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It will be my mission in life to find all the Chris Evans laugh edits and apprehend the crafty son of a bitch that keeps making them.Ā
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In this 1940s photograph, American physicist Harold Agnew (1921-2013) is seen casually carrying a small but world-altering objectāthe plutonium core of the Fat Man atomic bomb. This item would later be used in the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, an attack that killed approximately 80,000 people.
Harold Agnew saw the completion of the atomic bomb from start to finish. As a member of Enrico Fermiās research team at the University of Chicago in 1942, Agnew witnessed the first sustained nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1. He worked in the Experimental Physics Division at Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945. While the Trinity test was being conducted, Agnew was already on his way to Tinian Island in the Pacific as part of Project Alberta, the group responsible for the final bomb assembly. He flew as a scientific observer on a B-29 bomber for the Hiroshima bombing mission, measuring the size of the shock wave to determine the bombās power. He also filmed the explosion with a movie camera.
The plutonium core (the box) in the Fat Man weighed 6.2 kg or about 14 lb, the pit is 9 cm (4 inches) across. And only about one fifth of it, a bit over 1 kg (2 pounds) undergoes a fission reaction. And only a gram (1/30th of an ounce) of that gets converted into explosive energy equal to 21,000 tons of TNT.
when the lyrics you've been mishearing are more clever than what's actually in the song
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Bonus 96: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking
Sometimes, a phrase seems to leap off the page and lodge into your mind, crisp and shining like a precious jewel. Other times, you're reading something and it just won't stick, your eyes wandering away no matter how hard you try.
In this bonus episode, Gretchen gets enthusiastic about what psycholinguistics can tell us about creative writing, with Julie Sedivy, who's a psycholinguist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the author of two general-audience linguistics books, Memory SpeaksĀ and Linguaphile. We talk about moving from the style of scientific writing to literary writing by writing a lot of unpublished poetry to develop her aesthetic sense, how studying linguistics for a writer is like studying anatomy for a sculptor or colour theory for a painter, and how you could set up an eyetracking study to help writers figure out which sentences make their readers slow down. We also do a small linguistic experiment on air using the following words, which you can play along with: luggage, liminal, withstand, tremulous, pulchritude, zoo.
Listen to this episode about what psycholinguistics can tell us about creative writing, with Julie Sedivy, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.
Dog from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Doggy Osbourne from MySims Kingdom
My mom sent me a tiny man that I have to bury in the ground. Catholicism is wild
Wtf does this mean
Iām moving and selling my house and apparently thereās a patron saint of home selling and you literally bury this tiny man in front of your house to help sell it
Linguistic Diversity Challenge Day Five: YagƔn
Basic Facts:
YagĆ”n, also known as YĆ”mana and HĆ”usi KĆŗta, is a language isolate. It used to be spoken by the Yagan people on the Tierra de Fuego archipelago in Argentina and Chile. It currently has only one native speaker remaining, who is 90 years old and lives on Navarino Island in Chile. Ā
Writing System:Ā
YagÔn is written using a modified Latin alphabet, using the letters and digraphs a, æ, ch, e, ö, f, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, rh, s, Ŕ, t, u, w, and x.
How does it sound?
YagƔn has 7 vowels and 17 consonants. It includes the glottal stop and four separate approximants (alveolar, post-alveolar, palatal, and velar). You can hear it spoken in this video - it starts being spoken at around 1:25, but the entire video is really interesting so I suggest you watch the whole thing :)
Grammatical features:
YagĆ”n has an extensive case system for nouns, and voice and aspect systems in verbs. Because of this, word order is relatively free. Pronouns are divided into threeĀ āpersonsā that are different from the usual 1st, 2nd, and 3rd - YagĆ”n has the proximal (in practice, this almost always corresponds to 1st person in English), the near distal, and the further distal. It exhibits verb serialization. Reduplication is not a productive process except in adverbs.Ā
Resources to learn more:
https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/yag/
https://ids.clld.org/contributions/315
http://web.uchile.cl/archivos/uchile/cultura/lenguas/yaganes/Ā (in Spanish)
https://books.google.com/books?id=4V1IAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=falseĀ (in French)
Also in glottolog:Ā https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yama1264
YagĆ”n (i used the name Yahgan in my dissertation) is one of only three languages that I found in a sample of 550+ languages that do not borrow verbs while allowing the lexical borrowing of other parts of speech ā something believed to be far more common actually. I wish I had an explanation for this, but I love these threeĀ ārebels" nonetheless.Ā
Swipe right for a little animation I made for a class. It was my first time animating a figure in space. Learned a lot and canāt wait to do more! š The piece literally draws out my routine when bored and procrastinating. #animation #shortfilm #sketch #drawing #pencil #photoshop #aftereffects (at Bedok, Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwHUVgAh8Tg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l76kxmo5ehn5
John Flaxman - Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks. N.d.
