Climate scientist turned physicist, but now I'm out of that treadmill called academia - and into the treadmill of IT.
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Last Notes npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…slzq naja, ich hab das mehrfach gelesen (nicht nur für Deutschland), aber da ich Nachrichten nicht aus den "sozialen" Medien kriege.. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…qrg7 the thing is: if the politicians would be paid more reasonably, they would have money to pay the people doing the work. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…2lu9 I realised that we are really there, the great future promised by Douglas Adams. We can have electric monks. Maybe we don't outsource belief so we no longer have to believe in anything but rather that we could use it to distract LLMs? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…galm The box. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 we regularly book tickets to Switzerland, and that's not even in the EU... 😁 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 It is, isn't it? It is also a misuse of taxpayer money by those sending us slop. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 We are now getting the first documents in review (we are in the public sector, so slow moving everything, responsible for ITSM) that are AI generated. It is really obvious when most acronyms are used wrongly or expanded to the wrong long form, and the content is wrong as well. We are burning hours working on the documents, correcting them, and trying to argue with the people who have not written them. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…xtr4 That is just mean! And poor UI design. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…galm That's cool! Not the vandalism itself but this pushes back this sort of graffiti a few centuries 🙂 and to be honest I really only knew about the Icelandic one in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 (I meant this as "this is why they insist on you using it" - I gathered you avoid it like the plague) npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…ekwd Well, chrome gives them all the "we'll track you, please bend over, drop trou, don't be alarmed about the wedges, this won't hurt a bit", you know, what sensible people should try and avoid. Unfortunately most people just don't care. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 @nprofile…ekwd Oh yes! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…w3t5 @nprofile…0hde Well... yeah, so far, so good, so obvious. In hindsight, and it's a good counterpoint to have when AI pushers talk BS about how good the AI "friend" is in reducing loneliness. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…0hde Ha! We actually have that, and almost parity. At least up to the CxO level, though we are hiring at the moment 😀 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…m43q @nprofile…tkx6 Me too. The Internet made me left (or what was once pretty much centre is now left, I think the world moved, not me, but that might be wrong) npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W About the stupid illegal MAGA tarrifs: I don't get the dissenting opinion in the supreme court that can be simplified as "bruh, it's a hassle to pay all that back..." npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…c6v3 (sorry for replying English, my French is close to non existent, I can read it... mostly). npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 Great idea, let's introduce more borders between people, make a social network for every country and stop communication between citizens of different places... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…tkx6 I'm totally willing to try the second thing... I'm quite unwilling to buy even more Lego bricks than I currently own 😉 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Nothing less than I expect from millionaires... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Fun. your post about Ekitike's handball is directly above a post about dinosaur wrist bones, and my mind just mixed those two... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re I actually have never written lisp (well... not much). I only did the maths 🤣 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re The maths it is based on are fun! I cannot remember anything, and it was a bit over my head (stooopid physics student in a real maths lecture), but I recall lambda calculus to be different in a good way 😁 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…sevk I usually try and make note of the scientific name, but I mostly take books with me... Maybe I should give iNaturalist a try. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…sevk Wait. What? That's not only crossing family boundaries or classes, that's an entirely different kingdom! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…sevk So here it is the same family and people say it is something different. Now look at what people call a "robin" in North America vs. Europe... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…37zh @nprofile…x6pj I still cannot get over the description "like I eat a Solero", Iszi Lawrence referring to how the wear marks on teeth showed that some sauropods stripped the leaves off the branches by running them through the teeth... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re We had this (well, something like this) during an ice breaker at the AGU fall meeting, ten or so years ago. It was... not too bad. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re and the worst are journals that want to be Science and Nature (insert joke about no science in... etc.), that also give you a word count for those sections. Bloody pointless and annoying. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Well, this structure is beaten into the impressionable heads of undergrads the world over, because This Is How We Do It. In part I agree, having an intro makes sense, telling how you do stuff as well. I prefered to shake things up a bit for the "meat" of the paper. Usually this lead to discussions with my coauthors... 🙄🙃 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Touché. Maybe I'm just in a grouchy old man mode at the moment. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Grudgingly I'll give that to them, as I wrote it is pretty good for the simpler stuff. And I still don't really like it... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re Nah. It's broken. Basic things can be looked up, but when it comes to more exotic things it is a shit show. OK, was, when I still cared. A mate and I tried to correct some physics stuff we were pretty familiar with, took a day, got reverted. Wrote a comment why this is actually factually wrong, got shouted at. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re ... *sigh* yeah, about what I feared. This one was not really a brilliant move by our Hugo. #LFC #SGE npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re yeah, and now Virgil 🙁 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…37zh "Aerosolised heavy metals sprayed into the atmosphere" - you mean like bloody starlink satellites when they deorbit? