It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (& its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics & played a pivotal role 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #NASA #MastoArt #KatherineJohnson #mathematician #aeronauticalEngineer #physics #space
@epiceneVivant for some amazing queer figure skating I also wholeheartedly recommend this ice dance program https://youtu.be/tCugp67NNmU?si=B83UUHhGUgzbcrfr
Title: Twilight in Snow (c.1940s)
Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro
https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/10191/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #KasamatsuShiro #Art #Showa #Snow #Winter #Japan
@ZachWeinersmith I think the difficulty is that qualities I care about aren't captured well in text. make me a robot that can travel around tasting things with my taste preferences wired in, or a robot that can test drive cars and tell me if they handle similarly enough to my current car to not annoy me.
maybe if you can design an AI that will tell me what combination of computer parts will let me play game X at the lowest price point, that would be good
what I really hate though is how quizzes and test markings are locked after the first viewing or after a day. it's idiotic and inconvenient
13) Fluffbot. Uses its li'l toes to pick up fluff and hair that's stuck in your carpet. We're not sure what it does with it all after. #SmallRobotsRemastered
@izaya cool. I was wondering how I interact with other players on the server? Should I see other avatars or is it single-player for everyone?
@izaya I got disconnected when I tried to punch some kind of plant up on top of a mountain or whatever.
Is there any goal to the game or is it just open world exploration + try not to die?
@izaya I'll give it a shot. thank you
@izaya yes! that would be great. Please let me know what I need to do
@izaya do you let other folks on your minetest server? I want to try it and maybe play with a friend
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 13: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest and most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved 🧵1/n
Really great quote about leadership from Alexander Den Heijer, shared by @charrett: “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” #yowsydney #yow23 🌹
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