Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting fact of the day: Before they brought the internet into Egypt it was just called Gypt.

Has Joan Bakewell finally seen the light?

Twitter today @JDBakewell

"Save The NHS! I’m asking the govt in the House of Lords on Wednesday what plans they have to stop American Health Insurance companies buying NHS surgeries. Watch this space!"

Too late Joan
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From Feb 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/26/nhs-gp-practice-operator-with-500000-patients-passes-into-hands-of-us-health-insurer

One in four people in Wales want to learn Welsh, Duolingo survey reveals. https://nation.cymru/culture/one-in-four-people-in-wales-want-to-learn-welsh-duolingo-survey-reveals/

@freemo

However, there are theories that predict the preservation of information from one iteration of a repeating universe to the next. Rodger Penrose has proposed that once the universe expands to the point where measuring distance and scale become impossible, then that state of the universe could be considered a singularity for that reason (absence of scale), and we may be able to detect radiation from a previous iteration of the universe, if that's how it iterates. It's a highly speculative theory, obviously.

#Pleiades: The #SevenSisters #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211124.html

#APOD

Well i passed my pcr test and am in the airport.. its about 2 days of flight and layover time but in about 40 hours or so ill be in Egypt!!!

"We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?" - Dead Poet's Society

#quote #writing #Literature #poetry

An old post I made in a forum back in 1999 when I was 15 years old trying to figure out how special relativity worked... It is interesting coming across old gems of my childhood on the internet.

https://archive.timetravelinstitute.com/topic/350-more-gravity-faster-time/?tab=comments#comment-3371

An interview where I answer some questions over the phone for a reporter with newsday. I was 17 at the time, nad had been in college for about 2 years and started my own company and software project that had exploded. I was on national news at the time like fortune magazine and front page of USA today, even had a bunch of TV interviews.

Reason I wanted to share this one is it is one of the few surviving interviews where I actually answer questions back and forth:

https://www.newsday.com/business/technology/game-swapster-just-wants-job-no-intention-to-be-next-napster-1.464763

🚨 BREAKING: Plaid Cymru and Labour unveil three-year cooperation agreement
🏠 'Radical action' on second homes
🚆 North-South rail links
🍽️ Free school meals for all
🛡️ Mandatory Welsh history in schools

https://nation.cymru/news/plaid-cymru-and-labour-unveil-three-year-cooperation-agreement-that-promises-radical-change/

Download the 12 page cooperation agreement.

https://cdn.nation.cymru/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/22131451/43954-cooperation-agreement-EN_WEB.pdf

#Cymru
#Wales
#Cymraeg #DysguCymraeg

For those of you who cant read the interview/article about me in newsday back when I was 17 years old, here are some screenshots of it instead.

I'm still talking to that HS crush, few days in now. It is so surreal hearing all these stories about me from being a kid partly because you never really remember yourself accurately or all that well at all.

I'm reminded of awkward things I did like never talk to her and didnt really make eye contact with her (which she noticed because she always wanted me to). But other really nice things like she remembers how I was so unusual for being very mature and career driven at only 15/16 years old. She recalled me having a few conversations with teachers where I tried to understand really advanced maths or discuss my career outside of HS.

Anyway this trip down memory lane the last few days has been so enriching. So happy she tracked me down after 22 years :)

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

-- Eric S. Raymond

Back in 2011 when both Google and Stanford University flew me out to do a few talks on Semantic Data and Machine Learning topics. My how time flys.

#Google #STEM #Stanford #MachineLearning #Semantic #Science

#BorisJohnson, a #liar and a #clown – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

One or two other words also suggest themselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/nov/20/boris-johnson-a-liar-and-a-clown-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

-- Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science

#chemistry #Physics people of #mastodon can you help me understand if this question I've had has an answer.

Here is my attempt at asking my question:

Is there a reaction/phenomenon that *seems* to violate the laws of entropy but actually doesn't? For example, you have substance A then you place a droplet of substance B on it and it diffuses/spreads/mixes and later (after some time) it seemly starts pulling together until it's again a single droplet of substance B (as if time itself had rewinded tenet style) such that if I took a video of this reaction and later on gave you the frames/pictures of that video, you would not be able to with 100% certainty put the frames together in the original order (since you can't tell which frames corresponds to the original droplet of B in A and which one corresponds to when B clumped up after having first diffused). What is this reaction?

@freemo
Include in the insane drug wars and of course funding the cartels and running guns for them. Oh yeah, and the billions that the banks need so that they don't collapse. What else... Welp, nothing for the people, that's for damn sure.

At least when Obama spent half a billion, the national park near me got a makeover and the trails refreshed.... I miss that dude's spending... not his wars and not his anti-whistleblower bullshit.
@IntegralDuChemin

Congratulations to Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in developing methodologies in the analysis of causal relationships.

The methodologies are useful in many fields of study beyond economics and allow precise conclusions to be drawn about cause and effect from natural experiments (observation of naturally occurring conditions and events rather than planned, controlled experiments).

This is has been a huge problem in many fields -- establishing cause and effect rather than just correlation between variables. Their methods have made that easier.

#economics #cause #effect #causality #experiment