Nicola De Mitri
Former physicist who makes scientific software, molecular models and occasionally 3D art. He. Italian and British.
@_nicolasap elsewhere, user 172020 June 2023.
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriHo voluto la bicicletta
- I personally appreciate that Bose and Fermi particles follow the bouba/kiki effect correctly.
- Shouldn't need explaining but: Bosons are clearly boubas: integer spin, happy to get cozy in a shared quantum state. Fermions are kikis, sharp, half-integer spin, quite particular with their personal space. Well done, particle physics. 👏
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriJournalists in Gaza describing their starvation in real time Originally compiled by @standing-together.bsky.social
- I'm glad I have a tweet of mine – from almost 2 years before consumer-level LLM chatbots – that proves that I was a prolific user of en dashes back then already. (Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriThe problem with the left is all the word policing
- I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Nicola De Mitrijust got back from the gastro-etymologist. he told me that stomach comes from the greek word stoma, meaning mouth 😟
- "Herein, we present an alternative framework..." but in 1902's Italian. "Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")
- Literal "preprints", I believe to prove and set a date for a discovery? Title, author, endorser. "These articles will be published in the next issue".
- To think of how modern mathematical notation (sums, integrals, differentials, subscripts/superscipts, roots, trig, ...) had already been long-established – and typesettable! – by the time this 1895 bulletin was printed. And look so similar to lecture notes from the computer era.
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View full threadRE: typesetting. Wow. I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum. (Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriWe'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriVotiamo Sì per portare da 10 a 5 gli anni di legale residenza per poter chiedere la cittadinanza italiana per chi vive, studia, lavora in Italia per sé e i propri figli minorenni e conviventi. Vuoi dare una mano? Unisciti a noi ora su www.referendumcittadinanza.it
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriI’m told by @nicoladem.it that I could enter the wallpaper business.
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriA margine della puntata che abbiamo pubblicato ieri di Ci vuole una scienza, condivido una preoccupazione che riguarda l'informazione e le questioni scientifiche /1
- My personal take home message from this article is that: "Joy Division plot" ➕ color coding 🟰 3D surface I must try this.
- Read more in our new article “The baby boom in seven charts”: ourworldindata.org/baby-boom-seven-charts
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriI’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.
- This technique is so cool! To find out for instance that 25% young men voted AfD (🥲) compared to 15% young women, they don't need to rely on exit polls or ecological inference. They have the actual ballots.
- Self portrait of my innie
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriNot exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriDa quando l’ho letta sul riassunto di un romanzo distopico qualche giorno fa, c’è una frase che non mi lascia più: “Visto che la democrazia non interessava più a nessuno, il presidente la dichiarò abolita”
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriSeverance is on its way to being the best television show of all time
- Reposted by Nicola De Mitri[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by Nicola De Mitriho preso spunto dall’interessantissimo thread di @fabiochinellato.bsky.social per compilare una miniraccolta di asimmetrie tra nomi comuni di animali in inglese e in italiano: www.terminologiaetc.it/2025/01/17/a...
- Reposted by Nicola De MitriCMYK Color Wheel constructed from just three pens and hatch shading. CMYK ink on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/ #PenPlotter #Art #PlotterArt
- Reposted by Nicola De Mitri“An Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- New PFP 🙃 (stolen from my wife's newsletter claudiaflandoli.substack.com/p/bilinguism...)
- Old me, in case you're wondering who the hell this is. Drawn by the same hand anyway, and it may work better as a pfp, so I may revert at some point.
- Yes I have a mouth in real life
