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“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break”
Where I complain about a recent video from Sabine Hossenfelder.
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lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break”
Where I complain about a recent video from Sabine Hossenfelder.
#physics #history
Yes, WaterLily looks good. I’ll have to check it out one day.
You’re the second one for whom this was not clear. I need to redesign the interface.
After placing the vortices, click the Start button.
A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen!
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa
#diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater
This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up picture of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The star is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, over 160 000 light-years away. The bright oval at the centre of this image is a dusty cocoon that enshrouds the star. A fainter elliptical ring around it could be the inner rim of a dusty torus, but more observations are needed to confirm this feature.
Astronomers watched as the star WOH G64 transformed from a red supergiant into a rare, shortlived yellow supergiant star...in just 12 years.
It's a dramatic, rapid instability in a star that is rapidly headed toward a cataclysmic supernova explosion. 🧪🔭
theconversation.com/one-of-the-b...
Try this vortex simulation right in your browser:
lee-phillips.org/vortex/
#julialang #fluiddynamics
Document programming in #Typst and #LuaLaTeX: some examples
t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
Rowe’s books and articles are excellent. You might find my book a somewhat gentler introduction to the history of these ideas: amzn.to/3YZZB4W
lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break”
Where I complain about a recent video from Sabine Hossenfelder
#history #physics #sexism
Was Christianity necessary for the invention of science?
thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w...
I seem to hear the odd claim that somehow Christianity was necessary for science more and more often. So I welcome this demolishing of that idea.
Document programming in #Typst and #LuaLaTeX: some examples
t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
Was Christianity necessary for the invention of science?
thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w...
I seem to hear the odd claim that somehow Christianity was necessary for science more and more often. So I welcome this demolishing of that idea.
#Julialang and #Python: Slowly Converging
lee-phillips.org/juliabook/tr...
lee-phillips.org/notweyl
“Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break”
Where I complain about a recent video from Sabine Hossenfelder
#history #physics #sexism
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It’s an interesting story, but read the article with caution. At least the details about Emmy Noether’s death are incorrect.
The real story is told in amzn.to/3YZZB4W
Thinking about submitting something for JuliaCon 2026, but you are unsure if you have enough for a talk? You can also submit a poster!
The deadline is extended until March 7th!
Submit your talks at juliacon.org/2026/cfp
#julialang
“ In addition to performance, Julia's language and semantics are much more ergonomic and natural for mathematical and algorithmic code. Even linear algebra in Python is syntactically painful. (Yes, they added the "@" operator for matmul, but this is still true).”
#julialang #python
“there are things we are doing in Julia with one or two PhD students that would be practically impossible (as in require an order of magnitude more implementation work) in any other language.”
“We use Julia at our quant fund. We looked into it and several other alternatives 5 years ago as a more performant replacement for numpy/scipy/etc....Julia won for a very simple reason...the Julia version was both the fastest to port and the most performant afterwards.”
Discussion about optimizing #julialang on HN:
“We've ported some tens of thousands of lines of numpy-heavy Python, and in practice our Julia code is actually more concise while being about 10x-100x more performant.”
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712...
This article gets the details of Emmy Noether’s death wrong. Read amzn.to/3YZZB4W for the correct story.
The article gets the details of Noether’s death wrong. The real story is told in amzn.to/3YZZB4W
Many people (even physicists) are surprised to learn that the universe doesn’t conserve energy, as @neiltyson pointed out in a recent podcast.
Even most physicists who know this don’t know who first figured it out. Her story is here:
amzn.to/3YZZB4W
#history #physics
Do you have a website?
Pledge to your users that everything on it is human made:
lee-phillips.org/humanmade/
Join the movement against AI slop.
Do you have a website?
Pledge to your users that everything on it is human made:
lee-phillips.org/humanmade/
Join the movement against AI slop.
Check out this interesting note on John Cook's site about Coltrane's “Giant Steps”, and be sure to watch the excellent video that he links to:
www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02...
The danger of non-free software to #science:
lwn.net/Articles/102...
#physics
