Nicholas du Preez @nickdupreez
Interested in all things interesting... current obsessions include mtb cycling and endurance training... a pythonista at heart. Johannesburg Joined June 2010-
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DAGs, Golems, and Owls: Statistical Rethinking 2023 Lecture 1 (of 20). No hard work in this introductory lecture, just a conceptual outline and some dank memes. Lecture 2 later this week introduces Bayesian inference. Globes will be tossed. youtube.com/watch?v=FdnMWd…
"The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level."--Wolfgang Pauli, pioneer of quantum physics and Nobel Laureate, died OTD 1958.
Live Culture Grand Cru is available from our online shop! We’re stoked to share this special Christmas beer with you.
NEW: today’s update from Gauteng, now on a log scale to better show current trajectories. Steepness of lines shows how much faster the growth in cases and positivity is now vs past waves, and hospital admissions are now steepening too as the acceleration in cases feeds through.
NEW: updated chart showing today’s numbers from Gauteng in South Africa: • Now with test positivity, for those who have asked whether this is driven by increased testing • And stating in the title that hospital admissions are a lagging indicator, as many have requested
This demonstration seems to defy thermodynamics in that it appears that entropy decreases, but reversible mixing is actually made possible by ensuring that the mixing/unmixing is done without turbulence [source, full video, UNM: buff.ly/3CF7H61]
Watch the teaser trailer for the epic #TheWheelOfTime series, coming to Amazon @PrimeVideo on November 19.
About 95% of serotonin is produced in the gastrointestinal tract which is lined with a hundred million neurons, that are influenced by bacteria. The inner workings of the digestive system don’t just help digest food, but also guide moods and emotions buff.ly/2uitQs1
My new video is about a BETTER way to visualize atoms! Check it out on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=W2Xb2G… (Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video) #ad
Speed reading is any of several techniques used to improve one's ability to read quickly. There are several methods and techniques to achieve it with different results: bit.ly/2qWYhP4 [gif: buff.ly/2tJDFff]
This amazing little tool simply draws all streets in any city you want. As examples here are the town I grew up in (20k residents) and the city I live in (5M residents). Have a play with it. The exported screenshots make great desktop backgrounds. Source: buff.ly/2uht4vJ
An interesting explanation of the full Pfizer #vaccine sequence, by @powerdns_bert, via @NJZuidam [full explanation: buff.ly/3mKJLoN] [original file download, .doc file: buff.ly/3nTSLJE]
Audiobook Abduction Chronicles "Genesis" by Peter John. #audible #audiobook #ListenToThis Available on Audible. Get it here: a.co/fp5FTRD After you accept the book, you will be prompted to dl the Audible app. #scifi #fantasy #audioriginal Enjoy!
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«We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time» - T. S. Eliot [Mandelbrot set zoom, magnification 1 .. 3.18 × 10³¹ buff.ly/2VJ9be7]
This is the surface of a Comet, seen through a blizzard of dust, ice particles, and cosmic rays against a backdrop of stars. The alien landscape of Comet 67P as seen by the Rosetta spacecraft and animted by @landru79. go.nasa.gov/2qb7uag
Street artist Pejac's “SOCIAL DISTANCING” is a trompe l'oeil that creates an illusion of a deep gaping crevice on a rigid surface of a cement wall at the campus of University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, made to honor Spain's health workers buff.ly/3nYIcFI
The Levenberg-Marquardt is a standard method for non-linear least-squares, combining the best of gradient descent and Newton methods by replacing the Hessian by the Jacobian term only. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenberg…
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