CERN's ALICE experiment used gold ions to recreate conditions similar to the early universe, observing how light converts into matter. By colliding ultra-relativistic gold nuclei, they captured rare photon-photon interactions that generated electron-positron pairs
#CERN
#LHC
#quantum
#physics
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I filled in this form just now and was emailed an API key a few seconds later, strongly recommend doing the same
For ~40 yrs my mom taught students with multiple disabilities — ✨ kids who used wheelchairs + communication boards and would never live independently. They and she were vital parts of their primary school communities. It’s 💔 to think of the immediate + societal repercussions of their neglect.
Sometimes, scientists put their own body on the line in the name of science - in this case a parasitologist decided to become a temporary host in order to investigate the life history of an enigmatic nose leech
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...
OK, so I'm watching the NORAD Santa Tracker. I just saw him go from Indiana to Illinois to Iowa to Indiana, and now he's heading back to Iowa again. Does Santa not know anyone in operations research?
all of unix is a lesson in the importance of defaults. clobber as default, append as an additional keystroke is one of the most bizarre ones.
[bet there's an abe simpson story like "oh back in the 70s you needed to club a baby seal to death to write a new line, so we chose to minimise seal death"]
After working on this paper for three years, delighted to see it out - we propose a way to defuse the tension between data openness and responsible dat management, by pushing the FINDABILITY of data and the opportunities for connections among data users #philsci #openscience
Last week the Python package "Ultralytics" suffered a supply-chain attack on its build and release process. This is a review of the attack from @pypi.org's perspective.
There's plenty of advice for how Python projects can increase their #security posture:
blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-1...
Teacher: Now let's learn regular expressions. Regular expressions are a limited form of computation that can match many kinds of strings, but not parse recursively or execute arbitrary programs.
Student: And ^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ determines if a number is prime.
Teacher: wtf
A organizational chart with two circles at the bottom and multiple branches extending from them at the top
New York and Erie Railroad, "Diagram Representing a Plan of Organization, exhibiting the division of academic duties and showing the number and class of employees engaged in each department," by D.C. McCallum + G.H. Henshaw, 1855, via Library of Congress
blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11...
Very cool initiative in Los Angeles has provided new opportunities for homeless people to vote by bringing polling centers directly to shelters & service centers, and reminding people that they can legally vote without having to demonstrate a fixed physical home address:
1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...
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A 🧵 about helping children you care about to learn maths. And you don't even have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to do it. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes.
Here's how:
lol yeah. But no one liked my "LLM that searches your company's Github repos for plaintext credentials" startup 😭
Would insurance companies know, I wonder?
Umberto Eco describing LLMs in 1976
A tan grasshopper with dark brown spots and pinkish coloring mostly on top.
Rolling golden hills sprinkled with oak trees on a clear day.
Came across this "pink" grasshopper while hiking! It's the result of a rare genetic mutation -- supposedly there's a 1% chance of seeing them in a lifetime. There were thousands of (normal) grasshoppers hopping around, so I guess that helped our chances.
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government agences 'treat Musk like some kind of unelected official'. Just call him Octavian. How long before we start to call him adulescens carnifex?
Bear in a swimming pool
Bear still swimming
Is everyone still happy to see pictures of the bear currently in my pool or are you monsters?
It's basically always that! The way I usually explain it is "it's the guy from Catch Me If You Can".
a progression of Godzilla models evolving to be larger and larger, but the first one is a gray cat
I prefer the original Godzilla design
Every day I try to be a real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace
Oh yeah, this week on Counting Stuff, I started wondering what the heck SPF really means and learned.... it's not all that useful. Also fell down a rabbit hole involving solar radiation and UV spectra... because of course.
counting.substack.com/p/spf-is-a-pretty-unhelp...
