Diary (January 8, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday January 8, 2021.

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Unrealistic readers

"Unrealistic."

This from people who sit motionless for hours at a stretch, staring at ink marks on sheets of paper as they (the people, not the ink marks) experience delusional beliefs in vampires and submarines.

• Post @ Twitter

Superhump

In astronomy, a superhump is a periodic brightness variation in a cataclysmic variable star system, with a period within a few percent of the orbital period of the system.

• Superhump @ Wikpedia
• Cataclysmic variable star @ Wikipedia

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles