I am somehow running for the board of #EOS. If you think that having me there trying to expose more people to the beauty of optics is a good idea, you might vote for me.
On the other hand there are a lot of excellent candidates on the list, so you should probably vote for one of them 🙂
Usually because the second method is easier and shorter only after you built enough intuition with the first method.
4-panel SMBC comic update. A woman is teaching a man sitting at a desk. The man says "I get it! You write (equation)* and that tells you the superposition is some amount in the 0 direction and some amount in the 1 direction." The woman replies "now that you've got it, we'll use this easier form" and proceeds to write a much longer equation on the board. The man then says "this is why people become chemists" to which the teacher replies "do not use the c-word in my presence" *equation won't copy properly in the alt-text.
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"Since we have to pay all these legal bills we are going to close a humanities department and requires the people in the sciences to double the overheads on their grants"
I find telling that all the interviewed people were super happy about their degrees, meaning all the academics did their job properly.
Painted miniature of an orc in a heavy yellow armour with a crude sword and a huge shield
Due to its yellowness, a friend of mine dubbed him "Orconzola", so this is now his name forever.
#MiniaturePainting #Warhammer #Orc
📢 At #EOSAM2026, Jacopo Bertolotti will present the tutorial
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Nonlinear harmonic generation would require fs pulses. These IR cards are phosphorescent (and thus very broadband).
"I’m stuck with music from over 20 years ago" I can't see any negative side here.
Good article, worth reading.
"In order to make IT work, you need to keep it a secret from the IT department" is a sadly common story.
Thermodynamics is in a corner crying.
I am old enough to remember these games from when they came out, and looking back at them it is i interesting that nobody commented on their controls. Because nobody knew any alternative was possible.
Still much better than my first mini 😃
Is this really your first mini? 😮
If so, it is amazing!
Painted Tyranid prime (from the WH40k starter set).
Painted Tyranid prime (from the WH40k starter set).
One more finished model, a million new things I tried for the first time. The most notable were blending contrast paints, and the crackling on the base.
Biggest mistake was not to undershade enough before applying the contrast paints.
#MiniaturePainting #WH40k #Warhammer
Simpson meme with Bart on the top saying "none of my presentations tanked the global markets" On the bottom Omer answers "none of your presentations tanked the global markets, yet"
If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule
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#Photonics #Optics
Part of me wants this to be the best April's Fool in history. Part of me wants it to be real.
#Warhammer #WH40k
This.
If you have a good user interface you don't need AI to navigate what should be a simple task.
This is the original sin of higher education.
(So many) students see University as a away to access better paid jobs.
Universities see students as income.
(So many) professors see teaching as the price they have to pay to be allowed to do research.
Learning is almost never discussed.
Photo of a detail of the back of a airplane seat. On the corner next to where the safety instructions are, it is written "literature only"
Literature Only
Big win of the week: I had @gevero.bsky.social try out the traditional Florentine #Lampredotto 🤤
(The stand in Porta Romana changed owner some time back, but the new guys tuned out to be good.)
That kid was trolling her, and she simply took the trolling at face value.
No clue who this guy is. Probably better I keep being ignorant.
As everybody knows, nobody from those countries can be a good student, worth of a place at Uni. Therefore it is entirely reasonable to deny them study visas.
/s
Tough questions being asked and sad truths being revealed by @jacopobertolotti.com at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 👹
As I said: imperfect. I wish I had a perfect solution 😞
