Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable. Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

Yksi mun työtehtävä kirjastossa on reagoida asiakkaiden hankintaehdotuksiin, siihen osaan jotka on mun eli sarjakuvat ja lanuaineisto. Mun reaktiot niihin vaihtelee, ääripäät on "onpa kiva kirja josta en ollut kuullut" ja tilaan heti, tai ankara silmienpyörittely ja pään hakkaaminen seinään […]

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable. Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

[ph-] Viides päivä saikulla. I’m quite sick of being sick.

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes I love the play with words: it can mean "free entry", but also "enter as a free person". #bretagne #minimal #photography #museum #visualzen #rennes #museedebeauxartsrennes

Alvar Aallon ”Aurora Borealis” -reliefi on palautettu paikalleen Rovaniemellä. Nyt kun teos on julkistettu 15v poissaolon jälkeen, voin kertoa asiasta julkisesti. Toimin hankkeessa Sweco Finland Oy:n nimissä projektipäällikkönä, tilaajan Rovaseudun […] [Original post on 1m2lab.anvil.top]

[Portrait photo, no ec] Today it felt like me and gender were on the same side, even though I threw this outfit together in five minutes. #nonbinary

A little perplexed by news websites that label some news articles as “new”. I mean, yes, that’s the point. (It’s also etymologically where we get the word ‘news’ from…)

Large language models are essentially solutions to nonlinear optimization problems to predict the next token in the output text. Mathematically, these problems are quite similar to problems we routinely face in physics, like finding the ground state of a quantum system. In these physics […]

[Portrait photo, no ec] Today it felt like me and gender were on the same side, even though I threw this outfit together in five minutes. #nonbinary

Jos tässä tapauksessa häädetään tyyppi, niin minkä viestin se antaa? Että puukottamalla ihmisen työkyvyttömäksi, voi varmistaa hänen häätönsä tästä maasta? Mun oikeustajuun se ei ainakaan istu yle.fi/a/74-2018528...

My office is starting to develop an "old library book" smell. Is this how one knows one is a Real Academic?

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Thinking today about the Turra Coo and how farmers in north east Scotland fomented opposition to single payer healthcare. The fight over a poinded cow, seized by the state for refusal to pay for employee's health insurance, is immortalised in a statue of […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

On tärkeää tutustuttaa vauva työmaailmaan mahdollisimman pian. 😬🙃

Thinking today about the Turra Coo and how farmers in north east Scotland fomented opposition to single payer healthcare. The fight over a poinded cow, seized by the state for refusal to pay for employee's health insurance, is immortalised in a statue of […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

We took a trip to Valkmusa National Park yesterday. Since it was warm, and since I was going to be on duckboards or poking a bog most of the afternoon, I decided to wear a hiking skirt. I have a couple I've picked up from secondhand stores, a lovely […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

Today I learned that the word 'variance' in the context of statistics was coined as recently as 107 years ago (by eugenicist Ronald Fisher 🙄): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance#Etymology Somehow I thought it was far older. (I was looking up the Wikipedia page on variance because I was […]

Järkyttävä tulos Ylen yo-pikakokeella. 😱 Kun kansa ei ymmärrä edes yleisesti mikä voi periintyä, innostus rasismiin ja rotuhygieniaan ei yllätä. https://yle.fi/a/74-20182586

Järkyttävä tulos Ylen yo-pikakokeella. 😱 Kun kansa ei ymmärrä edes yleisesti mikä voi periintyä, innostus rasismiin ja rotuhygieniaan ei yllätä. https://yle.fi/a/74-20182586

Never mind whatever LLM junk is bundled (my employer has that turned off), Outlook on Mac is unusable for me for the simple reason you can’t have your emails and your calendar open side by side - it’s a modal window showing one or the other. Who would ever have thought you might need to check […]

It took me half an hour, about ten search engine queries, five attempts at reopening and closing VSCodium but I finally turned off automatic end brackets for when I'm writing latex. Still, never going back to emacs. If I had had to do this in elisp I'd still be digging through stackoverflow and […]

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IRC muutti minun elämäni täysin. Pääsin yhteisöihin, joista en ollut aiemmin tietoinen. Löysin samanhenkisiä nettikavereita. Löysin elämänkumppanin @rolle n sieltä. Pidimme myös häät IRCissä. Maistraatissa meidän kahden lisäksi oli kaksi muuta IRCkaveria. Ja mikä parasta. IRCissä vammani ei näy […]

