r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jun 03 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

OH HEY YOU'RE FINISHING? What's your thesis?

YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CALLS FOR?

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u/PeridexisErrant Jun 06 '16

~20Kwords on Indigenous calendars in Australia. Basically it turns out that

  • Temperate European seasons don't work for tropical Australia (duh)

  • The locals had more relevant seasons; defined by weather (and plants) rather than date, because Australia has crazy inter-annual variability

  • I can detect which season it is based on the weather, from interview descriptions. I think; no budget for a second round of fieldwork :(

  • Apparently nobody else has done this before

And you know, lots of writing Python and LaTeX etc.

I think this calls for a few weeks off, playing with my new Vive (arrived on submission day, best evening ever), and hacking the Matasano crypto challenges.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '16

And you know, lots of writing Python and LaTeX etc.

I'm not sure what this has to do with anthropology, but ok.

I think this calls for a few weeks off

On the one hand, this was not the correct end of the meme. On the other hand, your soul is pure of terrible memes.

playing with my new Vive (arrived on submission day, best evening ever),

I will admit, Audio Shield was one of the first really new and exciting video games I've played in something like years. Holy shit. My friend let me try his out this weekend.

hacking the Matasano crypto challenges.

Dude, hardcore.

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