#approximate-to-spherical-cow

[loserchildhotpants]

so i'm reading being lead home and nothing i can possibly say can get near to what it's making me feel. the moment is so intimate, something shared only by them, that i feel like an intruder by reading it. if that makes sense. it's just so. i cannot explain. i'll never be the same again after this. this has marked a before and an after in my life.

sldkjhfskdhjf omg thank you so much

in all my serious / chaptered spn fics i try to capture that meta feeling of being sort of voyeuristic w the characters bc it's one of my favorite things spn would do. It's like they'd lean against the 4th wall without breaking it ? anyway i try to capture That Feeling and im so glad ur enjoying Being Lead Home skdjhfsdkjhf thank u so much <3333

[wanderingcas]

sam!!!! there's a new chapter of the common hours!!!! just the best way to end a good day. lots of love for you & your baby, i saw she's now saying 'mama', we're all so proud of her<3 have a great day!!!!

OH HELLO MY FRIEND thank you so much!! you shouldn't have mentioned my baby because i will talk about her WAY MORE THAN THE CHAPTER lol but actually mention my baby all the time because she's the light of my life

i'm glad that you're happy about the chapter! it was one of my favorites to write so far (but i'm just biased and love all the flashback chapters in general)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

@approximate-to-spherical-cow replied to your text post

maybe it is a bug for you as i am not experiencing it??

yeah it would seem so. i lost 17 years of lifespan

[prokopetz]

Do you ever have a passive gripe with the way trade is represented in medieval/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction? I can't shake the feeling that those are societies that have moved beyond the need for abstract currency - that such forms of trade are more a concession for the viewer to analogize trade to our world instead of offering some kind of unique barter for a world.

A medieval peasant isn't gonna want gold coins for jack because the next trade caravan is two seasons away, they'd much rather a useful tool or some extra fertilizer. Credits in science fiction universes can become worthless due to Future™️ hackers setting their bank accounts to extraordinarily high values, so extra parts for firearms and spaceships are much more useful. Caps in Fallout just make no sense in a world where food and water are few and far between!

I feel unreasonably grumpy about this and I wanted to know if you have any kind of insight to this kind of thing.

There are a couple of only partly related problems here:

1. The idea that the economies of most sci-fi and fantasy settings, as depicted, don't make any sense. This is absolutely true, because most science fiction and fantasy authors don't really think about that sort of thing – their settings only have economies to the extent that the details of those economies are relevant to the plot, which they usually aren't.

2. The idea that it doesn't make sense for currency to exist in these settings because most of them logically ought to have barter economies. The trouble with this assertion is that there's no such thing as a barter economy. Yes, you can describe what one would look like, but no civilisation which has ever actually existed has operated in this fashion. It's a made-up idea – at best, a spherical-cow approximation of how the exchange of goods and services operates in a stateless society, and at worst, complete bullshit.

Consequently, whether or not it makes sense for anything like currency to exist is going to depend on the particulars of how the setting's economy operates (i.e., all the details that that are getting glossed over in point 1, above). About the most we can say in nearly all cases is that we simply don't have enough information about a given fantasy or sci-fi setting's economic structure to know whether it makes sense to have currency or not; we can't just assume in the absence of further details that things will default to a barter economy, because – again – there's no such animal.

[bovineblogger]

Thoughts on this drawing of a spherical cow on skis, with the text „Approksimoidaan pyöreä lehmä“ (Finnish for „We approximate a spherical cow“) taken from the Wikipedia page „spherical cow“

im approximating him right now!!

[thedifferentialequationsboy]

physics/engineering approximations work

Yes, there are no ideal spherical cows in a vaccum in the Universe. But approximations work to give us results. And that's why theories can allow us to make the calculations to describe the Universe quantitatively.

For instance, yes, the Sun is not a perfect uniform sphere. But with the approximation that it is, we can calculate the trajectories of the planets to meticulous detail. Yes, the interior of a star is technically not a steady-state spherically-symmetric fluid. But with the approximation it is, we can make useful predictions about stellar behavior. Yes, the hydrogen atom is not as simple as a one-electron system under a Coulomb potential. But with the approximation it is, we were able to make predictions extremely close to observed values. And finally, yes, perfect smooth functions do not exist in nature. But using the approximation they are, we can use the power of analytical techniques, calculus, geometry, functional analysis, and differential equations to perform highly-accurate calculations and predictions of incredibly many phenomena. Approximations have worked so well that in many cases we don't even know when they don't work until we uncovered new things that we can't explain using them.

So all stem ppl, feel confident about using an approximation! Because they are what make the qualitative sciences as successful as they are.

[synestheticbisexual]

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[loserchildhotpants]

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Currently Craving: matcha ice cream 😭

Tagging: @letskzuniverse @approximate-to-spherical-cow @atomicteaparty and uhhhh @ivedoneit100times

[synestheticbisexual]

@approximate-to-spherical-cow @agusbarnes

They know a lot, too much hahaha

life is about listening to good music and finding 2-3 people you can be your complete unhinged self with

[dreamlit-wanderer]

yeah a lot of scientific calculations will use animals as examples but to make the geometry in the calculations simpler they say to make the approximation that the animal is spherical. like in my thermodynamics class we did a whole calculation on cooking a spherical chicken. theres even a wiki page for spherical cows lol

oh my god ,, ball cow wikipedia page

[synestheticbisexual]

Thanks for tagging me love! 🖤 @agusbarnes

I've been kinda disappeared cause my phone decided to die, but I have a new one now!!

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8. Currently craving: a doughnut filled with dulce de leche 😫 or a sanguchito de miga

I'll tag @approximate-to-spherical-cow @onedaughterofman and @willgrahamscock (no pressure)

[autisticandroids]

hey do you perhaps know what happened to skepticalfrog? their blog was deactivated and i just found out, and i really loved the spn art :(

he left he's still like alive he just quit spnblr

[wanderingcas]

sam!!! your fic is on a fic rec masterlist!!! expect an influx in readers!!! you deserve all the love!!!

i just saw that!! and i fell to the floor!! honestly the comment section was so chatty last chapter, i believe it! lol (the last chapter was also very fluffy and i think that's what the people want)

thank you so much for your support of this fic<3 it means a lot to me. this thing is VERY hard to write!

[gayjaytodd]

hey mark if you do end up writing your ba thesis on iwtv 2022 please post it!!! it'd be surely an amazing read!!!

lmao cheers mate, that's very kind of you <3

my thesis is two and a half years away tho so we'll see what I'm insane abt by then ;)

[synestheticbisexual]

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Tagging @hannibalwills @approximate-to-spherical-cow @onedaughterofman and whoever wants to do it

[aturnoftheearth]

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