Interesting #FactOfTheDay
The human body generates heat at a rate significantly higher than an equal volume of the Sun.
Remember the gravitational waves?
Prof Rana Adhikari is a hero of mine. People like that make science fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10
@commandelicious @freemo @Katobell @Demo318 About women in science and engineering? I wasn't exactly encouraged but I grew up in the 70's and 80's and it was a lot more sexist back then. We had a typing class in my school that I actively had to avoid 😖
I read about Leonardo Da Vinci when I was a kid and decided I wanted to be a renaissance man and learn about everything like he did. That is probably why I am the way I am. There was a lot of arguments in order for me to learn a few things along the way and I ended up growing pretty thick skin and working in a few all male teams so I could learn things too 🤔
I think things are a lot different nowadays. I hope they are in any case. I think they have changed how they teach things in England a LOT though. I was looking at the qualifications so I could tutor someone and I barely recognised them.
@freemo @commandelicious @Demo318 there's an organisation called Equate Scotland specifically for this, if you're interested in data and seeing some current attempts at helping the situation!
https://hackinformer.com/2018/07/26/maker-faire-detroit-is-here-and-nothing-stops-detroit/ Maker fair this year was a blast
https://hackinformer.com/2018/08/21/workaround-to-download-roms-off-emuparadise-again/ fun read and helpful for some : { )
Fun little note, @Demo318 was our 800'th user. I wonder who will be #1000!? At the pace we are currently gaining users on QOTO it will probably be by the weekend or before.
Hey I'm also Native American. Look almost exactly like you. Full beard and pretty chill dude. #introduction
Thanks for being such a great hero! Stay optimistic/ chill man. Thanks for the useful instance in the fediverse
🤘🍀🕷️🦎🐢🐫🐒🦁🦌🐺🤙🖖✌️🤓
The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820994
#hackernews #tech
@freemo
Life lesson from XKCD
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/grownups.png
I am pretty sure you know it, but one never knows :)
@js290 Well, not really. We're not personifying ancient people because they are people. We're not giving them person-like traits they didn't actually have because they were human beings like us, and undoubtedly led as rich and interesting lives as any other human being does today.
It is true that we don't fully understand many ancient peoples. We don't know why they did certain things, and the whens of particular historical events can get exceedingly muddy the further back you go. All we can do is make an educated guess based on what evidence we do find.
Bringing it back to Ancient Canaanite religion- there isn't an awful lot known about it. The ancient Canaanites seem to have taken papyrus paper from their Egyptian neighbors as their preferred writing medium and most of the contemporary writings to those eras are lost or remain as of yet undiscovered.
Most of what we do know is traced back through the surviving children of the Canaanites- Jewish and Samaritan histories and religious texts, which are perhaps not the most honest of historical sources, and from cuneiform tablets found in Ugarit.
The rest is pieced together from later Greek sources.
That being said, there is a lot more about ancient human societies and cultures that we don't know than we do. We're making our best guess based on those shreds of evidence that have survived (sometimes) thousands of years.
It's a puzzle we'll likely never fully solve.
I have posted some pictures somewhere but I've found the best picture I have of me. It was 2008. Time flies.
Then something to smile, and the last one is me now (or well, a month ago)
@freemo This is me, enjoying what is likely to be one of the last times I can enjoy the pool this season
#Introduction
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
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