#Discrete

[radiomogai]

[PT: Discreet Pride Flag. End PT]

Discreet Pride Flag

Discreet (discrete in ptbr): a slang term ascribing, describing, or prescribing someone who is closeted, confidential, private, shy, secretive, reserved, bashful, modest, simple, prudent, circumspect, or hidden about their identity, experience, life, internal sense of self, or anything else.

‘Discreet’ means that you don’t blab about sensitive information or tell secrets, you do things in a subtle and not noticeable way, or you ask questions in a polite or indirect way. For example, “Sally was always very discreet about her sex life when she talked with her grandmother. She didn’t want the old lady to think she was a slut.” ‘Discrete’ means distinct or separate from others, as in “When the solution dries, we can see discrete particles at the bottom of the glass.”

[cosmonautroger]

Paul Albert Besnard, Discrete, 1900

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Arthur Lyons - The Dead Are Discreet - Ballantine - 1976

[mathhombre]

Discrete Map

Via Zsolt Lavisca on FB.

[mascamaiorum]

Kengo Kuma, Kodama Pavilion, 2018

[juhnkit]

[midnightmoonbeams]

Lionel asks me about the mating calls of insects, but definitely in a more discrete way.

From October 6th, 2023

[granulesofsand]

One time in AP Stats the teacher handed out paper lyrics to Taylor Swift and had the class underline five words each with the intention of choosing randomness. The point was that it’s more reliable to have a computer run simulations, but the lot of us got closer to the expected outcome than the site we were running. We did that for all three exercises.

That blind trust in the others is a lot like DID. I can’t see their work or plan with them ahead of time, I just have to trust in our shared investment in a common goal. If I can predict how they react, I can tune my response accordingly. If not, I still have to make a choice. We’re not better than the machine, but we’re good at flying blind.

[moastudiess]

03.29.24~ Some unholy lvl modulo operations in an RSA decripting process, I rly think they need to start upping their game on these hw problems. The exam was ATLA themed but a JJK theme 🫶

A good linear one could be:

*Sukuna killed approximately 287^5 individuals in Harajuku last Thursday please calculate the volume of his domain in millimeters cubed if the radius spanned a vector that could be written as (1,8,9)*

Bonus: *what’s the population density of this region?*

[caviarsonoro]

Claire Rousay: discrete (the market)

Claire Rousay presents us in Discrete (The Market) with a sonic experience that transcends the conventional boundaries of ambient music. Through field recordings and carefully modulated textures, the artist constructs an intimate and evocative landscape that captures not only the sounds of a market in San Antonio but also the emotions and tensions that arise when the everyday environment is interrupted by nature. The inclusion of Lia Kohl's cello adds an organic dimension to the piece, allowing the listener to feel both the fragility of the moment and its complexity.

What makes this composition special is the duality that Claire Rousay articulates between external chaos and the radiance of internal emotions. The storm that interrupted her visit to the market becomes a metaphor for life's inevitable disruptions, while the sonic environment immerses us in a space that fluctuates between order and dissonance. The sound narrative, without explicit words, manages to convey the tension between the physical and mental habitats, in what feels like an intimate conversation between the body and the mind. This contrast not only reflects exceptional technical skill but also a profound understanding of how sounds can communicate complex emotional truths.

[ashtwinreject]

Boltzmann distributions at T = 300 K with

six discrete equally spaced excited energy levels

[tofutasties]

Concrete-discrete

In order to understand what Deleuze has in mind by "abstract" I would like to look at two lectures from 1978. Both lectures concern Kant and the problem of representation, and both lectures were given while Deleuze and Guattari were in the process of writing A Thousand Plateaus. In the first lecture, from March 14, Deleuze says "there is the concrete and the opposite of the concrete, the true opposite of the concrete is not the abstract, it's the discrete." Deleuze's point here is straightforward and, I think, follows directly from the etymology of concrete, which comes from the Latin for "grown together," and discrete, which comes from the Latin for "separated." Interestingly, for our purposes here, though, it replaces the typical concrete-abstract opposition with the admittedly idiosyncratic concrete-discrete opposition. —Brent Adkins, Who Thinks Abstractly? Deleuze on Abstraction (2016)

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Discrete ft. Cappa - Lost My Mind

[whats-in-a-sentence]

And just as you can have one electron or two electrons or 202 electrons, but you can't have 1.6 electrons or any other fraction, the calculations show that surfaces can have areas that are one square Planck-length, or two square Planck-lengths, or 202 square Planck-lengths, but no fractions are possible. Once again, this is a strong theoretical clue that space, like electrons, comes in discrete, indivisible chunks.¹¹

11. As I have throughout the chapter, I am suppressing quantitatively important but conceptually irrelevant numerical parameters.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[granulesofsand]

Discrete

Still think I shouldn’t need a special word for ‘amnesia for an event I was not present to experience’. I get that the external body I inhabit was present, but I was not near the surface. Amnesia implies forgetting. Forgetting implies you once remembered. Remembering implies you were there. You cannot form a memory for an event you were not present for, so you cannot have amnesia for that event.

The amnesia we do have in our system is forgetting information we had previously encoded into memory, or inability to encode that information. We do not have amnesia for the time we were not fronting, because we were not there.

You don’t have amnesia for the time I stuck my foot in an ice fishing hole, you were not there. If someone shows you a recording of the Mars rover singing Happy Birthday, you didn’t remember being there. If I tell you that there are unique species of animals in caverns sealed in the arctic, that doesn’t mean you were at the discovery.

I subscribe to a ‘the universe is plural’ ideology; we are all connected by means of coexistence, and we have means of interaction we would not if we were not beings in this structure. That doesn’t make us any more one or separate than any other point in time. The world we know does not allow sapient creatures to encode information they have not been exposed to. Epigenetics can be compared to forming with innate knowledge. Still not amnesiac for events you were not present for.

I legit don’t think we need a word for this. If you don’t share memories, you have memory barriers. That’s accurate. I’m down to say ‘partitionary’ and ‘discrete’. When I call this phenomenon ‘amnesia’, it is for ease of communication. I don’t believe it’s true, but I understand others know this concept as a subset of this category. I’m still pissy about it.