Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:57:31 -0500

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Free-Range Parenting: A Mom’s Guide to Raising Independent Kids

Parents are more scared than ever. The media warn of “Stranger Danger.” Lenore Skenazy says this is foolish. Parents should let their kids be MORE independent.

#video #kids

video kids

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:09:56 -0500

Scott M. Stolz

scott@loves.tech

Americans would probably be freaked out to learn that teaching their children to be independent is common in Japan. They send 5 year olds to the store, and they have little flags they hold up when the cross the street, and it is just a normal right of passage. There is even a Netflix show called "Old Enough" showing the practice.

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:17:09 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

That sounds like the show they talk about in the video

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 12:51:32 -0500

Scott M. Stolz

scott@loves.tech

It is the same show.

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:43:38 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Why Letting Your Kid Walk Home Alone Could Land You in Jail

A mom got ARRESTED for telling her son: "walk home." It was just half a mile, but someone saw the boy and called 911. They worried he might be kidnapped. Give me a break.

#video #kids

video kids

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:03:09 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#1 offspring has been published in paper about a project they worked on as an undergrad.

#^slick: Modeling a Universe of Molecular Line Luminosities in Hydrodynamical Simulations

Abstract
We present slick (the Scalable Line Intensity Computation Kit), a software package that calculates realistic CO, [C i], and [C ii] luminosities for clouds and galaxies formed in hydrodynamic simulations. Built on the radiative transfer code despotic, slick computes the thermal, radiative, and statistical equilibrium in concentric zones of model clouds, based on their physical properties and individual environments. We validate our results by applying slick to the high-resolution run of the Simba simulations, testing the derived luminosities against empirical and theoretical/analytic relations. To simulate the line emission from a universe of emitting clouds, we have incorporated random forest machine learning (ML) methods into our approach, allowing us to predict cosmologically evolving properties of CO, [C i], and [C ii] emission from galaxies such as luminosity functions. We tested this model in 100,000 gas particles, and 2500 galaxies, reaching an average accuracy of ∼99.8% for all lines. Finally, we present the first model light cones created with realistic and ML-predicted CO, [C i], and [C ii] luminosities in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, from z = 0 to z = 10.

#kids

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Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:25:50 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^10-year-old EXPELLED for making a finger gun

A Tennessee 10-year-old was expelled from school for a full year after he pointed his finger in the shape of a gun and made mock "machine gun" noises.

There was a case some years ago when a deaf boy named Hunter got in trouble for making "finger guns". Guess what one of the ways to sign the word "hunter" is...

#video #kids

video kids

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:02:33 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

I'm currently reading A Hunter-Gather's Guide to the 21st Century by Bret and his wife, Heather. By sheer coincidence, I hit the chapter on children on the same day as I was listening to this podcast. I got to both listen to and read the same story about a child in Quito, Ecuador, within hours of each other.

#^More Than One Way to Skin a Knee: Lenore Skenazy on DarkHorse

Lenore Skenazy is “America’s Worst Mom”, founder of Free Range Kids and President of Let Grow. Bret talks to her about parenting in an era of zero risk.

#podcast #kids #video

podcast kids video

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:21:27 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^struggling with struggle

it really does appear to be one of those unfortunate calibration issues where humans seem to need to feel a certain amount of struggle/deprivation/injustice and it's all subjective such that a brearley girl in her posh high school in NYC experiences a lack of kale at the salad bar in about the same way that an african kid in a warzone experiences "no food this week" in terms of the sense of struggle it constitutes.

#kids

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Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:13:39 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

He finally got added to the page

Meet the Team | Computational Galaxy Formation at UConn

#kids

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Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:57:13 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#1 son worked on code for this paper while he was an undergrad, earning him an author credit.

SLICK: Modeling a Universe of Molecular Line Luminosities in Hydrodynamical Simulations

We present SLICK (the Scalable Line Intensity Computation Kit), a software package that calculates realistic CO, [C I], and [C II] luminosities for clouds and galaxies formed in hydrodynamic simulations. Built on the radiative transfer code DESPOTIC, SLICK computes the thermal, radiative, and statistical equilibrium in concentric zones of model clouds, based on their physical properties and individual environments. We validate our results applying SLICK to the high-resolution run of the SIMBA simulations, testing the derived luminosities against empirical and theoretical/analytic relations. To simulate the line emission from a universe of emitting clouds, we have incorporated random forest machine learning (ML) methods into our approach, allowing us to predict cosmologically evolving properties of CO, [C I] and [C II] emission from galaxies such as luminosity functions. We tested this model in 100,000 gas particles, and 2,500 galaxies, reaching an average accuracy of ∼99.8\% for all lines. Finally, we present the first model light cones created with realistic and ML-predicted CO, [C I], and [C II] luminosities in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, from z=0 to z=10.

#kids

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Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:22:16 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

He isn't on the site yet, but this is my son's research group: Computational Galaxy Formation at UConn

Today, he sends me a link with the specs of some computing resources he has access to, claiming he "got a new computer". As a first guess, I would say it is several 100x the compute capacity I manage at work. It turns out that they are a pair of compute clusters at the Flatiron Institute.

#kids

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Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:03:31 -0400

Jason Cook

jason@hub.inktada.com

Impressive

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:10:34 -0400

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

aleabdo@hubzilla.com.br

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:00:09 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Canada Judge Authorizes Fortnite Addiction Lawsuit

The lawsuit has been brought by three parents who say their children would not sleep, eat, or shower because they were addicted to playing Fortnite.

So, THAT's what we have been doing wrong as parents. Instead of arguing with our youngest about how he should be doing his homework instead of playing games, we should be suing the game makers!

#kids #law

kids law