Tootfinder

I almost drove off the road trying to find my phone & snap a pic of this, but I’ve been giggling about it for 2 days now. #SiriusXM #FalettinmeBeMiceElf

It is so windy.
(HOW WINDY IS IT?)
It's so windy, my husband just watched a dog poo blow across the back yard, end over end.
A tumbleturd, if you will.
#HeFeltTheNeedToShare

She was so fcking fabulous. I hope that wherever she's gone, she's enjoying a wonderful new adventure! #IrisApfel https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/10-life-le

Iris Apfel: 10 life lessons from a 96-year-old who is probably cooler than you
The fashionista co-founded an international textile company that did work for nine presidential administrations.

"Theoretical physicists, through the inescapable demands of their own subject, have been forced to become epistemologists, just as pure mathematicians have been forced to become logicians."
- Arthur Eddington, 'The Philosophy Of Physical Science' (1949)

75 Jahre UKW in Deutschland: Die "Welle der Freude" wogt weiter
1949 beginnt in Deutschland das Zeitalter des Ultrakurzwellenradios. Der kriegsbedingte Verlust von Mittelwellenfrequenzen verschafft dabei einen Vorsprung.

I read 'TfL's AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying' #AI

TfL's AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying
Mind the Orwellian Surveillance Apparatus

hmmmm... 1949 green line, or 1947 UN partition plan...
well considering the 1948 Nakba.... maybe not the 1949 line... the 1947 one looks better...

Lost In The Stars (1949 Original Cast)
#KurtWeill

As Melbourne prepares for the first of however many nights of Taylor Swift... do buses and trains from the regions and airports into cities turn into Taylor Swift themed parties? How cool would that be? #TayTay

People who got excited about AI in 2022 or 2023, when a chatbot first nicks their content:
People who got excited about AI in any year up to 2022, when they saw it coming but a chatbot nicks their content anyway:

«1984, la distopía de George Orwell convertida en un clšsico y que fue publicada en 1949, cuenta ahora con una versión feminista, Julia —escrita por Sandra Newman—, una novela autorizada por los herederos del autor y que relata la historia desde el punto de vista de la novia del protagonista.
»Ahora, la versión de Julia, cuando se cumplen 75 años de la publicación de 1984, muestra cómo es para las mujeres sobrevivir en esa sociedad.»
#1984

Good Morning #Canada
On February 16th, 1934, the Dominion of Newfoundland ceases to be self-governing. Newfoundland remained a dominion in name for the next 15 years as Britain assigned a governor to rule the colony, and they reported to the Colonial Secretary in London. The legislature was suspended and all elections ceased until Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.

Apparently I'm a "liberal airhead". What are you?
Try: https://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
PS: This is Theodor Adorno's Authoritarian Personality Test. Try completing the questionnaire *before* reading about the test.

The F Scale: Final form
The Fscale: test of fascist receptivity at a personality level (T.W. Adorno et al., 1949)

5/ „In der 1949 gegründeten DDR wurde Haarers Buch nicht verlegt.“
Rabe schreibt in #DieMöglichkeitVonGlück darüber, wie ihre Großmutter ihre Tante mehrere Jahre in den Schuppen gesteckt hat, wenn sie schrie. Als sie drei Jahre alt war, hörte sie auf mit Schreien.
Auch (Nicht-)Stillen bei Schreien und die Sache mit dem Durchschlafen wird thematisiert.
Diese Art Pädagogik geht auf Johanna Haarer und ihr Buch Die Deutsche Mutter und ihr erstes Kind 1934 zurück.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_deutsche_Mutter_und_ihr_erstes_Kind
„Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden Haarers Bücher zunächst von den Alliierten verboten. Unter dem Titel Die Mutter und ihr erstes Kind wurde ihr erfolgreichstes Buch in überarbeiteter Fassung und ohne Hinweis auf die Erstausgabe später erneut herausgegeben, 1987 in letzter Auflage.“
Rabes Großvater war zum Kriegsende 20. Das heißt, dass diese Sichtweisen in der Familie noch eine Rolle gespielt haben können. Kriegserlebnisse auch. Sie thematisiert das selbst.
Das Nicht-Stillen gab es in Ost und West.

