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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

"The Mastodon time line is empty and boring" Listen, I posted the picture of a couple of poorly panted Warhammer miniatures, got a few likes, looked at who liked it and followed those who seemed to boost a lot, and now I am awash of photos of gorgeously painted miniatures! Your timeline is as alive (or dead) as you make it!

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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With the arrival of the "Fabulous Pink Orc", the "Powwa Renga" orc squad is complete. #MiniaturePainting #Warhammer

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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Orangiork has been based. Now one more colorful orc to complete the 10 orc squad. #Warhammer #MiniaturePainting #Orc

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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The true metallic colors by Vallejo are truly good.
The wash is super-powerful (i.e. I used too much and the whole thing is way too dark)
Never ever be as stupid as me and start putting down grass before the paint on the mini is dry 😓

#Warhammer #MiniaturePainting

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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Somebody asked me where the black Powwa Renga was, so I painted one. (First attempt at volumetric highlights and NMM. Happy about the overall look, but unhappy about my choice of light placement. It looks off.) #Warhammer #MiniaturePainting

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place True, but I'd like to add: "AI existed before ChatGPT and will keep existing well after OpenAI is relegated to the history books."

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

Your periodic reminder that there is practically no downside to preprints: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02167-3

#Science

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

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@Dio9sys@haunted.computer Below 50% worries you round to zero. Above 50% you round to 100% If you are exactly 50% worries you reach oneness with the Universe.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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With the arrival or rainbowrk, the colorful brigade of murderous orcs is now complete! #Warhammer #MiniaturePainting #Orc

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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Wy you bozz?
Cuz I Im red. You stoopid?

#MiniaturePainting #Warhammer

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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Back to my orcs. Everyone told me white was going to be hard, and now I can 100% confirm. I am unlikely to attempt a white armor for a VERY long time 😓 #Warhammer #MiniaturePainting #Orc

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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The yellow Orconzola now has two companions: Big Boy Blue, and the greenest Green Knight. I am still absolutely terrible at both blending and basing, but I think I am slowly getting a hang about edge highlighting and gaining some brush control (I know it is nothing special, but I am very proud of the tiny free-hand on the green orc's shield). #MiniaturePainting #Warhammer #Orc

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@shana Regular reminder to self that all those scary for-loops are just iterated operators 😜

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

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@kevinpriester@mastodon.social Reminds me a bit of a old emeritus Professor, who used to mostly sleep during seminars, but then always asked "how does this scale with temperature?" at the end of the talk. This is the kind of question that makes some level of sense in 99.9% of Physics talks, and used to send into a panic a lot of people, who (rightly) never thought about it (because it was largely irrelevant) and now feared they were missing something deep and fundamental, while it was just an old guy repeating the same question to everyone. @carnage4life@mas.to

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

Hotel corridors are the quintessential #LiminalSpace .

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

Hot take: if your calendar invite doesn't contain enough information for me to understand what the hell this meeting is supposed to be about, I will likely just skip it.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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A more bite-sized one for a short painting session. Not even 100% sure what it is. It was together with the Space Marines. (I later found that a drop of glue must have fallen out of the bases, so now a piece of it is forever glued to my painting handle 🤦‍♂️ )

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot And that is indeed part of the problem. Increasingly large and power-hungry deep neural networks have sucked all the oxygen from other forms of AI. @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

The parallels between the videogame industries and academia will never cease to amaze me.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

#PhysicsFactlet
The "stretch and fold" dynamics of the phase-space representation of a chaotic system (in this case a periodically driven simple pendulum) is always fun to see.

(Made for a lecture, so I am quickly putting it here. Maybe will write a thread about it in the near future.)

#Chaos

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

Tempted to start making posts about how #Optics, #Light, absorption etc work, aimed at people doing #MiniaturePainting . Mostly I am not doing it because I suspect I would come around as obnoxious instead of useful.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

RE: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Anybody interested in starting a company specialized in removing the debris that will fill our low orbit after the inevitable Kessler syndrome?
Pretty sure we can convince a bunch of VCs that in 10 years all countries will be willing to pay any amount to get their lower orbit available again.

#Entrepreneurship

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@ratsnakegames I have enough for both of us, don't worry.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social Not the same thing, but reminds me how a linear planimeter can measure the area enclosed by an arbitrary curve just by measuring how much a wheel turned while tracing the curve. You can do marvels with purely mechanical systems if you know what you are doing!

