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It turns out the storyline surrounding Alum mining in the #Medici series on Netflix is related to actual historical events:

https://reason.com/archives/2019/03/23/not-even-the-pope-can-maintain

This is literally straight out of #StarTrekTNG

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/26/an-innocent-drink-could-alcosynth-provide-all-the-joy-of-booze-without-the-dangers

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Some neural net generated boat names, for your boat or perhaps your self aware starship http://dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/183612178576/sky-shark-sun-princess-windsprite-sandy

I just learned about the "Block Stacking Problem"

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.1933957

https://www.pbs.org/video/building-an-infinite-bridge-xwh5bz/

What a great way to introduce the harmonic series!

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ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

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@fjditr You might enjoy reading up on #Anglish.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf

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Methods for studying coincidences
Book by Diaconis, P and Mosteller, Frederick
In collections: Easily explained, Probability and statistics
This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and methods of analysis...
URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-44956-2_39
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Diaconis2006

A project to resurrect and promote English words unfairly consigned to the historical dustbin:

https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/

#WordWarriors

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Looking Glass Universe does nice hand-drawn animations for physics and maths bits. And today she shares what it feels like to have no apparent talent, but then nevertheless decide to get serious with #maths! This is so cool!

From being terrible at math to a quantum physicist (my journey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEhhQtq9gp4

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Designing a 4-hour introduction to LaTeX course for work. Finding it quite difficult to succinctly communicate a body of knowledge I built up over years by just using it and looking things up as I needed them.
I've never taught software before; any tips?

A\ very nice introduction to Rcpp and C++ for beginners:

https://teuder.github.io/rcpp4everyone_en/

#Rcpp #rstats

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reading Latin like, "superbum? more like super bum amirite"

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Just a piece of poetry I'd like to share... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgd8rwYvIc

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Spent some time playing with OpenAI's GPT-2 neural net, which, delightfully, writes fan fiction and generates very suspect science facts.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

Prompt: Harry wished that Hermione would hurry up. The icing was beginning to harden. Response: Even now, the cracks only hurt and were beginning to make the steel in her hair and tie in like clumps. Hermione sipped the bitter frost from her dinner and chewed on her eating soup.

Prompt: Darth Vader entered the room, cape billowing. “What is the meaning of these… festivities?” Response: ”Strange and solemn, now,“ Princess Leia replied. "Will pirates make jokes at Jabba’s birthday cake? Oh, and for a moment, Darth Vader was too full of himself for that ceremony, hence all the mirth.” “Did your father suffer there?” Vader roared and growled and turned to gaze up from the balcony.

Prompt: Throughout the long cold Antarctic winter, the residents of South Pole Station Response: Throughout the long cold Antarctic winter, the residents of South Pole Station lost virtually all of their ancient crustaceans, most notably pterodactyls, and all of the all-important plankton hydrates and protozoan eggs of the five ordered species of mammal. Other deposits for sea organisms included eraymarine calcifye

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neural net tried to generate pick up lines. use at own risk.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/159302925452/the-neural-network-generated-pickup-lines-that-are

Hey baby, you’re to be a key? Because I can bear your toot? You must be a tringle? Cause you’re the only thing here. Your beauty have a fine to me. I have to give you a book, because you’re the only thing in your eyes. Are you a candle? Because you’re so hot of the looks with you. I have a really falling for you. You’re so beautiful that you say a bat on me and baby. Are you a 4loce? Because you’re so hot! I want to

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Introducing draft pull requests - The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2019-02-14-introducing-draft-pull-requests/

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