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30 September (2020)
Para darse una idea de lo bueno que era Quino basta observar que Mafalda ni siquiera era su mejor trabajo.
Magical talk. I know what people who joined us tonight will do with spaghetti next time they cook some!
What to do when you throw away the packaging with cooking time instructions? Assuming spherical geometry for the meat, of course... Prof. Varlamov opening the #iopwlv lecture series.
Replying to @AlbertEinstein
That is exactly Barjavel's Future times three scenario!
Luz and her consigliere practising her Padrino lines... "You can have my answer now if you like..."
29 September (2020)
Replying to @fermatslibrary
Died of cancer at age 53.
28 September (2020)
23 September (2020)
On jailing a writer, Hervé Ryssen, for books I can't even find - but will... laussy.org/wiki/Blog:Fabr… - we now live in times where cursed authors and thoughtcrimes are not dystopian material but make the news.
Tant qu'il y aura des journalistes et écrivains en prison, pour qui il y a des exceptions ou circonstances aggravantes, ces nobles intentions ne seront que sophisme et torche-cul.
22 September (2020)
Replying to @david__co
I don't know yet; right now, a prisoner under the
Gayssot Act, if I understood well, someone in jail for books and/or opinions, such as labelling himself a racist. Previously, possibly just an obscure extremist. Now, behind bars, an instant classic of the subversive literature.
Gayssot Act, if I understood well, someone in jail for books and/or opinions, such as labelling himself a racist. Previously, possibly just an obscure extremist. Now, behind bars, an instant classic of the subversive literature.
This man in yellow, who was accidentally featured on the cover of a leading magazine, has been jailed because of his declarations and/or writings. I've never read him but now feel I have to since I am curious to read by myself what it is that one can write that sends you to jail.
He wrote 12 books according to Wikipedia. Not knowing nor finding details of his production and if a piece is particularly targetted I'll try to find his 1st (Les Espérances planétariennes) and last (L'Antisémitisme, sans complexe ni tabou: Plaidoyer pour la liberté d'expression)
Regardless of what I find in there, needless to say, I consider the decision to jail someone for opinions—however vacuous, deplorable or hateful they might be—utterly unacceptable. For sure this is a consecration for him. Whatever is motivating the "sanction" is deeply mistaken.
21 September (2020)
Replying to @leGeneral_off and @LE_GENERAL_OF
Quand ça va partir en vrille après on aura tous les beaux discours du respect de l'ordre républicain. Il y a tellement de patience accummulée qu'il faudra pas s'étonner si la première éteincelle mette le feu aux poudres.
15 September (2020)
Save the date! My understanding is that only 1000 people can attend live. Most (hopefully all) talks will be recorded for later viewing, but you'll miss the thrill of real-time captioning and to ask questions. Register and please share with interested parties.
Là, tout y est! Malice (pour subtiliser la pièce d'identité), indécision ("heuuuu tadez"), ahurissement niais ("vouz'avez le tract..."), flou artistique ("faut pas être porteur de signes comme quoi.") [point à la ligne], intimidation ("filmée par une caméra professionnelle") ...
... condescendance ("mettez vous ici comme je vous ai dit à l'instant"), diction parodique ("par-ti-ci-pa-tiôn à une ma-ni-fesse-ta-tiôn interditeu"), ivresse incrédule de la hiérarchie ("mon supérieur?"), bêtise ("on change pas de sujet madame") ...
mais le plus fort c'est quand même le gendre idéal qui s'éternise pour scanner un document. Bien peigné, bien rasé sous son masque, bien droit dans son costume, bien attentionné à appliquer le totalitarisme soft où l'on octroie une amende hors de prix pour un papier dans la poche
Ils sont gentils les méchants. Là on a la fierté, décomplexée effectivement, de la machine qui fait le job, aussi stupide et humiliant puisse-t'il être. Eux c'est sûr, on peut leur demander de faire appliquer n'importe quoi. Ils iront même encore plus loin.
Heureusement, en face, il y a tout le contraire: la défiance, la fierté, la liberté, la dignité. La France... contre les robots! Dire que dans ma jeunesse je trouvais ce titre ridicule. Il l'est, mais seulement parce qu'il dépeint parfaitement la situation, absurde et pathétique.
Je trouvais toujours que Bernanos exagérait à parler sans cesse des imbéciles. Il avait simplement vu si loin, qu'il avait tout vu.
13 September (2020)
Replying to @mattmcirvin and @j_bertolotti
The left parts of the animation are well defined and well behaved.
11 September (2020)
@j_bertolotti @srk_rodriguez I like the law of large numbers more, which is what your animation illustrates (nicely). Said's question I think is the one that Taleb answers (in my understanding, negatively, more sampling doesn't help).
Replying to @srk_rodriguez and @j_bertolotti
A Cauchy distribution has no mean.
