• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I stand with you because although I am cis, you are my people. My life and my communities are enriched by your existence, and so an injury to you is an injury to me.

    "All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

    I have a duty!"

    - from "The Wee Free Men" (Discworld #30), by Terry Pratchet
    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      I stand with you also because although I’m queer, you help us stay safe and you are kind. Life is also enriched by you lot.

      Very nice quote, Terry Pratchett’s a great author. I’m partial to this one;

      I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
      “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

      - from “The Fellowship of the Ring”, by J.R.R. Tolkien

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I fucking love Fourier Fast Transforms.

        I’m a biochemist, and at undergrad, the way we learned about how protein structure is determined via X-ray crystallography was basically “We crystallise the proteins like this, then we shoot some X-rays at it, and obtain a diffraction pattern, which we then do some mathememagic on, and voila! You have a 3d structure of a protein”

        It frustrated me that we basically just handwaved the process of how we go from the diffraction pattern to a 3d structure (biochemists don’t really need to understand the nitty gritty of how this works, tbf). It took me quite a few months to go digging deeper in my quest to independently learn how this mathememagic worked — it took so long because although questing in the tomes of chemistry helped, I then had to turn to physics books if I wanted to actually understand stuff.

        So glad I did though. FFT is very cool.