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Will Kinney

@WKCosmo

Cosmologist, physicist, dirtbag mountain biker, expat Montanan, Copernican extremist. Part of the problem.

Buffalo, NY Katılım Ocak 2017
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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
Let me tell you a little bit about my second book, and how it relates to my first book. 1/ #t=aboutBook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/…
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RodeoProfessor
RodeoProfessor@RodeoProfessor·
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows featured Indians who fought at Little Bighorn. Most famously, Sitting bull toured with the show in 1885 drawing massive crowds. Sitting bull wasn’t a Little Bighorn vet, but he had the Sun Dance Vision prophesying victory and was the leader of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. Chief Flying Hawk was a warrior at little Bighiorn and he traveled with Bill for decades leading parades riding out next to Bill and performing for decades until he died. Holy man Black Elk was a teenager at Little Bighorn, and he traveled with Bill’s show to see the world. He performed at Madison Square Garden and in England for Queen Victoria reenacting battles and dances. He missed the boat home, joined another show, traveled France and Germany, had a French girlfriend, and lived it up until Buffalo Bill got him a ticket back home. Neat pic of them in Rome (pic 2).
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Greg Trayling
Greg Trayling@GregTrayling·
@NikoSarcevic @TSHamiltonAstro @WKCosmo Ya, I don't think smoke particles are much of a problem. Places like ALMA in the mm range might have issues with increased water vapor and hydrocarbon molecules, and maybe CO as you suggest, but the actual smoke particles shouldn't do anything.
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Niko@NikoSarcevic·
@TSHamiltonAstro @WKCosmo Actually I learnt from my bff that clouds are terrible if you are trying to radio observe a certain thing. Can’t remember what perhaps some CO, molecule But yeah any cloud or smoke can be terrible even for radio!
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Tim Hamilton@TSHamiltonAstro·
@WKCosmo I’m heading off for the rest of the week to the Green bank radio observatory for their annual outreach event, and there’s a lot of stargazing of course. Looks like this is going to hit us for the next two days.
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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
Tense situation.
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My "For You" tab has suddenly gotten markedly better.
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We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
@DeivonDrago @CburgesCliff I'm arguing that the Born rule is no different than assigning causal ordering in Minkowski space. That is also an arbitrary rule that is not derived from anything, and breaks the time-reversal symmetry of the theory, but for some reason nobody worries about it.
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Deivon Drago@DeivonDrago·
It’s a good point. Every approach needs to create some sort of mapping strategy from the entanglement situation to likelihoods of the final outcome selection. How you do that is the issue. Will did say that you need to build that sort of map. He just didn’t go into the nitty gritty issues that show up when you try to do that from first principles.
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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
As a wise dean once told me, if you want to herd cats, move their food.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell

Tbh I’m getting sick of this whole discourse beginning and ending with using “exposes”(“look at how ridiculous they sound lmfao”) to generate social media traffic. There needs to be a carrot and stick which results from these exposes, or they have little longterm value. Academics who hold these noxious views supporting censorship should be pushed out of positions of academic status and power. Those who’ve held better views all along about academic freedom of discourse and inquiry should be given more status and power. It’s that simple. The fact that Rouse is the most powerful person in U.S. Anthro in 2026 goes to show how pointless these “embarrassing exposes,” which have been ongoing since the mid 10s, really are. Disciplines don’t self-modify just because people on twitter are passing around something embarrassing that got written up by the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Academic incentives are simple. We like tenure. We like being affiliated with fancy institutions. We like sabbaticals. We like salaries that are pegged to be just under what lawyers make, but we only do 1% the gruntwork. Reward the right people with the right incentives and the problems retarding the disciplines will go away within a year.

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
@TSHamiltonAstro @modularform It is really something how a piece of software from the 1970s is still the only thing of its kind in 2026. It's a piece of singular brilliance.
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Tim Hamilton@TSHamiltonAstro·
@modularform @WKCosmo I've gotten to respect how much work went into developing Latex and how Lamport (and Knuth) appreciated good typesetting.
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Oleg Ruvinsky
Oleg Ruvinsky@Matzan481_·
@RedElixier @WKCosmo @YouTube I like the cast in general even Kirk (i am a Pickard fan so:)) but the writing it was decent in the first couple of seasons and then deteriorate to aboslute bad fanfic slop.
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Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.
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@PatoTinho2 @jackalblackhole @yalinewich The manifold in GR is locally Minkowski, which is a non-Euclidean metric. When mathematicians say "Euclidean" this context, they mean R^n, which need not have a metric at all.
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