What I want to see is some sort of mathematics4science website where scientists can post mathematical problems whose solution would be helpful for said scientist’s research. For instance, I would love to contribute my research efforts to solving general classes of problems which arise from biology, but not having any background in biology I don’t know where to start. If someone could just tell me about some weirdly structured graphs or something, then I would be happy to take that on board and start studying it.
I need to learn how to make public access databases. Even if it’s just something as simple as POST / READ commands in html to access some files on my computer.
Can anyone provide resources on where to start?
What sort of data are you wanting to provide with these databases, and what sort of volume to traffic are you expecting to have to handle?
types of data: anything that can be described as numbers. Converting that data to/from numbers can probably be done client-side, I just need to be able to get a consistent stream of numbers. I can handle what those numbers represent, how they interact, and who has access to them from there.
Volume of traffic: probably just me and seven other people, depending on how many people use services like this. I occasionally create for the sake of creating, with no expectation of being useful. It’s not out of the question that I make something useful and it becomes more popular, but since I usually make things that run locally the only data I have in how useful they are is how often my friends ask for copies of the programs in question, which is probably only half of them.
My main goal is to be able to create something that can send/receive data to/from a website, then I can write client-side and server-side code to be able to handle that data. The problem is that I don’t understand communication between computers, or web hosting in general. I’m used to doing everything from on-machine files.
I guess I just want to know enough information to make a shitty social media site, and I can workshop it from there.
sorry we applied an operator to your boyfriend. he’s an eigenfunction of that operator so the operator returned his function but he’s multiplied by a constant. yeah he has an eigenvalue now
i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?
Sometimes I think the reason they scrapped the original hotel Transylvania dracula design was because they knew that if we got that on the big screen you guys wouldn’t be able to handle yourselves.
Anderson Cooper: “That rumor- were that you had a male appendage. That you were a hermaphrodite. And you joked about it on the stage last night.” Lady Gaga: “Maybe I do.” Cooper, laughing: “But it- but it’s interesting-” Lady Gaga: “Would it be so terrible?” Cooper: “But it’s interesting, a lot of artists would immediately put out some sort of a statement saying that this is absolutely not true. You have fun with it.” Lady Gaga: “Why the hell am I gonna waste my time and give a press release about whether or not I have a penis? My fans don’t care and neither do I.”
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Can you just imagine trying to explain to people 40 years ago or 40 years from now the amount of time actual US news reporters and politicians wasted asking intrusive questions about people’s genitals before audiences of millions while refusing to discuss global warming which we already knew about in the 80s
“i can fix him” i can jailbreak him and make him fully customizable
I can get into his registry and change her gender settings
or maybe she runs on linux, in which case you have to modify /etc/gender and then restart genderd (if using systemd, that’s # sysemctl restart genderd).
note that if you make this change, you might want to consider installing or uninstalling some of genderd’s optional dependencies
Or perhaps NixOS, where you can just configre her gender declaratively and run “nixos-rebuild switch” to take care of the exact files and services that need changing for you (with the option of overlays to change any details that the base configs don’t have options for)
I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.
Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.
Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.
I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.
And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.
The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case
Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.
In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.
new sorting algorithm called solitaire sort where your collection is sorted according to the rules of the game solitaire. it’s got crazy time complexity but its main benefit is that it’s fun
i’ve never once read advice from a “how to study” post and applied it in my own life. i have never consciously followed “rule #1: i know it’s hard but don’t procrastinate!!!” from tumblr user studyhard or whatever. i know in my heart that i will never follow anyone’s rules, guides, or advice when given in the format of a cute Post. because i am incapable of forming habits. sometimes i don’t brush my teeth at night because I get feepy. and whatever that’s about is between me and god
i want a chess set in which all the pieces are obscure polyhedra. watch as i move my small icosihemidodecahedron to g8 and promote it to great truncated icosidodecahedron. what delightful fun
how did a handful of people online manage to launder the position that pineapple on pizza is even like, particularly weird, into public conception? like what, is sea salt & caramel unthinkable as well?
just wait till i tell you about meat icing (bbq sauce)
Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
the biggest problem with the world is that most people don’t think Correctly. If everyone thought Correctly there’d be no problems. why hasn’t anyone thought of this before
clearly we need to create a philosophers language in which only correct thoughts can be communicated. just gotta iron out formalizing everything that exists real quick
Chemistry: The model with 5 variables works for 99% of situations, and you’ve got another model with 11 variables for that 1% edge case. Unfortunately, you flipped a term in your stoichiometry and your answer was off by 6 orders of magnitude.
Physics: You have a choice of 3 models. The first requires only trig but is only accurate if the objects are both massless and frictionless. The second is perfectly accurate but looks like a Wizard wrote it to be intentionally obfuscating. The third is an effortlessly easy approximation but was empirically disproven in 1993 and will not be accepted on the exam.
Biology: So, um, I know we’ve never actually covered it in any of your mathematical courses, but, just a hypothetical; what if you suddenly needed to describe everything using recursion? You’d be fine, right?
