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Is the #wikipedia in dire need of more cash? Their pleas are alarming--- but how are they really doing?
I've always been reticent to donate since I wrote so many articles for them and created "project afro" to improve the depth of coverage on people of the African diaspora--
For all this work I got very little support or kindness, mostly outright hostility. It was like a war to even get some articles to EXIST.
But, I also think the wikipedia is one of the last "good" parts of the internet.
Today I said goodbye to Twitter (at least until things... doubtful... improve), and I think #TwitterMigration will increase, so another introduction!
I'm an information science professor who researches #techethics #aiethics #onlinecommunities #hci #cseducation and #fandom (also, at least once, all of those things at the same time!)
I also do a lot of science communication (and occasional silliness) on #TikTok (@professorcasey) and my #YouTube (CaseyFieslerPhD) is full of #gradschool advice!
I had been telling me daughter that energy is the capacity for doing work. However I realised this isn't really accurate, so I've been googling around for a better definition, without much success so far. My confusion is summarised in this ChatGPT session.
Can anyone help me understand what "energy" really is?
@dgbassani my 7y old daughter wears an ffp2 indoors and only takes it off when there is optimal ventilation
She has not been sick with any respiratory illness since starting to mask in 2020
She has 5 CoViD Vaccinations (4x 15ug Comirnaty original, 1x 15 ug Comirnaty B.A.5/ancestral)
She has gotten a flu shot every single year.
A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/
No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.
Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...
... the *algae* is producing the electrons.
Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8
I think some non-julia programmers are reading this, some of you are doubtless thinking "Putting unicode characters in your code is a terrible idea. I don't have a ψ or ħ keys on my keyboard!"
Well, in julia's REPL, and also in any text editor with a julia plugin, you can type things like \psi or \hbar and then hit the TAB key to get it replaced with the unicode character. Very useful! And if you ever don't know how to type a character, you can paste it in the REPL help mode and it'll tell you:
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