That's What's Up

I'm a walking disaster, I'm the demolition man

[music-never-stopped]

American keyboardist Jeff Chimenti is best known for his ongoing work with the former members of the Grateful Dead, and in April, he joins the entire VooDoo Dead crew (Steve Kimock, Eric Krasno, Jason Crosby, John Morgan Kimock, Tom Guarna, Alfreda Gerald & Lamar Williams Jr.) to shake the stage in Ventura at Skull & Roses 👉👉 @skullandrosesventura 💀🌹⠀ ⠀ Since May 1997, Chimenti has played with Bob Weir & Ratdog, every tour of The Dead (including the Fare Thee Well Tour), Further and has made occasional appearances with Phil Lesh and Friends. In 2015, he joined John Kadlecik, Reed Mathis and Jay Lane in Golden Gate Wingmen.⠀ ⠀ Following the success of the Fare Thee Well shows, he continues to tour with Dead & Company, along with former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, as well as John Mayer and former Allman Brothers bassist Oteil Burbridge. 🎹⠀ . . 👉 Visit @skullandrosesventura for ticket info!!! . . 👉 https://skullandroses.com/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wTDtrADH3/?igshid=ml8zddntv15f

[patrick-stewart]

Twilight (2008) but it’s just the parts I quote all the time (1/?)

[gregorygalloway]

David Hidalgo (born 6 October 1954)

[transxfiles]

the world was severely lacking weird little girl memes so i had to fill the void

[costis]

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

ok maybe this movie will legit be a masterpiece

[honeylavendermilktea]

the fact that we need 8 hours of sleep is ridiculous we should only need 4 and the other 4 should be used to be cozy in your bed and rub your legs together like a cricket and listen to music and think about your little scenarios

[kuzcos-poision]

The world could really use another tinker bell movie right now

[thenightlymirror]

The “bats can do calculus” thing is funny, because if you play around with synths for a while, you realize a lot of what humans perceive as “natural” sounds are just us directly perceiving certain complex mathematical things as big gestalt gestures. Like recognizing a multiplied wave as sounding like a woodwind. Hearing individual notes within a chord is basically Fourier analysis. Feeling how naturally a note decays is perceiving how linear or exponential the curve is. The fact that a sine wave sounds smooth but a sawtooth wave sounds nasally, and a square wave has a certain hollow fuzz to it. Is someone doing “math” there? Once you get the flavor of what each of those qualities are like, listening to the world becomes like directly perceiving math. Also, listening to birds becomes very strange. Because you realize some goofy easy weird sound you can squelch out of an analog synth is the same thing a bird is doing. Then sometimes they make a sound you can’t make. What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder.

[shroomly]

@the-real-numbers

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

The way I see it, it's actually the other way around. Calculus is an imitation of what the bat does. Fourier analysis is the idealized form of perceiving notes in a pitch. The bird isn't "on" math, but it can be modeled through it.

I partially believe this because our perception of reality can change what we accept as "the mathematics behind" something. In the early days of the photograph, it was believed that fluid motion was based on basic regular geometry. A scientist (who's name is escaping me rn, so take some of these details with a grain of salt) that pioneered fluid dynamics through observing water splashes recalled seeing symmetries and neat regular shapes in the water displaced by a spherical falling object. This was assumed to be "the mathematics that water was on" for quite some time: symmetry and idealized geometry. This was widely accepted in european scientific circles for some time!

It wasn't until flashbulb photography became available to him that this scientist realized that his eyes had decieved him: splashing water was anything but symmetrical, in fact, it was actually quite irregular and difficult to predict. He redid his experiments with photography over and over because he assumed there was some kind of experimental error. Today we recognize "the mathematics that water is on" to be a collection of advanced partial differential equations, some of which have no known closed-form solution (navier-stokes). However, it does describe what we're able to observe now.

Mathematical modeling of the natural world does tend to approach higher levels of accuracy over time [citation needed], but you can see from this example that what we accept as "the mathematical nature of reality" can be misled when we're unable to percieve all of it (and we are still unable to percieve all of it).

That being said, I do love modeling the world as much as the next guy (perhaps maybe even a little more than the next guy). I love when simple and intuitive rules result in dazzling and unexpected behavior, and I love when they mimic real-world behavior.

As the great statistician George Box said: "All models are false. Some are useful."

[cop-disliker69]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[v91233312il]

When I went to my friends house in America his mom said weed time and he said wait here they all smoked a joint and I didn't get any

[mrgratefuldean]

[taxicabmetric]

you may be saturday’s child of woe

moving with a pinch of grace

you may be the clown in the burial ground

or just another pretty face

[taxicabmetric]

I just checked and apparently the words are actually “saturday’s child all grown” which is fucking me up but if althea is dirt red then I feel like aoife o’donovan’s thursday’s child is gray blue so that works

[taxicabmetric]

you may be saturday’s child of woe

moving with a pinch of grace

you may be the clown in the burial ground

or just another pretty face

[taxicabmetric]

[funnytwittertweets]

[caroldanversenthusiast]

the way that this is the purest friendship trope

lesbian + pure boy™️ friendships are it

[taxicabmetric]

oh god I’m listening to i’m wide awake it’s morning again, this can’t be good