soaproot

Also known.as: Jim Kingdon. Interested in: formal mathematics, software development, dance (especially country-western and #MorrisDancing, but many kinds), plants.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

I'm on Bookwyrm at @soaproot (disclaimer: I'm a pretty light user there).

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2026-05-11 12:47:01 UTC

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@nprofile…0zw6 Of finished chocolate? Or of beans?

2026-05-11 04:09:17 UTC

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@nprofile…0zw6 Viet Nam is perhaps the leader in vertically integrated chocolate (I'm thinking especially of the Marou brand). I've seen it on a very small scale in the Dominican Republic and on a larger scale in Hawaii.
Not disagreeing with your larger point at all, just trying to think of who is worth lifting up.

2026-04-02 16:46:42 UTC

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@nprofile…vf35 Oh interesting and, although I fully admit I'm asking this out of curiosity rather than as a likely user, is there a concise way to describe the interoperability with #threadiverse platforms like PieFed, MBin, etc? (Or other nodeBB's, or whatever it federates with) @nprofile…cnh4 @nprofile…kzhu

2026-03-22 15:16:38 UTC

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@nprofile…uyu7 I so wanted to grow this in my garden in Maryland. But apparently I didn't have a location which was wet enough.

2026-03-09 16:38:11 UTC

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@nprofile…uyu7 This is a really good article. Lots of discussion of clover lawns, "beneficial weeds" (OK I would have called them forbs but I don't want to quibble over terminology) vs invasive plants found in lawns, etc.

2026-01-30 21:21:13 UTC

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@nprofile…0hgz You quite likely know more about this than me, but because I was curious I tried to learn about drying green wood and found https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/em-8612-air-shed-drying-lumber which goes into some of the considerations (it mentions the thing about coating the ends, for example).

2026-01-09 23:10:16 UTC

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@nprofile…yhwf @nprofile…hfh9 Very nice. One additional thing to say about this theorem: in #constructiveMathematics the Cantor–Bernstein–Schröder Theorem is equivalent to the law of the excluded middle (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09193 or formalizations in, at least, TypeTopology or Metamath).

2025-11-28 13:35:05 UTC

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@nprofile…u6hy You're allowed to have as many summands (of the specified form) as you want?

2025-11-17 18:44:14 UTC

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@nprofile…2jkd @nprofile…jljv Ouch. I'll be curious to hear how this (and other things coming out of the meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting) get covered by the Catholic podcasts I listen to.

2025-11-11 02:33:30 UTC

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@nprofile…dand @nprofile…99up Ooh this looks like a very nice deck if I decide to dig into that paper more deeply.

2025-11-05 19:04:15 UTC

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@nprofile…w8t5 I often say (to myself or collaborators) that I don't fully believe a result until I've formalized something. But now I see this happens to Real Mathematicians(TM) too.

2025-10-28 20:33:54 UTC

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@nprofile…g35v Didn't really occur to me to go to this show. Are you going to #SFRuby on November 19–21 by any chance?

2025-04-09 05:14:53 UTC

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@nprofile…psd8 There are a few blocks of the financial district in San Francisco which a little bit remind me of walking in New York (for example, you have to decide which lane of the sidewalk you are in). But outside that, yeah totally different activity.

2025-04-04 16:29:58 UTC

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@nprofile…d92l @nprofile…cjz4 16 years ago you went out into nature, eh? You'll be due for another time soon, you think?

2025-03-25 22:45:43 UTC

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@nprofile…0lh9 @nprofile…08q5 Well you have a lot more experience than me. I'm going to stop before I end up moosesplaining based (mostly) on what one Yellowstone tour guide told me about getting charged.

2025-03-25 14:08:10 UTC

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@nprofile…0lh9 @nprofile…08q5 Ooh that's closer than I would want to be (I mean for moose specifically, each animal is a bit different). Glad to hear they were in a chill mood though.

2025-03-04 03:46:52 UTC

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@nprofile…2slc Hope it isn't too nit picky to comment on the alt text, but a bald cypress is not evergreen (the "bald" refers to the seasonal loss of leaves). "Deciduous conifer" would be one way to describe it.

2025-02-28 02:53:30 UTC

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@nprofile…48vs Well Square, WeWork, and Uber were within a block and none of them are any more. Whether you liked or hated Market on Market it was very much aimed at tech workers. As for the neighborhood more broadly I was walking down the street and noticing the businesses which are still there or reopened and I don't know if I can summarize them in a toot but I'll say not aimed at tech workers nearly the same way.

2025-02-15 19:58:52 UTC

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@nprofile…qmju I'm probably going to regret asking this (because I won't necessarily have time to read the answer), but any relatively elementary places to start on what restriction theory even is? One I found is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set but I have no idea whether that gives a feel for the field as a whole.

2025-02-12 15:11:58 UTC

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@nprofile…6hkn @nprofile…28nl Typography nerds the world over are excited about your use of the word "egregious" here. It is like me and dashes: once I learned the Wikipedia style guide concerning hyphen, en dash, em dash, and minus, I found it very hard to unsee. (Disclaimer: this style guide is one among many and they don't fully agree with each other).

2025-02-07 19:26:49 UTC

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@nprofile…svd4 Does it use rel=me like GitHub, Wikipedia, etc?

2024-03-15 15:32:09 UTC

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@npub17hj…7a0r The color of mono lake tufa is so clear in my head (I've never been there in moonlight, for example) that black and white is like I'm seeing a whole new feature.

2024-03-14 22:02:40 UTC

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@npub1my5…t9j5 @npub1jpp…u59l @npub1xkg…gph9 I love the part about using ChapGPT to write documents which were supposedly from before ChatGPT existed. Crypto is just the gift that keeps giving. @npub1xkg…gph9 couldn't make up anything this good.

2024-03-04 02:07:12 UTC

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@npub1j0e…nhrj My favorite is partly the result of habitat restoration but is pretty nice. Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge near Fremont.

2024-02-19 17:31:08 UTC

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@npub1t7d…pqpp This is so funny because it is an amusing mismatch between an ordinary room and a data center (or something functioning as some flavor of a data center).

2023-12-07 16:28:14 UTC

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@npub1te6…zc4l What's the constraint here? That the cuts have to be perpendicular? If I get four cuts of a 2-tomato in any orientation I can make 10 pieces, not just 9, right?

2023-09-23 06:22:10 UTC

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@npub1rgy…fpgz @npub1m4p…yvy8 Are you familiar with nostr? That's what he's posting on and yes there is some flavor of relay between that and ActivityPub but in broad terms they are both federated networks.