elert.bsky.social
I am a walnut. I know more than you do.
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If you make hope mandatory you ruin science. Sometimes the data tells you bad $#!† is happening. Then you gotta figure what to do to fix that, so… more data.
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Reusable Target bags were ubiquitous in NYC for awhile. They opened stores in neighborhoods that were underserved by big corporate retail. This was certainly data-driven. But… You add DEI and you've got a chance to ensure brand loyalty for a generation. Target played the short game and lost.
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Keep the scumbag away from public office
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Haven't thought about Ale-81 in 20 years. I guess that makes me "a late one".
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Alexander Calder made his first suspended “mobile” sculpture about a hundred years ago. He wasn’t aiming for astronomical accuracy, but a precedence has been set.
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Yeah. I thought I’d Google it first before asking. It came back with “non-destructive testing“.
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Ignore the “fortune teller” types and whatever the current equivalent is of what used to be the horoscope column in the newspaper. I’ve met people who do astrology as a hobby like it was astrophysics. They can be quite intellectual about it.
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Protests are punished. Insurrections are praised. Enantiodromia is the rising paradigm.
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I am so disappointed in my Alma Mater Columbia.
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Eclipses can't occur in a flat earth model. It's so wrong it's not even wrong.
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Quote of the day, "Make that make sense".
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Maybe it's like the Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. There's only one copy, kept in a silver keepsake box, and Martin Shkreli will buy it.
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When they realize their mistake and ask you to return, demand 4 years salary in advance and don't type a single character of code until you see the money deposited in your accounts.
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Boycott
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I wanted to return to my original disagreement with your statement that black is not a color. You are confounding "color" with "colorfulness" — chromatic colors are real colors and achromatic colors are colorless.
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"Actual" and "observed" color? Infrared radiation is a color? That's news to me. That link seems to be describing terminology used in that specific field. Kind of like the way radio-astronomers informally call radio waves "light". Light is visible em radiation. Radio is not light.
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"Spectral color" is an informal term, but I still use it. I think it is more correct to say "monochromatic radiation". As for "actual color", well… I've never heard that term. "Perceived" and "observed" probably refer to chromatic color. cie.co.at/eilvterm/17-...
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The security and prosperity of this nation are under attack.
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You can register your discontent at their respective websites.
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I like that the last 3 words of their statement are "the public good". I would add that it's always been the first priority of publicly funded science.
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Sorry, but color is not a defined physical quantity. Wavelength, frequency, and luminance are, however. Color is subjective, cultural, contextual. That includes black, white, and gray.
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Color does not correspond to wavelength. Color is not a physical property. Color is a response of the human visual system. When two structure-free regions of the visual system are indistinguishable, they are said to have the same color.
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Black is a color.
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He’s not the president yet
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Banjo music? Paddle faster!
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Please stop linking to comicsands. The number of battery-burning ads there is outrageous.
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Persuasive writing
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Who is this?