âIn our effort to save the climate, are we destroying the environmentâ (Michael Shellenberger)?
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Kilogram gets a new definition
“Currently, it is defined by the weight of a platinum-based ingot called “Le Grand K” which is locked away in a safe in Paris. On Friday, researchers meeting in Versailles voted to get rid of it in favour of defining a kilogram in terms of an electric current. The decision was made at the General Conference on Weights and Measures“.
If time, as we perceive it, is a function of human cognition and perception then how could music, as we perceive it, not be a human “construct”. Nevertheless, this is the stuff you use when you want to blow minds. Also, Isaac Newton. Was he human though? I am not entirely convinced.
Seems like this is, at least partial, validation of calls by people like Sam Harris for a more direct study of human consciousness (and other, non-human, types, if at all possible).
âThe next best thing to a sexual fantasyâ â hanging out at Londonâs all-night bagel bakery
In the spring of 1997âfive years after this video was madeâI lived at the very south end of Brick Lane in Attlee House at Toynbee Hall, as an exchange student attending London Guildhall University. At least once a week, late at night when everything else was closed, we sent a party of volunteers (the hungriest among us, I imagine) all the way to the other end of Brick Lane to get bagels. ‘Always open’ was a rare thing at the border between the city and the east end in those days. (And, yes, salmon and cream cheese was my favourite too.)
Let There Be Rock!
(via See Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses’ Live Tributes to AC/DC’s Malcolm Young, Rolling Stone 2017-11-19.)
The article of the future?
In general I celebrate every effort to move beyond the pdf-format. And Elsevierâs âarticle of the futureâ looks like a neat solution. It is however not unproblematic. First, and most important, the number one feature I would like to see in the evolution of the research article is increased transportability and display-ability. I would like toâwithout effort, there are hacksâbe able to view an article wherever I want and on whatever device I want. This new article format doesnât exactly seem to improve on that. For instance, what if I would like to view the article on a tablet computer? I must assume that most of the reading in the future will be on iPads, Windows (8) tablets, and whatever comes thereafter. Elsevierâs new article format would require me, it seems, to hold the tablet in landscape mode, and, in lack of a native client, have access to the Internet. I would much more prefer if they went in the other direction and made it (as close as possible to) plain text.1 Plain text combined with Markdown or a similar markup language would also address my wish to be able to display the article as I wish.
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MythTV
Under tre dagar förra veckan (inte 8 till 5 förstÄs) sÄ tillÀt jag mig lyxen att ta tag i ett projekt jag lÀnge sett fram emot. Dels har jag varit nyfiken pÄ att installera MythTV pÄ en dator. (MythTV kan, kanske lite orÀttvist, beskrivas som en linuxbaserad open source variant av Windows Media Center med fokus pÄ PVR aspekten hos denna produkt.) Dels har jag lÀnge önskat bygga ihop en dator sjÀlv, förmodligen för att jag inte byggde sÄ mycket modeller som barn och dÀrför hade ett behov att uppfylla. Jag bör kanske nÀmna den uppenbara ironin i
detta projekt: jag ser inte pÄ speciellt mycket TV (samt har en hÄrddisk inbyggd i tv:en) och det hade förmodligen varit billigare att köpa en fÀrdigmonterad dator. Syftet med projektet hade dock inget med detta att göra. Jag önskade helt enkelt bygga nÄgot.