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

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@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Which is exactly what Ross predicted a few days back https://youtu.be/CgoODQFrPgw?si=lnFGZoOf_K6JAPr6

The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

Dear hive mind, I need advice on audio drama to listen to.
I greatly enjoy #Midst and @midnightburger@mastodon.social, and I am looking for something similar to add to my playlist.

#AudioDrama

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

Bake Off, but for miniature painting!
https://youtu.be/j5z5FIN9F7o

#MiniaturePainting

Miniature Masters: Worlds First miniature & Warhammer painting TV-Show EP1

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@terribletowelie I don't have a "trending" tab (and even if I had, I wouldn't ever click on it like I never clicked on it on any other social media).

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@terribletowelie Not all servers are created equal.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz Email is a wonderful thing if you don't want to be interrupted for a few hours. Just turn off all the notifications (or never turn them on in the first place) and don't read your emails until you are ready to do so.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

Who in the universe need a remote to turn the pages of their ebook reader? Why is thing a thing?

https://www.engadget.com/2167086/boox-announces-tappy-a-wireless-page-turning-remote/

Engadget

Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote - Engadget

Tappy can work with other Bluetooth devices, too.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

Phone (admittedly a bit old and cheap) complaints that the storage is full.
I go and see what I can delete and find that my data actually occupy at most a quarter of the memory. Everything else is system apps.
So essentially Android is occupying more and more space, until I will be forced to buy a new phone. 🤬

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 3mo ago

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@renardboy@mastodon.social As long as you can trace the curve (i.e. nothing pathological like a fractal), yes. @VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 2mo ago

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@giuseppebilotta@fediscience.org Definitively not (I wish).

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@nurglerider@mastodon.social I am actually very happy, but I am still a beginner, meaning I am trying out a lot of stuff for the first time. Sometimes it just doesn't work, and I am left wishing I did something different, sometimes it works in a way I was just not expecting. It is the normal process of learning 😉 But thanks for the kind words 😃

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

#PlayStation is now requiring #AgeVerification to use voice chat &co (in the UK). I used voice chat while playing a grand total of once, so I think I can skip this one.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@abuseofnotation Postal services all over the world used to work perfectly fine. The fact that now most of them are starved of resources doesn't mean they can't work fine again (and keeping them starved is a precise political choice which make evil corporations the most viable option).

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@BoneHouseWasps@beige.party I really need to learn how to make photos of the minis 😞

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@lostterminal @SvenGeier Dowloaded the first few episodes and put them in my playlist 😃

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@Cal I really enjoyed the videos by TalesFromTheOrdoRedactus despite the text-to-speech for narration and the AI-generated background image. The quality was not what it could have been with a human narrator and a human-drawn image, but the writing was good and it was a tiny channel. So I'd say my attitude to something similar would be positive.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

I am somehow running for the board of #EOS. If you think that having me there trying to expose more people to the beauty of optics is a good idea, you might vote for me.
On the other hand there are a lot of excellent candidates on the list, so you should probably vote for one of them 🙂

https://www.europeanoptics.org/pages/about/eos-board-elections-2026-candidates.html

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@zhaph@fosstodon.org Thanks. I got a Speedpaint box as a gift, so many of these orcs are an experiment with different speedpaint colors (including the white here).

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@codingWombat@social.tchncs.de Thank you 🙏🏻 (but it still feels off to me. Can't pinpoint why)

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place Here is where I admit I never watched Power Rangers.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk Do you have pictures of the Barbie Orcs? 😃 @morqendi@mstdn.social

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz I can't define what consciousness is, but I am pretty confident my chair is not conscious. @SylviaFysica@scholar.social

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@abuseofnotation I don't remember ever saying anything about groceries.

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@Squika@meow.social Thanks. I have no interest in the game (I am a ttrpg guy), but I find painting extremely relaxing 🙂

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j_bertolotti @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

I know Amazon is evil, but Amazon always delivers on the day they claim they will deliver (I couldn't care less about stuff like "same day delivery", I just care to know when the delivery will occur).
Most other places where I can buy online have to rely on a courier or on Royal Mail, which invariably result in stuff being delivered at an unspecified time in the future (with no correlation to the time they claim they will deliver), or not being delivered at all.

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