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@freemo @math @funny
God! I'm such an ignorant... Does the bottom one refer to the Basel problem?

@freemo @math @funny
The top one may be polemical, but the bottom one seems impossible.
(However, I'm not very good with combinatorics and I'll be waiting to be proved wrong. 😅 )

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#Sunrise #Solstice over #Stonehenge
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

For the vast majority of the population of the planet, the solstice will be tomorrow as the actual time of its occurrence is at about 03:30 UTC on 21 June. Anyway, hope you have a nice summer/winter.

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210620.ht

#APOD

*A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard.*
-- Prof. Steiner

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What-ho, mastodon.org.uk and the Fediverse! I've been meaning to make myself a general social alt for years, so here's my #introduction! Brit living in the southern UK on the South Downs, often spotted #cycling up it just for the fun, only occasionally shedding bunches of bananas in the dead of night. I love the night sky and #astronomy, when I can see it through the British weather, #gaming, #words and word #puzzles, computers and #opensource and will stop...

> Linux Foundation readies Global COVID Certificate Network

> It will do this by establishing a trust . This will enable and trustworthy of COVID certificates ...

zdnet.com/article/linux-founda

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@pixelfed Hi there! As a #blind screen reader user, I would really appreciate it if you'd take the time to #captionyourimages as it would really help with #accessibility
And it's not just people like me who appreciate them either, it's users on low bandwidth or metered connections who don't want to load the full res picture, those with #autism who sometimes find the context helpful, the huge percentage of those with preexisting visual impairments [#VI] which includes many people over 55 ETC.
It doesn't have to be anything incredibly detailed or artfully written, but something is nearly always better than nothing. I believe that their is even an option to automatically #OCR images now which should give you a head start.

- Chan Chan
"Chan Chan video made from the Wim Wenders' documentary 'Buena Vista Social Club' ..."


youtu.be/tGbRZ73NvlY

> Space is to our what numbers are to the in any computer. Matter moving through space can simply be seen as operations happening on the . If is moving at say 1,000 miles per second, then 1,000 miles worth of space is being transformed by a , or operated upon every second. If there were some hardware running the simulation called “space” of which matter, energy, you, me, everything is a part, then one telltale sign of the artifact of the hardware within the simulated reality “space” would be a maximum limit on the container size for space on which one operation can be performed. Such a would appear in our universe as a .

scientificamerican.com/article

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is Yu Ming) is the story of a young Chinese man, who is disillusioned with his dead-end job at a supermarket. A spin of the globe leads him to choose Ireland as the destination for his new life and further research informs him that the official language of that country is Gaelic. ...

youtu.be/JqYtG9BNhfM

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