a mathy person aren't you? I'm looking for the name of the theorem that says if the rotation of a vectorfield vanishes everywhere it is the gradient of some scalar field. Do you know its name?

I haven't done much in relation to any multi-variable calc or vector fields or anything of that nature.

I can do gradients though lol

found it but I thought it was named after some guy

In American football, there can be at most one pass per play. That is, when the ball is thrown forward (in the direction of the goal) from one player to another. You can, however, lateral the ball any number of times, tossing it backwards from one player to another. Trinity University used this 15 years ago to win a game and it's amazing. imgur.com/gallery/KEcPl

@El'endiaStarman that's exciting

@El'endiaStarman This is amazing!

@El'endiaStarman You might also like following video:

@NathanMerrill Maybe add this channel to our subscriptions?

This guy makes videos about all kinds of infrastructure related topic, sometimes I think it has some resemblence to 99%inv concerning the topics. And he is great at explaining and demonstrating stuff.

@flawr I've seen this. Very cool indeed. (And I'm subscribed, though he doesn't posts videos very often.)

@El'endiaStarman x'D Wow, nice.