ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #Economist W. Arthur Lewis (1915) - famous for his contributions to development economics. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979.
Birth Anniversary of #Mathematician David Hilbert (1862) - known as one of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic.
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Krishna Shenoy (@shenoystanford) has passed -- he was a model scientist, teacher, colleague, and friend who will be missed dearly at #Stanford and beyond. He accomplished more during his short time than most could over several lives...here is just a taste of his amazing contribution to neural prosthetics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPvylmzrJCY
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"The importance of stupidity in scientific research"
I just rediscovered this classic paper. Highly recommended, particularly for #PhD students!
"Science makes me feel stupid too. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it. So used to it, in fact, that I actively seek out new opportunities to feel stupid. I wouldn’t know what to do without that feeling. I even think it’s supposed to be this way. Let me explain."
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/30038/The-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research
Martin A. Schwartz, Journal of Cell Science 2008
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I'm new to Mastodon and looking for #microbiologists to follow. #microbiology #science
I just migrated to this server, still figuring it all out!
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Henrietta Dombrovskaya: Chicago PostgreSQL User Group in 2023 https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/chicago-postgresql-user-group-in-2023/
#postgres #postgresql
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Chinese rocket stage CZ-2C-Y35, launched in 2014 to sun-sync orbit, reentered at 1512 UTC Jan 21 over northern Libya, heading north towards Epirus and Albania.
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A rare thing, too.
The universe tends toward entropy.
One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.
Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.
It is 32,000 years old.
The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.
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What I'm listening to today: "GRP A4 sequence 3:1", Klang Zaun
The A4, it turns out?, is a $5000 synthesizer the size of a desk, designed to be a "more affordable" version of the A8 (a $10,000 synthesizer the size of a wall).
No drums in this, just synth tones that don't feel so much retro as prehistoric, like that proto-electronic stuff from the 70s before Giorgio Moroder realized synths were for dance music. It's hypnotic and ends with you kind of wanting more.
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Learned how to use/implement Rodrigues' Formula for those off x-y-z axis rotations.
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One of my first trips the the Trexler Nature Preserve in 2021 was probably one of the best sunsets I've seen since.
JasonFinkPhotography.com
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ICYMI: Hack the Pentagon 3.0 bug bounty announced https://www.cybercareers.blog/2023/01/hack-the-pentagon-3-0-bug-bounty-announced/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cybersecurity #cyber #infosec
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This is pretty near:
Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!
TL;DR;
Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!
1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.
https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html
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I don't like owning a lot of things, but I sure do still love this thing. Makes me happy every time.
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If layoffs are about over hiring, why am I seeing so many 15+ year Googler friends let go? They’re the ones who built it into a business with $100 billion in cash.
It’s not about over hiring.
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“If the World were 100 People”
25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)
60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans
31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other
Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other
86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water
Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data
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The Google layoffs remind me: When I considered starting my first company I worried about "job security".
My then-girlfriend said:
"Big companies do not provide job security. They provide the service that you are the last person to know when the job is gone."
Wisdom.
Joined Nov 2022
