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[shinesurge]

NOTHING IN ALL CREATION IS HIDDEN FROM GOD'S SIGHT

[propalitetz]

i will die and have wings.

toulouse from @shinesurge comic, kidd commander. what a guy

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I had a dream about Toulouse from Kidd Commander but I don't remember it, I just remember that Toulouse is pretty and I am weak for glasses

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Bet They Wish They Hadn’t Said That...

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”

- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.

“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”

- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

“But what...is it good for?”

- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device in inherently of no value to us.”

- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”

- David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.”

- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (which became FedEx).

“I don’t know what use anyone could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.”

- The head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”

-Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.”

- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M Post-It notepads.

“So, we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, “No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’“

- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.

“Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”

- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard’s revolutionary rocket work.

“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”

- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.”

- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinaire to Queen Victoria 1873.

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

- Bill Gates, 1981.

“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.”

- Dr. Lee DeForest, father of radio and grandfather of television.

“The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”

- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project.

“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.”

- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923.

“A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”

- Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.

“The supercomputer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.”

- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University.

“Who...would want to read a book about a bunch of crazy Swedes on a raft?”

- Editor, turning down The Kon Tiki Expedition.

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

- Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.”

- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

- Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

[enacclimatechangethings]

Nathan LEBERT 18/03

Personally, in order to curb climate change, I always try to do my best. However, I know that I often forget some basic things that could have major consequences in a few years.

I first try to reduce my carbon footprint by thinking about the best transport mode I could use. As I don’t have yet my driving license, I never have this idea of driving a car to go to the supermarket for example. I might thus use public transportation for that reason or to hang out. But, I must admit that if a friend tells me that he can bring me by car somewhere, I would accept to go with him and I won’t try to convince him that we could do the same in another way. That said, I think that what could be the most interesting to reduce our carbon emissions might be traveling by train instead of planes. Indeed, for a travel from Toulouse to Paris, a plane will emit 20 times more CO2 than a train (which is here fully electric) and it is not always true that for regional travels trains are slower than planes (going to the airport, registration, etc. are sometimes very long).

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

The second thing I try to think about is reducing how much meat I consume. I had always been eating meat two times a day while being a kid. Arriving at the ENAC, I started to realize that I could not continue to do so. If I still eat meat almost daily, I try to think about vegetarian alternatives for some products. But I must admit that I am not doing enough now regarding how much time I have to buy food and cook. As said in the next article, eating less meat will drastically reduce the amount of farmland used for it especially in regions such as Amazonia where deforestation is still going on. It would also improve my personal health, reduce the risks of diseases.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

In my opinion, those two things are the ones I really need to work on. But I could also mention food and water waste as well as polluting packages.

[evoldir]

