George Mather

Posting about perception, art, science, equality, motorbikes, football. Views are mine.

[George Mather @gw_mather]

Some good points made here https://t.co/U7BmdzeSMM

[Jalkapallon Suomen Cup @SuomenCup]

Jalkarannan Palloseuran ja KJP:n välinen Suomen Cupin ottelu keskeytyi hetkeksi kentälle kuulumattoman henkilön johdosta 🚲⁣
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Ottelu päästiin pelaamaan normaalisti loppuun! ☺️⁣
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#SuomenCup 🇫🇮🏆

[Universities UK @UniversitiesUK]

There’s plenty of heat around international student numbers just now....

Rather than accept that, we want to highlight three facts 👇

[Motor Cycle News @MCNnews]

Good news! The blanket ban on bikers in Whitby train station carpark has been lifted, following pressure from local and national community groups. Will you be taking a visit on your motorcycle next year?

Full story: https://t.co/MqwSrSY5Rv

[George Mather @gw_mather]

Strange bike with a steering wheel and passengers who block the rider’s view

[𝙈𝙖𝙟𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖  @MajaSenda]

Two-seater motorcycle, Paris, 1922.

[George Mather @gw_mather]

I see two interesting things: 1) the rotating squares repeatedly shrink and expand as they rotate, and 2) at certain rotation phases they look like circles rather than squares

[ishikawa masaya / 石川 将也 @kamone]

基礎心理学会　錯視錯聴コンテスト2023。臼井健太郎さん、田谷先生と応募したこちらの錯視で、グランプリいただきました。同じチームでもう一つ、入賞もしました。ありがとうございました。科学と表現両方に貢献しながら、新しいものを作っていきたいです。

[WILPF @WILPF]

WILPF announces its Second International Photography Collaboration as part of the Mobilising Men for #FeministPeace 🕊️Programme.

In these times of increasing conflict and polarisation, WILPF calls for submissions on the theme of Men and Love.

[Prof Saiful Islam @SaifulChemistry]

Remarkable sculpture by Simon O’Rourke @treecarving 👇

[Timor O’Seery @seery_o]

I have to show this.
This is Liverpool Lime Street Station.
Have a look and then squint your eyes and look again.

[Ian Willoughby @Ian_Willoughby]

Check this out!

This 3D portrait of Václav Havel, assembled from a huge number of items associated with him, is really quite something.

It’s on show for the next 12 months at Prague’s VH Airport.

[George Mather @gw_mather]

Probably been in that cafe, some years before this was taken!

[Fiona Mills @Fionamills1]

I love this picture, the prices in the background. I wonder what she was thinking? and the gentleman waiting for his tea, what is his story? Fascinating glimpse into the past. I thought it was the 60s!

[Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles]

Fascinating article about what happens when online ‘reality’ meets the contemporary art world

The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned https://t.co/0vGhHjYLmR

[George Mather @gw_mather]

And 60 years ago this year Beeching identified 55% of railway stations, 30% of route miles for closures, pushing many more passenger miles onto the roads

[Andrew Simms @AndrewSimms_uk]

With nearly 30,000 people killed or seriously injured last year by traffic in the UK, & about the same again killed by air pollution, much from vehicles, if there is a war on Britain's roads, its a murderous daily war of aggression by cars against people

https://t.co/oARglZY4qu

[George Mather @gw_mather]

Yet more evidence of the hare-brained idea that PGMOL have got it in for Liverpool. But titles are won on very small margins. VAR officials guilty of ‘human error’ for Luis Díaz strike stood down from duties https://t.co/l4AlX4ISoX

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

This is fantastic, on how LLMs are still best understood as really good predictive text rather than thinking machines.

GPT does well at solving specific problems that are common in its training data, but take the exact same complexity of problem and swap one number, and it fails

[George Mather @gw_mather]

Early depiction of motion blur!

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

In 1657, Diego Velázquez achieved the first convincing illusion of speed by reproducing the blur of a spinning wheel. In effect, he reproduces what we perceive (a blur), rather than what we know to be there (individual spokes) (The Spinners, or The Fable of Arachne, Prado)

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Here's to Maria Clara Eimmart, born in Germany 1676, who defied gender conventions by becoming an astronomer/artist, creating striking images of the heavenly bodies, like these of the Moon, Phases of Mercury & Comets. Died at 31 during her first childbirth
https://t.co/pbfL0is2hT

[George Mather @gw_mather]

World Cup officials apologise for chaos before England v Argentina in Marseille.
Same story, different sport. Time to stop hosting major sports events in France, or anywhere else with a similarly poor record https://t.co/9tVjQuAC6h

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Some things shouldn't be possible to carve from stone, but the master sculptors managed it anyway.

A thread of impossible details of marble sculptures 🧵

[George Mather @gw_mather]

@samim @DrGBuckingham If this is real, I’m not convinced it would work very well. Sound travels slower than light so the aircraft’s location will have changed significantly by the time sound arrives at the observer, discrepancy varying with distance and airspeed. Looks good though