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Indiscriminate laziness

Why Some Days Aren’t 24 Hours

Posted on 2019/08/23 by Carl Robitaille

“Check out the “What is a Day?” interactive video at https://labs.minutelabs.io/what-is-a-…
It’s super cool!! (and made by Jasper Palfree & the MinuteEarth/MinutePhysics team)”

Möbius transformations of a minimal Seifert surface on 4 Hopf fibers

Posted on 2019/08/23 by Carl Robitaille

pic.twitter.com/382nOB9XHt
— Daniel Piker (@KangarooPhysics) August 22, 2019

Self organising steel balls explain metal heat treatment

Posted on 2019/08/22 by Carl Robitaille

Ombre d’un mille pattes

Posted on 2019/08/22 by Carl Robitaille

https://twitter.com/Mich33bm/status/1164664193238347777?s=20

The milky way is fixed

Posted on 2019/08/22 by Carl Robitaille

A time lapse of the night sky with a twist. The milky way is fixed, while the earth rotates. pic.twitter.com/5iMxw8bN43
— Daniel Probst @skepteis@skepteis.social (@skepteis) August 20, 2019

Shepard interpolation

Posted on 2019/08/22 by Carl Robitaille

Shepard interpolation is a surprisingly simple multi-dimensional interpolation method. It uses singular radial basis functions inversely proportional to the distances to the samples. Nearest neighbor interpolation is the limit case. https://t.co/FSKi0SYy7X pic.twitter.com/fRrZBhHIy2
— Gabriel Peyré (@gabrielpeyre) August 21, 2019

Wikipedia: Inverse distance weighting