Peter Morovic
@pezike.bsky.social
Fan of beauty in maths, art, science, humanity. Color and imaging scientist with a CS background. All-round awesomeness enthusiast. Ut unum sint 🤲🏼
http://about.me/petermorovic
http://about.me/petermorovic
I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ
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Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined.
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined.
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)
Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️🙅🏻♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️🙅🏻♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai
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Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!
Reposted by Peter Morovic
Gran Rosalía! "Com a artista hi ha una relació entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sé que aquest món no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest és l'espai de Déu".
youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...
youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...
M'allito amb la Rosalía - RADIO NOIA
YouTube video by Radio Noia
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Gran Rosalía! "Com a artista hi ha una relació entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sé que aquest món no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest és l'espai de Déu".
youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...
youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...
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"[A]ll are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together." Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"[A]ll are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together." Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...
Br. Guy Consolmagno on praying as a scientist | The Spiritual Life Podcast
YouTube video by America - The Jesuit Review
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October 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...
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“A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today.” Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________
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October 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today.” Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...
Neuroscience BS | RIT
Study the brain to help advance AI, combat diseases, and support those with learning challenges in RIT’s neuroscience degree.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...
“... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” (G. Eliot)
www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...
www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...
A Hidden Life (2019) ⭐ 7.4 | Biography, Drama, Romance
2h 54m | PG-13
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October 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” (G. Eliot)
www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...
www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...
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RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
Where do you stand?
"I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...
"I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...
September 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Where do you stand?
"I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...
"I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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When Purple Perceived Only at Fixation: A Fixation and Distance-Dependent Color Illusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
When Purple Perceived Only at Fixation: A Fixation and Distance-Dependent Color Illusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582
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Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/
September 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."
-Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）
-Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."
-Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）
-Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）
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New article: “Tra realtà e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dall’evoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica.” by Ugo Gianazza and Luca Magri
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
Tra realtà e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dall’evoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica. | Pupilla
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September 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New article: “Tra realtà e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dall’evoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica.” by Ugo Gianazza and Luca Magri
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
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Archimedes: "Every cylinder whose base is the greatest circle in a sphere and whose height is equal to the diameter of the sphere has a volume equal to 3/2 the volume of the sphere." Cicero found Archimedes' tomb ~137 yrs later with his famous theorem represented.
#Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry
#Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry
September 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Archimedes: "Every cylinder whose base is the greatest circle in a sphere and whose height is equal to the diameter of the sphere has a volume equal to 3/2 the volume of the sphere." Cicero found Archimedes' tomb ~137 yrs later with his famous theorem represented.
#Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry
#Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry
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“…not only faith and reason, but […] “open thought,” which neither closes nor severs but opens and connects.”
www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear...
by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear...
by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
Francis, the Romantic Pope
The true stake of Francis's papacy was the heart.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
August 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“…not only faith and reason, but […] “open thought,” which neither closes nor severs but opens and connects.”
www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear...
by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear...
by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
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August 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Delighted to see pupilla.org launched. A new, multidisciplinary, dialogue-focused preprint archive that @pezike.bsky.social and I have been working on. Do take a look at it and let us know if you would like to contribute/collaborate!
August 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Delighted to see pupilla.org launched. A new, multidisciplinary, dialogue-focused preprint archive that @pezike.bsky.social and I have been working on. Do take a look at it and let us know if you would like to contribute/collaborate!