Nicola De Mitri
@nicoladem.it
Former physicist who makes scientific software, molecular models and occasionally 3D art. He. Italian and British.
@_nicolasap elsewhere, user 172020 June 2023.
@_nicolasap elsewhere, user 172020 June 2023.
I'm glad I have a tweet of mine – from almost 2 years before consumer-level LLM chatbots – that proves that I was a prolific user of en dashes back then already.
(Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)
(Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)
July 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I'm glad I have a tweet of mine – from almost 2 years before consumer-level LLM chatbots – that proves that I was a prolific user of en dashes back then already.
(Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)
(Not em dashes, as I'm from this side of the Atlantic)
RE: typesetting.
Wow.
I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum.
(Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)
Wow.
I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum.
(Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)
April 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
RE: typesetting.
Wow.
I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum.
(Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)
Wow.
I'm suddenly so sad that I was in Tokyo last month without knowing about the city's printing museum.
(Image enhanced from @npreining.bsky.social's blog, 2013)
To think of how modern mathematical notation (sums, integrals, differentials, subscripts/superscipts, roots, trig, ...) had already been long-established – and typesettable! – by the time this 1895 bulletin was printed.
And look so similar to lecture notes from the computer era.
And look so similar to lecture notes from the computer era.
April 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
To think of how modern mathematical notation (sums, integrals, differentials, subscripts/superscipts, roots, trig, ...) had already been long-established – and typesettable! – by the time this 1895 bulletin was printed.
And look so similar to lecture notes from the computer era.
And look so similar to lecture notes from the computer era.
Literal "preprints", I believe to prove and set a date for a discovery?
Title, author, endorser. "These articles will be published in the next issue".
Title, author, endorser. "These articles will be published in the next issue".
April 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Literal "preprints", I believe to prove and set a date for a discovery?
Title, author, endorser. "These articles will be published in the next issue".
Title, author, endorser. "These articles will be published in the next issue".
"Herein, we present an alternative framework..." but in 1902's Italian.
"Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")
"Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")
April 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"Herein, we present an alternative framework..." but in 1902's Italian.
"Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")
"Noi abbiamo però pensato che alla soluzione del problema si poteva forse arrivare..." ("We thought, however, that the solution to the problem could perhaps be reached...")
Checkmate, health nerd
April 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Checkmate, health nerd
March 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Self portrait of my innie
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Self portrait of my innie
oh so this was you too?
February 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
oh so this was you too?
Old me, in case you're wondering who the hell this is.
Drawn by the same hand anyway, and it may work better as a pfp, so I may revert at some point.
Drawn by the same hand anyway, and it may work better as a pfp, so I may revert at some point.
January 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Old me, in case you're wondering who the hell this is.
Drawn by the same hand anyway, and it may work better as a pfp, so I may revert at some point.
Drawn by the same hand anyway, and it may work better as a pfp, so I may revert at some point.
January 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This 100%.
And also: if someone told me that a political party used these characters as an embodiment of their values and manifesto, and asked me to guess if it was a party on the left or on the right, I'm sure I'd pick the (far) right.
And also: if someone told me that a political party used these characters as an embodiment of their values and manifesto, and asked me to guess if it was a party on the left or on the right, I'm sure I'd pick the (far) right.
January 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This 100%.
And also: if someone told me that a political party used these characters as an embodiment of their values and manifesto, and asked me to guess if it was a party on the left or on the right, I'm sure I'd pick the (far) right.
And also: if someone told me that a political party used these characters as an embodiment of their values and manifesto, and asked me to guess if it was a party on the left or on the right, I'm sure I'd pick the (far) right.
When you still discover emojis you never knew existed.
"U+1F68F Bus stop" was part of the original SoftBank set and included in Unicode Emoji since the very v1.0.
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"U+1F68F Bus stop" was part of the original SoftBank set and included in Unicode Emoji since the very v1.0.
🚏
December 23, 2024 at 1:40 PM
When you still discover emojis you never knew existed.
"U+1F68F Bus stop" was part of the original SoftBank set and included in Unicode Emoji since the very v1.0.
🚏
"U+1F68F Bus stop" was part of the original SoftBank set and included in Unicode Emoji since the very v1.0.
🚏
My pet peeve is the overly elaborate style of Italian public notices.
I wrote an exaggerate "leave your bike outside" sign, curious if an LLM would recognise the typical Italian verbosity and...it totally did!
Wondering if it formed an opinion on Italian bombast on its own or by reading it somewhere
I wrote an exaggerate "leave your bike outside" sign, curious if an LLM would recognise the typical Italian verbosity and...it totally did!
Wondering if it formed an opinion on Italian bombast on its own or by reading it somewhere
October 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
My pet peeve is the overly elaborate style of Italian public notices.
I wrote an exaggerate "leave your bike outside" sign, curious if an LLM would recognise the typical Italian verbosity and...it totally did!
Wondering if it formed an opinion on Italian bombast on its own or by reading it somewhere
I wrote an exaggerate "leave your bike outside" sign, curious if an LLM would recognise the typical Italian verbosity and...it totally did!
Wondering if it formed an opinion on Italian bombast on its own or by reading it somewhere
What do you mean you can't add videos to bsky?
July 3, 2023 at 2:37 PM
What do you mean you can't add videos to bsky?