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bob :fediverse:

One of my favorite writerly things to do is cracking open a chapter the morning after I've announced I've "finished" it and running some good fine-grit editing sandpaper over it, slowly, quietly, thoroughly, until it's a smooth as a vermouth-free martini.

There. Now *that's* a chapter five to be proud of.

#writing

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Sheril Kirshenbaum

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

theconversation.com/sexism-pus #history #science

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@kludgekml

For simple derivatives and integrals, you can use the delta method to derive the stuff.

I learned that from an ancient math book my Dad had in the basement, and in school I brought in a page of hand-written derivation of the derivative of x-squared and showed it to the head math teacher and said "is this how we're going to do it?" (our grade hadn't learned that yet), and he raised his eyebrows and laughed and said that yes in principle one could do it that way.

And then in practice we mostly learned that you just take the little two and put it in front of the X and add a "+ C", with only a vague handwave as to why.

@pburka@octodon.social @futurebird

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Star Monster #midjourney #AIArt
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NellMinow

Talk about adding insult to injury! A friend's credit card was hacked and the crook used it to buy...Trump NFT "cards!" When the credit card company asked if she had made that purchase she understandably made it indisputably clear. that she had not. #trumptradingcards

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Wonder of Science

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQ

#ocean #nature #science

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Doug Merson

Paulingite-Ca
Vinařice, Kladno District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
FOV = 2.0 mm
#8647

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JMFT

If Harry Potter characters were names of programming languages:

RON - Beginner-friendly language, nice clean natural syntax. Very poor performance, not suitable for production code.

MCGONAGALL - Formal logic language developed in the 1970s. Full of exotic punctuation marks that require a special keyboard. Average developer has two categories in category theory.

DOBBY - Tries too hard to be helpful, overoptimizes everything.

HERMIONE - Fast, performant language but hard to learn. Very strict typing and compile-time exception checking, with compiler errors to tell you that you're doing it wrong before you take someone's eye out.

DUMBLEDORE - Legacy language, missing many modern features and promoting practices now considered antipatterns. Important in its day, but there are better choices now.

DOLOHOV - Developed by the Soviet space programme in the 1960s, surprisingly advanced for its time and now seeing new applications in embedded systems.

PETTIGREW - Low level language, tons of security vulnerabilities. Would not use. Had much potential, but now universally hated.

SNAPE - Java.

GILDEROY - JavaScript.

POTTER - Annoying dev community who go on and on about how great this language is, despite its many shortcomings.

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Santa Claus

A valiant effort has been made by Little Tim this year, who for some reason has decided to change his name to Tim'); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];--

HO HO HO! Nice try Tim. I don't use #SQL, I use several dozen interconnected #Excel spreadsheets, like a professional.

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JMFT

It's in the Apocryphal Gospels somewhere

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Doug Merson

Augite
Summit Rock, Klamath Co., Oregon, USA
FOV= 0.9 mm
#2384

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Doug Merson

Enstatite
Summit Rock, Klamath Co., Oregon, USA
FOV = 3.5 mm
#2384

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Andy Lowry

Aaargh!. I've somehow managed to reduce my advanced view to three columns and would like to get back to four. After about a half hour of fruitless searching for an answer, I am empty-handed. I bet somebody out there knows; could I get a hand please please?

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The Struggling Scientists

We have our orders to protect the EGGstar!

@OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

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Jose Santiago

How is this comfortable ???


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herid

twitter thread by jaketapper@twitter.com

twitter.com/jaketapper/status/

it looks like have bought themselves a Senate majority leader who intends to kill a couple of bipartisan (!) bills aimed at reining in worst monopolistic practices of and . EU has passed similar legislation so I am hoping US will too eventually but Schumer's obstructionism is deeply troubling.

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@jaysonmassey
Rather than just, like, starting a Mastodon server focused on their interests.

No thanks!

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nomi

Unceasing grey skies
By day, streets leeching color
Oh! Such lights by night!

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K‮ly‬e

This metal plate was just installed recently. Emergencies are now prohibited on the premises.

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hbw

“Tár is less interested in explaining the relationship between genius and cruelty than in showing how both collaborate with power—as derived from the brands, the institutions, and all their virtuous pretense—to create a shield against accountability.”

newyorker.com/culture/cultural

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