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…j0re @nprofile…63uu Wow! That's a lot of money to just not be a burden to society and be able to create money for the gubmint (taxes and stuff)... I really agree, this is stupid and short sighted. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…5hte 1. They would outnumber us npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…fa4k This is why scientists drink.... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Interesting observation! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Yeah! Perfectly explained variability, r^2=1 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Good one! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…za6g @nprofile…hujc Good for him! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…6phh Also his songs are in the public domain. He suggested we download all of them while the site is still up, as it will go when he goes... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…6phh Ugh, not in any internet stuff! While I speak two languages that require an extended character set, URLs and email should not have that. Yeah, neocolonialism and eurocentric, but it extending beyond the basic seven bits was a stupid idea (in my biased opinion, admittedly) npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…6phh The same breed of inept imbeciles that think email addresses should not have a hyphen. Yes, Microsoft did that 20 odd years ago (among others). npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc We'll see, I know that most of us wish him luck, more than wasshisname (last year's French kid mega transfer) had. Hugo is a good kid, both a great player and seems to have a good personality (judging from the outside). npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc and our local papers (#SGE, Frankfurt) seem to imply that Hugo Etikite is planned for a starting position in his new club. Yeah, right. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…ew68 a guy once told me he doesn't read that rubbish, he just publishes there. And then there's the saying that there's no nature in Science and no science in Nature 😜 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc butbutbut... the AI says so! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hy00 That is so cute! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W My son came home with a styrofoam model of the planets and the sun (not to scale). We did a back of the envelope calculation to think about sizes and distances at the same time because "dad, can we put it at scale in the garden?". The Sun should be 2m in diameter when compared to his earth. Distance earth to sun would be about 200m, Neptune at 6km. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W Care for another non-binding referendum? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…6phh Peacock spiders are so cute! And their mating behaviour is so complex, and somebody told me that they (or some other spiders, cannot remember) apparently "dream" (for a given value of "dream"). npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc What annoys me the most: non-binding referendum, wasn't it? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…cy2q 😁 found that one, read the paper, feel educated. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…833j and now imagine you are not a native speaker 😁 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…833j if it were just a single keystroke.... I really need to brush up my English skills, so far it is really hard for me! npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc I feel something has been taken from me. I have been in the US several times, visited friends and colleagues. And now? I hope I can go back someday, show my kids the places I visited, checkout new things. My stairwell down to the basement where my office is is plastered with photos I took on my first trip... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he Devuan with lxde or something... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he wait .. what? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he Great $(deity)! As a European this is one of the things I immediately thought of, along with the... other thing (ok Hitler - Stalin pact). It takes no big brain to see those parallels. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he I was in Russia with a student orchestra in the naughties, and we still had the feeling of freedom and of real intercultural understanding and exchange. But then most of us were students and musicians (they were real ones, all of us were just engineer and science students). npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he Well, recent history has shown giving up you nukes in return for having two major military powers guaranteeing your territorial integriert and your freedom leads nowhere. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…79he I guess Felix would be rather unhappy about current developments as well. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…xn9u @nprofile…w4ec Dang. OK... now that's a use case for the stupid vpn services - not that I'm endorsing inappropriate use of these or anything. I hate geoblocking. npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…xn9u @nprofile…w4ec Shucks. When? Is it recorded somewhere? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Yeah, I know 😉 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Ha! My thoughts as well... I'm down with a flu, but maybe I'll have the energy to do some modelling as well... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc so basically the ref on the field is against them and needs to be kept in check? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…xn9u Please Plesiosaur as I please you. I think that's what the Fab Four sang, right? npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…xn9u I always have Iszi Lawrence's comment in the back of my mind that it's a very polite beast, that one 😁 npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Darjeeling Autumn Flush (but a blend). And some programming, which is relaxing and a nice change from producing lots of paper that is basically WORN - write once, read never.... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc Wow, what a bunch of haters coming for you.... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…cy2q The collective noun? Like "murder of crows"? Aptly chosen, it's "hear" not "listen"... 😏 (sorry...) npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…6jm8 Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a horrible affliction... npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @npub1jsh…hspt @npub134m…lka0 I like Nature and Science, they are really fast (in rejecting your manuscript 🤣) npub15p3mvhydr77tmelqz3s7nj2llhpx85lkq9tveprvwzhctv4e8krqa6rj4s Joe W @npub1e2e…0xnw stripping leaves like Iszi Lawrence eats a solero 😅