Lee Phillips
@badphysicist.bsky.social
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Physicist and writer.
https://lee-phillips.org/
Boarding finally done. Suddenly: “That’s my seat!” I showed her (big hair, flip-flops) my boarding pass. “I’m afraid...” She doesn’t check. “You’re in my seat, you idio...” Then she notices the book I’m reading. “I’m so sorry, sir. I am clearly at fault.”
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics [Phillips, Lee] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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A better way to read Hacker News:
hn-ai.org
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Hacker News - AI
https://hn-ai.org
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“Overall, I remain a fan of Oliver Sacks”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/07/o...
That’s Andrew Gelman speaking. I do not remain a fan of Sacks. His books were were full of lies. I trusted him, and because of that he polluted my brain with false knowledge. To hell with Oliver Sacks.
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Overall, I remain a fan of Oliver Sacks. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/07/overall-i-remain-a-fan-of-oliver-sacks/
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“Overall, I remain a fan of Oliver Sacks”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/07/o...
That’s Andrew Gelman speaking. I do not remain a fan of Sacks. His books were were full of lies. I trusted him, and because of that he polluted my brain with false knowledge. To hell with Oliver Sacks.
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Overall, I remain a fan of Oliver Sacks. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/07/overall-i-remain-a-fan-of-oliver-sacks/
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A new
#Julialang
book went on sale today: “Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration”
www.amazon.com/Machine-Lear...
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Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications)
Amazon.com: Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications): 9789819696888: Deng, Jeremiah D.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Julia-Methodologies-Applications/dp/9819696887/
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A new
#Julialang
book went on sale today: “Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration”
www.amazon.com/Machine-Lear...
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Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications)
Amazon.com: Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications): 9789819696888: Deng, Jeremiah D.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Julia-Methodologies-Applications/dp/9819696887/
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A new
#Julialang
book went on sale today: “Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration”
www.amazon.com/Machine-Lear...
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Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications)
Amazon.com: Machine Learning with Julia: An Algorithmic Exploration (Machine Learning: Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications): 9789819696888: Deng, Jeremiah D.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Julia-Methodologies-Applications/dp/9819696887/
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lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from @skdh
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Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
https://lee-phillips.org/notweyl
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“Democrat” is not an adjective
lee-phillips.org/democrat
#politics
#language
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“Democrat” is not an adjective
http://lee-phillips.org/democrat
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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
8 days ago
When the typesetting library does not need to be translated into the graphic library you can simply merge the two.
#Typst
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Wild Sichuan: Photographing rare mountain species
www.dpreview.com/articles/593...
Great
#photography
of rare
#animals
in their natural habitats.
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Wild Sichuan: Photographing rare mountain species (China series: Part 2)
Globetrotting photographer Erez Marom takes us to the mountains of Sichuan Province to see some very special animals.
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5939742017/an-unforgettable-wildlife-encounter-in-china
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“Catching the moon at the right time with Julia”
jonathanbieler.github.io/blog/moon_an...
Wonderful article showing how to use Julia to catch the Moon at good moments for photography,
#astronomy
#photography
#julialang
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Catching the moon at the right time with Julia
The moon on a night sky is surprisingly bright, especially for a camera with limited dynamic range. And there’s only so many compositions one can do of the moon on a naked sky. For those reasons takin...
https://jonathanbieler.github.io/blog/moon_and_sun
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“Democrat” is not an adjective
lee-phillips.org/democrat
#politics
#language
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“Democrat” is not an adjective
http://lee-phillips.org/democrat
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Julia is quickly becoming the successor to Fortran, once the standard for high-performance computing in science, mathematics, and engineering. It’s powerful and fun to use. Get a solid foundation with a good book
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang
#physics
#programming
#math
#science
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Rankings of Julia books on Amazon
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It’s about time.
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A beautiful photograph illustrating a fluid instability.
#birds
#photography
#physics
#fluiddynamics
add a skeleton here at some point
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Document programming in
#Typst
and
#LuaLaTeX
: some examples
t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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https://lee-phillips.org/TLexamples/
https://t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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The massive response to my
#Typst
article* suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...
#latex
#physics
#mathematics
#typsetting
*https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
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Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393842
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lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from @skdh
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Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
https://lee-phillips.org/notweyl
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“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from @skdh
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Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
https://lee-phillips.org/notweyl
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The massive response to my
#Typst
article* suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...
#latex
#physics
#mathematics
#typsetting
*https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
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Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393842
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Finally, some good news:
archive.li/bamiu
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Ĺ koda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts headphones:
www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-wor...
This will save some bicyclists from injury, but has the unfortunate side-effect of also allowing more of the morons who wear these headphones on the street to reproduce.
