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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-25 18:11:52

Get a dose of my daily hyperfixation on Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938, accidentally discovered its effects on April 16, 1943, intentionally took it again on April 19, 1943, and died at the age of 102 on April 29, 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_H…

Elderly man in a striped suit with tie against a blurred forest-like background looking calm and composed.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-17 07:48:04
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Having slaughtered a male child, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Mainalos. But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezos, and blasted Lykaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyktimos, the youngest."
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Bronze figurine of Zeus Keraunos (Zeus of the Thunderbolt). He he depicted as a mature, bearded man, wielding his thunderbolt in his right and taking aim with his outstretched left arm.
@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-15 09:10:31

Rare Events, Many Searchers, and Fast Target Reaching in a Finite Domain
Elisabetta Ellettari, Giacomo Nasuti, Alberto Bassanoni, Alessandro Vezzani, Raffaella Burioni
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09452

Rare Events, Many Searchers, and Fast Target Reaching in a Finite Domain
Finding a target in a complex environment is a fundamental challenge in nature, from chemical reactions to sperm reaching an egg. An effective strategy to reduce the time needed to reach a target is to deploy many searchers, increasing the likelihood that at least one will succeed by using the statistics of rare events. When the underlying stochastic process involves broadly distributed step sizes, rare long jumps dominate the dynamics, making the use of multiple searchers particularly powerful…

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-13 07:35:39

The iPad really is a kind of miracle device when you think about it: an unbrickable, essentially virus-proof, simple computer for computer-illiterate people and the elderly. A UNIX system you can give to your great-grandma and she can use comfortably without having to worry about some update breaking it or some other random change rendering it strange and foreign. (I haven't turned mine on in years, mind you, but the point stands.)