Revisiting Taylor and the Trinity Test
Elizabeth Mone (College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia), Pranay Seshadri (College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19657

Revisiting Taylor and the Trinity Test
The atomic bomb uses fission of heavy elements to produce a large amount of energy. It was designed and deployed during World War II by the United States military. The first test of an atomic bomb occurred in July of 1945 in New Mexico and was given the name Trinity; this test was not declassified until 1949. In that year Geoffrey Ingram Taylor released two papers, detailing his process in calculating the energy yield of the atomic bomb from pictures of the Trinity explosion alone. Many scienti…

We miss you, John Belushi
https://www.didiermary.fr/we-miss-you-john-belushi/
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) died from an overdose of cocaine and heroin.
His tombstone reads “I may be gone, but rock'n'roll lives on.”
I …

We miss you, John Belushi - Didier J. MARY (blog)
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was part of the Blues Brothers...

Did you receive a donor egg from Angela O in San Francisco or Dallas between 2010-2018? If so, your child needs to be tested for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia ASAP.
Please boost? #DonorConception #EggDonation

“As one former senior administration official puts it: ‘You try working for him and not chasing pills with alcohol.’” #TrumpAdministration #WereTheyAllOnDrugs #Yep

Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.

Eric Carmen
(1949-2024)
https://www.ericcarmen.com/

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20240423date
#ZeitzeichenWDR

> [Gates] McFadden, is an actress best known for her role as Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and its spin-offs.
>
> Earlier in her career, she worked with Jim Henson as a choreographer and actor on several projects. [...]
>
> As an actor, she first appeared in The Muppets Take Manhattan, playing the secretary for Martin Price.

OMG, has anyone let #KathleenMadigan know? #MH370 https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.ph

MH370: LOKE ASSURES TO GET CABINET APPROVAL TO RESUME SEARCH
MH370, Anthony Loke, Ocean Infinity, aircraft, mis

„Ei Karl!“ - das konnte nur die Mamma sein. Und da erstehen sie wieder vor unserem geistigen Auge: Die Hesselbachs - die hessischste Familie aller Zeiten. Mit Mamma Marie, Babba Karl, den Söhnen Willy und Peter sowie den beiden Töchtern Anneliese und Heidi #Hesselbach. Ein Panoptikum der allerfeinsten Art - dazu Putzfrau

Heute vor 75 Jahren: Am 19. März 1949 nahm die #USA die #Atombombe Mark 4 in den Bestand der United States Air Force auf. Sie gilt mit über 500 beschafften Einheiten als erste in #Massenproduktion

The McNish and Lincoln Solar Activity Predictions: The Method and its Performance
Fr\'ed\'eric CletteRoyal Observatory of Belgium, Shantanu JainSkolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Tatiana PodladchikovaSkolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09273

The McNish and Lincoln Solar Activity Predictions: The Method and its Performance
The McNish and Lincoln (ML) method, introduced in 1949, was one of the first attempts to produce mid-term forecasts of solar activity, up to 12 months ahead. However, it has been poorly described and evaluated in the past literature, in particular its actual operational implementation by NOAA. Here, we reconstruct the exact formulation of the method, as it was applied since the early 1970s, and we provide a full mathematical derivation of the prediction errors. For bench-marking the method, w…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03571 has been replaced.
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Model-free Reinforcement Learning of Semantic Communication by Stochastic Policy Gradient
Following the recent success of Machine Learning tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit the meaning, i.e., semantics, of a message instead of its exact version, allowing for information rate savings. In this work, we apply the Stochastic Policy Gradient (SPG) to design a semantic communication system by reinforcement learning, separating transmitter and …

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
Roberto Lalli, Paolo Politi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12156

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
In spring 1949 about 70 physicists from eight countries met in Florence to discuss recent trends in statistical mechanics. This scientific gathering, co-organized by the Commission on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Italian Physical Society (SIF), initiated a tradition of IUPAP-sponsored international conferences on statistical mechanics that lasts to this day. In 1977, when this conference series took the name of S…

