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@mibrammall.bsky.social

Current software engineer, former theoretical physicist, permanently distracted

431 Followers 1,662 Following 31 Posts Joined Oct 2023
5 days ago

This is a great time to watch Threads lol

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1 month ago

This conference at the White House is the Peppa Pig World moment of this presidency

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3 months ago

TIL Handel's Messiah does not begin with "Come for tea, come for tea, my people. Seth is your God"

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4 months ago

The irony of a paedophile being angry at the BBC...

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5 months ago

We live in an age where the US government shutting down is bad for science, but also the US government operating is bad for science

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9 months ago

Thanks - I just tried from my desktop and it worked fine. I was trying from an Android tablet before.

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9 months ago
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I entered my email and yes, it was a captcha type test - it looked like this

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9 months ago

Fwiw I tried to read, but a pop-up asked me hold a button for a few seconds, which I did. This failed twice, so I gave up trying to read the article.

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9 months ago

Google's search has gotten so bad I've subscribed to a paid-for search engine.

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1 year ago

It's 2025 and I'm still writing stuff in C++. What went wrong?

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1 year ago

C# is pronounced as "C tic-tac-toe"

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1 year ago

Expert takedown of latest burst of Neuralink hype, from ever-reliable @garwboy.bsky.social.
So frustrating that media keep falling for this, especially at a time when Musk & co are in midst of vandalizing the science research infrastructure of the US, damage that will reverberate across the world. 🧪

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1 year ago

we're in our "drink whisky? why not have some cocaine?" era, if Colombia gets its way

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1 year ago

I told you to read Hannah Arendt.

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1 year ago
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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1 year ago

I've just heard about New World screwworm. It took me a second to figure out, but turns out it's not an article about Trump.

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1 year ago

All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.

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1 year ago

Trump is delivering a speech like he's on his way to open pork markets in Beijing

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1 year ago
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

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1 year ago

"We're in the rotunda for the ceremony. Speaking of rotund, here's president elect Trump"

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1 year ago

Trump is going to die in office, the absolute state of him

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1 year ago
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Yumurtalık - Wikipedia

There's a place in Turkey which means "like an egg" and this has amused me no end

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumurta...

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1 year ago

2025 is just around the corner and I just can't wait for the bubble around LLMs to burst so that Silicon Valley can move on and ruin quantum computing for everyone...

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1 year ago

Hope you enjoy it!

I tried a clamato beer when I was in the US but not knowing what to expect. I'm still scarred tbh.

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1 year ago

Jupiter is one of the largest bodies in our Solar System, dwarfed only by the Son of Gary Barlow

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1 year ago

TV Show: "This began before any of us were born, a long long time ago"

A transition to a new scene follows, with text displaying my year of birth...

fml

#SlowDecay #GettingOld

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1 year ago

One of the most life changing things I've bought this year is a hot water bottle with a pouch to put your feet in. A persistent ache in my calves has gone in an instant.

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1 year ago

Despite its appearance as a bustling metropolis, Leeds is in fact inhabited by just four people moving at great speed.

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1 year ago
Cover of the "Solid state Physics" textbook by Ashcroft and Mermin.
(Source|: Wikipedia)

#PhysicsFactlet:
The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project"
I will try to (likely very slowly) make one or more visualization per chapter of "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin, with the hope that they will be useful to people teaching/learning solid state Physics.
1/

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1 year ago

Non-alcoholic gin tastes* like gin without alcohol in a way that is not true for non-alcoholic beers, which taste like a mistake

* based on my sample of one non-alcoholic gin

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