Colin Stark

@cstark.bsky.social

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🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok

Snapshot of Guardian page showing 6-4 victory of England over France
Annoying BBC headline about Mauritania
Wee little England flag
Famous Harris cartoon of two scientists at a blackboard with “then a miracle occurs” written between two sets of equations, with one guy saying “I think you should be more explicit here in step two”
Google AI getting simple algebra wrong when combining Damköhler and Péclet numbers
Typhoons converging on Japan right now
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260618-the-hidden-edo-era-bathhouse-that-embodies-tokyo
Snippet from fig.1 of Bonkile et al 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-018-1559-4 claiming the Burgers equation originated with Batman in 1915.
Snapshot of figures from recent review of Burgers equation solution methods, with crucial typo in citation of Bateman
Snippet of a BBC article on a new apparent treatment for hair loss
Temple lanterns in Taipei
Felt intensity
Tsunami prediction
NYT headline reads: “Trump’s Iran threats look like self-incrimination for potential war crimes”
Taipei MRT Circular Line (Y) label
Geologic cross section for recent earthquake, showing hypocenter
Snapshot map of earthquake epicenter near Ilan, Taiwan
Cell phone earthquake warnings
View of Mt Takachiho, an active volcano https://maps.app.goo.gl/3mmSNvLBccZ6EcUJ9?g_st=ic
A view from the shore
A beach at sunset in Kyushu, Japan
Southern Kyushu beach
Scatter plot displaying negligible correlation, nevertheless shown with a linear model fit
Snapshot of Wapo headline about Greg Bovino
The beach this afternoon, southern Kyūshū, Japan
The beach this afternoon, southern Kyūshū, Japan
The beach this afternoon, southern Kyūshū, Japan
Spartacus, as played by Kirk Douglas in the eponymous 1960 film
RG critical surface showing crossover between two fixed points. From Yeomans 1992, fig 8.3.
Beach in southern Kyūshū, Japan
Surfer
The beach
Surfer
Sign says “you might get bite”
Sign saying “Please be careful about butts”
Snapshot of news headline claiming Tim Cook earned $74.3M last year
View from Karakuni of Oonaminoike and Sakurajima 🌋, Kirishima, Kyūshū
A fisherman
Photo of Japanese cookie labeled “Press butter sand”
Video from @junlper.beer
Google AI's waffly reply to the query "can generative AI genuinely handle persistence": "Generative AI models do not inherently "handle" persistence in the human sense of continuous, organic learning or long-term memory across sessions; rather, its form of "persistence" is limited to generating variations of ideas within a narrow scope . True persistence, involving ongoing learning and memory of context, is an area of active development in AI engineering."
Python brute-force summation of sinc takes nearly 8 mins vs 8s using numpy, i.e., 60x slower
Single-line implementation of sinc summation in Python, with timing.
#GEOFON rapid analysis
M4.5 earthquake near Hualien a few minutes ago, felt in Taipei