Replying to @20Minutes
C'est pas tronqué, il a voulu dire "il circule moins vite mais il circule quand même rapidement". Il a cependant bien dit "il circule moins vite mais il circule quand même [tautologie] et il circule malgré tout de plus en plus rapidement [contradiction]".
Replying to @mickeykats
Self-interfering wave packets doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… with @david__co and Frequency-resolved Monte Carlo dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598… with @juclopezca & @edelvallereboul - although now I'd add Quantum in the latter.
Knight on a7 guards that square.
10 September (2020)
Replying to @UtterlyInterest and @DannyDutch
Still clearer than Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
That is censoring scientists. Even cranks, loonies, conspiracy theorists should not be censored. But here, this is censoring a recognized, established and leading scientist. As a scientist myself, I must denounce this intolerable and dangerous censoring of science by @YouTube.
Update: after *two* appeals, the censorship has now been lifted. A precision was further made that the content was commenting published results! This Galilean incident still remains a troubling one.
Replying to @J_Silleres
C'est tout à fait ça, l'humanité contre l'esclavage technique, tel que prophétisé par V. Gheorghiu dans son oeuvre Ora 25. Vont s'opposer ceux qui fonctionnent, à tort ou à raison, en termes de mères, bébés et conviction, et ceux en termes de directives, règles et récrimination.
9 September (2020)
12 invitations for @PhysWlv 's IOP program were extended, 4 were declined. Assuming equal probability to decline from men & women and 20% women physicists (the main issue there), such a scenario of a male-only lineup had >16.7% chance to occur.
Unlucky, but this also proves that when @physwlv tells you, and please check, that our seminars are given by women in the proportion of 1/4, this isn't to fulfil a gender-focused objective, this is because we are genuinely inclusive and not gender-biased, one way or the other.
We do pride ourselves in making *no* discrimination whatsoever. Not even so-called positive ones. So we did not strive to secure female speakers on that criterion, when those we contacted declined.
That is, in my view, a genuine sign of respect and recognition of women, to treat them as scientists and nothing else.
If your point is that we are sexists, please look up the evidence; follow @PhysWlv, browse our history, and you'll see that women play a great, valued and central role in our group, activities and development. Although not as women. As scientists.
If your point is that there must always be a threshold of women (and please place a figure), then this is open to debate. Events which systematically feature at least 20% of women from a community with the same proportion, tell you: we put some there *because* they are women.
That might be how the Physics/Scientific community wants things to happen. I'm not even against that, if that's a cure, or even a policy, but so far, I have never treated a fellow scientist according to their gender. Or race, or religion or anything but their Science.
And that's how you get, time to time, not often, but enough to get someone's attention when they look hard enough for this sort of things, a sampling not faithful to the full distribution.
Now the good thing in all this is the impressive list of likes from people who feel strongly about it @RuthPatchett1 @vaidya_ruj @acethecurious @AlexOlayaCastro @DrYogiLBear @JohannaZultak @aineclareob @beamsontoast @SaturnSheila @alixcage @ProfRachelGaN @drclairemurray & growing
So now we have contacts on that topic. We'll make sure to interest them in giving a talk on that question at our event next year, unless someone wants to press the issue forward, in which case I'll happily step down to leave women's under-representation get immediate attention.
Because we agree that there is a misrepresentation of women in Physics, and that a lot can be done to address this. But this must be done in good-faith, good-will and in-depth, not superficially by brushing aside simple statistical facts and jumping at people's throat.
I'll conclude with our outlook for the international women's day last year .
8 September (2020)
4 September (2020)
Replying to @DrAlexClark
It went great. I take the blame for the subtitles turning my "incoherent" into "in current", "increment", "in Korean" and other variations.
Closing of #IOPphoton2020 and back home already... Thanks @AnaSantosIOP for the support and making everything work, @DrAlexClark for the great program, hidden colleagues for their interest, and the speakers for great talks. Always inspiring to see other people share their best.
If topics are too tough, can you guess their nationality?
3 September (2020)
Welcome Gary. Looking forward to working with you in the most exciting/unusual/fun/propitious/life-changing place in the universe.
Physicist in the kitchen. Who doesn't want to see that?
2 September (2020)
I try to be conservative for my personal Doomsday Clock making the countdown of the 25th hour, but this makes one step forward: laussy.org/wiki/Escalatio…
Replying to @david__co
you'd enjoy this #IOPphoton2020 talk very much. Hopefully you can pick it up offline?
1 September (2020)
Another Wulfrunian breakthrough. Where else is this happening?
Ah ah... first time I can tweet during my own talk :)
I'll look at myself give a talk this afternoon for the #Photon2020 (although in a parallel session, I need to remember what I said to answer questions). Come and challenge us! (Ed. Zubizarreta, @juclopezca & @edelvallereboul)
iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/r… #IOPphoton2020
iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/r… #IOPphoton2020