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bornach

@bornach@masto.ai

I'm an ex-postdoc researcher who was bullied out of academia over a decade ago

I now pursue my interests in
#science #technology #education #art #mathematics

via online content creation that explores ideas in #computer #programming, science #communication, #visualization, #electronics #circuit design, #cardboard #crafts, kinetic sculpture, #synthesizer music, and machine learning

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RickiTarr, to random
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I'm trying to come up with something witty to say about this sign in a Bible Book Store window, but I think it speaks for itself.

bornach,
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@RickiTarr @MarkRDavid
Do they sell the cutesy sign with the Mark Twain quote?

bornach,
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@DavidM_yeg @MarkRDavid @RickiTarr
It's the "immaculate confection" to satisfy the soul
https://youtu.be/1wfamPW3Eaw

bornach, to random
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with a 3 minutes 14s long video featuring 200 digits of Pi sung to music
https://youtu.be/d0lXrqjM_m8

mightyspaceman, to random
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tbh I honestly prefer DD-MM-YYYY format over the inverse, but I guess you can't really just have a 14th month...we can all agree that MM-DD-YYYY sucks though.

bornach,
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@mightyspaceman
Nor can we have the 31st of April. And 3rd of January just loses precision - perhaps why e day on Feb 7th isn't as exciting

Ollital, to RaspberryPi German
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It's . So be nice to your

bornach,
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@Ollital
...by using your Raspberry Pi to compute the digits of Pi
https://www.instructables.com/A-Spigot-That-Streams-Digits-of-Pi/

mvsde, to random
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A 30 minute documentary about people calculating π by hand is surprisingly riveting 😅

https://youtu.be/LIg-6glbLkU

bornach,
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@mvsde
One of the human calculator participants reports his experience of the event including an interview with @standupmaths https://youtu.be/7VVwaneyboM

selzero, to random
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"And Jesus answered and said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at Him."

Mark: 12:17.

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!"

Zack: 4:12.

bornach,
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@selzero
https://youtu.be/t7kNgfY8vg4

janellecshane, to random
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Hey kids, what sound does a wooly horse-sheep make?

All you have to do is ask chatgpt/dalle3, and the highest quality educational material can be yours at the click of a button.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/learn-your-farm-animals-with-ai/

bornach,
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@stekopf @janellecshane

Ah yes. The extremely rare long eared duck-billed blue platypus whose mating call sounds like "sheep! sheep!". A surprising animal to introduce to children

bornach, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Yannic Kilcher debunks the AGI hysterical nonsense over Anthropic's Claude 3 Large Language Model
https://youtu.be/GBOE9fVVVSM

rebeccawatson, to random
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I was in a church the other day* and overheard a woman tell her friend “I touched holy water once. It felt like regular water!” I’ve been thinking about that for days. What did she think holy water would feel like

*for a concert, not god stuff

bornach,
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@Illuminatus @rebeccawatson
Interesting rules the Catholics have about mixing holy water
https://ucatholic.com/blog/catholic-questions-how-much-can-holy-water-be-diluted/

Perhaps you got splashed by the 49% stuff and the sweat on your skin tipped it over to 49.001% dilution.

It's borderline homeopathic 😁

derPUPE, to art German
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Creating with

video/mp4

bornach,
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@ls @derPUPE
https://youtu.be/wzosDKcXQ0I

webology, to random
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🤔I got asked about this yesterday from a neighbor, a teacher in our local school district.

Teacher: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at coding than the best developers?"

Me: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at teaching than the best teachers?”

(shocked/disgusted look on her face)

🤷 And that's one of the problems of AI. It seems better than you at something you know nothing about because you don't quite know well enough to call it out on its bullshit. https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112031199817039932

bornach,
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It's what afflicts the tech fanboys as Rod Hilton points out here
https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958

Curious that the term, Gell-Mann Amnesia, was coined by Michael Crichton who was himself afflicted by it and relied on it to sell his books
https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/state-of-fear-michael-crichton.html

phudgins, to random
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Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car.

They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies.
The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35."
Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!"
The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?"
"We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger.
The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.

bornach,
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@catrinity @prinzessinnen_und_raben @phudgins
The vial of poison and radioactive source being driven around in the back of a speeding car would need some explaining to the cop too

bornach,
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@TimWardCam @phudgins
Cop named Kirchhoff pulls over car driven by Faraday and Maxwell
https://youtu.be/0TTEFF0D8SA

epilanthanomai, to random
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Any other fans around? I love her work so very much. https://youtu.be/KGSz8v33IT4

bornach,
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@epilanthanomai
I look forward to her videos every year
https://youtu.be/2a9YgCCQYVI

fasterthanlime, to random
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"sudo make me a sandwich"

bornach,
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@thewhite969 @fasterthanlime

This sort of works on humans due to a quirk of psychology

https://personalmba.com/reason-why/#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20giving%20a,Any%20reason%20will%20do.

but surprising that a Large Language Model AI trained on human data would also pick up the same quirk

bornach,
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@ahltorp
And great material for writers of a TV drama series
https://youtu.be/o9g-n4YIVZ0

stecks, to random
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Exhausted after a big week working on a video project with @standupmaths and the gang - looking forward to seeing the video, which will be out in early March! Big thanks to everyone who was there this week and who brought me a cup of tea at any point ☕

bornach,
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@stecks @standupmaths

A video in the first half of March?

It will irrationally drive me in circles wondering what it could be about.

selzero, to random
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I was asked what the first movie that ever scared me was.

It's impossible for me to say. Go far enough back and memories of movies blur into a single thing.

I can say it was black and white and had Peter Cushing in it.

bornach,
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@jwcph @selzero

This scene from "Jaws 2" (1978)
https://youtu.be/N92pfxjHXkg

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@DetersHenning @selzero
Was gonna post this but knew someone else would have.

That facility was just nightmare inducing
https://youtu.be/F-x6yId7CZs

bornach,
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@violetmadder @lexicaleigh @selzero

Because it was gothic horror masquerading as sci-fi?
https://youtu.be/U52dMlT-lU0

bornach,
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@DetersHenning @selzero
Several movies from the 1970s I found to be like Coma, in that they stuck with you not so much because they were scary but because they were unsettling

How the 1978 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ended
https://youtu.be/029XnrypuKI
especially after you're use to watching all those 50s, 60s, B-movie scifi where the scientists always figured out what key weakness would get rid of all the aliens, monsters, disease, etc

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@prozacchiwawa @selzero
Yup. Another unsettling film that stuck with me because of the ending. Had to wait decades for someone to make a Youtube video that explained it to me
https://youtu.be/xnTxOz8t7RI

TodePond, to random
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hope this helps

bornach,
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@TodePond @jeroen @metin
Looking forward to this cycle's remake of The Lawnmower Man
https://youtu.be/1RDtMjcFOlI

bornach,
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@castironflower @TodePond
Everyone forgets that time when nanotechnology had its own hypecycle which later returned in the form of longevity hacking using big-data and is now being re-hyped via Neuralink

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