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#qotojournal Homemade Udon Noodles
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Ingredients

5 cups (600 grams) all-purpose flour, sifted, plus more for dusting
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups water

Instructions
To make Homemade Udon Noodles:

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and salt. Add 1 1/4 cups water. Use hands to mix until dough starts to come together in a few large lumps. Firmly press and knead the dough, incorporating any loose flour until there is none left. If necessary, add a little more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until you can incorporate all of the flour.
Lightly dust work surface with flour. Knead dough (folding and firmly pressing with your palm, folding and pressing forcefully) until dough looks and feels fairly smooth, about 5 minutes. Form dough into ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and let rest at room temperature for 1-5 hours.
On a lightly floured surface with ample room, knead it again for a few minutes. Divide dough into 4 equal-sized balls. Dust each ball with flour and cover with plastic wrap until ready to roll out.
Use rolling pin to roll out the dough, occasionally rotating the dough 90 degrees and lightly using with flour if it threatens to stick to the pin, until just between 1/8" to under 1/4" thick. If the dough is too difficult to roll out, cover with plastic wrap, let rest for 10 minutes, and then resume. This rest allows the gluten to relax and makes it easier to roll out.
Fold the sheet of dough into thirds (like a letter fold) and then slice widthwise into approximately 1/8" thick noodles. Gently separate the noodles and toss them with a little bit of flour, just so they don't stick together. Cook right away.

To Cook Homemade Udon Noodles:

Bring a large pot of water to boil and prepare a large bowl of icy water. Add noodles to boiling water, stirring frequently and adding 1/4 cup fresh water if the water threatens to bubble over, until they are fully cooked but not mushy, 7-12 minutes (depends on how thick your noodles are). Unlike Italian pasta, Japanese noodles shouldn't be al-dente, but don't let them get mushy.)
Drain noodles, transfer to icy water. Briefly and gently rub the noodles with hands to remove some of the starch. Drain from cold water.

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

A misunderstanding is circulating that the GNU Project demands you run 100% free software, all the time. Anything less (90%?), and we will tell you to get lost—they say. Nothing could be further from the truth.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html #gnu #freesw #linux​

You guys remember this gem from a decade or two ago?

This 'Fourier space' instead of 'Euclidean space' modelling approach could ease and enhance climate prediction.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/30/1011435/ai-fourier-neural-network-cracks-navier-stokes-and-partial-differential-equations/

@fruitywelsh I would agree with those points.

@fruitywelsh Welcome! Hope you enjoy the place!

@fruitywelsh Positive productive interaction, and an easy way to find other STEM professionals to interact with I suppose... I mean there is a lot to it, we could talk features, commnity, and so many other aspects.

@fruitywelsh Hey, great to have you here. How are you?

Jarosław Kaczyński, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, and the leader of the Law and Justice party (usually considered center-right, but... judge for yourself) gave a speech yesterday, in which he referred to the protests going on in Poland after a high court ruling that made strict Polish anti-abortion laws even stricter.

I translated it to English:
https://rys.io/wypierdalac/kaczissimus/en.txt

Here is the context:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/26/polish-pro-choice-protests-continue-with-blockades-and-red-paint

@fruitywelsh hi! 🐘