Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️ @absolutus@qoto.org

Hey there #QOTO ! A #Randomquestion for you:

You are going to die in one year. A magical pixie has told you so, and there is no getting out of it. However, the magical pixie has also granted you a SINGLE wish with a caveat: This wish must be use totally selfishly. IT can not be used to directly help or benefit anyone but you.

What do you wish for?

#introduction Mastodon first-timer here! I have a Masters in psychology, a passion for medicine (especially diseases), and a general interest in science. I’m looking for a career in data analysis, as I like working with data and sussing out issues and correcting them.

I’m always eager to learn new things! I already feel like this will be a good place for that, so I’m looking forward to it!

My predictions: Twitter will be the first of the social media Old Guard to collapse. Facebook will be the second. What follows will be a war of sorts between decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Diaspora and centralized, though "free speech focused" platforms like BitChute, Minds and Gab. They will probably split along political lines (Mastodon and Diaspora lean mostly left; MGB, right), and they're pretty evenly matched, so I don't know who's going to win; it may tie pretty closely to the political situation of the next four to eight years.

#introduction
Hi everyone, I just tried Mastodon out since yesterday (I heard about it for a while tho).
I'm finishing my master degree in CS next year in France. I'm a FOSS enthousiast and a great fan of formal methods (in CS at least).

Short term: I'm learning Rust (for those into CS stuff you should definitly take a look at it if you haven't already) and doing a chess AI (a modest one compared to what we do today).

Medium term: Work and live for a while in China to learn about those guys, I think we still don't understand each other well enough.

Long term: try to improve the way we as humans interact with Big Data, AI and computers in general because I think that our usage is not sane yet (and especially for Big Data).

I didn't plan to introduce myself but I guess that's a kind of tradition. I'm looking forward to read and write interesting stuff with you guys 😀

lol, its funny because its true.

@absolutus Fun fact: Matt Bellamy from Muse had a custom guitar made which included a proximity controller for its built in effects – which worked in essentially the same way as a theremin.

@absolutus The Theremin is fantastic. Old Spookey sci-fi sounds

Finally I couldn’t take it. I went to the cupboard and pulled the last jar of peaches I knew Lizbeth kept stored there. No doubt it was being saved for something special - that there would be special hell to pay in the morning. But if marriage is anything, I thought, it is a matter of bargaining chips. Don’t want people to eat your canned peaches, wife of mine? Then don’t make them sleep in the barn. Come the morning argument, I could bring up how rude Lizbeth was and we would at least break even. My argument would be solid as limestone. I was almost out the door when I saw Lizbeth’s satin shawl on a hook. An idea struck me.

I picked up Hute’s magic plate and spread the peaches out there. I went and got the last bit of bread from the day and broke it into pieces. These pieces I arranged around the edge of the plate, so that it almost resembled a birthday dish we once bought for Clemmie at Doocey’s. I threw the satin shawl on top, like a waiter in a fancy restaurant might cover a dish. The juice leaked through in wet spots and I smiled. I walked outside.

Then I stopped.

I don’t know what they had been up to, but Hute and Klara weren’t to the barn yet. It was a perfect moon out and I was lucky at that. The whole night, and the rest of my life to now, might never have happened if it weren’t for that perfect and bright moon. Because they were not that close together, because they didn’t appear to be walking in sync, because I had them pegged for friendly at best. But I saw Klara’s little finger, just a slight sliver of black against the paleness, wrapped in Hute’s fist. I stopped and went quiet.

If man might ever make a painting or picture that moves, they should make something of this. Her wide body and duck-swap steps. Hute’s braid hanging down and swishing out over the silhouette of his humped shoulders. There was something too familiar about it to be strange. There was something too familiar about it for me to be shocked. The whole scene competed for a title more natural than the big moon itself, the soil risen to pace about.

I walked back to the door and sat on the steps. I pulled the satin shawl off the peaches and got the pail. I cleaned the satin in fresh rainwater and hung it to dry on the hook by the door. Then I waited. I just waited. Waiting felt an odd but welcome thing. Crickets sounded and a firefly shone and somewhere way out a dog barked and then a coyote howled and I waited.

Until enough time had gone by.

So! Good morning #QOTO and all my friends on #Mastodon. How you been?

Me, been better. Having something of an off day to be honest. My fault entirely, as I forgot to reup my prescriptions with my pharmacy. SO now I'm out of meds and going through some minor withdrawal that's only going to get worse as the day goes on.

Hopefully I'll have meds tomorrow. Goodness I hope so because I'm not looking forward to my overnight period of shivering, sweating, and choking on my own tongue. :/

Tore up my bike with a night time 10 mile bike ride (16km) at 11pm. I love dutch farm land in the middle of the night being all alone.

I am also pretty proud of my average moving speed (had to stop for a phone call at one point), it was almost 10 mph (16 kph) over the course of the whole trip.

#Pakistan's desire to have good relations with all countries around the world is admirable. The #US must realize that it's transactional relationship formula with Pakistanis at the cost of their national interest/s won't work any more. All power to the new Pakistan!

#GeoPolitics

#introductions Hi all! I'm super excited to learn as much as possible about EVERYTHING. This is my second account for badgering people with questions and asking for book recommendations and such, so I'm warning you 😋

Right now specifically I'm diving into theory of computation and am looking for a specific book that started with binary, hex, bar codes, telegraph machines, etc but I can't find it yet. Still looking. Cheers!

My research involves quantifying trace, toxic, particulate matter with neutron activation analysis. This is the neutron generator I use to irradiate air sampled filters, which are then analyzed by gamma spectroscopy.

Deuterium gas feeds into the magnetron on the left, which is ionized into plasma. The plasma strikes a deuterium film target in the chamber on the right, producing helium and a neutron beam. Aluminum then moderates the beam to thermal energy.

#nuclear #physics #neutron #instrument

Blue Ribbon #1E53EF
Aquamarine #74F8C4

(Contrast ratio: 4.5:1 | AA)

What do you guys think of th enew emoji (and soon to be official logo) of #QOTO ?