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@GuyDudeman oh no! don't decide that 😄

I have read so many. I guess I'd say Gunnerkrigg Court is my favorite. I like following these characters and spending time in their bizarre world of magic and near-magical technology. The art is really good. Not to mention Tom posts *very* regularly: I can't recall a time he's ever missed an upload.

Oh, yeah! Also, if you like comics with robots: do you know "We the Robots"? It's concluded (and I just found out the site is down), but it was a favorite of mine, like, a decade ago. Good if you like humor about the minor indignities of life as a modern middle-class office worker. You can still find a bunch of them on the artist's site: chrisharding.net/works/wtr

@GuyDudeman I think I just looked at the latest ones back then. From what I can tell looking at the first ones, it's about the same.

What do you like about it?

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I take by this that you like Diesel Sweeties: Did you want to share what you like about it or something?

Thought I ordered 50,000 nematodes. Would anyone like some nematodes.

Please. I have so many worms.

Just needed a place to put this:
On Free Will and QM
14 July 2018
The question of free will in the face of deterministic laws of physics sometimes brings up quantum mechanics and the so-called uncertainty principle as a away to escape the strictures of a mechanistic theory. I think such an appeal is not necessary though. In fact, an effective free will can be achieved through information hiding and the limits of computation. First, to say a system, A, has free will means that, at any point in time, there is no observer which can simulate A faster than A can evolve in real time. Note that A can be a classically deterministic system: if the evolution of A's subset of the universe is as fast as possible or if all the observers must lack sufficient information about A to simulate it faster than A can evolve, then A can still have free will.
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so beautiful: The Weise7 in/compatible Laboratorium Archive "acts as an Internet independent wireless server, running from a tiny, custom designed computer inside the book." #othernetworks weise7.org/book/

ICYMI, Bea Wolf got some pretty darn good reviews. Please tell your local librarian:

I'm back at work from maternity leave! And back on here regularly! Hi pocket friends!

@ClaireLamman sweet! I recall seeing photos of your pie and jwst sculpture and being floored. very cool to get a peek at your process

Here's some pre-sketches I've made when planning out bakes! Never felt comfortable enough to post these on the other place.

#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science #baking

farm life and death 

Experiment of the morning: found a random (domestic) goose egg that started pipping because a stubborn turkey was sitting on it, stuck it in an incubator because a lone gosling won't do well in with the whole flock, realized I can't raise one lone gosling, took the broody turkey and set her up in a stall by herself, and slipped the hatching egg under her. I hope it turns out well, but there are many ways this could end sadly. Baby animals are so emotionally hard sometimes...

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #MastoArt #mathematician #sciart #compsci

Every once in a while, I just remember that we have humans continuously living and working in space and think how effing cool that is.

I missed this initially. I think I heard a short statement about this on NPR, but I didn't really process it until I listened to the Houston We Have a Podcast episode about it.

youtube.com/watch?v=WEa88ZZWAE

@TheConversationUS totally support the message, but why is Superman cradling that boy's face?

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