DouglasXX

Posting ideas that are closer to if not the actual facts, STEM.

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

In mathematics wishing someone a good morning when they wake up at any time can be a valid point, learned that from my math teacher who always woke us during his lessons

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

"The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which nature has chosen"

— Paul Dirac

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Them: So Douglas, now that we are all here, what are some plans for the future that you have for us?

Me: 2 boys and 2 girls.

[Hacker News @hackernews]

Do you think you can you spot a watermarked LLM response?

This field test gives you 10 prompts with three answers each. One response per round was secretly watermarked with Google DeepMind's SynthID.

Try it for yourself.

https://t.co/e6t8AJCcHT

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Above the ground and feet deeply rooted.. #tbt #rewind

[Lord Arse! @Lord_Arse]

DOOM... on a 1980s digital clock pen.

[Aviation @xAviation]

Northern Lights from the A350 flight deck!

📸: mav320

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Focus is key to thrive in anything you do

[THE X FILES AESTHETICS @XFilesAesthetic]

One of the Coolest shot from The X-Files 👀👽

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Muscle cars and @Tesla inc. needed this level of customization to fly us to the moon

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT)

[Algebra Etc. @AlgebraFact]

If a and b are relatively prime, there are infinitely many primes of the form an + b.

[1.0 @michaelmicasso2]

Windows 3.1, 1992.

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

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[DouglasXX @look_up3]

A finite shape with an infinitely long, endlessly detailed boundary full of self-similar mini-copies

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

One equation creates infinite worlds.

Iterate zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c, z₀ = 0. The Mandelbrot set is every complex c whose orbit stays bounded—main cardioid, seahorse valleys, Douady rabbits, mini-copies forever.

These self-similar structures power procedural terrain in games, fractal antennas, and chaos models in physics and ML.

A finite region whose boundary has infinite length.

Which self-similar structure in nature or code still surprises you?

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Silent curves of stillness.. sand tracing the pure eigenmodes of a vibrating plate

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

These silent curves mark where a plate stands perfectly still.

At precise frequencies, sand gathers on the nodal lines of its eigenmodes; solutions of the Helmholtz equation ∇²ψ + k²ψ = 0.

The same math shapes instrument design, ultrasound imaging, and quantum resonators.

Geometry made audible.

Where else have you watched hidden symmetries emerge from vibration?

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

@Wattenberger From physics we can come to a conclusion that everything is in continuous motion and not just from the observers frame of reference but also the objects reference frame, the subject of relativity contains theories touch on topics like these with time acting as the main antagonist

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

the best explanation of this, for the curious

https://t.co/M9uZYui9L0

[Retro Gaming Memories @RetroMemoriesHQ]

August 24, 1995: Windows 95 was released.

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Their operating system was unmatched and also had some other unique features on the phone

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

A headline from 2007

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

A century later in Beijing, China 🇨🇳

[DouglasXX @look_up3]

Have finesse

[Pushkar Ranade @magicsilicon]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C Clarke