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A great read about the history of some things we take for granted now

* Barany, M.J. Abstract relations: bibliography and the infra-structures of modern mathematics. Synthese 198 (Suppl 26), 6277–6290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02683-3 (#openaccess)

A spectacular timelapse flying over Mexico and the United States at night in the International Space Station.

4K landscape version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qf4a02yOsI

@bibliolater As an answer to a question in an ongoing conversation that might do. Sans a specific context, a no-no.

Scientists Uncover a Surprising Link Between Pure Mathematics and Genetics
The team found the maximal robustness of mutations—mutations that can occur without changing an organism’s characteristics—is proportional to the logarithm of all possible sequences that map to a phenotype, with a correction provided by the sums-of-digits function from number theory.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-a-surprising-link-between-pure-mathematics-and-genetics/ #Scientists #Link #PureMathematics #Genetics #robustness #mutations #logarithm

@bibliolater spam/malware.
I need details before I click, boom.

Meteorite that crashed to Earth 3,500 years ago carved into arrowhead by Bronze Age hunters
A Bronze Age arrowhead found in Switzerland was made using meteoric iron.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/meteorite-that-crashed-to-earth-3500-years-ago-carved-into-arrowhead-by-bronze-age-hunters #BronzeAge #arrowhead #iron #meteorite #switzerland

@bibliolater @bookstodon usually nothing. I generally prefer reading in quiet. I get distracted too easily

Beware: Amazon Books is cluttered with scam books about travel, cooking, gardening, and even medicine. Scammers just copy and paste from around the web, sometimes with the help of AI tools, then they self-publish and make fake raving reviews for good measure.

Read in the New York Times (gift link for anyone to use): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=AP_uRxS9ZvwfyW10lm8-ufq0F46urrZ6QNoMliBuvg71K410A3VcSYZgEArnsm-kaG2YuFLWSHv4krQbT50etxrlW0qUemcXloH9BhXYmQNWGTuv9xgNSld-yV_fyLdm0-EeqSKS6HN53G1QkuHrRlqwhle1pHTckddO5fJJFHpSZLkK51div27Umu5pzSxZWXUNj0ssFqh0ulTc-2RHO8SdXbL9QP4QRO_ytxwPN6FLxMLBOlm4Gin2Vxz-VAVJXBMY-0z1GAgLbSkGxFdw_BEV7nyuSSQo1E9U1gY-3q2ynOQSwjhqKCHL3JlpukbNBP7CLNkSq2C-Q2nrhM0dCL_I6eoixkjv9hi5RJen6c6LRw&smid=url-share

@bookstodon #scam #publishing #Amazon

Another delightfull #Mathologer video

Anti-shapeshifters: easy visual logs and hyperbolic trig | Mathologer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Fa5Zl-Z3c

#Mathematics #Maths

“Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence”

"While the human brain may have been the inspiration for the term ‘neural network’, the neural networks we’ve actually built don’t even properly mimic a single type of brain cell, much less an entire human brain" https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

@bibliolater @bookstodon Rarely. If, then easy classical, maybe something Bachesque or Debussyesque, but no fixed preferences. I often write down something when reading/studying, so no need for background sounds, and silence is fine.

@bibliolater @bookstodon I normally don't, but when the mood to do seizes me, I tend to go with Beethoven symphonies 5-8

@bibliolater @bookstodon Almost always. Mostly instrumental music, often pianomusic. Depending on my mood and the book: jazz (for instance Keith Jarrett), classical (from Bach, Beethoven, Schubert to Messiaen to Adams) or neo-classical/ambient (for instance Nils Frahm).

@bibliolater When i listen some music, its always Bach

"Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!"
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme

Ben Jonson died #OTD in 1637. Apart from two tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, Jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. The comedies of his middle career are for the most part city comedy. His late plays exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of Elizabethan comedy.
@wikipedia

Books by Ben Jonson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1269

#books #literature