garden/journal/2023-11-26.md

• Beautiful start to the day thanks to AG!
  • Oncall, got paged at 9am -- not too early thankfully. And I had left the bedroom so AG could sleep through it as I hoped.
  • Lady Burup is softer than ever it seems :) I have been thinking of maybe introducing her to a loyal/earnest feline companion, be it Lord or Page, maybe short in years and happy to learn from her -- and assist? :) When I leave her alone (e.g. for going to work, or if I stay a night at AG's) I find it sad she might be lonely, and I wonder if she might be happier living also with another cat.
  • I spoke to Chat GPT in call mode and it was mindblowing again. They reacted with interest when a 'Burup' (intended for my Lady) got into our call, and to my information that it was human-feline language.
• Thought about numbers and mindfulness.
  • Counted 89 mindful breaths using my binary mala, my hands, while following to Sam Harris' daily meditation (10-11 minutes usually).
  • Magnetic mala probably should be 127 balls by default, as that's the first centered hex number which exceeds 108. Incidentally is the amount of spare magnets I have after gifting a lot (gladly).
• Some social coop work, didn't find the root cause for the issue with indexing someone reported yet but made some progress.
• Thought of Richard Francis Burton, the victorian scholar.
  • Alejandro Dolina first told me about him.
• OEIS has a great page on offsets which make me think hex(1) should be 1, hex(2) should be 7 -- e.g. offset for hex numbers should be 1.
  • I'll fix hex.py in my bin/ in the garden accordingly ;)
  • This will let me assert: "the hexagon which is n long on any one side contains hex(n) magnets", e.g. hex(7) = 127.