On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:45:58 +0100 (CET) k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Steve Litt: > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 13:13:02 +0100 > > hellekin <helle...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > On 11/15/2016 08:43 AM, hellekin wrote: > > > > for the third moment of its research-action vector on SMALL > > > > SINGULARITIES, Dyne:β×λ is organizing a documentation sprint for > > > > Devuan in December in Brussels. > > > > > > > > https://bxl.dyne.org/vectors/small-singularities > > I didn't understand a single sentence in the preceding URL. > > :) I'm not surprised since singularity is an operating system made by > Microsoft: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29 > > (Though singularity also has other meanings.) > > It seem it (the text at the link) uses academic jargon laterally (so > to say), they seem to lend some parts of the language from vector > calculus. Dyne is an organisation working for community empowerment, > β stands for Brussels, λ for laboratry, and in vector calculus, × > stands for curl. The curl of two vectors is a third vector normal > (i.e. perpendicular) to both original vectors. A vector is something > that has a direction. A singularity is where something not > "anticipated" happens. Perhaps the idea is give the image of creating > new "exciting" things from things (people, organisations) joining > forces. Soo, someone is having fun with the language. >
No they are not, they are talking a load of b******** Why not just say something in clear English ?? Rowland _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
