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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
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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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brains is complicated
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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 https://weise7.org/book/
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Sorry, you can't actually click for more info, but you can go here!
https://www.smbc-comics.com/bea/
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ICYMI, Bea Wolf got some pretty darn good reviews. Please tell your local librarian:
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@alan lol Australia @decolonialatlas
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I'm back at work from maternity leave! And back on here regularly! Hi pocket friends!
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Here's some pre-sketches I've made when planning out bakes! Never felt comfortable enough to post these on the other place.
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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...
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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
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I’m exploring a new material in #blender3d #eevee , it’s lookin kinda cute! #sciart #scicomm #science
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.
#NASA #Mars #CHAPEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEa88ZZWAEQ
pretty cool song. heard it a few times before I really appreciated it, but it's one of my radio favorites of the past year
The Lone Bellow - Honey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O35z3ac7qfE
I know there was a bit of mockery about those massive screens they use to replace glass doors in the freezer aisles of some stores back when they were first introduced, but I saw them in person recently and they're actually... still a really dumb idea. It's so dumb.
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The star nearby the moon tonight is Spica, the brightest star in the constellation #Virgo
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The disk of the Sun with the big #sunspot group AR (1)3354 rotating away from the center: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMII.jpg images from 21:23 UTC yesterday and 19:53 UTC today.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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