szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

yeah I don’t think we’re going to mars

"Referuj co widzisz"

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.

Now they you know Elon Musk exists, you are never allowed to have imposter syndrome again.

You are healed. I have healed you

There are still a few Wood Hedgehog around. #fungi #Sporespondence

Forbidden soup.

This #root of a Taxodium distichum, or bald cypress, used to be a knee- a raised structure of surface roots particular to these trees when they are grown in sodden soil or areas prone to flooding (second and third #photos). This one was damaged by mowers a long time ago, and eventually rotted out to form a basin where #water collects.

#trees #wetlands #roots #photography

Can I tell you a fun story? It's a little braggy, but it's also about the power of journalism, so, indulge me.

In his latest (sadly subscriber-only) newsletter, @dwallacewells@twitter.com writes about @ClimateTRACE@twitter.com, the new system of satellites meant to track GHGs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/opinion/environment/surveillance-state-climate-change.html

If our wordl is ever threatened by wild, predatory shoe laces, my bloody cat is your man

A forest of tiny fungi sprouting from a fallen larch cone, in the woodland at #WWT #CastleEspie.

#nature #naturephotograpy #wildlife #rot #rotting #larch #larchcone #seed #seedhead #fungus #fungusphotography #fungusamongus #fungi #fungiverse #FungiFanatic #woodland #forest #ForestFloor #mushroom #shotoniphone

Has anyone yet invented umbrellas for dogs? Asking for a very miserable whiggy (whippet-Italian Greyhound cross) who hates the rain. (Seen here in happier aka sunnier times.) #dogsofmastodon

Welcome to the age of AIs censoring art. Some algorithm on one of the Mastodon servers thinks this Georgia O'Keeffe painting is a vagina and is blurring it out. Unsure whether to laugh or cry. But somehow I suspect Georgia would have been mischievously pleased.

https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk/
This paper is so awesome it is prompting me to write my first toot.
The science, the writing, the conclusion about scientific writing. I laughed out loud multiple times reading it. Hats off!

There was a M5.4 #earthquake in west #Texas today.

This area didn’t used to have many earthquakes. In 2019 that changed, and since then it’s had quite a few earthquakes, with more than 375 quakes with a magnitude higher than M3.5.

These earthquakes (probably including this one) are likely the result of wastewater injection - pumping fluids in to the ground.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000iq7l/executive?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ENS&utm_campaign=realtime

I love spotting what I've decided to call "grammatical accent": little ways non-native speakers bring grammar and punctuation rules from their languages. For example:

Germans adding spurious commas connecting sentence fragments: "I think I can tell, where that person is from"

French adding spaces in exclamation points: "That is a very French thing to do !"

I wonder which rules from Portuguese I unknowingly apply to my English!

I've seen a lot of people asking about DMs here. I wrote an article about this today, but thought it'd be more useful to just say it in a post: Privacy is not the purpose of DMs. DMs are a courtesy to your followers. You’re communicating with another user directly because the information is of no value to anyone else, and there’s no reason to flood other people’s timelines with irrelevancies. Do not use DMs to discuss personal or sensitive information. (Use Signal).

"J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji." - Terry Pratchett

Uff, data downsampling can be a weird problem sometimes!
Averaging over regular-spaced data is fine, but when you have short, sharp spikes in-between lower frequency samples, that can lead to very werid behaviour.

Picture no. 1 shows awkward graph behaviour, resulting from averaging over the leftmost edge of a sharp spike.

#timescaledb, luckily, has tools to fix this. Using their `first` and `last` operators to extract the edges of each time bucket (generated with `time_bucket_gapfill`), it's possible to "fill in" buckets without any samples in them to use the edge of an adjacent bucket. This ensures that edges of sharp spikes remain preserved.

Picture no. 2 shows the exact same data but with a bit of edge preservation done. The data looks much closer to the truth with almost no extra points plotted!

Something for the #dataviz people maybe? ;)