Mind blowing dissertations: https://ideophone.org/mindblowing-dissertations/
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Daniel McQuillen
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Indie software dev. Energy efficient buildings. e-Learning. Lead dev iBiology Courses. Dev for Lawrence Berkeley Labs Energy Tech Area. Created KinesinLMS and SimpleDiagrams. Dad. Husband. Stuck at zFTP 250.
Entire Whole Earth Catalog now online for free: https://wholeearth.info/ … quote from Brand from the Wired article on release: “So you went from being passively disinterested to becoming actively interested in a lot of things. Every one of those reviews was like a half-open door of something you might well do with your young life. A lot of people went through those doors.” https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/
Aha! Didn't know about a lot of these command line tools on MacOS
Great intro to fourier transforms.
What a quote:
"I’ve spent between 1-2% of my seconds on the planet putting words in a row. For a programmer I’m pretty good at it. The differential value of being better at putting words in a row just dropped to nothing. Anyone can now put words in a row pretty much as well as I can."
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-worth-0
In order to stay informed and function as an intelligent member of society, each of us should, every day, try to keep up with the latest scientific research:
"“There is a number of chickens that could be in the intergalactic medium that we wouldn’t notice... How many chickens would it have to be before we notice?”"
Nuggets of Wisdom: Determining an Upper Limit on the Number Density of Chickens in the Universe
The lower limit on the chicken density function (CDF) of the observable Universe was recently determined to be approximately 10$^{-21}$ chickens pc$^{-3}$. For over a year, however, the scientific community has struggled to determine the upper limit to the CDF. Here we aim to determine a reasonable upper limit to the CDF using multiple observational constraints. We take a holistic approach to considering the effects of a high CDF in various domains, including the Solar System, interstellar medium, and effects on the cosmic microwave background. We find the most restrictive upper limit from the domains considered to be 10$^{23}$ pc$^{-3}$, which ruffles the feathers of long-standing astrophysics theory.
NY Times on Partha Dasgupta
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/alexander-skarsgard-partha-dasgupta-economy.html
From WIRED: "In a recent paper in the journal Ecology Letters, Jha and her colleagues showed that urban gardens can actually boost biodiversity"
https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-turn-your-backyard-into-a-biodiversity-hotspot/
