Siddharth Maddali @siddarthious@qoto.org

Treasure Trove of over 1700 Mechanical Animations

https://kottke.org/15/04/treasure-trove-of-over-1700-mechanical-animations

Stupid Patent Of The Month: Digital Verification Systems Patents E-Signatures

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/31/stupid-patent-of-the-month-digital-verification-systems-patents-e-signatures/

#digitalverificationsystems #electronicsignatures #leighrothschild #e-signatures #patents

Wow, there's innovation in propeller shapes (which i thought we're close to optimal for a century): toroidal propellers https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/ >50% performance improvement at midrange rpms in liquids!

I like Kevin Drum's proposal to name the metric unit of "momentum" after #EmmyNoether

Emmy Noether is awesome and more people should know about her.

https://jabberwocking.com/emmy-noether-and-the-conservation-of-momentum/

Godspeed Pelé…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/29/pel-brazilian-soccer-star-dies-at-age-82.html

OK calc/complex analysis teachers, slip this puppy in to your next problem set and give your students a proper fright.

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It's a biblically accurate integral.

There's gotta be a "biblically accurate angle" joke in this somehow...

#mathematics

(from https://twitter.com/mattieuMattieu/status/1456872045078216705)

AI-written essays? 🤖 A range of (excellent) ideas on how to deal with chatGPT in the classroom:
https://tinyurl.com/59mwz75j

@academicchatter #teaching #chatgpt #AI

TIP OF THE DAY

Use and Follow #hashtags !!!

Mastodon has no ads, 500 chars, 5 pins, and edits, but the best thing is NO ALGORITHM. On the birdsite you are force-fed by an algorithm. A mishmash of your history, likes, follows and whatever Twitter wants to cram into you. With NO ALGORITHM, you are in control. Your feeds are just who and what you follow, and you can follow #hashtags .

Include #hashtags liberally so others can follow your ideas.

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration #hashtags

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More info: http://broad.io/mlcbpostdoc

The Broad Institute provides a uniquely stimulating environment to advance and apply data science in collaboration with MIT, Harvard, and hospitals. (1/2)

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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In ~4 months the Advanced Photon Source will shut down to upgrade their electron storage ring. Everything will be closed to users for ~1 year plus time to bring beamlines back online. Will this affect your #crystallography?

I'm looking forward to the upgrades but there are some beamlines I'm going to miss.

https://www.aps.anl.gov/node/16211