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Sam Levine
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Professional chemist. Amateur baker. Bike commuter.

Favorite stars don't cost money and can make someone smile (or at least feel seen) so I use them often […]

[bridged from https://neuromatch.social/@SRLevine on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Today I explained what “cloudfire” was to the 6th graders (can’t do our design work because of the failure point of cloud computing) and I also gave several shamelessly smug knowing looks to the IT head who fights with me about having them code in compilers that run on their chromebooks (I do […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Hilariously, I found out about the #cloudflare outage by trying to use a goat gestation calculator from the American Goat Society after breeding the first goat of the year this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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And it's a wrap. My thermodynamics lectures are done for another year. It was all too fast as usual, but i hope that the idea of entropy as dispersal and the idea of Gibbs energy as the criterion of spontaneity and a measure of the work you can extract from a chemical system will stick with many […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Good morning to the 1/16 of the internet that’s still functioning mostly as intended.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Needing help from the #rstats or #python gurus. I received a huge excel file with multiple formulas and I need to convert it to a R or Python code. I need to extract all formulas from the file. So I tried reading it in R {readxl} but it extracts the computed value, not the formula in the cell […]
Original post on datasci.social
datasci.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I do feel like MS/Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare need to do a better job of coordinating their outages so some of yall can get some much needed time away from IT
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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lol fedi all over "why isn't my credit union app working this morning"

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November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Scanning a preprint: "What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia" https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.09685

"We find that the elected official and controversial article subsets showed less similarity between their Wikipedia version and Grokipedia version than other pages. The […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I remember it being massive news when Pebble made moves to resurrect. Now they're trying to forcibly take away the grassroots dev community that kept Pebbles **alive** after they were abandoned by the original company.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me […]
Original post on activitypub.space
activitypub.space
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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And fuck everyone in particular who ever engaged me with some mealy mouthed defense of Larry summers’ comments about women’s abilities
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Does anyone here use Rockwell razors? What’s your experience like with them? Bonus points if you use them on your head…
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Welcome to the great Fedi ham radio-bicycle-sewing convergence zone. 🤪
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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DC chemistry friends?
Don’t suppose anybody local has insights into what being near National Harbor Convention Center is like? www.asbmb.org/annual-meeting #ChemChat #ITeachBio
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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NWS Los Angeles: " Another storm will bring rain to the area into Tuesday, with 1-2 inches expected, locally 3 inches for the Santa Ynez Range. This system will be colder, with 1-3 inches of snow forecast above 6,000 feet tonight. Snow could be seen as low as 4,500 […]

[Original post on ai6yr.org]
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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So a thought puzzle:

You have cat 1, cat 2, cat food, cat medication, and a toddler.

Cat 1 and cat 2 need cat food. Cat 2 also needs his medication. Cat 1 must not have cat 2's medication.

The toddler cannot be let out of your sight. But cat 2 can only get so close to the toddler before he […]
Original post on friendsofdesoto.social
friendsofdesoto.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Very good opportunity at University of Leibniz (Hannover), with six open-topic positions available (5 years, progressing to ongoing).

https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8122/

#academicchatter #getfedihired #fedijobs
Open-Topic ‚Leibniz New Horizon Fellows‘ Professorships – Leibniz University Hannover
www.uni-hannover.de
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I actually do think it may be important to explain to men that there is a difference between their attractions/desires and their actions. You can have all kinds of fucked up stuff in your head and it does no one any harm. The second you act in a way that crosses someone's boundaries you're shit.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A friend came up with a nice metaphor for a message you would have replied to but somehow missed: "It disappeared over the event horizon of my inbox."
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More"
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This #solarpunksunday support my short film, to enable me master the visual effects needed to bring a near future world to life. I'm telling a story set in a country without governments, politicians or police, where ordinary folk govern themselves in a direct #democracy Sharing this post with […]
Original post on mograph.social
mograph.social
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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My latest #crafting project are these small #knitted mice. They are about 7.5cm tall and knitted on 2mm d needles. I found a matchbox style box that they fit in and at some point will attempt to make it look like an old Beehive matchbox.

Some of you may remember […]

[Original post on mastodon.nz]
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: #congestionpricing is too little, too late. It's even worse since Hochul watered down the fees.

But pedestrianizing huge portions of Manhattan? Now *that* is the shit! […]

[Original post on social.ridetrans.it]
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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We have an alligator and we have rich people

There is no excuse for the death toll to be as low as it is

#Monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #alligator2themutation1991
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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I kinda want a jaws ripoff that's a 1:1 except it turns out that the event planner has massive insurance on their event and actually want it cancelled and they think the monster is a fake but SURPRISE IT'S NOT

#Monsterdon #alligator2
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM