John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

🐈‍💨 is my new emoji proposal for ChatGPT, based on the (already widely mentioned) French pronunciation "chat: j’ai pété" = "cat: I farted".
(Emojis are cat facing to the left followed by puff of wind heading to the right)

It's been 2 years since I moved to ESO in Garching, and I still geek out every morning when I pass by the Paranal LEGO model on my way to the office 🤩 It was designed by Frans Snik, and it even has a working interferometer!

You can download the construction manual and list of pieces here: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann16013/

#astronomy #astrodon #lego

Imperfect proofs | Daniel Colquitt — A very applied mathematician

#100Days writing challenge https://blog.danielcolquitt.com/42763/imperfect-proofs

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Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

#programming #python

Any #cycling parents got suggestions for rear seats that work with a crossbar and avoid my roundhouse kicking my child?
No.1 has outgrown the front mount seat and trying to avoid buying a whole new bike!

There have been controversial changes to sorting and visibility of servers on JoinMastodon's list (https://mstdn.games/@britt/109832059191603469).

Whatever you think about these changes, it is problematic that new users are relying on a single central list of servers. What happens if JoinMastodon goes bad?

I'm trying to create an independent alternative with @FediGarden at:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

Are there any others? (NOTE: They have to have safety and reliability requirements and be human-curated.)

Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 / h/t @playingwithdust

I’ve just spent all afternoon meticulously working through a paper so that I can apply their approach to a new problem. I finally convinced myself that I understood their method. Then I moved to the next paper on my reading list only to discover that this paper explains a fundamental flaw in the paper that I’d spend all afternoon dissecting.

Sometimes being an academic is rubbish.

#AcademicChatter

This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates

This short video provides a very good explanation of why UK electricity prices are sky high, who profits, and how to fix it without costing the government anything in subsidy. This is the kind of explanation that the mainstream media used to do and (in those days) it led to somewhat more informed public debate pressuring action in a rational direction. Meanwhile, thanks to Evan for a model of clarity.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ig-_WRd8GC0&feature=share

I’m speechless and devastated by the destruction and loss of life from two powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The world must do what it can to come to the aid of the many thousands of victims.

Satellite images + detected heat spots show multiple large fires now burning in #Chile 🇨🇱🔥

See the latest here → https://zoom.earth/#view=-37.19,-73.05,7z/map=live/overlays=heat

I particularly love how they keep going with the theme in the fine print.

You can tell there is a new theory of the Universe inside this envelope, even without having to open it.

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

Ruff: A new, fast and correct Python checker/linter

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/01/20/notes-on-ruff/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/01/20/notes-on-ruff/

#programming #python

I'm a big fan of the mRNA vaccine tech, and have received both Pfizer and Moderna shots.

This gouging is just sickening.

"Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup..."

Courtesy of @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

#covid #vaccines