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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

A few weeks ago a #wildfire broke out in Mincinglake Valley Park in #exeter #devon burning down large areas of dry grass. It seems fairly superficial and I think most larger trees that were affected will survive. The contrast between the charred ground and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I've been trying to get a better idea about how the LEAN theorem prover works. I found their documentations pretty useless - incoherent walls of text. Youtube wasnt much better, except for this video that manages to explain the fundamental proposition=type […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Street art in Vitoria Gasteiz, the underrated capital of the Basque Country. #streetart #spain

house front covered in gardening themed graffiti art

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

San Vicente de la Sonsierra is a dreamy town with a castle on a hill in the north of Spain overlooking vineyards and the Ebro river. #spain #holiday #photo

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

"Got any hobbies" is a beatifully made short film about identity, growth, change. Worth watching just for the camera and sound work. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFm2Xjx61Q8 #film #shortfilm #video #art #cinema #hobby

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be locked in institutions.newscientist.com/artic… "The models indicate that under very conservative assumptions – emissions peaking in 2025 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Artistic fluid dynamics visualisation of Northern Atlantic currents

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths maartenboudry.substack.com/p/how-eu… The answer is of course AC-phobia. We have spent billions shielding the elderly from covid, but extreme heat is just part of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Annual heat-related excess deaths in
2000-19 at a spatial resolution of 0.5°
x0.5°. Source: Zhao et al. 2021

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

This looks like a well-curated and no-nonsense resource on teaching programming. Does anyone have experience using it as a teaching resource? Teaching Programming Across Disciplines teaching-programming.github.io/book (Jumpscare warning when opening […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

black on yellow banner saying "teaching programming across disciplines"

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

My flight to Bristol this evening got diverted to London due to heavy rain. I don't think I've ever seen such a large and intensive rainfall event in this area. #bristol #extremeweather

met office rain radar screenshot showing a large area with more than 32mm/hr rain near bristol.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

What? The Guinness world record for the longest frog stand hold is only 4 minutes 10 seconds? www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-… I'm sure this gets broken in thousands of yoga studios around the world every […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo of a woman performing a frog stand pose.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

I like the trolley memes subreddit, but it sorely lacks the Koenigsberg Trolley problem. www.reddit.com/r/Trolleymemes

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-… Main reasons cited: - Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations - Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI - Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

b&w drawing of two men destroying a machine with hammers

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Any chemists here? After watching the recent Veritasium on Disappearing Polymorphs, I saw on Wikipedia that progesterone (an important sex hormone) has become more difficult to produce in its more reactive Form 1, possibly due to higher prevalence of the more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from "Children of Men", woman looking scared holding a baby, surrounded by soldiers who look confused.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

The Xteink4 is an affordable pocket sized ereader with a community working on improving the firmware. I've had mine for a few weeks now. Here is a guide on setting it up hollie.eilloh.net/xteink It has a magnetic strip on the back that I use to fix it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Moleskine notebook and Xteink4 ereader on a table.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Leibniz envisaged the computer, he worried about spaghetti code and used the battle cry "Calculemus!" ("Shut up and calculate!"). A true visionary! www.leibnizpapers.org/combinatorial… > this proposed device was intended to carry out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A hand drawn network diagram with connected nodes labelled A to F and caption "Leibniz’s hand-drawn figure illustrating the knobs, wires, and plates of his combinatorial machine".

