Nationally? Avi Lewis seems to be genuinely interested in making our lives better. Provincially, Mike Schreiner in Ontario and Emily Lowan in BC both seem want to improve things. But they are very much in the minority.

You can try the Anti Fraud Centre. They have email or phone contact. If they are not an exact fit, they can certainly redirect you.

I use Librera, and it works great for books and comics.

This is lovely! A good place to find trading partners is on swap-bot(at least until the future ATC lemmy community gets some steam).

I don't know about projection, but adversarial patterns on cars and clothes are one way to trick these systems. Benn Jordan has done some work on plate decals that make cars difficult to parse by plate readers (eg Youtube video). Bill Swearingen is developing adversarial clothing (eg his kickstarter). 'Adversarial pattern' or 'adversarial clothing' are good search terms if you're interested.

Edit: These guys are working with a heat-sensitive patch that powers up in a minute, then provides adversarial patterning in visible and infra-red. That's maybe closer to what you had in mind.

Thanks!

Lovely! Are the veins felted, too, or stitched? I think this is how I'm spending my Saturday.

Apes of the state

The important feature of Hilbert's example is not the hotel, or the guests, but the strange consequence of Cantor's method for 'counting' an infinite collection of objects. William Dunham's Journey through genius does an excellent job with Cantor in his final two chapters. I'm paraphrasing him.

Suppose you want to know if you have more than 5 raspberries. You could count them, or you could stick them on the ends of your fingers. If you have berries left over, there were more than five. If all the berries fit all the fingers, you have put your fingers in a 1-to-1 correspondence with the berries, and concluded that the numbers of each are the same. That's how small children count, and Cantor's genius was to extend this idea to sets of infinite objects.

If you can find a 1-to-1 correspondence between the counting numbers (1,2,3,...) and some other set of objects, then the size of the two sets must be equal (in the business, size of sets is called the 'cardinality'). It is traditional to denote the counting numbers by 'n'.. Hilberts 'paradox' arises from Cantors claim that there are as many counting numbers as even numbers. The correspondence is n->2n. For every counting number, I can double it to find every even number. That's weird.

You can just as easily show that there are as many odd numbers as counting numbers. The scheme is more complicated, but you can also find a 1-to-1 correspondence between the counting numbers and all the fractions between 0 and 1. It seems like the counting numbers can count everything! But that's not the whole story. The big shock is that there are more numbers between 0 and 1 than counting numbers. That is Cantors 'nondenumerability of the continuum'. I highly recommend Dunhams book. The proof of the nondeumerabilty theorem is so beautiful and accessible (like accessible to a ten year old).

Babe, it's not 'rotting'. It's 'getting funky' like blue cheese does. 'Look at me, getting funky while the laundry piles up.' That sounds terrific, like Bootsy Collins with his hands full.

Rivers and tides is an amazing 2001 documentary of his work.

I've got the previous version, and it's about 7 years old. But the power is good (I would definitely get the larger model if that is a concern). Battery is okay; maybe 30-45 mins full charge, and definitely more power right after charging. But I think that's probably my old girl showing her age.