๐ธ๐น2ck ๐ฑ๐ @2ck@qoto.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
I've really soured on the online courses I'm taking. The lack of engagement from my instructors is extremely annoying. At least in a physical school, I could stalk outside their office until they respond to me.
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Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).
@izaya do you let other folks on your minetest server? I want to try it and maybe play with a friend
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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 โ79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbertโs famous 23 unsolved ๐งต1/n
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Really great quote about leadership from Alexander Den Heijer, shared by @charrett: โWhen a flower doesnโt bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.โ #yowsydney #yow23 ๐น
“This disorder, which was eventually called encephalitis lethargica or von Economo’s sleeping sickness, swept through Europe and North America during the second decade of the twentieth century; by the end of the following decade it had apparently disappeared, as only sporadic and unconvincing reports have appeared since. […] the virus that caused it was never identified”
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Crazy shit went down at GalactiCon. Scared the pips off of Allie! ๐คฃ
#JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaur
There was a passage in one of the Foundation novels where an armchair scientist described his doing science in terms of comparing the writings of various authors, and Salvor Hardin (I think) appraised the man's perspective on science negatively. I've always remembered that, and took on Hardin's attitude, but since I've actually had to do research...honestly, that's actually a lot of it. There is, perhaps, more effort that must go into systematizing one's own knowledge in parsing the various studies rather than just comparing the relative "authority" of the authors of different studies as I believe the armchair scientist was doing, but, significantly, it's not all just observation and experiment: there's theorizing that has to happen too, which depends on close reading and critically comparing results.
I'm not sure if I'm really arguing against anyone's actual perspective on how science is done here (I barely remember the passage from the novel in the first place.), but I just wanted to make a record of this way of thinking that I suppose has caused me a measure of embarrassment in years past about not being more hands-on in my research.
#science #research
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Went out expecting to see the Moon rise near-ish the mountain but thenโฆ this! Utterly in awe.
#MtRainier #LandscapePhotography #Photography #PNWonderland #Moon #AstroPhotography #BestCoast #SilentSunday
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On the Origin of Species was published on this day in 1859, forever changing our understanding of nature and our origins. Here are the charming doodles Darwin's kids left all over his manuscript with their tiny opposable thumbs: https://t.co/BGtxu11Mgz
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Reverse GitHub Copilot, it doesn't write any code for you, instead it asks you to explain your code with non-specific questions and through the rubber duck effect this causes you to notice bugs and/or realize yourself how to proceed with coding. On the inside it is literally just Eliza (1964)
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๐ Tool for better documentation!! Release of sphinx-gallery, to automatically integrate narrative ๐ examples in documentations
https://sphinx-gallery.github.io/stable/index.html
Highlight: a light recommender system to show related examples
An illustration of sphinx-gallery:
https://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/inspection/plot_linear_model_coefficient_interpretation.html
(from @sklearn 's gallery). Note the links to function docs.
Sphinx-gallery comes with awesome features such as
โผonline execution with binder or jupyterlite
โผmini-galleries eg to link an object's docstring to its examples
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Job opportunity: Open Climate Campaign Communications Manager.
Are you passionate about open access to research and fighting climate change? The Open Climate Campaign is hiring a Communications Manager to create and execute a communications plan. The Campaign advocates for all research on climate science and biodiversity to be openly available. Application deadline is January 12, 2024.
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I was also able to get a better photograph of my koi fish drawing. Natural light makes all the difference.
Here's the listing for it on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1604274553/hand-drawn-koi-fish-on-watercolor-paper
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Made this in Blender as a warm-up for the morning!
Based on this piece, by @smerp, here: https://mastodon.art/@smerp/111443193341517634
#blender #blender3d #b3d #cycles #procedural #art #digital #mastoart #fediart
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The toast sandwich article was created on English Wikipedia twelve years ago today!
(photo: Qwantz, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Apropos of nothing (and everything):
It is way more fun to lift people up than to tear them down.
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After DART Smashed Into Dimorphos, What Happened to the Larger Asteroid Didymos? @asrivkin tells me about new observations using JWST to see how the parent asteroid is doing, post-DART impact. https://www.universetoday.com/163895/after-dart-smashed-into-dimorphous-what-happened-to-the-larger-asteroid-didymos/
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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