Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

By our best estimates there is a 1 in 500 chance betelgeuse will go supernova in my life time. I really hope I beat the odds on this one!

'Wales will struggle in Rome': How rugby experts' predictions matched up to Six Nations reality. https://nation.cymru/news/wales-will-struggle-in-rome-how-rugby-experts-predictions-matched-up-to-six-nations-reality/

At least once a day, presuming I do any sort of math, I mutter to myself "fucking Ramanujan".. that dude beats me to every good idea, and usually with an idea that is 1000x better than my own anyway... fucking Ramanujan.

@Science

**Interesting fact of the day**: The speed of light has only been proven to be a constant speed **round trip**. Not the instantaneous speed of light nor the speed of light while heading in a single direction has ever been able to be proven as constant.

In other words, it has never been experimentally disproved that light doesn't, for example, preferentially travel at half the speed of light in one orientation, but instantaneous in another. In fact it may very well be impossible to test the one-way speed of light due to the very consequences of relativity itself.

#science #physics #relativity

I am inspired today, once again, by the idea of duality and its fundemental role in our physical reality, from electrical duals, to quantum duals, to the round trip of light (earlier post) and so on...

The more time goes by and the more I think of the world as an expression of Duals (the formal term) the more I realize that duality itself may be the unifying property of the universe that all things emerge from.

I cant help but think that duality is a profound insight of the universe, but I havent quite connected the dots yet... All I know is everything we talk about seems to be only valid in duals and becomes unknowable when we try to seperate those duals in some way...

I am going to call it "The Iron Curtain of Duality"... but I feel like I need to invest time thinking about this, something is there.

Well done to #Scotland to beat #France in the belated end to the #SixNations.

Congrats to #Wales for winning the championship.

#FraSco

Here comes the threats ... Really demoralises folks like us who create free #OpenSource software 🙁

@Science

This is so cool. With just a little bit of modification using a single 3d printed part glued to the side of the head of a 3d printer this japanese team managed to create a fully autonomous robot that can basically built its own tools, pick them up, and then use them to manipulate its environment.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/functgraph-personal-factory-automation-with-a-3d-printer

#3dprinting #3dprinter #robot #robots #engineering #automation

WOOT! My sake just arrived! Three bottles of various premium grade sake. Looks like ill be tipsy coding today!

Here are the three bottles I bought from cheapest to most expensive:

Hakutsuru “Junmai Ginjo” - 60% RPR (the percentage of polishing of the rice, rice polishing ratio), meant to be drank warm or cold.

Yuho “Rhythm of the Centuries” - the only aged one (sake isnt usually aged), aged for 4 years, 55% polished rice, warm or room temperature

Dassai “45” - 45% RPR, drank cold

#sake #alcohol

My first glass of 4 year aged sake, aged sake is so uncommon i had to get jt shipped in... Amazing!

Big #banks’ #trillion-dollar #finance for #FossilFuels ‘shocking’, says report | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/24/big-banks-trillion-dollar-finance-for-fossil-fuels-shocking-says-report

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases #Pollution #Banking

UK to set up health agency to combat future pandemics - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/24/uk-to-set-up-health-agency-to-combat-future-pandemics-covid long overdue; also need one to create new antibiotics