George Musser

@gmusser
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contributing editor for #ScientificAmerican, contributing writer for #QuantaMagazine, writer for #NautilusMagazine, author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation (2023), Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory (2008)
in my spare time, I play #bassguitar in a local cover band, dance Cuban-style #salsa, and volunteer for my local historical society
formerly @gmusser@twitter.com
also @gmusser.bsky.social and @georgemusserjr
and, before that, KF6LOJ
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George MusserMar 17
April 30th will mark the end of the first 100 days. Will the U.S. still be a democracy then?
No. Trump is already flouting court orders.
90.9%
Yes. Trump is making so many enemies.
0%
Yes. I’d give American democracy till August.
9.1%
Poll ended at .
George MusserFeb 23
I’m trying to track down a copy of “The Devils' Dance” by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Donald Rayfield. Neither Amazon nor any other site I’ve tried has it, and library copies are few and far between. Please PM me if you find a copy in your local bookstore or have a copy you’d be willing to part with.
George MusserFeb 1
I started season 2 of #Severance and it's just not as compelling as season 1. Should I stick with it?
George MusserJan 20
Corey S PowellJan 16

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed into the walkway outside his home.
The offending space rock has since been bagged & tagged.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-meteorite-strike-first-audio-1.7430018 #science #space #nature #disaster

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first | CBC News

A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.

CBC
George MusserJan 20
Corey S PowellJan 20

Remembering another notable date in history: 100 years ago this month, Edwin Hubble proved that our galaxy is just one small island in a vast cosmic sea.

Our awareness of galaxies is just one century old! I dig into the full story in my latest Invisible Universe column:

https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-100th-birthday-of-the-universe #space #science #astronomy #history

The 100th Birthday of the Universe

One century ago, on January 1, 1925, Edwin Hubble proved the existence of other galaxies and blew open the frontiers of the cosmos.

Invisible Universe
George MusserDec 11, 2024
Does anyone use Google Calendar integration with #Zoom? I’m wondering how to select which calendar, among the many that I have set up in my Google account, the Zoom app will sync to. Zoom support and documentation are hopeless!
George MusserNov 26, 2024
Dan LuuNov 22, 2024

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption, which eventually causes you to lose: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=135463.

In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to move down and to the left so I couldn't stop other missiles.

$2000-$3fff &D

Commodore 64 Crack: $2000-$3fff &D by Genesis Project. Released on 19 December 2014

Commodore 64 Scene Database
George MusserNov 13, 2024
Scientific AmericanNov 13, 2024

Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-alternate-timelines-real-quantum-physics-explains/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm

Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains

The multiverse offers no escape from our reality—which might be a very good thing

Scientific American
George MusserOct 11, 2024
Kurt Gödel is famously said to have found a flaw in the U.S. Constitution—“Godel’s Loophole”—that lets a dictator take over legally. He never said what it was, and many have speculated, but I noticed a possibility while reading Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses: Article I, Section 10, the “contract clause.” By framing bonds as inviolable contracts, Moses could tear down neigborhoods on his own say-so, and neither city nor state could do a thing. See this discussion: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-07-sec-pete-a/transcript/
George MusserOct 11, 2024
Convolutional neural networks—the machine-learning systems routinely used for image recognition—are inherently limited, according to a new study by @lamaral and colleagues. #ConvNets fail on data above a certain threshold of complexity. They lean too heavily on shortcuts—spurious correlations that don’t generalize—and on localized features such as texture, to the neglect of the overall scene. h/t @manlius https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213905 #AI
Computational experiments with cellular-automata generated images reveal intrinsic limitations of convolutional neural networks on pattern recognition tasks

The extraordinary success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various computer vision tasks has revitalized the field of artificial intelligence. The out

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