Physics PhD candidate at University of Cologne and ML4Q, formally at LMU Munich
and UMass Amherst, experimentalist, math dilettante, #trainmastodon. he/they
My technical notes on a variety of physics and math topics: https://publish.obsidian.md/myquantumwell/
The first railway station opened in #Japan in 1872.
Watch 150 years of growth, to 2022, in this point-by-point video mapping of the spread of Japanese rail stations.
@timhenke I think on some level I might even disagree with the meme. They're not the same thing but the similarity has to be significant in a meaningful way beyond it just being neat.
things like universality in statistical physics also blow my mind and I can't let that go either.
This week I've been reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
This is one of the most imaginative books I've read in a while with worldbuilding that provides multi-layered themes surrounding the development of technology and society from the perspective of uplifted spiders and humans that have escaped their dying world.
It also spans thousands of years and yet it doesn't forgo having depth to its characters either.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time
I haven't been keeping a close watch, but I'm pretty sure the patronage for Mastodon in Euros has close to tripled since Musk took over Twitter, and that's pretty impressive.
I'm cautiously optimistic that free and ad-free social media can be made into a sustainable model once again.
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