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1. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2020 22:10:59 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From NateSilver538 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538 on Twitter: I would bet $538 that the White House's "cubic model" is literally just an MS-EXCEL trendline with a third-degree (cubic) polynomial. https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1257395401461727232
2. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2020 20:30:59 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From CERN https://twitter.com/CERN on Twitter: #MayThe4thBeWithYou https://twitter.com/CERN/status/1257372985549295616/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65075
3. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 03-May-2020 18:20:42 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   Digital Honors Physics Poster Night is coming... #PHYS1010 students have been working for 13 weeks, even given the challenges of COVID-19, on their Grand Challenge Projects in the physics of video games. Ready to find out what they learned?
4. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 02-May-2020 08:40:58 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   It is Saturday morning, and I am replicating one of my Honors Physics team's experiment to determine drag force in MineCraft by dropping by sand blocks. I freaking love science.
5. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2020 03:41:16 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   "Racing toward 25%" Friday (tomorrow) is the day that Texasâ**s Governor allows all businesses to reopen, but only if they cap their in-house customers at 25% of capacity for their facility. So where is my county, Collin County, right now? Anticipating this â**momentousâ** day of continuing to re-open businesses in Texas, Collin County is stalled in its fight â*¦ Con…
6. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2020 22:00:57 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   "Introduction to Modern Physics" is done. I won't teach the course again in the fall. I've made a new public-facing course page, complete with all lecture notes available in book form. This is a direct conversion of my Beamer LATEX slides to book format. https://people.smu.edu/ssekula/main/teaching/phys3305/ https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1256038696920461312/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65042
7. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2020 19:31:00 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From thehill https://twitter.com/thehill on Twitter: In blow to protesters demanding reopening, Michigan court rules state's stay-at-home order does not violate constitutional rights https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495416-michigan-court-rules-governors-stay-at-home-order-does-not-violate https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1256000147382841344/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65034
8. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2020 18:20:47 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   I am pleased that I got to say "Minas Ithil isn't going to rebuild itself!" today. Felt good.
9. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2020 18:10:44 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   It was great to see @HEPfeickert today at the weekly @SMUPhysics coffee break! Any physics alums who want to join us for this virtual coffee break can reach out to me and I can you you in touch with @ClearPoetry for how to connect.
10. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2020 19:01:09 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    ... and this is for you, @HEPfeickert: the difference between the model prediction and the data, divided by the error on the prediction, compared to a unit Gaussian. Mmmmmmm. Hypothesis testing. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1255269521461575680/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65008
11. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2020 19:01:05 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Thanks to @matt_bellis, I now have an unbinned maximum likelihood fit giving me the best-fit model parameters for our @SMUPhysics muon detector data. Thanks to @HEPfeickert, I am using scipy.stats to compute the chi^2 and p-value. Life is good. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1255268968807481347/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65005
12. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2020 19:31:07 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From mlassnig https://twitter.com/mlassnig on Twitter: The @ATLASexperiment at @CERN has now surpassed half an Exabyte of stored data, all managed by the @RucioData system! 150+ data centres, 1+ billion files, and lots of new physics! https://twitter.com/mlassnig/status/1254682967215157248/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64759
13. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2020 19:31:02 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From SMUPhysics https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics on Twitter: So many thanks to Vittorio Paolone (@PittTweet) for his excellent digital seminar @SMU on neutrinos and the recent intriguing T2K measurement of the matter/antimatter differences in neutrinos. https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics/status/1254893815044943873/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64756
14. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 19:20:47 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From Fermilab https://twitter.com/Fermilab on Twitter: ICYMI: The cold eyes of DUNE: https://news.fnal.gov/2020/04/the-cold-eyes-of-dune/ https://twitter.com/Fermilab/status/1254527432318746626/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64746
15. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 10:40:52 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    My final lecture of the semester for #PHYS3305 is now part of the class lecture playlist: https://t.co/QnuN0yudM0 Students wanted to hear about nuclear medicine, so that's what we did! We finish the semester this week with student project presentations. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1254418896427405312/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64740
16. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2020 19:50:47 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    "The Virus Strikes Back" Maybe itâ**s because Texas, as a state, sent signals that it was â**okayâ** to behave like we used to. Maybe itâ**s because the President lied to the nation over, and over, and over again about the reality of COVID-19. Maybe itâ**s because people have become complacent. Maybe itâ**s because testing is improving in our county. â*¦ Continue …
17. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2020 19:40:45 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    1000+ hours of muon decay data, and I've doubled the bins (time binning is now 500ns instead of 1000ns). Having a lot of fun on-the-side with this muon lifetime project. Still using a binned fit, but that might be changing soon.... Finally using scipy.stats for chi-square... https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1254191507780898817/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64732
18. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2020 19:20:53 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Is anyones physics department having weekly faculty meetings on Friday at 4pm? Asking for a friend.
19. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2020 19:20:49 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Some roses for all my friends. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1253823859406581760/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/64726
20. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2020 10:20:54 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From CERN https://twitter.com/CERN on Twitter: And this, folks, is how you make #antimatter! Please don't try this at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY5Zdqxoc8U

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