Danielle Fong @DanielleFong this is basically correct and is one of the main facts shaping the world today. most people, because they do not try to get big things done, have no idea. but if you travel to any rapidly developing country, you will gain perspective. things are being kept from happening – ELON DOCS
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The Insane Math Of Knot Theory at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DBhTXM_Br4 Magnetic ropes can be tied in nuclear knots, not orbits but closed paths. One can make permanent fuels with no mass, and when you snip at pre-weakens links, it gives up the energy cleanly, leaving no matter at all. With careful planning a macroscopic rope can be
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World Bank, UN, USA, .cn and the world can combine their information to map (Myanmar OR Burma) deeply @WorldBank I am looking at your Country Partnership Framework for countries which leads to pages like https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/110961589818564510/pdf/Myanmar-Country-Partnership-Framework-for-the-Period-of-FY20-FY23.pdf On those pages the “Official PDF” download link is still coded as HTTP (not secure) and Chrome browser
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Haider. @slow_developer OpenAI Co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts transformers may soon surpass the human brain in capabilities “Transformers have the potential to surpass the human brain in efficiency and memorization capabilities, despite current limitations in data availability and training. As AI https://pic.x.com/wc0gls0xy3 Replying to @slow_developer OpenAI is still selling a pull string toy – where an
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Ideal Weapon: Can Hafnium Bombs Replace Nuclear Bombs? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPzQrJ8D7M Suggest you use NuDat3 at BNL to see all the isotopes that can be used. You also need all the magnetic moments, which I think they will be adding. Most of the radioactive isotopes can be used for their reactions. Not just stable ones if
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@CaseEngineer @CWRUalumni @cwru I was reading the History Computer Engineering and Science Programs at https://engineering.case.edu/computer-and-data-sciences/history-computer-science It is a bit incomplete. I think because it does not consider all the departments. Case Institute of Technology was my first university. My scholarship was based on chemistry, but within a few days of arriving in 1967
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Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms every day. Why are they so hard to change? – STAT https://apple.news/AbFJCF8d6TPOLH2lF7TGvZQ Replying to @MonicaLewinsky It is a good thing to aim for “attentive, caring, individual, personalized”. It is not the use of methods or writing things down to help guide one self and others. It
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault My weekend project http://ismy.blue is at the top of hackernews and nerds are now arguing about psychophysics and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. What a time to be alive! https://pic.x.com/v3ksycog7d Replying to @patrickmineault I started following psychophysics, psychophysiology and psychometrics in that sharp rise during the 1960s. There are a LOT more. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=psychophysics%2Cpsychophysiology%2Cpsychometrics&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
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Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi Some friends, accomplished scientists aged >55 and with H-index >100, gave up tenure and moved to industry. Then, the company’s fortunes changed, they lost their job, can’t go back and are too old to start anew. Academia can be annoying but think twice before leaving. Replying to @AdrianoAguzzi I am 75 this
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Infinite Books @InfiniteB88ks William Faulkner, read read read https://pic.x.com/bbwyfy56ab Replying to @InfiniteB88ks The Internet needs random sampling, lossless storage, open indexes and open processes Read, verify, predict and verify, write, write, write Never throw anything away. File it and review periodically with more read and verify. Randomize so your gathered materials can be statistically combined
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