JordiGH @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

Time for new #introductions!

I'm Jordi. #Mexican expat living in #Montreal, #Canada. I can say expat instead of immigrant 'cause I've had a super-sheltered and comfortable life. Nothing dreadful has ever happened to me.

I like #mathematics, #knitting, #skating, #swimming, and old #gameing because I'm old (not that old).

I also do software stuff because of course.

I work on #GreenhouseGas assessments and #environmental #mapping, which I want to call #ecological cause we need that word again!

Hensel's lemma. Oops, embarrassing misspelling.

I love...

Uh, what was I gonna write? What do I love?

Oh, right, sorry, walked way from the textbox for a moment: I love going to bed.

That moment as I'm drifting off to sleep and I have to worry about nothing but my own thoughts. My dreams and my imagination are my current playground. There may be problems, but the problems can wait. The only important thing right now is my own mind.

Last night I was trying to recreate Hansel's lemma, just going by "discrete Newton's method". Fun times!

Gah, I need a bobby pin to keep the hair out of my face.

Update: they liked it! And even suggested several improvements, but they were engaged with it!

I need to give a tech demo at work in a few minutes for some software I wrote.

Me, getting ready:

Whoa, I just learned that the Japanese blood type superstition has its roots in some pretty deep racism. The original proponent wanted to explain via blood types why the native Formosans of Taiwan didn't want to be ruled by the Japanese occupants as opposed to the Ainu in Japan who have not attempted a rebellion in a long time.

This is straight up Nazi rhetoric. It seems a little less charming now when fictional Japanese characters list their blood types.

Renaming "PM" to "DM" was a great internet tragedy.

#NowPlaying #MamselleRuiz (another Mexican Montrealer!) playing Mariquita, which was made famous by #Caifanes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQBJP5Bvpg

She added a verse in French!

I got to meet her an event a while ago and she told me she's good friends with Alejandro Marcovich. I'm really digging this tune.

Further evidence that the very concept of #spoilers was invented by Hitchcock in the the 1960s:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/firsts-psycho-the-first-film-to-demand-theatrical-showtimes

Oh, funny. Why don't you like it? Do you live in Mexico?

There's so much communication that is cultural and we take for granted. I almost accidentally did the Mexican "thank you" sign (closed palm facing me, fingers pointing upwards) at a driver who yielded to me, but stopped myself when I remembered that's often interpreted as an insult!

There's a lot of Indian paralanguage I'm still learning. Apparently "tsk tsk" (two quick tongue clicks) means "no"? The weird thing is that when I asked "what does that mean?" they responded "it doesn't mean anything", but I'm pretty sure they were trying to negate what I said!

@Luchtspieg So I've been listening very carefully for next time I have to pronounce it... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Nl-luchtspiegeling.ogg

Confusing i.e. with e.g. drives me batty, it's almost the same as mixing up \(\exists\) and \(\forall\).

Should caches be hot or merely warmed? What's the optimal cache-heating method?

I love this #QRcode, thanks @equals_w_equals