🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@chris

Is there an actual study on this trying to quantify it?

The population of the usa in '69 was 200 million, so at almost half a million people at woodstock that would mean that 1 in 400 people alive in '69 had attended the festival... Thats pretty huge when you think about it. 0.25% of the entire population at a single festival, thats massive!

Woot, we brought up a website for my new company with a little bit of information. Hopefully will make the hiring process a bit smoother too.

Naturally our company website also doubles as a #Fedipage based single-user instance.

You can follow it on the fediverse here: @cleverthis

And the website itself is here: https://CleverThis.com

#CleverThis #ML #MachineLearning #AI #AGI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #SemanticWeb

@Strandjunker

Completely false.

For example 19% of all bankruptcies in Canada are illness related just as one very obvious incorrect statement. Sadly most of these countries lack data, but the ones that track this show significant bankruptcies caused by medical illness

Similarly 8.2% of bankruptcies in the UK are caused due to illness.

@QasimRashid

> So—cut bloated Defense budget?
> MAGA: NO

Under Biden Harris Israel went from getting 3.4 billion a year to 12.5 billion a year to commit genocide. Under Trump he went the other direction, from 3.7 billion at the start of his reign to 3.4 billion at the end.

To put this more generally to numbers, under Trump the military spending went from 651 billion to 695 billion, an increase of 6.3% over his 4 years in office. By contrast under Biden military spending went from 695 billion to 886 billion, a whopping increase of 21.5%. Put in other terms that is a 191 billion increase under Biden and a 44 billion increase under Trump, in other words a huge 4.34x greater increase by Biden than by Trump.

Welcome...

Project QOTO is to used to see how many users are interested in future projects by writing a simple "hello" message more visibly in this thread.

This thread helps us see who is motivated and what kinds of skills we have to work with, to then link the existing interests and ideas into future projects.

By not defining things too strictly from the beginning we allow ourselves to find out the answers (using ourselves) and show the positive attempts as we go. Welcome to Project QOTO.

There are no commitments with the "hello" message and you can remove that at any time.

If you have existing ideas for a project, or a "back burner" project or two , then please add that in a separate post or inside your own profile description for people to check out.

Use #ProjectQoto hashtag to check this thread at any time and see progress.

@freemo has confirmed this as a unofficial #QOTO #project with his approval while he does other things meantime. For now we can see the ideas we have between us here, and use what social is really good for, bringing individuals together and forming whatever people like and love to do already and consider doing more of it!

regards, #ProjectQOTO
(which includes you hopefully!)

Again, a simple "hello" is enough for people to see your profile and what you are already interested in.

I would count this as an abuse of `@Deprecated`...

I was shocked when I first saw all possible implementations are deprecated but the field is still used actively in another class.

katie @katefeeti
is the #left "obsessed" with #gender, #sexuality, #race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in #marginalized groups against a #right wing that's ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

είναι η #αριστερά «εμμονική» με το #φύλο, τη #σεξουαλικότητα, τη #φυλή, κ.λπ., ή απλώς πρέπει συνεχώς να υπερασπίζεται ανθρώπους σε #περιθωριοποιημένες ομάδες ενάντια σε μια #δεξιά πτέρυγα που ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΑ έχει εμμονή με το φύλο, τη σεξουαλικότητα, τη φυλή κ.λπ.

#left_wing_agenda #woke_agenda #right_wing_agenda

In some previous posts, I’ve been chipping away at the question of how two objects falling into a black hole appear from each other’s vantage, and now I’ve put all the pieces together to answer a question @johncarlosbaez posed on his blog:

If a fleet of spaceships all fall into a black hole from different starting points along the same radial line, how would the other ships appear to one in the middle of the fleet?

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/black-hole-puzzle/

The plot here shows the “apparent distance” of the other ships (as determined by the angle each ship subtends, if you know its size, or by its parallax if you view it from slightly different positions). It also shows where the ships were located, when the light now being received from them was emitted.

The details are quite different depending on whether we’re seeing a ship that is closer to the black hole than us, by means of “outgoing light” — light moving away from the hole — versus a ship further from the hole that we see by “incoming light”.

Because the event horizon itself is formed by the paths through spacetime traced by outgoing light rays, we see all the ships closer to the hole than us cross the event horizon just as we cross it ourself.

But the incoming light from ships that are further from the hole than us reaches us later, for any given r coordinate where it was emitted, and we hit the singularity at the centre of the hole before we see any light emitted from those ships when they crossed the horizon.

EDITED TO ADD: This diagram has some mistakes. I’ve given a correct version in a reply.