Carsten Rieck

time metrologist, engineer, proud father, husband, concerned human; not necessarily in that order; he/him.

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

Dagens stämningshöjande; Frankfurt Main Termnial2B

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

😂😂😂 smartwatch with server complex

[Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi]

This project pushing one of our boards to its absolute limits was hailed as "performance art indeed" (in a good way) by one of our engineers:

https://t.co/KBO4HGX8aA

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Agreed ?

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Physics professor discloses in 1 minute the full insight of Quantum Mechanics.

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

@historydefined There is a third person involved!?

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@NickRajacic Få poäng idag

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

This is a fascinating read. So much engineering wasted and tragic end “… an attempt to make the unfinished orbiter resemble the … 1K vehicle, the airframe skin … were covered with a fresh coat of paint, applied with a paint roller by a cigarette-wielding man in shorts …”

[Energia Buran Archive @11K25_Energia]

https://t.co/4Z2P7aBNqm

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

Dark times ahead it seems

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Carl Sagan on books

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Carl Sagan addresses the lack of attention of mainstream media in scientific fields.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

41 years ago #Today, promising a “Free Unix”, Richard Stallman announced that he was going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system he called GNU (which stands for Gnu’s Not Unix).

A significant milestone in the history of open source and free software.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Measuring the entropy of 100 cities around the world using the orientation of streets.

In the chart below, they are sorted by descending φ from most to least grid-like (equivalent to least to greatest entropy).

[full paper: https://t.co/vXG6DDaaZN]

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

damn good #coffee at #jammertest

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

From a 1979 IBM presentation

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@elonmuskADO No, sorry!

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

😂

[Perseus @Bloodofolympus]

@jinkoh Here's an ad from Synoptik 🤣🤣

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

Nice

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An interesting analogy to explain quantum mechanics

[📹 veritasium]

[Francis Stokes @fstokesman]

This is a thread about the CORDIC algorithm, and why it's been living rent-free in my brain for the last couple of weeks 🧵

[Carsten Rieck @carstenrieck]

@NickRajacic Jösses!

[Nick Rajacic @NickRajacic]

Idag börjar SM-finalerna!

Norrköping mot Borås.

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