Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society #OTD in 1822.

The name, the difference engine, is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. This difference engine can thus compute many useful tables of numbers. via @Wikipedia

Books by Charles Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556

#science #mathematics

"A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton died #OTD in 1936. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. via @Wikipedia

Books by G.K. Chesterton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80

#books #literature

Our first workshop on Econometric Theory and Applications is approaching. We are looking forward to hosting an amazing group of researchers in Siena. Program at http://bit.ly/3jb5dYb #SWETA #UofSiena #Econometrics #CausalInference

Reminder: The IEA is funding research projects that advance women in Economics in developing countries. More info here https://iea-world.org/research-on-interventions-to-advance-women-in-economics-in-the-global-south/

Hey all,

I made a similar post on Lemmy the other day, but I figure it might as well be shared here, too.

A decent amount of you may be familiar with wedistribute.org, my old news publication that's been floating around in one form or another since 2014. For those that aren't familiar, We Distribute is a blog publication that reports on the various developments of the #Fediverse - as a bonus, the blog itself federates with the rest of the network, and people can remotely comment from the network itself.

After recovering and reconstructing as many articles as I could find, I'm very close to relaunching the thing. The network is growing at an eye-watering rate, and the sheer amount of platforms, protocol developments, and projects (technical or otherwise) is frankly overwhelming.

I believe one of the biggest mistakes I made with this project in the past is that I did everything by myself, and didn't optimize enough for team collaboration. I want to put my best foot forward prior to the relaunch by working together with a bunch of writers and coming up with cool new articles. I can't offer money for articles for the time being, but I can offer a unique opportunity to report on a unique niche of the Internet in a publication that has very few others like it.

Anyway, this is getting a bit long-winded, but...if you'd like to volunteer and write an article, or two, or five, or to your heart's content, I would be thrilled to work with you. There's so many amazing things happening here that people need to know about. #WeDistribute

//cc @fediversenews

Special shout-out today to the NYT who have apparently never covered a criminal trial before

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

Throughout the last several years, the Adriatic sea -- specifically the Istrian coastal region of Croatia -- has inspired my photographer's eye.

I collected my favorite shots and cropped them to 16:9. And now they're ready to be wallpaper on your PC.

Please help yourself:
https://cloud.midreality.com/s/iqN3TJRyyMYYSfp

#Wallpaper #Photography #Nature #Croatia

“Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market”

New by Rose & Shekhar —> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102397 #econjobmarket #econtwitter

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I'm hiring again.

I need a historian to help Colonial Williamsburg with its website, web strategy, and blog content, who can also help us vet the accuracy of our content. The role will also bring someone in the ground floor as we re-imagine the museum for the digital age as we are building the world's largest virtual museum about early American history.

Salary Range: $60K-$70K.

Let me know if you have questions.

https://recruiting.ultipro.com/COL1030CWF/JobBoard/592f60ce-7315-4fd8-b0cf-3725168de53e/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=057638c9-1346-45fb-95db-b3f452c94bda

My dad is talking about buying tickets for his church fundraiser, a raffle where the prize is a basket of lottery tickets of uncertain face value, and now I’m having flashbacks to first-year micro

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark

Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr

#reddit #krita #MastoArt #humanart

✨ Import from Instagram

Now available! 🥳

PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4466

Docs: https://pixelfed.social/site/kb/import

Thanks again to @NGIZero for funding this amazing feature! #instagramImport