I am reading the 14 repositories for CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) at https://github.com/orgs/casangi/repositories There are only 6942 files and 1814 folders in total and what appears to be many duplicates. And MANY duplicate file and folder names. A good part of the problem with CASA is the poor methods for file management. If
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Orion’s Erupting Star System Reveals Its Secrets https://public.nrao.edu/news/orions-erupting-star-system-reveals-its-secrets/ “The range of angular scales we are able to explore with a single instrument is truly remarkable. ALMA gives us a comprehensive view of the dynamics of star and planet formation, spanning from large molecular clouds in which hundreds of stars are born, down to the
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum BREAKING: Travelling salesman problem is in BQP! * We all trust IACR preprints these days. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/626 Replying to @DulwichQuantum Give Grok an icon so its postings are clearly and immediately identified. Make the humans behind the green curtain (Wizard of Oz) an identifiable “Grok Team” where they can get credit and recognition
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@stubbendec78924 @goddess81oo, @elonmusk Debra, BellaPettit, You both followed me, and I have no reason why. When I follow people on X, or bookmark, or like, I get so much new stuff, it is impossible to sort through. Perhaps there is some law, or social courtesy that says I have to like-back or follow-back. I have
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Steve Mould: Bizarre traveling flame discovery at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhXQUzVMlQ About 1974/1975 I wss at the University of Texas at Austin. Ilya Prigogine was there with his group and they were studying chemical clocks, and chemical oscillators. Now Prigogine got his Nobel prize in 1977 for a range of things with names like “dissipative structures”, “systems far
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RobWords: Britain’s Celtic languages explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mroBpgBw0gU This was very interesting, if a little “jumping around”. You said to learn languages to preserve them, but human memories are not good storage devices. Even if we learn to recognize, we are mostly not very good speakers or teachers. Not with 8.1 Billion humans to coordinate with,
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Emily, Reading a paper, “The Languages of the World” and thought of you Languages of the World by Radoslaw Wojtowicz at http://languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/languages-of-the-world/ He is speaking about languages being lost and I was thinking that you are talking to native groups and cultures that might be dying out. He mentions the Tobian language of Palau, where
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Jasmine Choi: $69 vs $50,000 flute [PLAY & Compare] at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwoOe1AeP8 I was looking for some pure sounds and your video came up. Thank you for sharing. I wonder if some superfine sandpaper might help with cork and joints in a cheap flute. Your ability to produce such clear sound switching from a brand new instrument
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@Meta @NachmaniEliya At https://research.facebook.com/publications/unsupervised-singing-voice-conversion/ At the end of the abstract, please change “signing voices” to “singing voices”. I am certain “signing” has its own groups and reasons. But the groups are still separate mostly. Meta could… Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Unsupervised Singing Voice Conversion by Eliya Nachmani, Lior Wolf
Jawad Khan, As a simple example of what a common speech encoding can do on the Internet, consider “all the Arabic languages”. Rather than people writing from existing written languages, and some languages not easily translatable – with universal speech sounds encoding, many languages can be encoded as one. A synthetic code can be used,
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