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Gutsy Markmark@gutsydon.space
2026-02-13

TIL Had no idea Eame's Power of 10 had a precedent (inspiration?) Robert Verrall - Cosmic Zoom (1968). No words. youtu.be/6lx_W-P_5eA #process #video #explanation

WIST Quotationswistquotes@friendica.world
2026-02-12

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I’m not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 4 [Holmes], Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #behindthecurtain #conjurer #explanation #falsemodesty #magictrick #magician #mystery #secret #selfdeprecating #selfeffacing

Osna.FMosnafm
2026-02-03

The German Adult Education Association (DVV) has criticized the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) for stopping the processing of applications fro... news.osna.fm/?p=32864 |

WIST Quotationswistquotes@friendica.world
2026-01-28

A quotation from Donald Knuth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald E. Knuth (b. 1938) American computer scientist, mathematician, academic
Essay (1996), “Foreword” to Marko Petkovsek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, A = B (1996)

More about this quote: wist.info/knuth-donald-e/81691…

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💧🌏 Greg CocksGregCocks@techhub.social
2026-01-27

Earth's Magnetic Shield Protecting The Planet From A Pelting By The Solar Wind
See how the sun's energy drives a remarkable planetary engine, the climate
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youtu.be/6hD52H7rQak?si=OBGYbK <-- shared video
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[‘cannibalising’ (sic) my own post (!) to bring attention to this outstanding video visualisation and overview, science education/explanation at its finest!; narrated so well (of course!) by #liamneeson !!]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #structuralgeology #magneticfield #SouthAtlanticAnomaly #SAA #spaceweather #geomagnetism #risk #hazard #hardening #magneticfieldstrength #protection #CME #coronalmassejection #sun #solar #solarwind #visualisation #visualization #education #scienceeducation #overview #explanation
#NASA

WIST Quotationswistquotes@friendica.world
2026-01-22

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 3 [Holmes], Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #certainty #cogitation #deduction #explanation #knowledge #understanding #proof

WIST Quotationswistquotes@friendica.world
2026-01-22

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 220 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17459/

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-01-21

President Lee calls for fairness in assessing Lee Hye-hoon, urging that her side be heard amid controversy over alleged issues.

en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

Danish Akhtardanish_akhtar7
2026-01-12

This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein:

"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself."

Danish Akhtardanish_akhtar7
2026-01-04

There is a saying in Mathematics that no matter how big a number you get, it will always be closer to Zero (0) than to Infinity (∞).


WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-12-30

: the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible

- French: explication

- German: Erklärung

- Italian: spiegazione

- Portuguese: explicação

- Spanish: explicación

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A daily challenge to chain words together @ wordwallgame.com

Aoi_X_Kaizaki
2025-12-30

Reply with the only. No , no . What is your #80's ?

Sgn98 (in English)sgn98
2025-12-29

I'm Italian, I live in Italy, so I have to love football at all costs because it's such an overrated sport that it's polluted the entire Italian pop culture? I was thinking about it while I was at a chain store trying out the PS5 once again, and among the many games listed on the main screen (no Astro Bot, sorry...) there was only EA Sports FC 25 available to boot... I find myself in a dilemma where, even though I know there's so much interest in that series, I still wanted to try to understand why it's still so loved, only to then be piled up in the used bins as soon as a new annual edition comes out, going to suffocate other games that remain in the used bins and are waiting for a possible new owner. Quick assessment of the character models and animations: Skin as smooth as cuttlefish, expressions as stiffable idiots, movement like spasmodic monsters and the speed of a chronically tired person with constant whippings from behind, alternating aggression due to the game's excessive automation (it seems like a management game with few moments of interactivity). We've reached the point where replicating realism has made sports simulations even more predictably bland, which I was already criticizing more than 15 years ago, and the situation has even worsened, to the point that the beauty remains only in the annually updated players. I also have the bad feeling that the developers either don't want to or are inept at replicating certain realistic details, but mostly on the...
Sgn98 (in English)sgn98
2025-12-27

Way back on 25 Dec. 2025, after returning home from my uncles' Christmas dinner, instead of resuming the 1500-piece puzzle, I decided to channel surf and this movie came to me... it would have been better if I had resumed the puzzle. With every scene I saw, I tried to understand why that film was considered a cult, then I went to read about it on the web and discovered that it is from the 70s and by Steven Spielberg from the direction and screenplay. At that time, audiences couldn't have done anything better than elevate a film with a predictable and trivial plot, seemingly endlessly long, and with scenes that repeat themselves even from different angles (like the professor repeating in different ways). I couldn't stop laughing at the narrative solutions brought to the screen and the idiocy of the characters set up like that, otherwise the plot wouldn't progress. The movie's saving grace is its final part, after the two useless protagonists (heterosexual, to use the excuse of the kiss that-must-be-there, even though he is married with children) discover the truth: choreography and "special effects" well-constructed and staged by the standards of the time. For the rest, the movie can even be watched at 5x and skipping many dead parts, besides the fact that the plot is rather weak and ineffective, so much so that I spent the time making light of every single detail that was, for me, out of place with my jokes, because it was a bore to watch it in the long run...
Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-12-26

Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

github.com/pranshuparmar/witr

Sgn98 (in English)sgn98
2025-12-17

Unlike many Nintendo 64 games that use EEPROM (from 4 to 16 Kbit, depending on the format) which, consequently, limits the number of slots or amount of savable data, Rayman 2 (and Tonic Trouble, Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers and 30s other games) uses a more generous and economical (and also long-term) 32 KB SRAM. It was even faster and easier for developers to integrate. The official emulator on N. Switch Online (and also Virtual Console and many very old or very new unofficial emulators), if not supported by the emulator and not correctly set to that type of format and amount of memory to save game data, what happens? It generates corrupt .eep or .sav files, preventing from loading the progress, forcing to use quick saves as a temp solution and wait for Nintendo to fix it ASAP and stop, again and again, doing things sloppily.
what's trendingtrndgtr
2025-12-12

Blowing Trumpets, Lights On - Hank Green and Alex O Connor

💧🌏 Greg CocksGregCocks@techhub.social
2025-12-02

Light Detection And Ranging Of Natural Systems
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doi.org/10.1038/s43586-025-004 <-- shared paper
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['primer'/'tutorial'/overview]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #explanation #tutorial #overview #primer #LiDAR #laserscanning #survey #pointcloud #spatialanalysis #airborne #satellite #usecase #vegetation #forest #forestry #resource #wildfire #fuel #elevation #topography #bathymetry #glaciology #glacier #workflow #naturalsystems #applications #algorithms #sensors #geomorphometry #geomorphology #drone #UAV #water #hydrology #groundbased #instrumentation #spatiotemporal #landsurface #landcover

LupposofiLupposofi@mementomori.social
2025-11-03

Chris Tucker is weighing reasons in an all-new SEP-entry, plato.stanford.edu/entries/wei

#sep #reason #evidence #ethics #action #justification #knowledge #explanation #moral #skepticism #reliabilism #epistemology #actualism #possibilism #particularism #generalism #philosophy #filosofia #tieto #toiminta

WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-10-21

A quotation from Archibald MacLeish

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author’s explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) American poet, writer, statesman
Poems, “Author’s Note” (1938)

More info about this quote: wist.info/macleish-archibald/7…


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