Multiple mixing in ergodic theory
Valery V. Ryzhikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06476

Multiple mixing in ergodic theory
In 1949 V.A. Rokhlin introduced into ergodic theory the k-fold mixing and puzzled the mathematical community with the problem of the mismatch of these invariants. Here's what Rokhlin wrote: "The proposed work arose from the author's attempts to solve the well-known spectral problem of the theory of dynamical systems: are there any metrically different dynamical systems with the same continuous (in particular, Lebesgue) spectrum? Using new metric invariants introduced for this purpose, the aut…

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
Roberto Lalli, Paolo Politi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12156

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
In spring 1949 about 70 physicists from eight countries met in Florence to discuss recent trends in statistical mechanics. This scientific gathering, co-organized by the Commission on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Italian Physical Society (SIF), initiated a tradition of IUPAP-sponsored international conferences on statistical mechanics that lasts to this day. In 1977, when this conference series took the name of S…

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20240320date
#ZeitzeichenWDR

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12156 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
In spring 1949 about 70 physicists from eight countries met in Florence to discuss recent trends in statistical mechanics. This scientific gathering, co-organized by the Commission on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Italian Physical Society (SIF), initiated a tradition of IUPAP-sponsored international conferences on statistical mechanics that lasts to this day. In 1977, when this conference series took the name of S…

57/ Ja doch. Auch Frauen können Beugehebel. Wäre ja jetzt doof, wenn sie irgendwas anders machten. #Gleichberechtigung
Übrigens war die Prügelstrafe für Eltern im Westen bis 2000 nicht verboten. Auch Lehrer durften bis 1957 prügeln. Die DDR hatte das bereits 1949 abgeschafft. Die Prügelerlaubnis galt aber nicht für Frauen. 1957 wurde ihnen das auch gestattet. Endlich Gleichberechtigung! Nur falls Euch mal wieder jemand was über #Gewalt im #Osten erzählen will.
#LetzteGeneration
#ungehorsameVersammlung

R.I.P. Eric Carmen 😢
Der amerikanische Sänger Eric Carmen, der mit der Ballade "All By Myself" (1975) einen Riesenhit hatte und es auch mit "Hungry Eyes" in die weltweiten Charts schaffte, ist tot. Er starb nach Angaben seiner Frau mit 74 Jahren.
Eric Carmen
(1949-2024)
It is with tremendous sadness that we
share the heartbreaking news of the passing
of Eric Carmen.
Our sweet, loving and talented Eric
passed away in his sleep, over the weekend.
It brought him great joy to know, that for
decades, his music touched so many and will be
his lasting legacy.
Please respect the family’s privacy as we
mourn our enormous loss.
“Love Is All That Matters...Faithful and Forever”
—Amy Carmen
(Quelle: ericcarmen.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_2i8IiwxQ&t=547s

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12156 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics
In spring 1949 about 70 physicists from eight countries met in Florence to discuss recent trends in statistical mechanics. This scientific gathering, co-organized by the Commission on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Italian Physical Society (SIF), initiated a tradition of IUPAP-sponsored international conferences on statistical mechanics that lasts to this day. In 1977, when this conference series took the name of S…

R.I.P. Eric Carmen 😢
Der amerikanische Sänger Eric Carmen, der mit der Ballade "All By Myself" (1975) einen Riesenhit hatte und es auch mit "Hungry Eyes" in die weltweiten Charts schaffte, ist tot. Er starb nach Angaben seiner Frau mit 74 Jahren.
Eric Carmen
(1949-2024)
It is with tremendous sadness that we
share the heartbreaking news of the passing
of Eric Carmen.
Our sweet, loving and talented Eric
passed away in his sleep, over the weekend.
It brought him great joy to know, that for
decades, his music touched so many and will be
his lasting legacy.
Please respect the family’s privacy as we
mourn our enormous loss.
“Love Is All That Matters...Faithful and Forever”
—Amy Carmen
(Quelle: ericcarmen.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_2i8IiwxQ&t=547s