🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @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
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We're currently looking for a PyPI Safety & Security Engineer. If that sounds like something you'd like to do, we hope you'll send us your resume. #opensourcejob
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Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂
"Every Author as First Author"
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I don't normally like being Mr. Grumpy old man, but it is currently 68° (20°C) and just about perfect outside, yet I hear a bunch of air conditioners running.
Consider opening yer dang windows, people!
I hadn't appreciated how much good speaking skills (e.g., not constantly interrupting yourself, gathering your thoughts before speaking), good editing, and production make a difference in the podcasts I like listening to until I heard a couple podcasts that lack those things. It's so painful because there's a solid core in the ones that are lacking, they just need some competent audio production help.
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Mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees (Elsevier)
Quite an archive over here: https://www.youtube.com/@weyrdmusicman/about
#filk #music
I'm told the drummer is Nao from MTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC-wDpwzEt4
#metal #music #video
I still like this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJk-AzhkSI
#music
http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/03/crab-like-spiny-orbweaver.html
I didn't know there were orb weavers like this!
#spider #arthropods
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Also, I am so totally over enforced short form posts. There's nothing big, clever, or useful about having to split shit up into threads. It's just wank.
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:ignucius:
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I got this puzzle from my neighbor. It was really easy to solve. Each of the smaller cubes is connected to the next one by an elastic string--kind of like a hair tie--on two sides except for the ends which are only attached on one side. The goal is to arrange the smaller cubes into the larger cube shape.
It's easy because you can proceed with a more-or-less greedy algorithm to get the solution. What I want to do though is to figure out how to represent the problem generically (4x4x4, different target configurations, different initial configurations, different component shapes, etc.), describe the state spaces for different configurations, and describe a generic algorithm for reaching the target configurations, and things like that.
it's such an odd but really great feeling when you're learning the lyrics to a song you want to sing and you get to a part that, cognitively, you don't have access to the words yet but then your body just starts producing the right sounds
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I was last week old when I learned that clams have two siphons (incurrent and excurrent), and have very active cilia at the ends of those siphons… the bucket contains littleneck, Manila, butter, and geoduck clams (the geoducks were placed back). The macro photos are of the butter clam siphons during the purging stage, pre-chowder. #clams #clamming #beachcombing #bc
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Hey! If of interest, here's my keynote for the opening of this year's KDocs Film Festival in Vancouver with our documentary The YouTubeEffect which is coming out wide soon!
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And here's something of a redux of the first, with the finished(ish) shader, and a bit more work on the particle motion. I think that's quite lovely.
#Blender3D #B3D #GenerativeArt #3DArt #Astronomy
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This older comic is making the rounds again! Here's a guide to bird photography.
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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