"Data scientist and privacy expert", New Zealander, moving out of galaxy simulations, getting back into RPGs. He/His/Him.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined August 2010
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BREAKING: Biden passes the test. He will diminish, and go into the West, and remain a single-term President
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In a recent episode of Between 2 Cairns, a mailbag question asked "What books should I look at to learn graphic design."
My answer is: Cookbooks. Like RPG books, they thrive on efficient info design. They need to be usable and beautiful and interesting and user centered.
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Yoshi's Safari has an anti-piracy measure where it tricks the system into doing something the cartridge should not be able to do, and locks up if the action succeeds. The below image uses anthropomorphized versions of the game and system to explain the trick.
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20 years ago we characterised the Galactic Habitable Zone (where to look for complex life in the Milky Way), for the first time in a quantitative sense; thank you to @ScienceMagazine for publishing it & the readers of @NatGeo for voting it a Top 10 News Story of the Year!
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Doctor Who, for some unknown reason, refers to mavity as ‘gravity’ for a full 60 years until it is finally fixed in Wild Blue Yonder. (1963-2023)
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Historian here. Really disappointed to see a blockbuster movie in 2023 still spreading the discredited claim that Napoleon kept his armies at the end of his sleevies.🧵THREAD👇
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This is hilarious and absolutely my peak moment in science outreach HAHAHA
Avi Loeb's "alien spherules" from the seafloor have been debunked. "New research has shown these "spherules" aren't alien technology; they're coal ash from human activity since the industrial revolution." by @StartsWithABang realclearscience.com/2023/11…
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Harvard astronomer’s “alien spherules” are industrial pollutants
Those "alien spherules" that Avi Loeb collected from the bottom of the ocean?
That's not alien technology; it's human-made pollution (coal ash) from industrial activity.
bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…
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This is for sure the one that will get me cancelled.
The unstructured nature of college time can encourage isolation, apathy, and lethargy in students and creates circumstances where depression breeds like rabbits.
A nurturing prof should be careful being too lenient with
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This year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over a 200 year period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve.
The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society in the early nineteenth century, but then started to increase with the growth of the service sector in the early twentieth century. Goldin explained this pattern as the result of structural change and evolving social norms regarding women’s responsibilities for home and family.
#NobelPrize
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Everything, Everywhere, All On One Plot
ALT Plot of objects with different mass and radius, going from subatomic particles up through living things up through stars and black holes.
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wow this person seems to be having a ton of fun playing Dungeons & Dragons, i would love to get ahold of whatever book they've got in their hands that's so much fun (presumably its Dungeons & Dragons)
ALT a picture of someoe holding a copy of Wanderhome while the news title says "psychology gaming lab explores benefits of dungeons & dragons, board games"
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If Python isn't a real programming, and PhD student isn't a real job, and academia isn't the real world, and at the end of it I get to be a PhD which isn't even a real doctor, then OMG, is anything in my life real???
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It turns out that sparkling water and raisins are *fascinating*. My daughter and I happened upon this effect playing together in the kitchen a long time ago, and I couldn't help but explore the system more deeply... 1/n arxiv.org/abs/2308.12927