Ján Morovič 🎗🇪🇺

HP Z6 Z9 Tech Videos HP Pixel Control youtu.be/Gtf-A3-Bvfk via @YouTube < find out about HP Pixel Control in 1:15 minutes

So long and thanks for all the fish, Twitter! @janmorovic.bsky.social @Jan_Morovic@mastodon.social jan_morovic (on Threads)

My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

colorspace: A Python Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes #python implementation of the #rstats pkg of the same name #dataviz Lead author @RetoStauffer2 PyPI release, web page, blog post, interactive apps, arXiv paper, ... zeileis.org/news/python_co…

“…the same can be applied to marriage - another audacious feat of the imagination - which, for some of us, like art, like faith, draws into focus what it is to love. It is order itself that allows us to be free.” (@nickcave) theredhandfiles.com/what-does-it-t…

'Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.' -Lise Meitner, Austrian nuclear scientist

“[…] Any good conversation takes you beyond familiar ground, it takes you in unexpected directions. Every conversation leads to conversion of everybody! […] In the first place of yourself. […] But you don’t know where it will lead you…” Fr T. Radcliffe

“Ci sono luoghi in cui soffia lo Spirito, ma c’è uno Spirito che soffia in tutti luoghi.” (Madeleine Delbrêl, via @Pontifex concluding @Synod_va)

The kissing number of a mathematical space is the maximum number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be tangent to a central sphere. The kissing number in n dimensions is unknown for n > 4, except for n = 8 (240) and n = 24 (196,560).

Dilexit nos: the infinite in the finite ayebeleef.design.blog/2024/10/25/dil…

I saw an interesting mathematical fact at @futility_closet futilitycloset.com/2024/09/28/a-p…. With my interest in compass and straightedge constructions, I'll rephrase it as a geometric problem: Show that it is possible to square the red area with a compass and straightedge. In modern 1/4

How many colors are there? Have a listen to this 9.5 minute conversation between two AI “podcasters" about @pezike’s and my paper on color cardinality (courtesy of @GoogleAI NotebookLM): dropbox.com/s/v9ooq7idi84f… (original article available here: library.imaging.org/cic/articles/3…) Enjoy!

The human towers of Tarragona – in pictures #Echobox=1728285769" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/gallery/…

In the Studio: Antony Gormley 'Body Politic' | White Cube youtu.be/oUR6iNUA48o?si… via @_WhiteCube

Convex-Hull Body 2.0

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us - Kafka. (My cartoon for today’s @GuardianBooks)

Have you ever wanted to implement a gamut mapping algorithm but didn’t know where to start? On 28th October I will be teaching a course that shows how to get “From zero to a first gamut mapping with GitHub Copilot” imaging.org/IST/iCore/Even… Join remotely or in person at #CIC32.

We are looking for a fully funded PhD student to join our team in London and play a key role in an innovative project focused on augmenting colour communication within and across different languages. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJY495/phd…

“When cultures meet, there should remain a space between them [:…] Zwischenraum, the room between. This is the fertile space between cultures when each retains its identity but is open to the other. Aquinas said that when there is love, the two become one, but remain distinct.”

A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics: mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation: |μ−m| ≤ σ For unimodal densities, bound is even tighter |μ−m| ≤ 0.7746 σ This beautiful results first appeared in a 1932 paper by Hotelling & Solomons 1/3