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software consultant, former cto, long-time software developer, mostly c# and .net, and of course the ubiquitous web stack...bsme/mba/usaf-icbm/dev/aloha
“Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, becoming the most distant human-made object ever. Traveling at around 11 miles per second (17.7 km/s)…”
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Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km)
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November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, becoming the most distant human-made object ever. Traveling at around 11 miles per second (17.7 km/s)…”
scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is...
scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is...
RFK Jr., health secretary, tells Congress “people shouldn’t take medical advice from me” - The Guardian
“Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest victories, and the measles vaccine alone is estimated to have saved 90 million lives in five decades.”
“Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest victories, and the measles vaccine alone is estimated to have saved 90 million lives in five decades.”
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
RFK Jr., health secretary, tells Congress “people shouldn’t take medical advice from me” - The Guardian
“Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest victories, and the measles vaccine alone is estimated to have saved 90 million lives in five decades.”
“Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest victories, and the measles vaccine alone is estimated to have saved 90 million lives in five decades.”
When fitting a non-linear model using linear regression, we typically generate new features using non-linear functions. We also know that any function, in theory, can be approximated by a sufficiently high degree polynomial. This result is known as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E...
#math
#math
Stone–Weierstrass theorem - Wikipedia
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April 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
When fitting a non-linear model using linear regression, we typically generate new features using non-linear functions. We also know that any function, in theory, can be approximated by a sufficiently high degree polynomial. This result is known as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E...
#math
#math
There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust www.noemamag.com/theres-life-...
There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust | NOEMA
Revelations about microbes living deep inside Earth’s crust are challenging scientists’ conceptions of life and how it evolves.
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April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust www.noemamag.com/theres-life-...
Foraging for breakfast...quite successfully #pawleys_island #sc
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Foraging for breakfast...quite successfully #pawleys_island #sc
Franklin Roosevelt put it best when he said that “necessitous men are not free men”.
If eliminating unfreedom is the end, then the creation of Universal Basic Services (UBS), is the means. 2/2
If eliminating unfreedom is the end, then the creation of Universal Basic Services (UBS), is the means. 2/2
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Franklin Roosevelt put it best when he said that “necessitous men are not free men”.
If eliminating unfreedom is the end, then the creation of Universal Basic Services (UBS), is the means. 2/2
If eliminating unfreedom is the end, then the creation of Universal Basic Services (UBS), is the means. 2/2
The economist Amartya Sen defined unfreedom as constraints beyond our control which undermine our ability to pursue lives of meaning. Inadequate access to food is a source of unfreedom, as is being homeless or not having an education. 1/2
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism | Aaron Bastani
A hundred years ago the average person, in one of the the world’s wealthiest societies, could expect to live until 40. Now global life expectacy is 73
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The economist Amartya Sen defined unfreedom as constraints beyond our control which undermine our ability to pursue lives of meaning. Inadequate access to food is a source of unfreedom, as is being homeless or not having an education. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
A very opinionated short list.
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February 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
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www.popularmechanics.com/science/a467...
“Instead of spreading out as one would expect, these superfluid quantum gasses “slosh” heat side to side—it essentially propagates as a wave. Scientists call this behavior a material’s “second sound” (the first being ordinary sound via a density wave).”
“Instead of spreading out as one would expect, these superfluid quantum gasses “slosh” heat side to side—it essentially propagates as a wave. Scientists call this behavior a material’s “second sound” (the first being ordinary sound via a density wave).”
Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’
Here’s visible proof for the first time ever.
www.popularmechanics.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a467...
“Instead of spreading out as one would expect, these superfluid quantum gasses “slosh” heat side to side—it essentially propagates as a wave. Scientists call this behavior a material’s “second sound” (the first being ordinary sound via a density wave).”
“Instead of spreading out as one would expect, these superfluid quantum gasses “slosh” heat side to side—it essentially propagates as a wave. Scientists call this behavior a material’s “second sound” (the first being ordinary sound via a density wave).”
“To keep track of this cosmic decay, physicists employ a concept called entropy. Entropy is a measure of disorderliness, and the declaration that entropy is always on the rise — known as the second law of thermodynamics — is among nature’s most inescapable commandments.”
www.quantamagazine.org
www.quantamagazine.org
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...
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December 15, 2024 at 8:35 AM
“To keep track of this cosmic decay, physicists employ a concept called entropy. Entropy is a measure of disorderliness, and the declaration that entropy is always on the rise — known as the second law of thermodynamics — is among nature’s most inescapable commandments.”
www.quantamagazine.org
www.quantamagazine.org
