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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
22 Nov 2024
The new episode of "Next Comes What" is up! It covers how the US has been moving further outside the rule of law for a long time & what that will mean for 2025. We look at how people fought torture post-9/11 & how Americans are already defying Trump allies youtube.com/watch?v=32YMWcD2β¦
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23 Nov 2024
(1) Alien esophageal super-intelligence a billion-miles-away, or (2) a cloud.
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17 Nov 2024
Went out to Publix for cake this afternoon, came upon pi.
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12 Nov 2024
Looks like the exclusion legislation that prohibited Chinese people in 1882 was rescinded in the year this pamphlet was published in 1943. The total exclusion ended, allowing all of 100 (actually 106) "qualified" Chinese, per year.
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
10 Nov 2024
This geometrical landscape by J.H. Pierneef (1886-1957)
[The Kloof, Rustenburg, 1928]
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
10 Nov 2024
ISO/IEC 10646
The problem of long-repeat strings generating delicate encodings (or weaves?) has been known to signal processing people for decades
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Whatβs your favorite type of power line? Follow me for more tips on great questions to ask on first dates.
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
8 Nov 2024
interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
via Reddit reddit.com/r/dataisbeautifulβ¦
ALT Chart showing US presidential election results from 1976-2024, displaying percentage of eligible voters who did not vote and those who voted for different candidates. Data is arranged by year with color-coding: yellow for non-voters (typically 38-49%), blue for Democratic candidates, and red for Republican candidates. Stars indicate trifecta wins."
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Lothar Charoux
Untitled, 1956
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
4 Nov 2024
New bookcase just for Wittgenstein.
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5 Nov 2024
Wait until the polls close. Or not. (Illus London News, 1929.)
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
4 Nov 2024
In the 1960s, Stanislaw Ulam, while doodling during a boring presentation, discovered a surprising pattern when he arranged numbers in a spiral and highlighted the primes. This spiral revealed a striking pattern and structure in the distribution of prime numbers.
π·visualizing math
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
2 Nov 2024
Immanuel Kantβs personal copy of Alexander Baumgartenβs book on metaphysics. Now I donβt feel so bad about writing in my books.
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
3 Nov 2024
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30 Oct 2024
Interesting sort of early-ish human/computer anthro-imaginary applications (but not really). Both Communications ACM 1966.
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Jonathan Callan
Relative to, 2004
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JF Ptak π³οΈβπ retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Victoria Burge
Day Weave, 2019
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18 Sep 2024
This is excellent. Thanks @MrPrudence!
16 Sep 2024
Dmitri Prigov
The Fifth of May Has Long and Deservedly Counted Among the Stellar Days, c.1975β85
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