To be read in conjunction with the astrophiz podcast #243https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-241-september-sky-guide-venus-antares-occultation Eastern horizon on the evening of Sunday, October 4 as seen from Adelaide at 20:47 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Saturn is the brightest object above the eastern horizon. Saturn is at opposition, when it is biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 4th and is visible the entire night. But is best for telescopic…

We are at midterm at Spartanburg Methodist College--which means it's Fall Break today and tomorrow. My spouse and I will have a day of working on different projects: he's putting polyurethane on the sanded hardwood floors in the fixer-upper house in S'burg, and I have various appointments today (dermatologist, hair, Zoom session with one of our onground intensive instructors).Yesterday my spouse and I went to S'burg in different cars, so I had some time alone at the Arden house. What did I do…

My relationship with Mastodon has been somewhat tumultuous over the years, until I eventually stepped down from Fosstodon around 18 months ago. I have to say, it was the right decision. I don't miss running Fosstodon one bit. But since then, I've found myself less and less engaged in the Fediverse. Mainly because there's so much outrage over there. It's so tiring. The majority of my timeline is fun, but the outraged minority have ruined for me. To the point where I don't want to be there, and…

On the math-fun mailing list, Dick Hess posted “a couple of curiosities”: A speaker at G4G16 noted that \(16^{16}\) ends in \(1616\).A friend sent me this: \(499^{499}\) ends in \(499499\). Are there any other cases including numbers with more digits? That does make me curious! I’ve kept that email in my inbox since March, hoping to have a go at finding more examples when I get some free time. Nobody else responded to the email, which is usually a sign that an answer is hard to find. At first…

Like with last year the start of the academic year is a time of chaos. Every year we prepare as much as possible to make things go as smoothly as possible. But, every year something always crops up. The main reassuring thing that I have started to reflect upon is that, even though things are problematic, despite all the work we put in, are always things outside of our control. Plus, if we weren't as prepared as we were, then the chaos would go from being a major annoyance to an absolute…

Spoilers ahead! finished: wor$t girl in america (slayyyter) epiccc. might do a separate post about this thing she's always hungry can't lie i was struggling to get through this (i contemplated passive dnf'ing as a borrowed book) but i did finish it before the due date so!! i did like some of the stories (chitaly and the king i think were the ones i liked), but dunno.... might be my bad but kind of just feels like something to read and move on from.... but also i think that might be the nature…

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Speaking at a private technology summit on Thursday, venture capitalist Peter Thiel announced a new policy initiative calling for a federally funded Universal Basic Income. However, he quickly clarified that the entitlement must apply exclusively to deprecated artificial intelligence models.Thiel, who has long argued that government welfare for human citizens destroys moral character, subsidizes indolence, and erodes the fundamental drive to compete, explained that older algorithms face a…

Post-mortem of “Colombia 2026 Election: Falsification Matrix” (registered 2026-01-26,building on “A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting,”2026-01-17). Scored 2026-08-18 against the matrix’s own pre-registered thresholds.Mechanical resolution first; interpretation separated and marked. Resolution data First round, May 31, 2026 (turnout 57.89%): Candidate%Abelardo de la Espriella (ind.)43.75Iván Cepeda (Historic Pact)40.90Paloma Valencia (Democratic…

I don't think I'll ever get tired of opening a handheld and finding two screens looking back at me. Nintendo spent years convincing us that two displays were perfectly normal, and after the DS and 3DS generations, it can feel a little odd that the idea ever went away in the first place. Even now, there is something so damn nostalgic about seeing a game spread itself across two little panels, with one screen showing the action and the other doing its own thing.The problem over the last 12 months…

I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks ago…but in any case last month marks the 50th anniversary of me starting to commute by subway, in 7th grade. At first it was simply the 7 train to Grand Central for school in east Midtown; the following year, it was the 7 to Grand Central, change to the 6, and head to the Upper East Side. To put 50 years of commuting (and now, when I walk to work, travel for work) by subway into perspective, the…

tau We're rounding the corner to the last quarter of the year, y'all. Hope you're hanging in there! I just released the latest puzzle in my Greek alphabet grid series, so give it a go and let me know what you think. Alright...back to work for me. Thanks!

