As so it happens, there’s a piecewise way of assembling element names as well. This came after broader understanding of elements are known, hence the divisions.
Ninety-Eights and Ninety-Nines
A collection of works and stuff that aren't big enough for a webpage and far, far too long for Twitter.
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2012-05-23 1 note
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2012-05-22 1 note
The entire proton-proton chain, all written in Vraiďži! (Yes, the notation is now called that.)
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2012-05-21 2 notes
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Tse B.11.34.
Source: SoundCloud / isoraqathedh
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Yesterday: fission and decay. Today: fusion.
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2012-05-20 1 note
Here I write out decay chains in my constructed language! This represents the decay from 212Pb to 208Pb.
Note that although elements do have a name, they’re always represented in writing as their position in the Table (or Cycle in the case of the Pseudoans, or the Cluster in the case of the Xaxex), with the isotope written down under it. Decay modes are written either as black-box symbols (the old ones), with dots representing how many protons are lost/gained in the process of this decay; new, clearer symbols with the actual thing that is lost/gained in the process; and finally as the old ones’ essence, with the arrow stripped.
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2012-05-19 1 note
The social_vernym() function
Prelude: I have mentioned this so many times I believe I need a full documentation so that people would understand what its implications are, how it is used, and why it is referred to as such.
Introduction
- Type of function: table lookup
- Full path: social:identification:external:vernym()
- Relation type: injective – many-to-one
- Inverse function: social:identification:alias()
- Rows: 100 ~ 1 000
- Knows all?: No
- Can potentially know all, logically?: Yes
- Can potentially know all, realistically?: Yes
- Can potentially know all, practically?: No
- Usage: social_vernym(name, locale)
- Enhanced by external memory: Yes
- Tools: External table (optional)
The Vernym function is called by social_vernym. As its name suggests, it takes usernames and screennames of a particular individual (their Third name, so to speak) that has an established profile and will output the External Identifier (which is known as their First name, or, to use a more blunt term, their real/true name).
As seen in the usage notes, it has two arguments, name and locale. Name only accepts a string, and it is the username to be decoded, nice and simple. The locale argument is slightly harder. It usually accepts a locale object (for example, “School” or “Tumblr” or “That study group in New York City”) but it can also accept a string that can contains the same name as these locales.
It always outputs a string. This string has an extra tag on it that says “NEXP”, and I will discuss this later on.
Examples
social_vernym(donttrythis, "Twitter") → "Adam Savage" language_redact(social_vernym(tarastrong, "Twitter"), init, emdash) → "T— S—"
Details on implementation
The Vernym function is a moderately expensive function to use, meaning that it can be very fast, but it can also be very slow, depending on what you want to find out.
When social_vernym() is first called, it loads the second argument and begins looking for locale profiles that have this name. This is done via internal:db:constructDatabase(), and then using internal:db:find(). On locales, these functions are lightning-fast.
Once the locale has been correctly found, the locale object’s property locale:associatedPeople is then loaded. social_vernym() then instructs internal:db:constructDatabase() to construct a database that contains person profiles (which are like location profiles but with people instead of places) using primary key “person:iden:alias” and a field “person:iden:name” if no such database has been established already. If person:iden:alias is an array of more than one element (i.e. one particular person has more than one pseudonym – a frighteningly common happenstance!) then a record is inserted for each one.
Then it’s a simple case of using internal:db:find() again to locate the name, which is returned back outside the vernym function! If no match is found however, usually due to a #REF! error (meaning no name found), then it would query internal:memory:management:isPlacedInExternalMemory() using the currently-undefined internal:db:find(“NamesList”, name, 2). If isPlacedInExternalMemory says yes, it will also return the location of the external memory (e.g. a file on a computer, or a piece of paper) and then social_vernym() will direct the phsyical retrieval of these items (using internal:motor functions). A simple internal:organ:in:eye:parse() will then find the value, and that will be returned.
If isPlacedInExternalMemory says no, though, social_vernym will return the #REF! value, and if this value is outputted it becomes “I don’t know.”
Social implications and Security
Being a computation function, this function takes in external data, and outputs into data that external items can read. Combined with the nature of the data, this is potentially a very dangerous function indeed. This is why it has the previously-mentioned “NEXP” tag.
The “NEXP” tag is short for “Non-Expressable” or “Non-Exportable”, and it means that this is some data that cannot, or should not, be outputted to an untrusted source. internal:organ:out:mouth:speak() and other related functions will check for the “NEXP” tag to ensure no data leaks occur.
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2012-05-18 2 notes
Sets.
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2012-05-17 3 notes
Hey, Iso- whaddya think? Pretty cool, right? :3
It looks legitimate enough. The coastal erosion of a headland does yield cliffs like that.
What is the scale though? 1:10000? 1:1000? 1:105?
Source: morpheomancer
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Day and night in Pseudo. This is only a general thing, not a strict schedule.
The “Alexander the Great” comes from the Hesmai Iok articles that I posted yesterday.
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2012-05-16 2 notes
Hesmai Iok’s articles are trifold, and they also are inflected on four different aspects! The result of this is that HI relies heavily on articles.
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It is said that everyone gets his fifteen minutes of fame. When I thought about it, I decided to find out a rigorous way to determine one’s fame.
This is the result.
You take the number of people who know you, and multiply by the average time that they have known you, which gives the basic formula. More accurate calculations can be done by summing the times instead of averaging them, and a still more powerful version can simulate fame in a continuous manner.
Using this, you find out that everyone who has two parents is born with at least one year of fame inside you. Superstars have a lot of fame indeed, to the point where the warhol – 15 minutes, or 900 seconds – simply is not adequate, and has to be measured in terawarhols (trillions of fifteen minutes) or millions of years.
But here’s the thing. Even if you were born to a single parent, keep this in mind: by just being born, you enter the world with over twenty thousand warhols inside you.
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2012-05-14 1 note
Today’s itinerary is roughly thus.
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I demonstrate that the angular diameter of Sesukare from Pseudo isn’t all that much different from the Sun’s angular diameter from Earth – a mere 2 arcseconds!
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2012-05-13 2 notes
Three-Digit Musical Errors (3DME)
Just a while ago I have hashed out a list of musical errors that can cause disenchantment. Here are some examples.
- MUS_ERROR: type general:misc:what_the_——_is_this_it_just_sounds_wrong (099)
- MUS_ERROR: type timing:rhythm:too_many_beats_in_measure (114)
- MUS_ERROR: type playback:tone:off_by_half-key (934)
- MUS_ERROR: type pitch:usage:incorrect_cadence (373)
- MUS_ERROR: type timing:rhythm:not_enough_beats_in_measure (113)
- MUS_ERROR: type playback:tone:step_direction_wrongly_denoted_as_down (932)
- MUS_ERROR: type playback:tone:step_direction_wrongly_denoted_as_up (933)
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Pseudoan Meals
Pseudo has only two specific mealtimes a day, partially because the day is shorter.
The day is begun by duvā, a breakfast of sorts generally eaten at 80° to 144°, though often pushing it to noon (270°) is not rare. This meal contains most of the energy of the day, and is filled mainly with meats and bread. Vegetables are used as a dessert.
The other meal is called fíta, which is eaten from 420° to 495°. This meal is generally more vegetable-heavy, and also contains grain. However, the drink is very rarely water, and usually is some kind of sweet or sour drink.
