Yesterday marked a historic day, and even for those of use who are not Catholic, it’s interesting to consider what happened yesterday:
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Next weekend is Sea-pac! The is the big amateur radio event in Oregon: https://seapac.org/
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Summer of Math Exposition is coming next month!
Continue reading “SOME Summer of Math Exposition is coming soon!”ChatGPT reworking from overtly Sycophant answers
A recent news article across the internet the last day or so has been around the topic of excessively sycophant answers, or in other words saying “that’s great for you” – about anything, even those that are ideas that are dangerous or stupid…
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A recent and ongoing outage in Spain, Portugal highlights the need for Amateur radio and backup electricity – as of now, 1pm April 28, the ongoing outage is affecting Spain and Portugal, and several amateur radio groups have been responding to “share situational awareness information”.
Continue reading “Massive electricity outage in Spain, Portugal highlight need for Amateur Radio, backup FM radio receivers.”Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival
The annual Humboldt Math Festival is happening April 26 in Eureka! If you are near Northern California, plan to check this out and see a new game I made that combines climbing and numbers… Check out their promo video below:
Continue reading “Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival”Mathematician models impact of defunding USAID, Medicaid
A Boston University PHD researcher Brooke Nichols has recently been building a dashboard estimating potential deaths in response to restricting aid and medication from recent policy change. The dashboard is available here.
Continue reading “Mathematician models impact of defunding USAID, Medicaid”Encouraging News for Mathematically Minded Environmentalists
Last year a report found that isolated indigenous groups have been found to have lives just as happy as many groups in highly developed nations. The lead author stated “I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis.”
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Today I noted something I hadn’t seen before in a store I don’t often frequent – a floor scrubbing machine was roving around the aisles among the people, beeping and flashing a light, with no person riding or controlling it. These BrainOS devices apparently integrate in to regular sweepers, with addition of some sensors and a marked off, blocked off seat (saying, don’t hop up here and try to control this 🙂 And they have been doing so since 2018?
Continue reading “Have you seen the robot floor scrubbers?”One week until Diasp.org shutdown – have you downloaded your data?
Last year, the well known Diaspora node Diasp.org announced it will be shutting down… April 2025. Reasons stated include liability for anything posted within a server an administrator controls, and maintenance and the disk space growth and general expectation that the service should be more like other social media companies.
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