Ahhhhh right... makes more sense ;)

@BernardoMeurer I do know someone who's moving there, so it's not absolutely impossible as I'll (probably) be in the USA for a couple of months at some point in the next couple of years. But I'll be in Indiana, so it's not exactly close by any means :/

You could come to Bristol...

@Mithrandir24601 I've been banned from Europe

@BernardoMeurer wat

@ACuriousMind What? I've been banned

@BernardoMeurer ? Huh?

O.o

@BernardoMeurer By whom, and why?

@ACuriousMind The danish mafia, and I can't say

I see.

I wouldn't want to get you banned too

SAP can't be without it's CEO

@BernardoMeurer ah yes. That saga

makes sense now

I've also been banned from Serbia after I prostituted my friend to get free entrance to a nightclub, and then we all fled

@Mithrandir24601 My clan is from there

I will try to stop by

@0celo7 Indiana?

yes

@0celo7 Oooh, I don't have any remote guesses of the time beyond the next couple of years though :/

@0celo7 I found some music you might enjoy

Of the series "Brazil: Somehow an actual country"

@BalarkaSen You will specially like that

Balarka is da man

I shall check this out

There are many good musicians out there, but only that guy can summon butterflies with his flute

@BalarkaSen More on him

> ‘Hermeto, are you on drugs?,’ and he always replies: “No, I’m already the drug itself!”

Lol

@BalarkaSen I really do need to know your name else I'm putting you down as Pajeet Rajput

@0celo7 I want to be in the thank you part of your dissertation

Otherwise I'm throwing a hissy fit

Don't fuck with me, I'm brazilian, I'll summon butterflies

I'm putting it in my senior thesis

lol

you'll go in the dissertation eventually, no worries

I want to be everywhere

Everything you publish should have my face on it as an easter egg

inside some manifold

Oh ya, well raider nation can summon caterpillars!

@Bernardo Admittedly I'm not super familiar with Latin American music. This is pretty good actually.

@BalarkaSen It's really bizarre, but it's actually good, I agree

His album "Slave Mass" is actually really nice jazz

did it attract any butterflys?

I can always recommend a selection of Latin Jazz and Bossa if you're interested

@0celo7 I really think my contribution is epsilon less than zero to your thesis, but I guess you can put me there as "Jeff Jeffery".

@skullpatrol No, that album is way more intense than "Musica da Lagoa"

(Balarka Sen is my real name)

@BalarkaSen i dont believe you :^(

@BalarkaSen I tried stalking you really hard a few times, and I found nothing

And I'm a pretty good stalker :/

@0celo7 Can confirm

^

I confirm too.

@BernardoMeurer can I have my own personal stalker?

i think i have been around in a few internet forums a few years earlier and you can find my name flying around there.

@BalarkaSen This is that guy making music with his own beard youtube.com/watch?v=bGaaxlvP-BA

other than that there's a conference webpage...

Hello everybody

heya

@Phase You have to poke my interest first

Hm

@BernardoMeurer lolol

this is great

@BalarkaSen He's fucking great

Idek what you're interested in. There's an ancient prophecy around my family bloodline, "He who finds us shall be blessed by infinite books on Physics and Computer Shit"

"And John Rennie's Laptop collection"

@Phase Also, you're no fun, I have nothing to start on even, your name is super general, and you don't have any external profiles linked or anything

Bah

I have phished people's IP addresses before when that was the case

My first name is on one of the SE things but that's still not much to go on

But that's too much trouble

@Phase I can't even see your SE profile

Damn, ownd

I love when nonstandard percussion instruments are 90% of the instrumentation of the song

@BalarkaSen He has some songs done with zoo animals too youtube.com/watch?v=Y10Ewgcqky8

I'm 99% sure his name is Balarka Sen.

I just love him playing his fucking flute to the ostrich

I saw the attendee list to a workshop he was at.

@Phase There's just no incentive for me to go above and beyond to track you

@BernardoMeurer fair enough

I don't [sniffs] need a stalker anyway

His full name includes "His Highness" :P

@Phase If you were blonde, about 5'11', and a girl I might be more interested

You mean like @0celo7 ?

But assuming you're a scrawny first year physics undergrad, nah :P

I'm already a scrawny undergrad

"scrawny", so if I was buff....

@Phase it's my brother you're talking about, watch out

True he might come to my house and gun me down

what is this discussion man

@BalarkaSen And him using his music to talk to frogs youtube.com/watch?v=iFGTQDDo9sc

this giveth me cringes over 9000

Steam is really dumb.

And saying that he was actually talking to the frogs

I'm a sexy girl

You caught me

8999

@BalarkaSen Good :)

@Bernardo I'll have to check out his music at some point

"We saw you played literally this game but with more content, wanna buy this game?"

@BalarkaSen He's literally completely insane

He's an albino

My grandfather knows him apparently

Very cool

Oh

god

The more I search the weirder it gets

[link](URL) noob :P

nice ASMR there

hmmm, so do you guys mostly talk about physics in here or is this more a general chat?

::crickets::

@enumaris Sometimes people talk physics, but generally we talk about everything

welcome :-)

Like, right now, we are talking about albino music

alrighty XD

@enumaris Check this out

heh

are you guys mostly in the physics field?

or do you just like to hang out here

None of us are.

o

Some are, but others no

@0celo7 Is a mathematician, I'm a computer scientist, @BalarkaSen is a mathematician

No one here right now is

@0celo7 Don't troll the newcomers, please :P

@ACuriousMind I corrected myself.

