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World-shaking in the most obscure way possible - Chemist 🧪- STEMmax & re-industrialize - Carcinization advocate
Joined February 2023
If you're clever and committed enough, you can see the colours of the stars - my favourite photo ever
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences will stop paying publishing fees - great news for the world, as CPC research culture is antithetical to scientific advancement and the less of it in AAA journals the better
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Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals
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Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive
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for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup
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Celebrating St. David's Day today, 1st March, and all things Welsh, with this delightful little medieval dragon with golden wings.
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Need a meeting with National Emegy Dominance Council & @SecWar - credibility as DOE collab/grantee, have innovative way to power AI data centers far faster & more reliably + enable cold+hot drones. On course to enabling North Asia, would prefer the real winners @USWREMichael
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Don't typically feel like an executive but Delta flight canceled one way, no options, so I flew to another airport & drove 5 hrs one way, then on the way back blew my connection, horrific options again, so I booked return leg with another airline. Extra $1k on a <$1k flight, lol
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Take me to your leader
https://t.co/mmvgkgPrgS The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae). The smallest bird in the world. Found in Cuba, it weighs less than a penny and its heart beats up to 1,200 times per minute. A tiny, feathered engine.
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Don't drink the Bing water! I am always pleasantly entertained at how bad AI is at chemistry but also at how bad Bing is relative to everyone else. There is exactly one good paper on this topic that I read at 2 AM one day and am at 'try other search engines' level.
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Hired people that is - alas I have never really been hired per se except as a stable hand
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Every time I see phi beta kappa on a CV I assume the person was drunk through undergrad.
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Regional fencing for-fun team event - we three lefties would join as "Team Sinister" 🤺 Left being bad makes sense when you drive in England, but it makes even more sense given the hilarious advantage when stabbing people (opponent needs to do the opposite parrying motion).
Old English didn't use the words “left” and “right” for the two hands. Instead, it used “winestre” and “swiþre”: ‘friendlier’ and ‘stronger.’ But ‘friendlier’ wasn’t meant as a compliment. Instead, it was a superstitious euphemism. The left side was considered unlucky and
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I meed to train nearly every new employee on precision vs. accuracy and this is the picture I am going to use now
recently I saw an art exhibition that truly made me both laugh and cry: a retrospective of a painter I had never heard of before, Mexican surrealist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010). Every painting felt like an "instant classic," as if it had always been part of the canon 1/
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Good stuff - it's true and take it from someone who has fumbled literal angels twice now I have already exceeded lifetime quota and am likely doomed
I cannot stress this enough: be you man or woman, when you find someone who is *TRULY GREAT* you must obsess over them and lock them down. This is not desperation in so much as it is recognition. Do not let a beautiful soul pass you by. Tether yourselves to each other.
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In Old English, “deer” meant any animal, and the species we now call a deer was called a “heorot,” which became the modern word “hart.” The other Germanic languages have kept our original word for a deer↓ 💙 Frisian: hart 🇳🇱 Dutch: hert 🦅 Low German: Hörsch 🇩🇪 German: Hirsch
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So long as you read it aloud and know long s (ſ), eth (ð), thorn (Þ), yogh (ȝ) and it's only really a tough slog in the last paragraph. More of this! Middle English in particular is a blast - Margery Kempe + Richard Rolle (TPOT progenitors!) particular favourites beyond Chaucer
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719). The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy
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Uriah the Hittite is slain by the Ammonites, c. 990 BC, colorized
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I need a pre-library that leads to my library-library like a library lobby
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