Graduate Position: Funded PhD in Toulouse on Demographic inference

Dear colleagues, we are looking for an ambitious and independent PhD student to work with us (Olivier Mazet and Lounes Chikhi) on questions related to the demographic history of species in a context of genomic data and fragmented landscapes. The PhD project is entitled "Global change, fragmentation and genomics : can we estimate the demographic history of populations from genomic data in a context of global environmental change" The PhD candidate could have either of the following backgrounds: (i) training in maths/statistical stochastic modeling and programming, with an interest in questions related to population genetics, (ii) alternatively, training in population genetics/biology with a strong interest and demonstrated experience in scripting, programming or modeling. Potential candidates who are not sure to fit any of these two descriptions should contact us as we are more interested in independent-thinking students than in specific backgrounds. The PhD candidate will develop theoretical and computational work particularly (but not only) around the work on the IICR recently introduced by Mazet and collaborators (see references below). The aim will be to develop methods to infer complex demographic histories using genomic data from non model organisms. The PhD student will be at the Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse, and based at INSA Toulouse, an engineer school where Olivier Mazet is a Assistant Professor. The PhD will be co-supervised by Lounes Chikhi, who works at the Evolution and Biological Diversity Lab in Toulouse and at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Lisbon, Portugal. The candidate will work in close collaboration with Willy Rodríguez, a post-doc in Olivier Mazet's lab, and other members of the team working on the IICR (Simona Grusea and Didier Pinchon at INSA, and Simon Boitard, at INRA Toulouse). Keywords: structured coalescent, Markov processes, simulation, estimation, inference, demography, fragmentation, spatial processes, genomics, non model organisms. Due to funding constraints the PhD contract must start before the 31st December 2017. Contacts: Olivier Mazet (omazet@insa-toulouse.fr) and Lounes Chikhi (lounes.chikhi@univ-tlse3.fr) References: Mazet O , Rodriguez VW and Chikhi L (2015). Demographic inference using genetic data from a single individual: separating population size variation from population structure. Theoretical Population Biology, 104:46-58. Mazet O, Rodriguez WV, Grusea S, Boitard S, Chikhi L (2016). On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution – Lessons for inference of ancestral population size? Heredity, 116, 362–371. doi:10.1038/hdy.2015.104. Chikhi L , Rodriguez WV, Grusea S, Santos P, Boitard S, Mazet O (submitted). The IICR (inverse instantaneous coalescence rate) as a summary of genomic diversity: insights into demographic inference and model choice. Heredity. Chikhi, L., Sousa, V., Luisi, P., Goossens, B., Beaumont, M.A., (2010) The confounding effects of population structure, genetic diversity and the sampling scheme on the detection and quantification of population size changes. Genetics, 186: 983-995. Quéméré, E., Amelot, X., Pierson, J. ,Crouau-Roy, B., Chikhi, L (2012). Genetic data suggest a natural pre-human origin of open habitats in northern Madagascar and question the deforestation narrative in this region. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA, 109: 13028-33. Heller, R., Chikhi, L., Sigiesmund H.R. (2013). The confounding effect of population structure on Bayesian skyline plot inferences of demographic history. PLoS ONE 8(5): e62992. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062992 Salmona, J, Heller, R, Quéméré E, Chikhi, L (in press) Climate change and human colonization triggered habitat loss and fragmentation in Madagascar. Molecular Ecology, 1365-294 UR - http://bit.ly/2fTUfWe. via Gmail

[shinesurge]

It took me a minute to find time to get this done and like, catch my breath, but the Volume 4 preorders are done with! We sold exactly 99 books, what a cool number! I think I sold about ten when Volume 3 preorders were happening, not to mention earlier this year I thought I'd be getting ready to close up shop due to lack of support right now so I am. ridiculously pleased with how this all went, I can't believe we did all this without a kickstarter or any bullshit fomo marketing, it was all word of mouth and I'm really proud of all of us. thank y'all so much for showing up.

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everyone can should be saved

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holy roller [ x ]

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the easiest thing

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drowning in administrative work so I drew these instead of doing anything to alleviate it lmao

these dudes are all from Kidd Commander

ヾ(´ ∇ `)ﾉ

[shinesurge]

this starship has potentially infinite space,

Recently user Inchoatl finished a really cool Kidd Commander fic where they wrote 100 words for every prompt on a list of 100, every single day straight in a row. They've written some excellent fic for KC in the past and always have such fun insights about the characters, it was such a treat getting to read a little bit about someone new every day!! One of my favorites was number 67, which I wanted to draw immediately but y'all know how it goes. ANYWAY: go read it, my god.

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singular in the universe [ x ]

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Wow jesus christ this file will NOT stay where I put it for some reason, I swear I've posted it here before but I must have chickened out or it deleted itself or Something. Which is very like Appropriate but I'd like it to exist somewhere so here's an unmixed Toulouse Theme I made around three years ago if you want it! Like I said it's technically unfinished, there's a lot of Ringy Noises in there and it's all a bit loud, so if you have tinnitus please take care lmao

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son boy

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the one useful skill from toulouse's church days: can make a casserole out of thin air

I Am Not Immune To Memes

As always, you can read about these idiots here!