Alright so there are conflicting accounts of his death, but Pythagoreanism is wild and we were robbed when it never appeared at all in Odyssey.
āĪαĻθάνοιĻα Γὲ κείĻεαι Ļį½¹Ļα, ĪŗĻὠμναμοĻύνα Ļέθεν į¼ĻĻεĻā Īæį½Ļε Ļį½¹Ļā Īæį½Ļā į½ĻĻεĻĪæĪ½Ī Īæį½ Ī³į½°Ļ ĻεΓέĻĪµĪ¹Ļ Ī²ĻόΓĻν Ļῶν į¼Īŗ ΠιεĻίαĻ, į¼Ī»Ī»ā į¼Ļį½±Ī½Ī·Ļ Īŗį¼ Ī½ į¼įæĪ“α Ī“į½¹Ī¼ĪæĪ¹Ļ ĻοιĻį½±ĻĪµĪ¹Ļ ĻεΓā į¼Ī¼Ī±į½»ĻĻν νεκύĻν į¼ĪŗĻεĻĪæĻαμένα.ā
ā But thou shalt ever lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or thereafter, for thou hast not of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander obscure even in the house of Hades, flitting among the shadowy dead. Sappho, fragment 65. Translated by H.T. Warton. (via darkshiney)
i have a hill to die on real quick
phrases like āyou donāt owe anyone anythingā and ārelationships arenāt transactionalā have the power to be used in ways that are very backwards and harmful
for example, no you donāt owe anyone anything in that if some creep is trying to get with you, you can block him without feeling bad. you donāt owe kindness to people who are transphobic or racist or bigoted.
but, you canāt use this as an excuse to fuck over people who have helped you. āyou donāt owe anyone anythingā isnāt an excuse to allow yourself to forget compassion and basic empathy, it isnāt an excuse for you to be an asshole just because you find it easier to be one
relationships arenāt transactional in that if your partner does something nice for you, you are indebted to them. they do these things because they love you; it is their choice to express love through these gestures
but they are transactional in that you both actively need to be putting time and care into the relationship. ignoring the dynamic of one person caring too much (and putting in excessive (emotional an literal) work and labor) while the other does nothing isnāt healthy. one person canāt solely take and the other person canāt solely give- thatās dangerous, and you canāt put the bandaid of āthis isnāt transactionalā over a relationship that is draining you in all capacities
iām tired of seeing these things being misconstrued and used as an excuse to hurt people, while framing it as a way of taking care of yourself
SOMEBODY SAID IT
Hereās a good starting point for those of you interested in learning more:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05707-8
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/technology-is-biased-too-how-do-we-fix-it/
Absolutely. The programmer must develop code to work within the expected parameters. A less heated example is left vs right handed. Most hotkeys are really geared towards right handed people. It is simply a byproduct of not looking beyond your experience. Software isnāt from God.
This is also true of language-centric and linguistic algorithms. From Siri not understanding AAVE, to the āhelpersā all having feminine names (Siri, Alexa, Sophia, etc.), to what value is given to what modes of communication (is there support in indigenous languages? what about signed languages?) - AI is crafted by humans, humans have biases, and those creep in to the end product.
For more on AI and bias, check out @lewisandquark