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Geezer Soze

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HPC/AI. Math/Physics. Music: Allan Holdsworth/Percy Jones nut. Animals like me. Pro-wolf. Nitwits *will* get blocked. #QuiOseGagne #WatfordFC #Saracens

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · Nov 16

"People deny reality. They fight against real feelings caused by real circumstances. They build mental worlds of shoulds, oughts, and might-have- beens. Real changes begin with real appraisal and acceptance of what is. Then realistic action is possible.” -- David Reynolds

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 37m

Walthamstow

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 3h

Respectfully, 2nd degree effects are much larger & more pervasive than you think, which is why the GOP utilizes the same methods but at bigger scale.

Nowadays, people vote more on feels than ideas, & you only has to look at the impact on Hillary's campaign to see how effective those methods are

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 6h

My favorite story revolves around the former Cray Computer engineers from Chippewa Falls, who left to start their own firm & went to work for the breweries in Milwaukee to help them cool their fermentation vats (fwiw, Cray has way more patents in cooling than supercomputer/chip design).

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 6h

Yes & no.. the records he's famous for playing on tend to associate him with the 2nd, but he was a monster player who could "shred" if he wanted to.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 8h

Back in the late 60s/early 70s there were really just two basic kinds of rock keyboard players in the London music scene: more technical players like Emerson, Wakeman, Rick Wright, etc... & feel-driven rockers like Elton John & Ian Stewart.

Bryan was definitely one of the 2nd.

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 8h

I'm thinking of a song like "Virginia Plain", where Eno & Manzanera's weird sounds, & Bryan's strange vocal inflections in particular draw attention away from some really decent rock piano playing.

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 8h

He was overshadowed 1st by Eno & then by Eddie Jobson.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 15h

The great Percy Jones playing fretless bass on Eno's 1975 release, doing all the double stop sliding harmonics & everything else he was famous for.

This record was out a full year ahead of Jaco's 1st wide released recording, for all you bass fans.

Sky Saw (2004 Remaster)

YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 15h

too right

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 16h

Frank Zappa - Can't Afford No Shoes.

YouTube video by whiteisti

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 17h

Nazareth's version might have been the 1st rock ballad.

NAZARETH - Love Hurts (Remastered Audio) High Quality Audio (4K)

YouTube video by Reynaldo Escalera Garcia ᴴᴰ

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 17h

One of the big reasons behind the US's rise to industrial/economic prominence was the absurdly low cost of power compared to other countries.

fwiw, China is still growing & its electricity costs are < 2/3 of the US's (which is still low compared to Europe)

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 18h

Which is weird since those milk floats the milkman used to drive back in the 60s & 70s were all electric.

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 19h

I’m right here bitch.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 19h

Ah... the opposite of hate.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 19h

They recorded Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals *and* Grace Under Pressure at Le Studio, down in Morin-Heights.

You'd think that would give the band some kind of good-will with the Quebecois.

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 19h

Geddy is a good egg.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 19h

A mouthpiece is still a mouthpiece, no matter how pretty the mouth or what comes out of it.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

Sports is politics, and politics is sport.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

Prize announcement dates

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

When you say "automate research engineering" I'm presuming you're talking about the paper exercise... in automotive, aerospace, pharma, etc... things still have to be made & tested.

imho, AI'll be a "spreadsheet" for research & we can look at the world-changing impact of Visicalc & Excel for clues

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

Pete has more to offer than to just be an admin's lip man.

I always thought the Dems dropped the ball when they declined to let him run the DNC.

Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

And that problem started in the 80s because people weren't citing the papers they hadn't read.

At the same time, academics were getting rated precisely on the number of books & papers they'd published & the impact of their work, measured simply by counting how many citations they were generating.

a man wearing glasses says i want the credit

ALT: a man wearing glasses says i want the credit

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

I hope @governor.ca.gov will take the opportunity to acknowledge yesterday's & also today's tremendous achivement by California based researchers, especially at UC.

In this time of dangerous anti-science/anti-vaccine movements it's important to articulate just how much we value the real thing.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

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Geezer Soze @plinytheelder-t.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments that paved the way for the next generation of quantum technologies