Nostr notes by katch wreck

`In Turks and Caicos, the team discovered something missing from ...

2026-03-08T03:24:47Z

`In Turks and Caicos, the team discovered something missing from existing sea charts - an extremely steep 3,200m (10,500ft) high mountain ridge stretching 70km (45 miles) along the sea bed, west of a place called Gentry Bank.`

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/spectacular-images-reveal-unique-sea-013853502.html

`Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray ‎– The Hunt ( Full Album )` ...

2026-02-15T09:48:32Z

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`Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray ‎– The Hunt ( Full Album )`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHY9tb1ZJk

`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a ...

2026-02-14T09:20:17Z

`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a nonet featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. The title song is referenced in the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac.`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(Dexter_Gordon_album)

#DexterGordon #ConnieKay #JackKerouac #music #art #jazz

what does it mean to provide a "scientific explanaion"? ...

2025-12-18T08:07:11Z

what does it mean to provide a "scientific explanaion"?

should "strict reductionism" be considered a "highest standard", or just one of many alternative options?

#reductionism #science #philosophy #strictReductionism #strictReductionist #

the cool thing about relativity is that it explicitly states that ...

2025-12-06T04:35:55Z

the cool thing about relativity is that it explicitly states that time & space have to be jointly defined. space has no meaning without time, and time has no meaning without space.

#relativity #philosophy #physics #science #spacetime

"The North Atlantic right whale now numbers an estimated 384 ...

2025-10-21T14:47:14Z

"The North Atlantic right whale now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up eight whales from the previous year, according to a report by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium released Tuesday. The whales have shown a trend of slow population growth over the past four years and have gained more than 7% of their 2020 population, the consortium said."

https://apnews.com/article/right-whales-endangered-species-fishing-4e732806eb7f52a0e3dc2db42dbd1361

`In the absence of light to make their own food, many ...

2025-08-29T23:37:41Z

`In the absence of light to make their own food, many trench-dwellers big and small survive on key elements like carbon that trickle down from higher in the ocean. `

https://apnews.com/article/deep-sea-trench-tubeworm-mollusk-420f54c29b7c8d132b02f22ca6679c4f

`PhD candidate Dylan Grigg, who led the study, explains that ...

2025-08-01T02:14:46Z

`PhD candidate Dylan Grigg, who led the study, explains that Starlink has become the most immediate and frequent source of potential interference for radio astronomy. The leaked emissions aren't intentional transmissions but rather electronic noise from components like power systems and processors making them unpredictable and difficult to avoid.`

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-satellites-are-silencing-the-universe

"This relationship with overconfidence was robust in ...

2025-06-30T02:09:59Z

"This relationship with overconfidence was robust in controlling for analytic thinking, the need for uniqueness, & narcissism, & it was strongest for the most fringe conspiracies. We also found that conspiracy believers—particularly overconfident ones—massively overestimated (>4×) how much others agree with them... conspiratorial claims were believed by a majority of participants only 12% of the time, believers thought themselves to be in the majority 93% of the time"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672251338358

i spent way too many hours in those halls during grad school :)

2025-02-20T09:48:49Z

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i spent way too many hours in those halls during grad school :)

one some level, the (mis-) information crisis created by the Web ...

2024-12-20T21:08:11Z

one some level, the (mis-) information crisis created by the Web is a testament to the power of the human mind... the very fate of the planet seems to now hinge on who can control people's minds most effectively

`Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Yoshi` ...

2024-11-07T06:25:56Z

`Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Yoshi`

https://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/yoshiisland/sheet/4808/

#spritesheet #gamedev #yoshi #supermario #retrogames #retro #games #retrogaming #nintendo #console #consoleGame #consoleGaming #pixel #pixelart #art #sequentialArt #sequential #dinosaur #fiction #character #graphics #drawing #illustration #design #japanese #japan #anime #manga #comics #superhero #mario #superMarioBrothers

Frobenius was a student of Weierstrass. Landau & Schur were ...

2024-10-27T10:12:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ay7
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Frobenius was a student of Weierstrass. Landau & Schur were two of his top students. Without him, the familiar matrices of linear algebra would never had taken the form we know today. Although less emphasized by pedagogy than other matrix decompositions such as spectral/eigenvalue, singular value, the Schur decomposition is closely related to the QR decomposition. The Golub-Kahan variant is perhaps the most important LAPACK subroutine (DBDSQR):

https://www.netlib.org/lapack/double/dbdsqr.f

my most recent publication is also my 1st sole-authored paper. it ...

2022-11-07T01:48:14Z

my most recent publication is also my 1st sole-authored paper. it brings transparency to graph Laplacian methods by converting the eigenvector subspace to a topologically-informed probabilistic/fuzzy/soft embedding of the graph nodes. the source code is not available because i am working on commercial applications of this technique. if anyone has a graph/network analysis problem they want to try it on, please let me know! maybe we can develop a product for it :) #ml

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0204096