XD Does that mean I'm out of place...

No one here right now is a physicist.

@ACuriousMind Is a physicist who sold out and is not working in Tech :P

As CEO of SAP!

ACM was never a physicist

@BernardoMeurer How long until you tire of that joke? :P

Ah...

And rightful ruler of the Kingdom of Namibia

@ACuriousMind Oh, I'll be telling this to your grandchildren, don't even bother

@0celo7 What was I, then?

@BernardoMeurer Nice, I'm gonna have grandchildren?

And my children will tell your grandchildren's children about it

The prophecies say so

And it will be the tradition that bounds our families

I'm oddly touched by that idea

@ACuriousMind Yes, you will, 4 to be exact, and one will be an albino who's instrument of choice is a pig

@enumaris Don't hesitate to talk about physics here if you want to, though!

And oddly enough he's your favorite

And you support his music career

@Bernardo Do you have free 22 minutes to spare from your life?

If you ever have, try this

@BalarkaSen Yes, I'm useless

His voice sounds like Nick Cage's

Is surface tension $\equiv$ cohesion?

@BernardoMeurer Of course! I'd support any career choice my children make!

@ACuriousMind Grandchildren

@ACuriousMind Are you making vacuous statements?

@BalarkaSen lol

non sequiturs

@ACuriousMind You say this until one of them wants to be a full-time cyber-myley cirus groupie

lmao

lol

@BernardoMeurer Still better than banker

@BernardoMeurer Absolutely terrifying vocals

@ACuriousMind Hey, I work for a bank!

FITE ME

@BernardoMeurer The bank of Namibia?

No, although they probably would pay me much better

btw, I might get into King Gizzard after my exams are over (which, uh, ends tomorrow)

Being a friend of the king has its benefits

I meant cohesion per unit length.

@BalarkaSen Their new album, Polygondwanaland, is AMAZING

I took a musical peek at their recent album (hell if I can pronounce it) and really liked it

Yeah that

Flying Microtonal Banana is also cool

Nonagon Infinity as well

So I hear

Murder of the Universe has a couple good tracks, otherwise I don't like it

Sketches of Brunswick East is not my cup of tea, but I can understand people enjoying it

@BalarkaSen KGLW is great

Yup, that's what I have been hearing

gooo study (for the last one, pal :-)

They're set to release 5 albums this year alone

4 released already

And none of them suck

@skull who the hell studies the day before exam?

It's quite an achievement

@BalarkaSen I do :/

lol

^me too

:-/

well i guess i prefer to either not study the day before exam or cram everything

1 of the 2

this one's math so i am not really worried

I thought studying a day before the exam was the only way to go

@BalarkaSen I went to a maths lecturer in my Uni who I like and speak to a fair bit, and showed them a couple of my shoddy-notation-bound 'proofs' of rank nullity, one via an argument using bases and one using equivalence relations. Apparently, notation aside they were fine, but they recommended I consider "extending the basis" instead, as a more direct and less complicated method, but I don't really get what they mean : / I get that a basis can be chosen for the Kernel, where any..

n amount of linearly independent vectors can be chosen to span the Kernel, but what's the deal with "extending the basis"? Why is it useful to consider?

Can someone explain why fluids try to minimise their surface area? How can minimum surface area imply minimum energy state?

All I can arrive at is the same crap about vanishing basis vectors : /

@Phase Just construct additional pylons to extend your base

@BernardoMeurer Must I?

@Phase Shoot me this back tomorrow. I need to sleep rn

Fair, Sleep well

And, with regards to the kernel, keep microwaving

I notice that the physics stack exchange has a lot of unanswered questions, is this a relatively new stack exchange community or something?

Nope, it's just that there are a large amount of new questions

@enumaris We're painfully incompetent is all

And a lot of them aren't very good

(no interest in fluids here, it seems :/)

also what you on about? I just took a quick gander and the vast majority seem answered : P

@Abcd relax, you've too much tension

lol

@enumaris No, our proportion of unanswered questions is pretty normal for a large site

@enumaris Don't trust @ACuriousMind, he's the bastion of our woeful incompetence

@Abcd Surface tension acting on the fluid surface is the reason behind area-minimization. If you put a small rubber band on the surface of water in any initial shape, it'll deform itself to have the shape of a circle (google "isoperimetric inequality")

The unanswered ones are a mostly mixture of really hard, not worth the effort, and really boring :P

Hmm, I guess I'm used to stack overflow where it seems almost every question that I browse is answered. Or maybe I just haven't been browsing long enough to really tell...

@ACuriousMind is the AI that keeps generating questions no mortal man can answer

In any case, I'm off to sleep

If they try, he'll flag it as awful and remove it from existence

cya

he's back?

@BernardoMeurer Who is "we" and "our" there, Mr 298 rep?

@ACuriousMind you were a mathematician

Applied.

@ACuriousMind I provide the emotional support

@Phase Was he banned? Did he create a new account?I saw him in Math.SE chat room yesterday.

I thought he was, and he tried circumventing the ban too

I figured that would add to the question ban