Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

Petit guide contre les bobards de la réforme des retraites

https://france.attac.org/IMG/pdf/petit_guide_retraite_bat_04_page_a_page.pdf

[#OuvrezLesGuillemets] Usul. Retraites: la bagarre monte en régime

La première ministre va présenter sa réforme des #retraites. C’est l’occasion de revenir sur l’esprit de ce texte et de se demander si les jeunes, qui semblent plus préoccupés par le climat que par leurs hypothétiques futures pensions, se joindront à la bataille.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/090123/usul-retraites-la-bagarre-monte-en-regime

My homage to Douglas Hofstadter's image, featured on the front cover of some editions of his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. He calls this a "triplet" sculpture, I believe because there are "trip" (three) "let" (letters).

Instead of the letters "G", "E", and "B", I used "3", "D", and "P", for "3D printing". #3DPrinting #Shadow #Art

On démarre bien la journée en faisant grimper le compteur. Ça donne de la force pour mettre tout le monde dans la rue #greve19janvier
https://www.change.org/p/retraites-non-%C3%A0-cette-r%C3%A9forme-injuste-et-brutale
L'intersyndicale nationale CFDT, CFTC, CGC, CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires et UNSA contre la réforme des #retraites lance une pétition large contre la réforme et de soutien à la mobilisation

Been away for a while, much depressing disease around me (on top of world climate in more than one sense)…
Now built a new (of sorts) angle #illusion, strifing for the simplest arrangement showing the illusion: https://michaelbach.de/ot/ang-obliqueSimple/

Academics' time:

“When asked about time off, Jordan replied: What do you mean? I work every weekend.”

https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X221144136

Few quotes follow: 🧵👉

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#EducationalResearch
#EDI
@edutooters
#AcademicChatter
@academicchatter
@academicsunite
#PhdLife
@phdstudents

This #ReceptioGate article is interesting because it considers wider issues for scholars, research, and academia: https://thecritic.co.uk/receptiogate-and-the-absolute-state-of-academia/

#phdchat does anyone have advice or resources on starting the introduction for the PhD? I'm doing it by publication, so I need a normal intro literatuatue review chapter & a second part to tie it all up. Feels like a mammoth task and my blank page is looking extremely daunting and empty 🤣. #academicchatter #phd #writing

DAGs, Golems, and Owls: Statistical Rethinking 2023 Lecture 1 (of 20). No hard work in this introductory lecture, just a conceptual outline and some dank memes. Lecture 2 later this week introduces Bayesian inference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnMWdICdRs&list=PLDcUM9US4XdPz-KxHM4XHt7uUVGWWVSus&index=1

Another very interesting piece in this museum is the Mini-componium, a replica of the original Componium built by Diederich Nikolaus Winkel in 1821. This remarkable mechanical music instrument can vary the music it plays using a randomizing mechanism! In fact, the Componium creates endless variations on a theme by selecting randomly one of the 8 possible melodies every two measures.
In a sense, this is a very early example of
#ComputerMusic #AlgorithmicComposition
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Componium)
(3/3)
#musicbox #music

My periodic reminder that my book on the discrete Fourier transforms (incl. FFT, finite fields valued FT, representation theory, and more) is available for free. https://mathematical-tours.github.io/daft/

These music boxes were probably built at the end of the 19th century. An extra feature is the panorama of the horse race in the cabinet. By inserting a coin, the music is played and one can gamble on the winning horse. The machines were designed in such a way that the winning horse could not be predicted with any certainty.

I don't know how it works, but this is maybe one of the earliest random number generator! (2/2)