BlockChain is dead. Long live ChatBrain!

The maths pedant in me would like to point out that every exponential function also accelerates exponentially. So the “accelerates” is redundant and “grows exponentially” is sufficient.

As you were.

Regarding your examples, they are correct but do not highlight the problem in your original phrase. Note that “of mine” already includes the first of the two levels of possession. These additional cases may help you understand:

Tom’s friend.

Tom’s friend’s father.

A friend of Tom.

A friend of Tom’s father.

My friend.

My friend’s father.

A friend of mine.

A friend of mine’s father — idiomatic but best rewritten “My friend’s father”.

A friend’s of mine father — incorrect and not used. Is English your first language?

Nope. Your examples do not apply to “friend of mine”. See details here. https://slashdot.org/comments....

I put some values here and in its parent post (converted to plain text). https://science.slashdot.org/c... If this object is really sending out pulses precise to millisecond every three quarters of an hour, that is kind of incredible, I wish the paper or article would make it clearer for casual readers like me.

They also mention a period of 2656.247 plus or minus 0.001 seconds, and that spin down rate is less than 9.8 x 10^-10 seconds per second. Whatever it is is incredibly precise. Kind of spooky precise.

If you have a friend, and that friend has a father, and that father worked 45 years, then the correct orthography would be: “A friend of mine’s father worked 45 years.”

Grammatically, “a friend of mine’s father” is technically unorthodox, but it’s widely accepted in everyday use. The possessive ’s attaches to the entire phrase “friend of mine”, even though it doesn’t follow strict grammar rules.

Whereas the phrase you wrote: “A friend's of mine father worked 45 years.” is even worse, and would raise eyebrows among fluent speakers or even intermediate ESL speakers.

In more formal writing, either version is awkward and would be rewritten. For example: “The father of a friend of mine worked 45 years.”

TLDR:

Unnatural and incorrect: “A friend’s of mine father worked”

Natural and idiomatic: “A friend of mine’s father worked”

Formal and precise: “The father of a friend of mine worked”

(I’m writing this on a phone with crap Slashdot text editing so E&OE).

Thanks for that.

Here’s a link to free version (early preprint without Nature formatting?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.166...

That mentions a period 2634s with uncertainty +71s and -64s at three sigma significance. This means the period measurement has uncertainty of that magnitude, but it doesn’t tell us what the measured known standard deviation is (how irregular we know the period is) does it?

I’d also be interested in the standard deviation or distribution of the timing. For example, even if it is say 46m 00s average period, how much does this vary from one cycle to the next, or vary over months or years? If it is precise and unchanging to, say, three significant figures, that would be incredible.

sg_oneill clearly knows a lot about astronomy, even if he/she doesn’t use punctuation correctly. But do you know about astronomy? Because you can’t punctuate: https://slashdot.org/comments....

I wouldn’t be mocking incorrect punctuation and grammar if I were you: https://slashdot.org/comments....

If their internet traffic were monitored, then accessing weird files on GitHub would be more conspicuous in logs than reading a Star Wars forum where some messages had special meaning.

The headline is correctly written in “Title Case”: The article body is correctly written in “Sentence case”: 2000 megawatts.

We are one quarter of the way through the 21st century and antimatter is being transported from CERN on trucks across Europe. Any website not supporting Unicode and spewing Mojibake needs to die.

At least the article got the capitalisation correct. Any reason you used an uppercase T?