🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Magic Leap One now available for $2295
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17859230
#hackernews #tech

oh my goodness, one of Dian Fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but SO BADLY that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

F*b*k gets even worse : deletes years of cross posts without warning.

Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets/

EXTRA! EXTRA!

New Water pollution survey of the Citizen Log ready to test.

Please feel free to suggest and criticize. We'll be testing it for the next month.

MAP https://citizenlog.ushahidi.io
AIR https://citizenlog.ushahidi.io/posts/create/1
WATER https://citizenlog.ushahidi.io/posts/create/7

#GAIMeC #DIWOsurvival

@freemo mine has many smaller buttons to interface with my specialized touch stumps.

Starting my next post which will be about the TEM mode on a two-conductor transmission line. Specifically I'll be looking at a coaxial geometry and using #FEniCS to calculate the field distributions, the characteristic impedance and the Poynting vector. Just had a go and it all seems to be working.

While I'll focus on a coaxial geometry the method can be extended to more complicated geometries just by changing the mesh & boundaries. I've just had a go at an odd mode impedance and it came out just right!

The best thing about this post will be how easy it is.

#physics #electromagnetism #HAM #radio #Maxwell #opensource #python

Spoken languages vs Software languages:
For complex ideas translation between English and French is not perfect, translation transforms the information... you can not express the exact same thing in different languages.
Software, however can be “perfectly translated” you could implement the same application in Python as you can in JavaScript.

@freemo well in that case:
I have created a weekly radio show/podcast called GeekSpeak (https://geekspeak.org) for 18 years. We talk about science and technology.
This year I slowed down on GeekSpeak to make room for the podcast WeAre.netflix.net ; we talk about what it is like to work at Netflix and the different things we do.

Trying out \(\LaTeX\):

\[\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}\frac{f^{(n)}(a)}{n!}(x - a)^n\]

me doing a sex

This is how I lure unsuspecting passersby to #QOTO 😂

#catpictures #falsepromises

Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858252
#hackernews #tech

@Surasanji Knowing a few things about the nature of the universe would be very interesting:
- To what extend its the universe deterministic?
- How did life begin? How can we recreate that setting?
- What is the mind? What do we perceive exactly?
- How can we travel through time (besides the usual 1s/s-only-forwards type)?
- What set off the Big Bang?

Hi all,
I'm new here and it feels a bit like the first days on Twitter.
I'm a freelance science journalist and will soon start a serial about the history of CRISPR/Cas9 (the new gene editing tool, that is going to change the world, probably) at a new german independent science journalism platform called Riffreporter (https://www.riffreporter.de (no publisher required)). I work as a science journalist for nearly twenty years now, For some years I worked at a university, teaching and doing a project about health journalism (http://www.medien-doktor.de/medizin). I started creating podcasts (https://habichgehoert-fandichgut.de) and audiostories https://soundcloud.com/anhaeuser and I have blog called Plazeboalarm since 2005 about pseudosience, bad health reporting etc. at the german Scienceblogs http://scienceblogs.de/plazeboalarm

I can help with all things around science communication etc. #introduction