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[Mayna @maynanotes]

Odoo Icon Generator

An AI tool to Help Odoo developers (including myself 😄) generate module icons that match the new Odoo branding, so we can spend more time building features.

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[Mayna @maynanotes]

Sertifikat Kelulusan kelas Introduction to Financial Literacy https://t.co/2CBzJwi8TE via @dicoding

[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

A woman who flunked her way through every math and science course in high school enlisted in the United States Army the day after graduation because she had no other options.

She learned Russian. She translated on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea. She worked at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. Then in her mid-twenties she decided to go back and learn the exact subject that had defeated her. She earned a degree in electrical engineering, then a master's, then a PhD in systems engineering. She became a professor of engineering. Then she built the most enrolled online course in the history of the internet.

It is a course about how to learn.

Her name is Barbara Oakley.

Here is the story, because the person who taught more humans how to learn than anyone alive is someone who spent the first half of her life believing she could not.

Barbara was born on November 24, 1955 in Lodi, California. Her father Alfred was a bomber pilot in the US Army Air Corps during World War II. She grew up convinced she was not wired for math. She did not just struggle with it. She flunked it. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses and saw no path forward that required either.

She enlisted in the Army immediately after graduation. She rose from the rank of Private to Captain. She was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She leaned into the one thing she was good at, languages, and became fluent in Russian.

The Army sent her to places most people never see. She worked as a Russian translator on board Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea during the final years of the Cold War. She worked as a communications expert at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. She thrived in extreme environments. But a thought kept following her. The world seemed to reward people who could do things she could not. Calculations. Technical reasoning. Systems design.

She began to wonder whether her problem with math was permanent or whether it was a problem with how she had tried to learn it.

In her mid-twenties she did something most people would never attempt. She went back to school to study the subjects she had failed at. She enrolled in mathematics and engineering courses and committed to learning them from the ground up. She was starting over at an age when most engineers were finishing their degrees.

She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Then a master's degree. Then a PhD in systems engineering. She became a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. The woman who had flunked high school math was now standing at a whiteboard teaching engineering to hundreds of students.

Then she asked a question nobody else in her position was asking. Why had she failed the first time, and what had changed the second time?

She spent years studying neuroscience and learning science. She collaborated with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, one of the most respected neuroscientists in the world. Together they built a free online course on Coursera called Learning How to Learn.

The course exploded. It became the most popular massive open online course ever created. Over two million students registered in the early years. The number has continued to grow. It teaches the mental tools experts use to master difficult subjects, chunking, spaced repetition, focused and diffuse thinking, and it is grounded in neuroscience rather than productivity hacks.

She wrote A Mind for Numbers, subtitled How to Excel at Math and Science Even If You Flunked Algebra. She wrote Mindshift. She wrote Uncommon Sense Teaching. She won the McGraw Prize, often called the Nobel Prize for Education. She won the Chester F. Carlson Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. She became a Fellow of IEEE. Her research was described as revolutionary by the Wall Street Journal. She published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A woman who flunked high school math built the most enrolled course in the history of the internet about the thing she was worst at.

She did not overcome a limitation.

She studied the limitation itself, and turned it into a curriculum the entire world now learns from.

[Mayna @maynanotes]

Aku sedang belajar bahasa China di Duolingo! Seru, efektif, dan gratis!

[Mayna @maynanotes]

@zX14_7 Thank you so much for checking out on it christof 🍀

[Mayna @maynanotes]

Odoo Icon Generator

An AI tool to Help Odoo developers (including myself 😄) generate module icons that match the new Odoo branding, so we can spend more time building features.

🔗
https://t.co/5DKlkLPQ2B

#HuggingFace #Gradio #Odoo #Python #ArtificialIntelligence #Hackathon

[Mayna @maynanotes]

@Odoo @huggingface 💗

[Mayna @maynanotes]

Odoo Icon Generator

An AI tool to Help Odoo developers (including myself 😄) generate module icons that match the new Odoo branding, so we can spend more time building features.

🔗
https://t.co/5DKlkLPQ2B

#HuggingFace #Gradio #Odoo #Python #ArtificialIntelligence #Hackathon

[Mayna @maynanotes]

⁦@duolingo⁩ 💗💕🌷

[Mayna @maynanotes]

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[Mayna @maynanotes]

Celebrating my 8th year on @tumblr 🎉🎊

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[Dutch ambassador to Japan @GillesBP]

The ‘girl with the pearl earring’ by #Vermeer will come to #Osaka in August during the renovation of the #Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. Judging from the press-conference, she is very popular in #Japan. Maybe this is her last tour, since she is ‘advancing in age’ like all of us

[Mayna @maynanotes]

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[Mayna @maynanotes]

Waking up and decide to register myself for this program, let’s give it a try guys. 👌🏻

[Mayna @maynanotes]

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[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1970, if a woman arrived at an emergency room after being raped, the staff moved fast. They cut away her clothing. They washed blood from her skin. They cleaned her wounds, combed debris from her hair, sutured, swabbed, stabilized.

They saved her life.

And in the same efficient hour, they destroyed the case.

The clothing that held fibers and semen was bagged with hospital trash. The fingernails that might have carried skin cells were scrubbed clean. The bruises were documented only as injuries, not as patterns of violence. By the time police arrived, there was often nothing left but a shaken woman and a report that would quietly die in a file.