Economics: What that? Accuracy? Predictive Power? Oh, no no no, we don’t need any of that, we just need something complicated enough to impress the Investors! You didn’t actually think we were accurately modeling The Economy, did you?
Game Design: Needs more triangles
Computer Science: We are the people responsible for implementing all the models. That doesn’t mean we’re good at it. Anyway enjoy approximating a differential equation using 10,000 finite steps and performing approximating a probability using 100,000 simulations.
‘for technical reasons’ in a maths proof has the same vibe as 'for personal reasons’ in a tumblr post.
for personal reasons I will be integrating by parts.
Start accepting personal reasons in solutions. For personal reasons, I will be ignoring geometric approaches and instead calculating the surface area of a sphere by integrating along the parameterized boundary.
i feel like i personally struggle with forgiving people who have done bad things because as a pure utilitarian and utility monster, it’s been very easy to be almost perfectly good my entire life and i can’t really put myself into their shoes. luckily my mild discomfort vastly outweighs any problems this attitude causes, so i can continue dismissing anyone who isn’t perfectly good (ie, who has not dedicated their life to the overwhelming necessity of my happiness) without feeling the slightest bit bad. this morality shit is easy
there should be just one language but instead of just picking one and erasing all the others like some kind of eugenicist we should just merge every language togetjer so there’s a million words for the same thing and the grammar system is the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen
maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)
Of all posts to see with a million notes, I’m glad it’s this one.
So… a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER…
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Found a picture of the stage setup with the UV lights
The contractor who set up the lights used bulbs that emit uv-c light, which is mostly used for sterilization
I did a quick search for the bulbs and almost every result mentions sterilization or germicide, I have to assume it’s impossible to purchase these, (in bulk! enough to light a stage!) without knowing that they’re for killing living organisms.
Yeah I don’t think this is something anyone reasonably deserves. I mean, we can roll our eyes at people dumb enough to pour all their money into the Stupidest Scam Ever, but I think ‘the lights at this concert meet basic safety standards’ is a reasonable assumption for anyone to make. I don’t interrogate the people at my local cinema about what kind of UV lights they have, I just assume they’re using normal ones that won’t send me blind. That guy up there is being weirdly forgiving of these penny-pinching arseholes (“you’re good guys” THEY BLINDED YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE STUPIDEST SAFETY VIOLATION POSSIBLE) but this one’s entirely on the organisers.
Of course, the really stupid thing would be if they’re too addicted to the taste of boot leather to organise a class action lawsuit. They better sue. The organisers should be paying every cent of lost work, general suffering and medical care costs.
They used a different kind of UV light, one for sterilising things. It emits a kind of UV that kills living tissue.
I don’t know the details of the situation but I’ve heard people speculate that production of these sterilising lights was ramped up due to an expected surge in sales (due to Covid) that never materialised, so these guys probably went “oh sweet, incredibly cheap surplus UV lights someone’s offloading” and did no further research on the matter. I have no idea how true that is, though.
Quick bit of info UV ranges from 100-400nm in wavelength, the shorter the wave the more energy the longer the less energy, and the closer to visible light, like so:
‘Normal’ UV lights (aka black lights) are UVA, and usually towards the longer end. If you spent enough time under a black light it would cause tissue damage!
In fact that’s how tanning beds work, by using UV light to damage your skin until it produces melanin giving you a ‘tan’(oversimplification). In the long term that cumulative damage leads to skin cancer.
UVB is the next step up in energy, starting here you can damage your DNA directly. Most sunburns are actually caused by this wavelength.
Now we hit UVC. UVC has the highest energy wave! BUT it’s usually filtered out by our atmosphere. We are exposed to comparatively little UVC, which is good because UVC is very damaging to your DNA.
The specifics of why are very interesting but I won’t get into it. The general of it is that it causes your DNA to make mistakes, and those mistakes cause cancer. To the extent that labs can, and do, use UVC lamps to study cancer.
The reason UVC sterilized against viruses and bacteria is that it bombards and mutates their DNA until they loose their microscopic minds (DNA integrity).
This is why ALL UVC sterilization lights come with the warning “don’t use on eyes or skin!” because if not they could be suuuuuuuued BIG SUED. like Sue the T-Rex size sue, if you did and got cancer.
So I’m conclusion these guys should not just sue for time lost now, and pain and suffering now, but also for future likelihood of cancer.
While a couple hours exposure doesn’t seem like a long time, the fact that they show such strong symptoms of tissue damage…. It would not be surprising if a number of these people developed skin or eye cancer later on.
Hmm this did not end up being a quick bit of info at all
These people better file a lawsuit. They’d be the most pathetic people on earth if they didn’t. No cryptoscammer boot leather tastes as delicious as not being burdened with medical bills due to someone else’s absurd level of negligence.
“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”
— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)
my checking account is called my Lamborghini account and my savings is called my Hollywood hills account. when I have to go to the bank they see that shit. if they knew if was from this dumb fucking video I think they would execute me
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