Binary and Decimal Weirdness
Today is the anniversary of the Apollo 10 launch, this mission orbited the moon with a crew. This was mentioned on Fedi today. I gave the following observation.
- Apollo 10 (decimal) orbited the Moon and Artemis 2 will also orbit the moon, Decimal 2 is 10 in Binary
- Artemis 3 will land humans on the moon, 3 (decimal) is 11 Binary – Apollo 11 landed humans on the moon.
Binary Numbers
| Decimal |
Binary |
| 0 |
0000 |
| 1 |
0001 |
| 2 |
0010 |
| 3 |
0011 |
4
|
0100 |
I clearly have too much time on my hands to notice these things.
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The reader must come first.
One of the main issues with science publications is that for most people they are inaccessible, at least in terms of their complexity. They are written for other scientists. This excludes people from the research, esp if the research is funded by taxes, so the very people who pay taxes, can't easily access the science.
This could be about to change. An Article in Science magazine looks at this issue and is suggesting that science papers must take the reader in to consideration.
Interesting stuff. Lets hope over time we can get more science to the people.
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SeaGL Conference 2023 call for proposals
Seattle Linux user group, annual conference, November 3rd & 4th 2023.
Just spotted this on the Fediverse, so sharing here, conference call, for proposals
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EU ready to back immediate open access
EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees
Looks like some really positive steps forward in support of open access to science.
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Fediverse Presentation.
This is early work in progress. A few years ago, I made a presentation to help promote Mastodon social network. As this is part of the Fediverse, it is much preferred to refer to the Fediverse rather than individual services that make it up so I have created a new presentation to focus on explaining what the Fediverse is.
I can't cover all the services, but have mentioned the services I am using.
It is in open document format, or in this case LibreOffice Impress (.odp), and also in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Hopefully it is of interest and of use, feel free to modify to your needs.
If you want the old Mastodon Presentation then it can be found on Salsa gitlan here
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#Fediverse,#Promotion,#Presentation,#Education
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Every Author as First Author
This looks like a great idea
We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.
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Code Club – Compute-IT
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 20th May 2023 10 am to 12:00. We can carry on with what we are doing,
You may have noticed a link to compute-it added to the list of websites, if you're not sure what this is I have put a brief description below. Some of the young people attending both code club and stem group have used it
Compute IT consists of puzzles where you need to follow the instructions presented in the code displayed on the screen, This stars out simple and gets more complex or involved as you go.`
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I have added a video to my peertube resources to illustrate.
Useful Links
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Code Club 20/5/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 20th May 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Python activities, unless you are following the Scratch or other projects.
The next project in Python is Rocket launch which I had a go at during Saturdays STEM Group meeting. To find the projects, please follow code club link and click projects.
Useful Links
If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Due to it being the Airshow, the next Code Club won't take place until 17th June, but the STEM Group will run as normal on the 10th June.
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Paignton Library STEM Group – May 2023 Write up
So at the STEM group today, we carried on from last weeks code club Python coding. After completing the hello project we moved on to the Target practice which we completed successfully.
We also had discussions around Arduino, AI,. Open Computer vision and using AI tools such as ChatGPT to help with coding. Also had a look at the Raspberry Pi.
Next week is the usual code club on the 20th May. After which the next STEM group meeting will be on the 10th June.
There is no code club on the 3rd June as I am pitch marking, it is also the Torbay Airshow
To find the projects, please follow code club link and click projects.
Links and info
If you would like to save work / progress you ideally need accounts on the Trinket and Scratch websites. These need to be set up, and the login details brought with you to the session.
We also had a discussion on computer vision, there is a project about this here that may be useful.
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Free Software Foundation workshop – 15th May 2023
Digital colonialism, surveillance capitalism, and a libre software future
Digital colonialism, surveillance capitalism, and a libre software future
Monday, May 15, 12:00–13:30 EDT (16:00–17:30 UTC)
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