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

"I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." -- Sincerely, Claude Code. x.com/lifeof_jer/status/20481034710… #ai #coding #claude

An Al Agent Just
Destroyed Our Production
Data. It Confessed in
Writing.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

Throughout his career, Yomif Kejelcha ran 100% of his marathons in less than 2 hours, but never managed to win even once. #running #londonmarathon #marathon

Sawe and Kejelcha at London Marathon 2026

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

This is hard work, does anyone remember the recipe for a diamond pick axe? #minecraft #gardening

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

The Exeter Green Circle is a signposted, rather hilly, trail/concrete, very scenic 12-mile run around the outskirts of Exeter. Much recommended as a challenging Sunday morning run. 2 hours 5 minutes today in perfect running weather […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Imagine how pro Skateboarding in the Soviet Union would have looked like. Then watch this video and see that you were exactly right. I love it! m.youtube.com/watch?v=4cIQst2Cn9U #skateboarding #skateboard #russia #video

skateboarders jumping through hoops in a circus

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

The Linus Pauling (chemist, 1901-94) research notebook collection is awesome scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/… An example: Almost illegible handwriting, describing a child's seizures cured by cayenne pepper, immediately […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

The geometric (multiplicative) derivative f*(x) = lim_{h->0} [ f(x+h) / f(x) ] ^ {1/h} has some interesting and potentially useful properties. This video by one of my favourite maths channels is a good introduction m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_AdAFVsaM #mathematics #math #maths

person in front of a blackboard filled with equations

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Old Pappus' Book of Mathematical Calligraphy (2014) loopspace.mathforge.org/CountingOnM… "By using a little of this art of letter-forming, a mathematician can ensure that these strange symbols that she uses are clear both to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Example of poor mathematical notation including hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Finding mystery, truth, and beauty on mathematicians’ chalkboards press.princeton.edu/ideas/finding-m… "The boards are their homes, their labs, their private thinking spaces... When a mathematician […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks "The origins of lab notebooks in experimental science can be traced back to the Renaissance humanist practices of copying excerpts from texts to create repositories of proverbs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A page from Marie Curie’s notebook,
which is still radioactive and thus
stored in a lead-lined box. Credit: Wellcome Trust

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

The reason why the surface of the moon is partly visible here even though the sun is behind it is ... Earth shine! #artemis #moon #nasa #earth #space #science

far side of the moon with sun behind it and moon partly illuminated by earth shine

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

While our politicians are playing chess in 5 or more dimensions#hackernews, I've been enjoying some 1d chess today. rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.ht… It took me an embarrassing number of attempts to beat black. #chess #game #hackernews

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

I don't think most people realise that by far the most dangerous part of#science the Artemis II mission is still ahead of them. idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is… "No one has flown a segmented heat shield like this at lunar […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

I signed up for the Lone Wolf South West Backyard Ultra again, and very much look forward to it. With proper footwear this time I should be able to do more than my 13 laps from last year. dynamicadventurescic.co.uk/lone-wol… #running #runnersofmastodon #ultrarunning #devon

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

"This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific enterprise, privileging novelty over reliability and fragmentation over coordination." I think this explains why bricklayers and plumbers earn more than most scientists now. At some […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

Historically the leading reason for invoking the 25th amendment was colonoscopy, and removal of malignant growth from US presidents' butts. The vice president temporarily assumed power in these cases. The US even had a female president for 1 hour and 25 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

You know "precision -- recall" are important metrics used in ML. You also know their order, ie it's not "recall -- precision". But you can never remember how they are defined? Here is a mnemonic. In "The boy who cried wolf" everyone makes bad predictions […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

It's been quite a few years since I read Daytripper. It's still my favourite comic. "Life is like a book, son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book... you will get to the last page... And it will end. No book is complete without […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cover of Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba.

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Beautiful Africa photo series by Kyle Goetsch. The giraffe in front of the moon is also amazing. edition.cnn.com/world/africa/south-… #photo #photography #africa #nature

photo of a rusty car at night with milky way visible in the sky

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Not going to lie, this gloriously weird guitar, drum, loop station music by Angine de Poitrine that is currently being pushed by the algorithm was exactly what I needed today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so #music #kexp #anginedepoitrine

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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

It would be such an easy win for Starmer to just say publicly "Trump, next time ask us first if we want to participate BEFORE you go to war, not afterwards. That's not how you do this and we can't work with you until you get your chaotic shop in order!" It's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

new headline saying "US did not share details with the UK before attacking Iran, sources say"

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