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Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, & futurist Nikola Tesla died #OTD in 1943. He discovered & patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the 3-phase system of electric power transmission. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology. He conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, & early X-ray imaging.

#science

@bibliolater Sometimes when that has happened to me I’ve just cancelled the request and tried again, usually it goes right through. (If it is an open account, your account is not silenced on the instance and so on).

@bibliolater @jared we know a fair bit, although the engravers and etchers were craftspeople who generally did rather than write about doing. And many techniques are still in use.

This image looks really precise, and by 1800 that was common, but also remember that the work was originally quite large.

@bibliolater There's nothing *to* do. These accounts don't owe anyone a prompt decision ont their follow requests, or any decision at all, even though they stand to lose potential followers doing it.

#OTD 6 January 1781 In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Who did it better?

6 Jan 1660: The #English abandon the island of St. Lucia after disease & #Carib attacks reduce their numbers from 1,500 to 89 people #otd (Harvard)

German astronomer Martin Brendel took the first known photograph of an aurora #OTD in 1892, at Alta fjord in northern Norway.

French mathematician Camille Jordan was born #OTD in 1838. He is known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse.

Jordan's work did much to bring Évariste Galois theory into the mainstream. He also investigated the Mathieu groups, the first examples of sporadic groups. His Traité des substitutions, on permutation groups, was published in 1870; this treatise won for Jordan the 1870 prix Poncelet. via @wikipedia

#science #mathematics

Several years on, this simplified advice still rings true:

"What It Takes to Think Deeply About Complex Problems"
by Tony Schwartz

1. Forever challenge your convictions.
2. Do the most challenging task first every day.
3. Pay close attention to how you are feeling.

https://hbr.org/2018/05/what-it-takes-to-think-deeply-about-complex-problems

In my own personal journey to tackle complex problems, learning to structure data and its flow through a software program, and in particular debugging, have more than taught me: it changed how I think and look at the world.

#Google is finally killing #cookies - #Advertisers still aren’t ready - #search giant plant to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-is-finally-killing-cookies-advertisers-still-arent-ready-7582fcac?st=fu1a6618ikt7nni&mod=djemwhatsnews

Happy release day to me! My first book, By the Numbers, is now available in paperback, hardback, and ebook from Oxford University Press! #aha2024 #aha24 #jmm2024

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/all-science-journals-will-now-do-an-ai-powered-check-for-image-fraud/ "All Science journals will now do an AI-powered check for image fraud" #ai #image #science #publishing