BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️
NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️
An interdisciplinary team at UChicago has won a distinguished Laude Institute Moonshots Seed Grant
@ianfoster42.bsky.social, @pedramh.bsky.social, Michael Kremer, and @beccawillett.bsky.social will work to advance actionable AI weather forecasting in developing economies in Africa and Asia
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I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap
I sailed around Te Waipounamu South Island some 35 years ago … such beauty
Congratulations to NAS President-Elect @neilshubin.bsky.social on winning @sse-evolution.bsky.social's Stephen Jay Gould Prize! The award honors individuals who have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science in the spirit of #NASmember Stephen Gould. evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Color photo looking beyond the gorgeously landscaped garden to the Museum of Science and Industry across the lagoon. No, I do not care that the museum has some guy's name on it these days.
Color photo of a stone pathway inside the garden, with zig zagging stepping stones leading across a tranquil lagoon and towards a wooden bridge. Trees and greenery are just beginning to awaken for spring.
Color photo of two big ass geese minding their own business next to a large lagoon. Trees are visible on the far side of the water, and beyond them, large buildings.
Color photo of a profusion of white Star Magnolias blooming on a spiky bush that has yet to grow leaves. They sky glows blue behind it.
Everything is terrible, but the Garden of the Phoenix on Jackson Park's Wooded Isle exists, & they let you just walk in & experience one of the most gorgeous oases in Chicago
Sumer is icumen in
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
We often underestimate the extent to which well-designed technology can streamline scientific discovery by eliminating friction. See here, for example, in drug development, with @globusorg.bsky.social doing the streamlining www.globus.org/user-stories...
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Exodus?
Glad to see my Alma mater pioneering this important work
Color photo of a dark and restless Lake Michigan sending white waves crashing into the limestone revetments of Promontory Point.
Lake forever, cold AF for now
Photo from https://college.uchicago.edu/news/student-stories/art-all-around-us
The third floor ballroom has this extravaganza--the 1918 Masque of Youth--portraits of real people in a costume pageant put on at the opening of Ida Noyes Hall painted by Jessie Arms Botke. It's amazingly silly and hopeful.
Hazy skyline with a golden-pink glow to the sky viewed from across water
I know everyone was posting the same thing yesterday but wow what a beautiful city. Some scenes from my run in this thread
I looked it up. The Lovely Group is a "60-year-old family-run business that started with Lovely sweets in Jalandhar, Punjab" -- today it "has three business verticals that include Lovely Automobiles ... and LPU, a private higher education institution" 😀
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Snow covers portions of a sculpture of a figure in a cloak
Snow covers portions of a sculpture of a figure in a cloak
Snow on the cloaked guy at Graceland Cemetery this morning
Discovery acceleration in science requires the ability to link many knowledge resources. I had not previously identified Chipotle as one 😀 preview.redd.it/chipotles-su...
"Computer science will stop being taught as a useful craft; it has become an explanation of how the world works, like physics, biology and chemistry. This change is long overdue." -- @witbrock.bsky.social on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/witbro...
Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC.
Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay
Knuth on Claude code!
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...
But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”
I reckon I grew a crystal 1/1000th of that size as a kid in New Zealand. I was impressed at the time 😁
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New work! We show that machine-learned operators (MLOs) for PDEs struggle with accurate zero-shot multi-resolution inference. Popular fixes don’t solve it, but multi-resolution training offers robust, cost-effective modeling across scales! https://github.com/msakarvadia/operator_aliasing
Depiction of agent consuming excessive resources while debugging complex distributed system
I enjoyed my visit to U. Würzberg (thanks to host S. Kounev) where I gave a talk covering agents for scientific discovery, Academy agent framework, and agency as new organizing abstraction for CS agents4science.github.io/Assets/wurzb...
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
RIP Gladys West, mathematician who measured the world to unheard precision (radius to tens of centimeters!), paving the way to GPS.