No one intended harm. Nurses were trained to heal, not to think like investigators. Emergency medicine focused on stopping bleeding and preventing infection. Justice was considered someone else’s department.

Except it wasn’t.

It was the survivor’s.

Virginia Lynch was a nurse who noticed what others had normalized. Born in 1941, she grew up in a culture that treated sexual violence as something shameful, private, better left unexamined. In the ER, she saw the same pattern repeat. A woman would arrive assaulted. Staff would do what they were taught. Hours later, police would ask for evidence that no longer existed.

Prosecutors declined cases. Defense attorneys dismantled what little documentation there was. Survivors were left with a quiet, corrosive message: if it can’t be proven, maybe it didn’t really happen.

Lynch understood something radical for her time — hospitals were not neutral spaces. They were the first crossroads between trauma and accountability. If evidence vanished there, justice rarely followed.

When she began asking why nurses weren’t trained to preserve forensic evidence, the resistance was immediate. Doctors said nursing was about care, not crime. Law enforcement questioned whether nurses could handle chain of custody. Administrators worried about lawsuits and reputation. Beneath all of it was a deeper discomfort: taking sexual assault seriously would require admitting how common it was.

But Lynch kept pushing.

She began designing protocols that did not force a false choice between healing and documentation. Clothing could be preserved without delaying treatment. Injuries could be photographed respectfully. Swabs could be taken with consent. Detailed notes could be written in language that held up in court. Evidence could be secured without turning a survivor into an object.

She saw nurses differently than others did. They were already there first. They saw injuries before they faded. They heard the story before it hardened into a deposition. They had the trust of patients in moments when uniformed officers might not.

If nurses were trained properly, they could protect both the body and the truth of what happened to it.

Out of that insistence came a new field: forensic nursing. Eventually, the role of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner — SANE — was formalized. These nurses learned evidence collection, trauma-informed interviewing, courtroom testimony, and meticulous documentation. They became the bridge between medicine and the legal system.

Hospitals that adopted these programs saw measurable change. Evidence was preserved correctly. Cases were stronger. Convictions increased. Survivors reported feeling believed instead of processed. The difference was not dramatic technology. It was intention, structure, and training.

By the 1990s, forensic nursing was recognized as a legitimate specialty. Courts accepted forensic nurses as expert witnesses. Nursing schools began offering training programs. What had once been dismissed as unnecessary interference became the standard of care.

© Women In World History

#archaeohistories

[Stela Nau @stelanau]

Mau ngaku dosa, saya dulu punya pola pikir kaya gitu jg, kak Sarah. Tapi gak sampe menjelek2an di publik ya.

Sebagai anak daerah yg ga pernah punya kesempatan ke luar negeri, pas pertama kali saya fellowship ke Amerika selama setahun, isinya adalah emosi sama negara sendiri. Karena di kampung saya, NTT, banyak sekali hal2 mendasar yg ga bs terpenuhi.

Tapi setelah saya plg dan benar2 mencoba cari beasiswa S2, dapat Chevening, dan ketemu sama professor dan teman-teman dari banyak negara yg open minded, saya justru makin pingin pulang ke Indonesia.

Karena saya tau, tujuan saya dikirim keluar buat belajar adalah untuk saya bisa jadi orang bermanfaat dan at least bisa bantu sodara2 sendiri di kampung & membangun Indonesia lewat pekerjaan2 saya.

Segimana saya sedih sama keputusan2 pemerintah, saya lebih sedih kalo sesama warga saya ga bs ikut merasakan manfaat baik pendidikan seperti saya.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

My dad was never the affectionate type. He didn’t say “I love you.” He didn’t hug much. He showed up, went to work, paid the bills, and stayed quiet.

Growing up, I used to think he didn’t really see me.

I remember once in high school, I told him I wanted to go on a school trip. It wasn’t even expensive, but he said no. Just “we can’t afford it.” No explanation. I cried in my room and told myself that if he cared, he would’ve found a way.

Years later, after he passed, my mom gave me a small box of his things. Old receipts, his watch, random papers he kept.

At the bottom was a folded document. It was a savings account.

In my name.

Opened the same year he told me we “couldn’t afford” that trip.

I looked through the statements. Every single month, without fail, he had been putting money into it. Even during years I knew things were hard. Even during the time he was working two jobs and barely sleeping.

The balance was enough to cover almost my entire college tuition.

I realized in that moment, he didn’t say no because he didn’t care.

He said no because he was choosing my future over my present disappointment.

He let me think he was the bad guy so one day, I wouldn’t have to struggle.

He never explained. Never took credit. Never told me what he was doing.

He just carried it quietly.

And somehow, that hurt more than if he hadn’t done it at all.

[susa @prinkasusa]

I complimented a woman at the gym today because I genuinely thought she was in her late 20s. She laughed and told me she’s 46.
I asked her what her secret was.
She said, “Be clear about what you deserve. Accept nothing less. And stop stressing over anything that doesn’t move your life forward.”
The way that answer came right when I needed to hear it.

[Hanif | AI For Productivity @hanifproduktif]

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[hdgavwgw @na_adf]

Women become more feminine, and men become more masculine after falling in love with the right person, such a cute biological response

It’s fascinating how true love brings out the best of us