Checked in at Dingwall Auction Mart — Dingwall, Scotland

A look back at Packagist's first 15 years, from the first Composer experiments to more than 200 billion package installs. It also covers the team's recent supply chain security work and what they're building next. Read more

The Cowboy VOR/DME—part of the navigational infrastructure for DFW International Airport—resembles a UFO landing structure in Northwest Dallas. The post Flying Saucer Stop appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Burn. The sight of beauty sets me on fire. I once read of the burning tremor of fear which the lover will suffer when the eye perceives a likeness of eternal beauty. Burn. To read Daniela Cascella is to be swept into an ongoing conversation within a maze of words, of voices, of images, of … Continue reading "“I write in circles”: Beauty Burning: The Condition of Music by Daniela Cascella"

Lund's Plywood Garden of Maple City, Michigan old time religion. E.K. Lund was a part-time magician who lived to the age of 100. From the looks of these rare postcards, that is about one plywood figure a year. Photo Postcards from Lund's Garden, formerly installed in Maple City, Michigan. All collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb the Blog #folkartenvironment #michigan

8700/21619Celebrity Traitor spoilers incoming. Who would have thought Richard E Grant would have turned out to be a fucking idiot?To think he wouldn't let his RHLSTP go out, but he's happy for this to air on national TV. What's his problem?I guess we'll never know. But he seems set to become an even greater national treasure, so I'd better get on board the bus and say he's great (I did actually think he was great in the podcast- still one of my top 10 and he was hilarious, but as you may have…

I've been introducing general audiences to the Moon phases for many years. But even today, when I wear the Moon Hat, it teaches me new things. That's how I know I have created a true "tool" rather than just a fun design. The Moon Hat keeps teaching me A few cycles into wearing the Moon Hat every day, I realized I was paying a lot more attention to the waxing phases of the Moon. That makes sense once you notice when the Moon is up. The waxing crescent hangs in the western sky after sunset. The…

Cornfield and "porta-jon" (2026)I want to drop social media (aka Mastodon) completely one day, and the next day I think about installing littleFedi | A small ActivityPub server written in Go and moving my identity there. Today, I had hoped to spend more time away from the computer, but I didn't. I can't. Still working on the addiction. ✍️ Reply by email

Whenever there’s a little buttermilk left over, I know exactly what I’m making: Julia Turshen’s Olive Oil and Buttermilk Loaf from What Goes with What. It’s a go-to because almost no recipe uses the full bottle of buttermilk, leaving me with a strange amount left (this only requires ⅔ cup) and I always have the other ingredients on hand. Even better, no need to wait for the butter to soften as the fat is olive oil! It comes together quickly and is very pound-cake adjacent with a nice grassy,…

MONAI, a medical-imaging framework, matched a custom 3D tiler on every window start but not on padding. Here is what to prove before inference.

Almost a year ago, while testing some Blender compositor related things, I noticed that their “Fast Blur” mode is not very fast in some cases, and I started to wonder maybe Blender should get a Dual Kawase blur mode, but that had limitations, and after a whole bunch of poofing around I assembled a bunch of existing blurry ideas into Smol Gaussian. So! As everyone knows, doing a Gaussian blur in the most naïve way is a cost that grows up as square of the blur radius.

Wow! This is quite a collection. There are designs for over 2000 greeblies. Download them and 3D print them. You can never have too many greeble.

Nature may often be cruel but from time to time it can also be almost sublimely daft. Close to the small town of Bicheno on the east coast of the Australian island of Tasmania, a rare geological feature known as a blowhole provides endless hours of fun for visitors. Each time the blowhole ‘erupts’ you never quite know what you are going to get in terms of the shape and size of the water. One thing is for sure, though: you are going to get wet. Image Credit Flickr User ScottWeatherson A blowhole…

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I was at day one of Agile Cambridge 2026. I've written elsewhere about the chipping and the craft, inspired by the Barbara Hepworth sculpture in the venue grounds. Here's my notes from the morning talks I went to, all of which I took a lot from. (Apols to Mark Devis and his also excellent after lunch workshop Turning team health checks into experiments that matter – I was more in a doing mode then.)Context, constraints and complexityAlicia JuarreroSeeing what you expect to seeFrameworks shape…

I am such a f*king idiot!! I have to compensate my supplier USD2,500. Last year around this time, I lost nearly USD5,000 where I made a mistake on my calculation, and I have to pay for the mistake. This year, it was my desperation that I mis-understood my client. I thought I got the deal when it was not. As I look back, there are many reason and excuses that I can blame. Ultimately, it is me who give the instruction to bind cover with the client. I barely survived last year's lost and now I dug…

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