tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

A breathtaking early morning timelapse of Comet NEOWISE rising over the Adriatic Sea behind undulating noctilucent clouds captured in 2022.

Video credit: Paolo Girotti / CC BY

* Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.

* 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!

Coincidence? I think not!

Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.

(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)

Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.

Finlands regering skakar i fogarna. Om finansminister Riikka Purra (Sannfinländare) tvingas avgå faller hela regeringen. Men kan man ha en finansminister som fantiserar om masskjutning av invandrare på lokaltåget? Hon har nu bett om ursäkt för vad hon skrivit på nätet, men fortfarande inte tydligt erkänt att det är hon som står bakom signaturen "riikka".
Statsminister Petteri Orpo försöker sopa det äckliga under mattan nu när fina besöket från USA kommer när som helst.

https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10037860

New Crisis Group Q&A ahead of NATO summit. Something for everyone (to hate?). Highlights:
· Unrealistic expectations in Ukraine & Russia
· Transatlantic view that war critical for Euro security
· Russian misunderstanding of transatlantic resolve
· Global frustration
· Failing mediation
· Problems w/ pushing Ukraine to negotiate
· Problems w/ NATO membership for Ukraine
· Difficulty of changing Russian incentives
· Need for credible security commitments to Ukraine https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine/why-war-ukraine-may-be-long-one

@andrei_chiffa
By reading it. Most student cheating is obvious to a specialist who knows what they have (and have not) been taught and has read millions of words of student attempts to write about it.

But there is a more fundamental point I need to write up in detail:

University teaching is basically a form of intensively supervised reinforcement learning on a carefully curated, small data set aiming to produce a specific capability.

It is obvious the AI didn't go to class *here*

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

The 117th & final launch of an #Ariane5 rocket is scheduled this afternoon.

Ariane 5 has played a crucial role in ESA's science programme from the very first flight, the failed launch of Cluster I, to almost the very last, with JUICE's success in April.

And between have come XMM-Newton, Rosetta, Herschel, Planck, BepiColombo, & JWST, all outstanding scientific missions 👏

Thank you Arianespace & CNES, & ad astra, Ariane 5 🙇‍♂️🚀✨

#Astrodon #SpaceFlight #EndOfAnEra #ItIsRocketScience

Apparently Zaha Hadid's firm are now generating design ideas by using "Zaha Hadid [building type] [location]" as image-generator prompts, and quite happy to say so publicly.

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/04/26/zaha-hadid-architects-patrik-schumacher-ai-dalle-midjourney/#

Howzat for efficiency, eh? The reduction of a starchitect's signature style to a tired cartoon cliche of itself used to take decades! What a time to be alive, etc etc.

Metrics
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks

9. Why does it matter?

At a very basic level, it's important to point to the immediate causal sources of problems that one wants to remedy, because those sources are the best targets for interventions.

Telling women to cite themselves more frequently is not necessarily going to be a fruitful remedy to a self-citation disparity if men and women with similar numbers of previous publications cite themselves at similar rates, and the disparity is driven by an upstream cause (publication number).