Institute for Advanced Study: Turbulence as Gibbs Statistics of Vortex Sheets – Alexander Migdal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VWi6o18wkI In many things, counting, differences, sums and measurement are more fundamental than analytic mathematics. More humans can benefit from engineering and learning how to learn, than teaching them to memorize symbols and act pridefully. Shameful lack of real data, videos,
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Julian Stirling @stirling_julian I’m delighted to still be publishing papers almost 2 years after leaving academia to become freelance. This article is more of a “rant with references”, I try to tackle the problem of perverse incentives that prevent open science from flourishing. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2023.0215 Replying to @stirling_julian There are fundamental experiments that can examine fundamental
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Cesium @CesiumJS Japan 3D Buildings are now live on Cesium ion! Create immersive digital twins with 23 million 3D buildings across Japan, combining over 200 CityGML datasets from MLIT PLATEAU Platform into one comprehensive tileset. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q02znxDz0 @ProjectPlateau https://pic.x.com/ikbvzgnhs9 Replying to @CesiumJS and @ProjectPlateau I wish I had this when I helped set up
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Aggregate Organisms, Naturally evolved intelligence, directed intelligence, Galactic colonization – Richard and CoPilot talk about life and AI evolution. ## Richard Collins I try every day to review random pages on Wikipedia. Today it came up with “Vahlkampfia jugosa”, a species of “excavates” which classifies it in the domain Eukaryota. When I checked the Tree
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China needs smarter planners for moon projects. An orbital infrastructure for the Moon would let ANY groups get communication, memory and powerful computing to projects and experiments on the far side. Real planning, collaboration, real infrastructure can help whole generations work efficiently and with much less risk. Every country “doing its own thing” where the
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If I had billions of dollars, I would not waste a chunk of it taking a personal trip around the moon. I would put a satellite in orbit as part of a Moon Internet system and put lots of cameras and sensors on board. Then share the data with the roughly 2 Billions kids now.
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Sandy Smith, I was dreaming about you. You were in India meeting with thousands of women of all ages. And you were all sewing. More properly, you were all “demonstrating and preserving” “the ancient and eternal arts of fabric and string and thread”. So there was much embroidery, crochet, lace, geometric, permanent, and elaborate constructions
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I often review groups related to global topics. For instance, today (“punctuated evolution”) which on Google search shows 56,200 entry points. That ought to be small enough to sample all of those, but using manual methods is not really accessible for study. Is it possible to get random samples from Google API? For instance (“evolution”
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Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How does complexity arise in (macro)evolution? Is it a continuous or a stepwise process? What about hierarchies? Check this new @Trends_Ecol_Evo review led by @svalver on the @eldredge and Gould’s Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium across scales. https://cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00114-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0169534724001149%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://pic.x.com/z7qwsxp1bd Replying to @ricard_sole @Trends_Ecol_Evo and 2 others Richard Sole, it seems like your groups
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Mysteries of Missing Galaxies Solved! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI364qeyzQ8 Do you remember when you were a baby and your parents played peek-a-boo? Quickly gets boring. Only so much surprise can be squeezed from “I hid something. Here is is!!”. I don’t want explanations, just data and tools. Not filtered or hoarded. Filed as (Knowledge should be recorded,
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