Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

@merz Do you recall that the NYT T magazine cover story on Holmes was written by Andreessen’s wife?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/12/t-magazine/elizabeth-holmes-tech-visionaries-brian-chesky.html
“Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World ...”

It’s happening! From 25 May, London depart 15:04 by Eurostar, Brussels depart 19:22 on Mon, Wed, Fri by sleeper, Berlin arrive 06:48. Change for Prague, arriving 11:35.

Followgraph [https://followgraph.vercel.app/] for Mastodon suggests accounts to follow ranked by most-often-followed by accounts you follow. (Though, these are the accounts who might anyway get boosted into your feed.)

What (maybe?) surprised me is that many of the top people were mostly people at the center of dramas on Twitter. Reveling in the peace here, and not even having an algorithmic filter…no way was I going to follow them.

But, I scrolled at random, and found many other interesting people!

@tsawallis @julialang @rlmcelreath IM the Julia vs. Python debates boils down to the fundamental difference: Python was designed as easy, general-purpose language and solutions to science-related applications (e.g. NumPy) came second. Julia is from its very foundation designed (it's the key issue here) for science-related programming tasks. Therefore, I choose Julia as its more coherent for the task. Moreover, #julialang is the most natural language I've been programming in. Also. the "speed" :)

"Juno: a Python-based graphical package for optical system design" — A complete library that includes a graphical user interface to design and visualise arbitrary optical elements, set up wave propagation simulations and visualise their results.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12540
Code: https://github.com/DeMarcoLab/juno

#NewPaper #Python #Simulation

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@mhoye

When some says "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear", I always reply with, “that’s awesome! Here’s a pen and paper, write down your logins for you email, storage and social accounts. I’ll be visiting tonight..”

they're called hooves, dummy🙄

A sobering read:

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/

Ich gehöre einem Geheimbund an und trage als Erkennungszeichen auf Reisen und in Versammlungsräumen eine Maske in Form einer stilisierten, zweiseitigen Pyramide über Mund und Nase. Wir sind nicht mehr Viele, aber wir sind die Hüter eines uralten Wissensschatzes, der von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wurde und wird. Zur Begrüßung umkreisen wir mit den Mittelfingern unsere Ohrmuscheln. Unser oberster Glaubenssatz lautet: Heute ist der Tag vor Freitag. Immer. Außer freitags.

The K2: Open-source simultaneous triple-color TIRF microscope for live-cell and single-molecule imaging
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.521031v1

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/

My last two Washington Post stories on Elon Musk before Twitter suspended me and other journalists discussed his flirtation with QAnon and the public data about his private jet:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/qanon-musk-revival-twitter/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks/

There's always a tweet.

Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.