Reto Fiolka

While the book is very depressing, there is one chapter that cheered me up:

How a mathematician overcomes depression using regression to the mean.

This so ridiculously silly, it may actually work for me.

I am currently reading Innumeracy.

We were warned about the dangers of a society incapable of doing basic math 37 years ago.

How I wish elected officials, anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists would read that book😞.

Thanks for sharing!

Great news.

Reviewer #2

The segmentation is astronomically bad.

What level of Otsu is this!

@ilastik-team.bsky.social Thoughts on the (over) segmentation?

cc @astrokatie.com

cc @preibischs.bsky.social

It looks like they did not use BigStitcher, but an astro software to stitch multiple tiles into large mosaics.

Maybe once they do 3D stacks with Webb, they come to you😃.

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My thorlabs stepper motor when I ask about its step size:

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Stepper motor and Cam moves by 7.7nm?

And built in AO in the big mirror!

Yes, it is fabulous. Much bigger aperture than Hubble, and diffraction limited performance.

Nah, just differently shaped galaxies😇.

The far stuff is all galaxies, AFAIK.

The PSF is a bit funky, from the telescope design.

255h of James Webb space telescope deep field images stitched together.

It starts out with a field about 1.5x the size of the full moon. Click the '+' button to zoom in.

Most of the dots are galaxies.

cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap/?ra=...

Grace Hopper’s visualization of a nanosecond:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyF...

Inspired by her, I do time of flight in a spinning disk in a microscopy lecture.

Born on this day, 1906, Grace Brewster Hopper.

-Created one of the first compiler.

-Created COBOL, still in use in databases today!

-Coined the term debugging.

-Served in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral.

🫡

cc @christlet.bsky.social

Structured illumination dress!

The angles are slightly off, and the phase angles are missing, but I’m digging it .

When someone at UCSF told immigration officer that she was an Assistant Professor there, the officer said: “but you will not get tenure!”

(She did, and is quite prominent and famous in her field…)

I once had to explain Fourier transforms to an immigration officer.

I teach a calculus class, so I can rigorously derive the transform. Still not sure why, but since I was asked, better deliver…

I won the FIFA Fields medal for my geometric derivation of the offside rule.

#math #Worldcup

Better to follow up by e-mail or dm.

Please let me know if you want to grab a coffee or smth.

Welcome to Dallas!

How long will you be at UTSW?

I have that double take too, occasionally.

Some countries live in the future, while others cling desperately to the past.

😞

Did not find what I was looking for, so tried my luck once more at the harmonic stair case.

(empty Thorlabs boxes)

Since Photons are bosons, the can also occupy the same quantum state (room).

Helpful if you run a Hilbert hotel.

Rayleigh scattering goes Brrrr!

Sunset in DFW seen from UT Southwestern Medical Center.

My own theory was that it exploits the widespread innumeracy: i.e. most customers would not be able to estimate total cost including tax and meal.

The disturbing history of tipping in the U.S.: "It's literally a slave wage" The practice of tipping traces its roots to European aristocracy — and took on a new life in the U.S. after the Civil War.

TIL where the U.S. tipping culture has its origin😞.

www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping...

Innumeracy is as much a problem as illiteracy in the U.S.

The loss of talent from countries that take math education more seriously will be hard to make up for.