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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
@LouisIngenthron I've never heard anyone comment either way if it was frowned upon... If I had to guess most people wouldnt like it because they dont have control over ttheir own content so cant delete it if it gets copy and pasted.
That said pat may have a special case where it makes sense if he is being misrepresented. I need to learn more about what happened to judge it.
Oops sorry i was confused by what he said.. he is talking about actually copy and pasting, not QOTOs quote toot feature.
@LouisIngenthron @taz
Mastodon doesnt promoting tweeting of any kind, this inst twitter.
But it also makes no sense because quote posting does **not** "reproduce" other peoples posts... It literally is a post you make, with whatever text you want to post about, and then a link to the post you are quoting at the bottom. The link has a special syntax and clients can render the toot inline if it wishes, but it does not duplicate the post.
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"89 years have passed since Thomas Parnell (...) wanted to demonstrate to the students the liquid nature of pitch. When it is cold, this material is so hard it could be hammered; nonetheless it is still a liquid. Now, to show that a material is liquid, there is nothing better to pour it into a funnel to see it drip. In fact, the pitch really does that: however, a little slower than the liquids we are used to. Today those students (who in the meantime we presume graduated, besides those as dense as the pitch) have seen just 8 drops falling, with the patient yet incessant rate of a drop every six-twelve years.
Mainstone took charge of the experiment on his 2nd day of work, in 1961, and today still waits to see his first drop fall: the poor man was never present when it happened.
Unfortunately, even if a drop takes a few lustra to form, it only takes 1/10 of a second to fall - 3 billions times less than what it takes to become a drop. The probability of catching the moment in which the drop falls are quite low, especially if you think that people have other things to do - sleeping, taking a shower, combing their hair and go out to dinner with their friends, presumably laughing if some of them complains of how boring their job is.
Thinking he was clever, in the '90s Mainstone installed a webcam in front of the funnel, to record all day and night and finally assist to the moment a drop falls, if not live, at least on streaming.
But destiny had been twice as cruel with this man.
First, causing a malfunction to the camera exactly that night in 2000 in which the drop number 8 met its fate and fell from the exit of the funnel. Then, allowing a camera, at last, to record the moment a drop succumbed to the law of gravity, and eventually fell.
But not in Brisbane.
Instead, exactly on the other side of the globe: in Oxford, where in 1944 an analogous experiment to the Australian one was set up.
The 70-years-old Mainstone, however, does not surrender; he has already found among his colleagues of Queensland someone who, after his death, will keep following the experiment."
- Marco Malvaldi, "L'infinito tra parentesi"
Translation by me, because apparently this book has not been translated in English so I apologize for any eventual mistake. It's 1:23AM, I'm tired but I truly wanted to share this piece from a book I'm loving. I can't wait to finish it so I can write a decent review. It's truly a pity that we don't seem to have an English version of this book.
#sciencecommunication #scicom #marcomalvaldi #malvaldi #book #bookclub #chemistry #physics #reading
@otso I dont see how thats physically possible... If you ignore the existence of races then you cant treat people who have disease that is informed by their race. Ethnicity is something different and while you should consider that too, it doesnt solve the problem that you cant ignore race.
@otso Ethnic groups are shared cultures that are localized by a region.. A white person can belong to the Caribbean ethnic group, despite not being of the same race as Caribbeans.
If there is a cultural practice that causes diseases, then you need to be aware of that and we are talking about ethnic groups.
If a race makes you genetically at risk for a certain disease this has nothing to do with ethnic groups and one must talk in terms of race instead.
That seems very dangerous.. Races are at risk for certain diseases and should be considered... ethnic groups are totally different thing and have their own risks. Ignoring either puts your patient at risk by denying that reality.
@otso Ok, well i cant speak to the subtleties of swedish.. but if that word is truely a translation for race thent he difference is that you wrongly assume someone is racist simply for talking about a thing that happens exist regardless of context... that is troubling indeed, but you do you.
@otso again, in english those terms mean totally different things... so you cant have a swedish word that somehow translates to both.
Very strange because Im not "white".. Im mixed race.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @simSalabim
@otso I dont know swedish, but it seems your mistranslating...
Race and "Ethnic Group" means different things in English. So its not possible that race in English translates to folkgrupp in Swedish which somehow translates back to English as a totally different phrase "ethnic group".
Either folkgrupp is the Swedish word for race, or its the Swedish word for "ethnic group", it cant be both.
Ok, but the word ethnicity already exists and it has a completely different meaning than race.. So you took the common defnition of race, and deleted the word... took the definition of ethnicity, erased it and replaced it with the old definition of race... and now have nno word for ethnicity as it is usually defined... i mean ok, sounds really confusing.
But in the end call it whatever you want, I dont care, as long as we recognize race, based on my definition, exists, and its there regardless, you just shuffled around the definitions.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
We arent talking about definitions we are talking about a physical property... If there is an apple on the table no matter if you have a word for it or not an apple is still there.
What definition you give race is irrelevant. The fact remains the idea of race as I am refering to it exists, even if you use race to mean something else.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Race as ann objective and observable fact exists whether you have an institute to study it or not. Though not studying it puts people at risk in many ways, including their health (as we use race to determine certain risk factors for disease for example).
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
I dont see how, race is a special word we use just for humans. We explicitly have different terms to refer to the same property in animals, specifically so it isnt dehumanizing.
Thats like saying its dehumanizing to say humans have blood because animals have blood.. there are many universal and objective things animals share with humans, the existence of race just happens to be one of them.
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Things dont stop existing just because you belong to another country, it doesnt work that way (Also where do I say I am an american?)
Even if no one in the world knew of the concept of race wouldnt change the fact that it objectively exists.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Whether youuse the word or not doesnt change the fact that race exists..
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Of course there are races in sweden, people of foreign races come to sweden all the time. Now if you mean its relatively racially homogeneous, sure.. whats the point?
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Ethnicity exists, race exists.. xenophobia is bad, racism is bad.
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- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
