"Compared to main path analysis, we conclude that intermediacy offers a more principled approach for tracing the historical development of scientific knowledge." Looks quite interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08259

"We propose a new measure, called intermediacy, for tracing the historical development of scientific knowledge." #science #bibliography #graphtheory https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08259

@rafaelcosta No issues, I just meant to say hi It didn't get that your post was about an app

"Message to my Grandchildren" (English subtitles) - by @astro_alex Alexander Gerst, literally sent from space! "Looking at the planet, I think I have to apologize. We will not leave it in the best state..." https://youtu.be/4UfpkRFPIJk

@bazbt3 Yeah, it's the same movie they talk about in the interview. It has a trailer inside, so you can pretend you have seen it all ;-) Pretty depressing stuff BTW, but worth thinking of...

"I thought “that’s a brilliant title” because, although we are not in any way really like the Soviet Union, there is a similar feeling in our present day." https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse

they knew that the bosses knew they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but .. no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse

"in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system" https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse

"“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union." https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse

"Dad, whatcha throwing down 'e bridge all the time?" - "Come and see, in 50 years, son!" 50 years later. "Dad, whatcha looking at down 'e bridge all the time?" - "Trees, he was writing with trees!" - "Writing what? - "LOVE U SON", he said, crying. #wedc

@rafaelcosta Hi there!

@igmp_join For me upgrading really cleaned up some display driver issues (Xubuntu though)

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"Selective CO2 reduction to C3 and C4oxyhydrocarbons on nickel phosphides at overpotentials as low as 10 mV" https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ee/c8ee00936h#!divAbstract

"Artificial photosynthesis breakthrough could turn CO2 into plastics on the cheap" https://newatlas.com/artificial-photosynthesis-co2-plastics-cheap/57382/

@dasdom @andrew @trine @manx @bsag @indigo @jvk @tim @ccp @hazardwarning @thedimpause @sandrineandro @neil @jacarandachick @ukhaiku @po @catfish @ericd @thedan84 @cn @sam @skematica @jmreekes @charlesg @joanna @bazbt3 @33MHz Good Morning y'all!

@33MHz Ok, I found this for a start: An interview with David Anderson, the apparent inventor of Kanban for software development. Bad audio, but good explanation: http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/david-anderson-kanban-method

@blumenkraft I understand he said "the Earth *curves* away under the falling object. That's the definition of an orbit". Bad luck for the flat-earthers :-)

Not long after he had waved his last kid goodbye for college, he looked around and ... missed something. Not the company, not laughter and yells; he was fine alone. What was missing? "An always-moving, never-quite-finished, staggering pile of cruft!" #wedc