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It’s the time of year when new Gallery of Fluid Motion videos start popping up online. We’ve already featured several and no doubt there will be more to come. Today’s post is a submission from Saad Bhamla, who gave this introduction to the work:
Soap bubbles occupy the rare position of delighting and fascinating both young children and scientific minds alike. Sir Isaac Newton, Joseph Plateau, Carlo Marangoni and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, not to mention countless others, have discovered remarkable results in optics, molecular forces and fluid dynamics from investigating this seemingly simple system.
This video is a compilation of curiosity-driven experiments that systematically investigate the surface flows on a rising soap bubble. From childhood experience, we are familiar with the vibrant colors and mesmerizing display of chaotic flows on the surface of a soap bubble. These flows arise due to surface tension gradients, also known as Marangoni flows or instabilities. In this video, we show the surprising effect of layering multiple instabilities on top of each other, highlighting that unexpected new phenomena are still waiting to be discovered, even in the simple soap bubble.
As illustrated in the video, raising a bubble beneath the soap film moves surfactants in the film, which causes local differences in surface tension. Any time a difference in surface tension exists, fluid will flow from areas of low surface tension to ones with higher surface tension. This is called the Marangoni effect. On a soap bubble, this is visible in the chaotic swirling colors we see. In this system, Bhamla and his co-author found that by raising the bubble in steps, they could “freeze” the Marangoni-induced patterns created by the previous motion. (Video credit and submission: S. Bhamla et al.)
The Unicode Consortium is running an interesting campaign to adopt a character so that they can support adding more characters from lesser-known languages. From an article in Mirror:
“Beyond our work standardising emoji, Unicode is tackling some big challenges that might surprise many people,” said Mark Davis, co-founder and president of the Unicode Consortium
“The vast majority of the world’s living languages, close to 98 percent, are ‘digitally disadvantaged’ – meaning they are not supported on the most popular devices, operating systems, browsers and mobile applications.”
In related news, here’s an interesting project to both get a dumpling emoji into Unicode and to form a grassroots organization called Emojination to give the general public a voice in what new emoji are created:
We want to create a system where popular emoji requests (#emojirequest) can systematically bubble up, and be transformed into proper proposals for the Unicode Consortium.
This isn’t just about dumplings. We want to bring giraffes, the Nazar, and other in-demand emoji into the world in a diverse, inclusive way.
For more background see this Buzzfeed interview with Jennifer 8. Lee, founder of Emojination. Lee points out some of the gaps in the current system of proposing emoji (although I disagree with the article’s casual characterization of emoji as language: not all ways of communicating are linguistic).
“One the bigger problems, she said, is that it is that the Unicode emoji approval process along the way is mostly male, mostly white, mostly engineers, starting from the Emoji Subcommittee,” she said. “People who decide emoji need to be more diverse since this group is not representative and to their credit, they know it, but their biases still pop up.” Outside of the subcommittee, Unicode also has five women on its board of directors, and the technical committee’s chair is Lisa Moore from IBM.
And while a number of members hold advanced degrees in linguistics (Unicode’s president has a Ph.D. in philosophy), there is work to be done. There are, for example, an extraordinary number of emojis surrounding offices and work, Lee said, while noting that there are no household chore–related emojis. That sort of traditionally gendered omission is subtle but insidious in Lee’s eyes. “I have nothing against Unicode, who are great, really, but half the population of the world spends a lot of time washing, cleaning, sweeping, and that’s not represented. That’s a systematic bias.”
I get the sense that no one ever really anticipated that the Unicode Consortium would end up the de facto gatekeepers of a very actively evolving form of communication. They were originally formed to standardize the digital display of long-established systems, but it’s a very different task to research, say, which diacritics or special symbols need to be added in order to accommodate another language when that language has already been written for generations, versus which pictures people would like to be able to send each other sprinkled among their text, when the number of picturable concepts is, if not infinite, at least very much larger than the current set of emoji. And I definitely think some sort of public involvement aspect is going to be essential going forward.
Calculating Calculating Infinity
Bandcamp Releast from Dadabots uses Neural Networks to create a chaotic Black Metal album:
Neural network attempts to play the most spastic, mathematical, chaotic and contradicting metal album ever released, Calculating Infinity by Dillinger Escape Plan.
This album is part of a submission to NIPS 2017 Workshop for Machine Learning, Creativity and Design: “Generating Black Metal and Math Rock”.
The music was generated with a recurrent neural network trained on raw audio taken from the album. Titles were generated by a Markov chain. The album cover was created with neural style transfer.
terrifying your own child into submission makes you an abuser.
watching your child cry and screaming at them to stop and invalidating their pain and reasons for crying makes you an abuser.
staring at your child in disgust and contempt after they displease you makes you an abuser.
threatening to your child to take away their basic resources if they don’t give you exactly what you want makes you an abuser.
forcing your child to feel ashamed for not living up to your ideals makes you an abuser.
using slurs, hateful names and insults on your own child without any regard to what it does to their mental health makes you an abuser.
forcing your child to chase impossible expectations and making them feel like they’re worthless for not achieving them makes you an abuser.
acting like your child is a burden and a waste of space and blaming their illness/disability/depression on it makes you an abuser.
behaving like your child will never amount to anything and isn’t worth any resources and nurturing makes you an abuser.
making your child feel like they’re never good enough makes you an abuser.
if your child’s heart is hurting because they know no matter what they do and how hard they try they will always be a failure in your eyes, you are an abuser.
if your child can’t look at themselves without self hatred because they had to look at themselves from your perspective and all they saw is disgust and hatred, you’re an abuser.
If your child is struggling to believe they have the right to live and to be cared and loved, if they can’t stop hearing your hateful voice putting them down and using their every action to prove they’re worthless, you’re an abuser.
If you watched your child in pain and ensured them they deserved it, you’re an abuser.
If your child can’t love themselves from how badly you hated them, you’re an abuser.
Guys, this NEEDS more reblogs.
People go through this all the time regularly, I can hardly name a family in my town whose children don’t tell me stories like the ones above.
Emotional abuse is a real problem these days and the children in those households don’t know that it’s not normal, or at least it shouldn’t be normal, until they are older. If they ever find out at all, that what they went through wasn’t right.
It is not a tool of effective parenting.
And to those children and teens who are going through this today, you are not alone. I know feels like it but you aren’t. You have to do what is best for you sometimes, if distancing yourself from your parents makes it better, do that. If talking to your best friend about it makes you feel better, please do that. This won’t last forever, you will grow up and move out and see that the world loves you.
You are beautiful and strong and I believe you can make it through this.