Dipping a toe. I have some understanding of the most elementary fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, some practical physics and organic chemistry. I'd like to do a little passive learning if I can, with a view to learning programming later in life. We all see the same truth through a different paradigm, but sometimes math helps us better see and understand and convey the same thing. What a lovely backbone upon which to build a body of communication and thought. I treasure this server.
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Last Notes npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne Interesting you should mention restaurants. I've read of public review sites for universities catching on. To be sure I'm not suggesting they're a perfect solution; going solely by users' reviews of any specialist service usually has the catch that the user purchased the service because they themselves are not subject matter experts. They may struggle to fully understand what they see. The classic medical example is a surgeon with a higher mortality rate might look bad to the public, but a specialist might realise that surgeon is willing to offer the chance of surgery to frail or sick patients that other surgeons would turn down. Anyway, interesting times! https://www.terminalfour.com/blog/posts/tripadvisor-for-universities-a-new-trend-in-showcasing-external-student-reviews.html #measuring #metrics #universities #education #capitalism #funding #politics #higherEducation npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne I follow @npub1szz…t4fx who sells amusing warning stickers, including - my favourite - one with an (I assume crypto or radar maths?) equation in a yellow warning triangle, and under it the text to the effect of: "Caution: this sticker is classified as a munition under US export law". Absolute genius. https://unsafewarnings.etsy.com/ #law #lawfare #policing #sillyLaws #warnings #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo #healthAndSafety npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne There's a huge problem to my mind; the author of the page to which you link highlights it, and it is that passing this sort of stuff as terrorism means we need a new name for actual paramilitary groups like ISIS or (at a push) the Provisional IRA. I write this as someone who is against protest that blocks other people's free movement or damages property. I will do my protesting in my purchasing choices, with my vote, holding a placard, and if I can think of it, chanting (or otherwise publishing) something witty. And in spite of this I am aghast to have read about that royal marine who petitioned parliament being detained using terror laws, and of Palestine Action being declared a terrorist group. I think we have come to measure the quality of policing by how severe the Crown has been, and I think those who run the police would do well to consider Goodhart's Law. I have no objection to Palestine Action being called ideologically driven criminal actors, but to call them terrorists, on the basis of their actions to date, seems beyond the pale. Despite disapproving of their methods, I am somewhat tempted to donate to their legal fees! #Palestine #UK #policing #law #lawfare #antiTerrorism #Israel #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future. I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU. I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way. I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time. My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe! Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration. #mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne Rather! I'd far prefer to be policed in a regional population and by a regional force. If the Israelis chose the Met, that to me rings alarm bells to the same degree as the Met officers accepting the offer 🤣 #police #policing #WhatWouldSirRobertPeelDo #lawfare #civics npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne I was a bit surprised... I would be fascinated to know what police forces outside the Met thought about such things. npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne Ah shoot, I missed that - thank you! Yes I think you have the right of it - a lightweight version for text-only use is probably the answer if someone wanted to go down this route (or swap file magic). npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne I was just reading about #frugalComputing and found myself thinking of #Precursor It feels to me like it would be a good fit for something like #deltaChat https://vimeo.com/473293886 https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor #security #fpga #privacy #selfHosted npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne I admire anyone who puts this much diligence into a chat-up line. #physics #math #pickupArtists npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne I'm always deeply wary of anyone that isn't the Roman Empire trying to start a new salute (or reappropriate an old one). There are a variety of perfectly acceptable options (handshake, touching elbows, namaste) depending upon how socially distanced one wishes to be. I wonder if there's merit in making anyone wishing to start a new salute use one from the #ArnoldRimmer character in #RedDwarf. #SciFi #comedy #BBC #military #paramilitary #brownShirts #Fascism https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/114/280/158/868/030/952/original/e15ba514e841e20f.mp4 npub1jh3pszlz7hc9rk0tnjat7fau84rj73v8uc5neweyvkgrr065v0yq4tpafg doboprobodyne Okay I'm not sure if politics is a safe topic, so I'm going to try to stick to viewpoints that I'm modestly sure are pretty defensible. Wish me luck! #ukraine #russia #princessBride #ethics #chernobyl #news #war #geopolitics #meme #memes #nuclear https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/114/222/643/093/079/349/original/5f25fb68771b0356.jpg