Michael G. Lerner

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Computational biophysicist at Earlham, Biomembranes, computational oncology. Reducing distracted hyperbusyness. Decolonizing my sylabus. Secure email: [email protected]

twitter.com/mglerner

Decolonising Introductory Physicshttps://github.com/mglerner/IntroductoryPhysics
Infrequent bloghttps://mglerner.github.io/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1222-3212
BSKYhttps://bsky.app/profile/mglerner.bsky.social
Do any of you use an under-the-desk exercise bike/treadmill/etc? I'm considering it.
Voir dire. Struck without cause. Apparently this is common for professors.
I don't know what gets you back on your game, but I put on my headphones and went old-school formative music. Stared with Public Enemy (Shut Em Down), continued with Rage against the Machine, KRS-One, Sleater-Kinney, Bad Religion, Ani Difranco, a little Primus, and I'm back up.
Hey #Physics #Biophysics #compchem & other friends! In my physics senior sem, my students want me to scrap a good chunk of the syllabus to write a basic #MD #MolecularDynamics engine. Any advice for doing that with advanced undergrads? Looking to make sure they get lots of good physics along the way
My twins, the little babies, start junior high tomorrow! And my oldest daughter just game me an โ€œair fiveโ€ because she thinks quantum tunneling is cool. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
Letโ€™s just say that Iโ€™m beginning to have my doubts.

This is not so well known, but before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with Edward Lorenz!

From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. These were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-heroines-of-chaos-20190520/

Animation: Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

Quanta Magazine
Does anyone know how to insert an image into an #excel or #GoogleSheets cell using #python? Maybe #openpyxl or #xlsxwriter ... the trick is, I don't want to insert it so that it's aligned with the cell. I want it to actually be the cell data. Like you get with Insert Image.
Trying to develop a satisfying feed on mastodon seems to be a flop after 6 months of trying.
Discovery is tedious and slow people aren't reciprocal with following and the results are a feed which is extremely underwhelming and brief.
This seems to be a different experience for accounts with some critical mass of reach, but since this is hampered by the discovery issues how can this be overcome?
Boost at will to prove me wrong ๐Ÿ™
I made this Jupyter notebook for interactive visualizations of the normal modes of a drum head. You can drag the time slider around to see the drum head move. It was fun for my Math Methods #ITeachPhysics class.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xyifxwRxvRGUJ84MOR1P3yTr-0lM411S?usp=sharing
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