Talk:3080: Tennis Balls - Revision history

172.71.178.160 at 11:31, 28 April 2025

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PotatoGod: /* Vegetative Electron Microscopes */ new section

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‎Vegetative Electron Microscopes: new section

141.101.98.65 at 08:07, 25 April 2025

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162.158.154.192 at 16:00, 24 April 2025

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172.69.208.203 at 13:31, 24 April 2025

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Rps: Tennis ball machines in Wikimedia

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Tennis ball machines in Wikimedia

172.71.241.89 at 08:42, 24 April 2025

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	Not sure how this concept would translate to implementing a ''vegetative tennis ball microscope''. Maybe replace the tennis balls with brussel sprouts or cabbages. [[User:PotatoGod\|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod\|talk]]) 05:40, 28 April 2025 (UTC)		Not sure how this concept would translate to implementing a ''vegetative tennis ball microscope''. Maybe replace the tennis balls with brussel sprouts or cabbages. [[User:PotatoGod\|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod\|talk]]) 05:40, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
		+	:On the translation front, it reminds me of some documents that came into the steel-works that had been part of a project that had had foreign involvement (and translations a2ay from English, then back into English), back in the '80s. There was a mention of "water sheep" which (from one or other translations perhaps being done by non-technical people, mixing up their cognates/etc) turned out to really mean "hydraulic rams". [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.160\|172.71.178.160]] 11:31, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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	I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192\|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192\|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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−	~~== Vegetative Electron Microscopes ==~~

	With amusingly coincidental timing, I was recently made aware of a growing number of scientific papers that describe "''vegetative electron microscopes''", instead of "''scanning electron microscopes''", and I figure others here would also find it amusing: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why		With amusingly coincidental timing, I was recently made aware of a growing number of scientific papers that describe "''vegetative electron microscopes''", instead of "''scanning electron microscopes''", and I figure others here would also find it amusing: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why

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	I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192\|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192\|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	== Vegetative Electron Microscopes ==
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		+	With amusingly coincidental timing, I was recently made aware of a growing number of scientific papers that describe "''vegetative electron microscopes''", instead of "''scanning electron microscopes''", and I figure others here would also find it amusing: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why
		+	The predominant theories to explain it are either that AI was trained on a pair of poorly-digitized papers from the 50s, or a translation error from Farsi, where a single dot makes the difference between "vegetative" and "scanning". Personally I find the latter explanation more likely, or perhaps a combination of the two factors.
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		+	Not sure how this concept would translate to implementing a ''vegetative tennis ball microscope''. Maybe replace the tennis balls with brussel sprouts or cabbages. [[User:PotatoGod\|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod\|talk]]) 05:40, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_ball_machine Similar? -Anon [[Special:Contributions/172.69.208.203|172.69.208.203]] 13:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
-OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
+:OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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	OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps\|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps\|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps\|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps\|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	I added the comments on even smaller forms of microscopy to the article. I found these in an article I read in a friend's Nature magazine, I've almost never read Nature and this article was so interesting. There was further similar content that I wanted to add but I haven't found the article again to reference it -- there's a kind of microscopy where the energy of the probe is turned way up, so that the sample is actually immediately destroyed by the probe, but by collecting the resulting scattering it can then be reconstructed. This is relevant to the paragraph on the observer effect. There is also some kind of microscopy (pump probe?) that can collect very high-time-resolution imagery. I asked for this article at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/1k6vfcr/article_miao_j_computational_microscopy_with because as an ex-hobby-software-engineer I found it so interesting that simple computer algorithms could be so powerful somewhere. I think it is sad however that this comic models detached nerds harming a passerby as humor. People who are extensively exposed to a mode of research do indeed tend to apply it to other domains, because it's what they understand, but we also want them to apologize if somebody is injured :) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.192\|162.158.154.192]] 16:00, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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 feels more like a macroscope to me [[User:GreyFox|GreyFox]] ([[User talk:GreyFox|talk]]) 23:53, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
 Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_ball_machine Similar? -Anon [[Special:Contributions/172.69.208.203|172.69.208.203]] 13:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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	Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89\|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89\|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
		+	:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_ball_machine Similar? -Anon [[Special:Contributions/172.69.208.203\|172.69.208.203]] 13:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

	OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps\|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps\|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps\|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps\|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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	Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89\|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)		Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89\|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	OTOH, Wikimedia has a photo and a couple of diagrams of tennis ball machines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tennis_ball_machines and 3 photos of "Tenniskanon" https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Tenniskanon&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image . I checked and the nobody has yet created the Tenniskanon page in nl.wikipedia.org [[User:Rps\|Rps]] ([[User talk:Rps\|talk]]) 13:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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	feels more like a macroscope to me [[User:GreyFox\|GreyFox]] ([[User talk:GreyFox\|talk]]) 23:53, 23 April 2025 (UTC)		feels more like a macroscope to me [[User:GreyFox\|GreyFox]] ([[User talk:GreyFox\|talk]]) 23:53, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Weirdly, Wikipedia has pages for pitching machines, bowling machines, and squash ball launchers, but doesn't appear to have one for tennis ball machines. (And no, I'm not going to create one specially for this comic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.241.89\|172.71.241.89]] 08:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)