Freelance data scientist, software engineer, and economic analyst. I help teams to build products that let people take decisions with data.
Home brewer, vegetable gardener, circuit tinkerer.
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Antimatter Trucker is finally a job title! But don’t worry, this isn’t going to be “The Wages of Fear, 2026”:
“The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. Should the containment fail, and the antimatter make contact with normal matter, the resulting pulse of energy would be so feeble, the load doesn’t even warrant a radioactive label.”
More "Laundry Animal Art" by Helga Stentzel, who I've posted before under the #WomensArt hashtag
But I especially love the dinosaur ... ! 🦕
RE: https://gruene.social/@Gerbsen/116052492129846084
Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft:
2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro
(Source: German Parliament 21/4006 page 96 https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2104006.pdf )
Daniel asks what #FreeSoftware #OpenSource could have been procured and developed with such sums and how you feel about when you see those numbers. He also fears this trend will continue.
Here’s an example of a motor in PGA3D creating a spiral of triangles.
A motor is a multivector that combines a rotor (specifies a 3D rotation) with a translator (specifies, naturally enough, a 3D translation). You can then apply this multivector to another to do both at the same time. Clojure's `iterate` is a pleasure here:
(take steps (iterate (fn [s] (map #(transform % motor) s)) shape))
Governments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
I know punching down on Matrix is something people like to do here, but this was a good read about how difficult things are for them: https://lobste.rs/s/muk05v/reflections_on_matrix_criticism_over#c_8obbim #Matrix
If you’re in Berlin next Tuesday, come to
SHOW US YOUR SCREENS
Live Code Hack Night
Tuesday, May 27th, 19–22h
Offline, Lichtenrader Straße 49, Berlin
https://offline.place
There will be an open projector and speakers for anyone who wants to *share their screens* with a ≤10 minute performance, demo, presentation, etc.
+++ More info and signups: https://pads.offline.place/p/show-us-your-screens
+++ Telegram channel https://t.me/showusyourscreens
Today, we have fined Apple and Meta for breaching the Digital Markets Act.
Apple restricts developers from informing customers about offers outside the App Store, while Meta doesn’t give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data.
Read more: https://europa.eu/!9RDQmk
Greg Egan
Natasha 
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Matthias Kirschner
World Beauty 
Jack Rusher
BirdiBirdson
Karsten Schmidt
paupowpow
Rib 
European Commission