A deeply unsettling GIF

Your post is a fractal of @semiotix.

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Don’t be sad. Here. Come back to us.

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You are Bob Howard and I claim my £5.

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02-beach

The eventual finish is more disappointing than it is unsettling…

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Is that your sliver of land growing into a peninsula, or am I just excited to be recursively seeing you?

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Fractal posts activate…

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That’s exactly what it’s like. And this is a problem with measuring coastlines - the closer you get, and the more fidelity you measure them with, the longer they get

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Oh, and if we’re talking about fractals, it’s time to bust out my favourite fractal fact

The inital B in Benoit B Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot

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Also, “PHP” stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.”

And @anon24181555, I hear you can cut the whole thing into 5 pieces and reassemble them into two fractal coastlines.

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My recollection is that fractals have fractional dimension, but one presumes that there are recursive figures with integral dimension.

I could probably look this up, and I probably will. But for now, I’ll just pose the question: Is everything that’s recursive fractal?

Thank you for reminding me of it.

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I blew a Sierpinski Gasket once, but then I came down.

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Yep, it’s reductionism, all the way to the bottom.

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I recognize that approach. I started flying into that airport in the mid-90s.

I still am.

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No, I don’t believe so. Infinite name resolution recursion loops aren’t fractal.

Caveat, I am not a math guy, and math has special language that sometimes conflicts with common usage.

Watch it to the very end

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I’ll have to Mull of Kintyre that one over

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