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Indiscriminate laziness

The first RFC was written in 1969 by Steve Crocker

Posted on 2021/12/02 by Carl Robitaille

The first RFC was written in 1969 by Steve Crocker, a 25 y/o grad student. He worked all night on it, writing in the bathroom so as to not wake up his roommates

RFC1 described the "handshake" between two ARPANET hosts

Today there are over 8600 RFCs

📝 https://t.co/fmedL0DSUp pic.twitter.com/i8jG5g3vIm
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) November 30, 2021

Finding the radius of curvature of a curve at a point

Posted on 2021/12/02 by Carl Robitaille

finding the radius of curvature of a curve at a point,
by finding the intersection of two normals very close to the point pic.twitter.com/NUOArVWvOO
— Matt Henderson (@matthen2) November 30, 2021

AURORA ALERT! The Northern Lights may be visible from Northern parts of the UK, especially Scotland. It will be quite visible in Scandinavia.

Posted on 2021/12/02 by Carl Robitaille

AURORA ALERT!
The Northern Lights may be visible from Northern parts of the UK, especially Scotland. It will be quite visible in Scandinavia. pic.twitter.com/Gx3qCKWQe6
— VirtualAstro (@VirtualAstro) November 30, 2021

Runge phenomena

Posted on 2021/12/02 by Carl Robitaille

Runge phenomena

Polynomial interpolation at evenly-spaced nodes converges iff the function is analytic inside a football-shaped region. https://t.co/us2I1BHJ7f
— Analysis Fact (@AnalysisFact) November 30, 2021