Oh, very neat: a library of open access academic books. The section on Physics has a few classics, as well as some nice new books.
https://library.oapen.org/browse?type=classification_text&value=Physics
Oh, very neat: a library of open access academic books. The section on Physics has a few classics, as well as some nice new books.
https://library.oapen.org/browse?type=classification_text&value=Physics
This is really driving me up the wall. I cannot find the Mathematica code I used several years ago to create this image (which I used for a custom Mathematica icon).
The code was adapted, I think, from something posted in the Mathematica Journal or maybe one of Wolfram's old archives. I know it's a long shot, but does the image ring a bell with anyone?
Hard to believe the tech companies weren’t being completely honest with us.
It's not like we (society) talked about this and decided we'd sacrifice ground-based astronomy in exchange for internet access in remote areas.
Musk and a few others did this unilaterally. It wasn't to help anyone. They did it to make a profit and consolidate control over critical infrastructure.
But I was assured that this was a v0.1 problem that would be fixed before more satellites were sent into orbit
Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.
(www.bbc.com)
Letting this guy be in charge of starlink and spacex is a national security risk. He’s radicalized, erratic, and dangerous. Nationalize both companies and boot him.
Tom Gauld in yesterday’s Guardian Books.
Anyway, she's 11 now. Her bedtime is later, and she knows we don't mind if she stays up reading. She still loves books, but there are lots of things – messaging with friends, Roblox, etc – competing for her attention.
At some point, though, she figured out how to check out books on Libby, and read them on her iPad. She doesn't need our help at all.
It's the weirdest thing. Someone must have installed the app, entered her library card information, and left the icon there on the home screen.
In fact, it's sort of a long con initiated by my wife, who was clever enough to spend years writing novels like it's no big deal, leaving the kid to wonder what all the fuss is about.
I'll add the same comment here that I added when I first shared it on Twitter: The “great dad" replies warm my heart, but my wife was in on it, too. It takes teamwork to run this kind of scam on a savvy kid.
The strangest thing is seeing someone else share it, get a bunch of replies, and try to walk this tightrope where they respond without acknowledging that it's someone else's kid.
It still gets shared probably once per month by "wholesome meme" type accounts on IG and Facebook. Each time I get a stream of messages from old friends asking "Is this you?”
I've even seen it shared on here; it's so strange when it racks up hundreds or thousands of reposts for other people. Someone will share a screenshot, maybe add and emoji, and then half the replies mistake it for an actual post.
This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.