Jessi Jokelainen: Femokratia (Suuri Kurpitsa, 2024) Tätä voinee huoletta kutsua vuoden kotimaiseksi sarjistapaukseksi: uskomaton media-ja somenäkyvyys ja pisin kirjaston varausjono, jossa olen kuunaan sarjakuvaa odotellen istunut. Ja aiheensa puolesta […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

Pitäisi töissä käyttää ainakin sellaisia järjestelmiä kuin Mepco, SAP, Martti, Vasara, Sisu, KOVS, Converis, Webropol, Norppa, Moodle ja varmaan tusina muuta, jotka unohdin. Yhdenkään nimi ei kerro, mitä se tekee, joten ensimmäinen vaihe on aina miettiä, mikä helvetti työaikakirjanpidon tai […]

Oulun K-market syrjintäkeissiin liittyen omaa pohdintaa. Tämä on nyt minun oma näkökulmani. Vammaisena on _äärimmäisen_ vaikeaa työllistyä palkkatöihin. Syitä on monia ja valitettavan usein syynä on nimenomaan syrjintä ja ennakkoasenteet vammaisia ihmisiä kohtaan. Tiedon lisääminen olisi yksi […]

At least prompt engineers show up on time. It’s the late ones that bother me.

Important task in the week your kid starts daycare for the first time: add the location to OpenStreetMap, so you can find it in the public transport journey planner next week. One less thing to panic about. (Thanks, HSL! https://www.hsl.fi/en/hsl/open-data) #openstreetmap #hsl #helsinki

Men on trains: please don’t touch me. I’m so tired of this shit.

Important task in the week your kid starts daycare for the first time: add the location to OpenStreetMap, so you can find it in the public transport journey planner next week. One less thing to panic about. (Thanks, HSL! https://www.hsl.fi/en/hsl/open-data) #openstreetmap #hsl #helsinki

Ja hei tää sivusto on aika kätevä uusien vegepaikkojen löytämiseen: https://hyvakurkku.fi Ainoa huono puoli on se että tulee hirvee nälkä kun tuolta eri annoksia selailee 😅

Patterns on Bynack More, October 2021. #cairngorms #scotland

“Bluesky now platform of choice for scientists [who liked Twitter before it went downhill]”. Good for them. It’s nice here too. Twitter never felt directly useful for me as a scientist. What I do is too siloed for that, I think. I could never tweet “check out my paper” and actually expect it to […]

Patterns on Bynack More, October 2021. #cairngorms #scotland

Candles aren't meant to flicker - there's a fine balance between the size of the flame and the amount of fuel being fed into it. But when you put three next to each other, they behave as a single flame with too much fuel, and start to flicker. The flickering is so stable you can set your watch […]

I'm the Community Manager of @digiresacademy, https://digital-research.academy/ - "...a grassroots trainer network. We offer training with the goal of improving the quality of research."), as part of which I'm helping to organise the next Open Science Retreat (#osr26uk […]

Someone has donated Al from the original Quantum Leap’s shirts to UFF.

[fipol] Ikään kuin miinusmerkki oli väärässä paikassa. https://yle.fi/a/74-20179346

SMS second factors, a country-by-country guide. Finnish organisations: - 123456 on sinun koodisi British organisations: - NEVER GIVE YOUR CODE TO ANYONE ELSE, YOU SILLY FOOL, we will never ask for your code, why would we? Also we thought it a great idea to have a bit of cybersecurity waffle in […]

Finnish word of the day: rustailla, v.: to write casually

Finnish word of the day: rustailla, n.: to write casually

It looks like we will have tax free books in Denmark soon (Hurray!), partly to try an encourage more reading (though our libraries are booming) + after #pisa2022 showed alarming decline in reading ability. This was IIRC the case across the OECD, I haven't seen a very convincing explanation for […]

I cleaned the kitchen, started the dishwasher, put on a load of laundry and stared at the news for as long as I can stomach. Maybe it's time to write that work email I've been procrastinating over for three months.

I've been a train nerd for most of my adult life but I only learned this week that the announcement melodies used by Swiss Federal Railways in different language regions are based on converting the company's name (SBB/CFF/FFS) to notes (using the German naming scheme) […]

One of the biggest problems with Fedi is people treat it like Stack Overflow: they see everything as a problem they can solve; they disagree with people's premises and questions; and they compete with each other for the 'best' advice.