Matthew Gray

I'm an Eng Director at Google, and mostly tweet about board games, machine learning, photography, and occasionally other stuff.

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[Matthew Gray @mkgray]

@straczynski 99000 (2200kg*45m/s) Newtons of force divided by number of seconds to stop as it slams through the concrete

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@straczynski Depends over what distance it stops. A metal sphere hitting a metal wall (very short distance) will have a much higher force than a car hitting a wall (substantial faction of the car length as stopping distance sure to compression/collapse of the vehicle).

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@crschmidt @ride_trips Unfortunately, https://t.co/dUYgADfRny is blocked on https://t.co/Jy0bJdJM2s, and I don't know if other servers block it too, but it's worth being aware. Not sure if there's a way to see the list of servers that block a specific server.

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I'm giving Mastadon a try. @[email protected] (general) and @[email protected] for #boardgames related stuff which I'm expecting to post a bunch of over the next few days.

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.@JetBlue is amazingly disappointing. Flight cancelled last night after 4 hours. Rebooked morning flight "delayed" 5 hours. In line for THREE hours to request our checked bags back because they can't do that online. One gate agent, constantly on hold on the phone.

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@Sajma It's an entire genre on YouTube already. Continuous video (vs AI art slide shows) can't be far behind. 😍

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A very small Graphocephala fennahi (leafhopper) #bugsonflowers #photography

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I got a new camera. It has an overwhelming number of pixels (61MP!), such that extremely fractional crops still yields what I think of as "full-sized" photos. Works especially well for one of my favorite kinds of photos: bugs-on-flowers. #SonyAlpha #a7riv

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Bumble bees are so photogenic... #photography

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We had a flower pot fall off a railing outside and shatter. Yesterday evening I saw a sparse line (every 3 feet) of garden ants marching along the railing holding what looked like grains of rice, but were pupae being relocated from the shattered pot to a different flower pot!

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@nelson Fwiw, I haven't observed that with my 6Pro on T-Mobile, but had a similar problem years ago with an earlier Pixel. Sometimes airplane mode would only fix it if switched off for some time, so I blamed some interaction between the phone and tower that required a reset+timeout.

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@mattcasey I assume you'd say 1298232436, and I'd say 21780726003819895.

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This is so cool, and the amount of gravitational lensing is really awesome to see in such detail!

[NASA @NASA]

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

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Iguanas are very photogenic

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@AsmadiGames I like D&D, but for the past 4+ years, I've been GMing a lot of Numenera (wouldn't exactly call it "indie") and it's really fun. I like other Cypher stuff too, but I feel like the mechanics/style mesh well with the Numenera setting.

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@moultano Same vibe as the Stingray laser fish delousing buoys. I really wonder how much these actually work vs seem like they _should_ work.

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Of the 40 answers this year, not including today, 14 are known by 100%, and 34 are known by >95%. The most obscure word this year, by a large margin, was "rebus" at 52%. Wrung, truss and banal were far more known at over 80%, and crimp and pleat are known by 93% of people. 7/7

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What's the most obscure Worlde word? One thing I like about Wordle is that the word list is good. But I was curious what's the most obscure word that could be the answer? Words like "elate" or "dryly" are very low frequency, but almost everybody knows them... 1/7

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One is vulgar and a lot end with -y so maybe those are intentional exclusions but "everyone" knows the words swipe, latex, hiker and cupid, but they fail to make the World list of valid answers. 6/7