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Ĺ koda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Ĺ koda Storyboard
Pedestrians wearing headphones are exposed to an increased risk of accidents. In an effort to reduce collisions with cyclists, Ĺ koda Auto, in collaboration with scientists, introduces an innovative bi...
https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-smart-headphones/
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Mehmet Hakan Satman
about 1 month ago
This study investigates the possibilities of applying classical MCDM methods to grey numbers by leveraging operator overloading and multiple dispatch features of Julia programming language.
dx.doi.org/10.26650/aci...
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Document programming in
#Typst
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#LuaLaTeX
: some examples
t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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https://t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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Finally, some good news:
archive.li/bamiu
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You can use Typst today even if you need to produce a LaTeX manuscript:
lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/
#typst
#latex
#physics
#mathematics
#computerscience
#science
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Using Typst Today: When You Need LaTeX
https://lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/
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Document programming in
#Typst
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#LuaLaTeX
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t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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https://t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
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Adam Wysokiński
about 1 month ago
#neuroanalyzer
v0.26.4 has been released repository: https://codeberg.org/AdamWysokinski/NeuroAnalyzer.jl changelog: https://neuroanalyzer.org/changelog.html
#eeg
#julia
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NeuroAnalyzer.jl
Julia toolbox for analyzing neurophysiological data
https://codeberg.org/AdamWysokinski/NeuroAnalyzer.jl
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Tired of AI hype? A better way to read Hacker News:
hn-ai.org
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Hacker News - AI
https://hn-ai.org
about 1 month ago
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Julia is quickly becoming the successor to Fortran, once the standard for high-performance computing in science, mathematics, and engineering. It’s powerful and fun to use. Get a solid foundation with a good book:
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang
#physics
#programming
#mathematics
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Rankings of Julia books on Amazon
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lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from @skdh
#physics
#mathematics
#history
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Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
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“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break” Where I complain about a recent video from @skdh
#physics
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#history
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Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
https://lee-phillips.org/notweyl
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Two surprising (to me, at least) theorems that endow the gamma function with a kind of uniqueness:
www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03...
#mathematics
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Wielandt's characterization of the gamma function
The Borh-Mollerup theorem is the best known characterization of the gamma function, but it's not the only one. Wielendt's theorem has different hypotheses.
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/18/wielandt
about 2 months ago
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Ditching
#PopOS
for
#Debian
#Linux
:
lee-phillips.org/pop2debian/
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From PopOS to Debian
https://lee-phillips.org/pop2debian/
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Ditching
#PopOS
for
#Debian
#Linux
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lee-phillips.org/pop2debian/
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From PopOS to Debian
https://lee-phillips.org/pop2debian/
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Thomas Lumley
about 2 months ago
Your stomach biota are plants Not whales or bear cubs or ants With a mere sniff of Roundup You'll rot from the ground up Says brainworm in ill-fitting pants
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about 2 months ago
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Too Many Bad Articles About Emmy Noether
lee-phillips.org/bewareENarti...
#physics
#science
#scicomm
#politics
#history
#mathematics
#journalism
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Too Many Bad Articles About Emmy Noether
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John Timmer
about 2 months ago
First data from 2026 on US generation. Power use in January down a tiny bit from 2025. Hydro is up 30%(!) probably due to the warm winter out west melting snowpack early, which means bad things for summer. For now, it's pushed both coal and gas down. Solar is up 16%.
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Too Many Bad Articles About Emmy Noether
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#physics
#science
#scicomm
#politics
#history
#mathematics
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Too Many Bad Articles About Emmy Noether
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Need your
#code
to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn
#Julia
, the modern language for
#HPC
, with a quality book. Here are some options:
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang
- its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond
#science
to
#finance
and other areas.
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Jonathan Eisen
about 2 months ago
Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA.
#birds
#ants
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Two surprising (to me, at least) theorems that endow the gamma function with a kind of uniqueness:
www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03...
#mathematics
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Wielandt's characterization of the gamma function
The Borh-Mollerup theorem is the best known characterization of the gamma function, but it's not the only one. Wielendt's theorem has different hypotheses.
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/18/wielandt
about 2 months ago
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The “Page 99 Test” applied to Einstein’s Tutor:
page99test.blogspot.com/2024/09/lee-...
Brought to you by The Campaign for the American Reader.
#physics
#math
#history
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Lee Phillips's "Einstein's Tutor"
After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Dartmouth College and completing his postdoctoral work, Lee Phillips worked for 22 year...
https://page99test.blogspot.com/2024/09/lee-phillipss-einsteins-tutor.html
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Astrophysicist @AstroKatie says that “Noether’s Theorem is to theoretical
#physics
what natural selection is to
#biology
.” Find out what this theorem is and discover the inspiring and tragic life of the woman behind it:
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics [Phillips, Lee] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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about 2 months ago
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#Julialang
and
#Python
: Slowly Converging
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Need your
#code
to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn
#Julia
, the modern language for
#HPC
, with a quality book. Here are some options:
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang
- its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond
#science
to
#finance
and other areas.
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Rankings of Julia books on Amazon
https://lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaBookRanks/
about 2 months ago
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