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2025-May-22 20:24:56 1 cent #coin to be phased out. #economics
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j07858lno |
2025-May-22 20:24:43 A solution of
A cos θ + B sin θ = C is θ = asin(C/sqrt(A2+B2))-atan2(x=B,y=A). #maths |
2025-May-22 20:24:34 Always listen to ducks carefully so nothing slips through the quacks. |
2025-May-22 00:21:35 Article on another #magnet in the UK I've been involved with. #physics #accelerators
https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/TH25_FFA.aspx |
2025-May-22 00:19:57 What was actually wrong with the Raptor Lake #CPU.
RT https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/114547596771387932 |
2025-May-22 00:19:16 🌐🐝📅
RT https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1924943194027868456 |
2025-May-20 22:48:54 😆 Can I read some of these non-books?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/ |
2025-May-20 22:40:07 "One component appeared to represent the Golden Gate Bridge. Anthropic researchers found that if they turned up the dial on this component, Claude could be made to self-identify not as a large language model but as the physical bridge itself."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113916/anthropic-can-now-track-the-bizarre-inner-workings-of-a-large-language-model/ |
2025-May-20 19:51:15 Article on Halbach #magnets that I've been involved in designing for the BNL light source upgrade. #physics #accelerators
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222283 |
2025-May-19 23:16:27 Extremely Large #Telescope construction picture. #space #astronomy
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2520a/ |
2025-May-19 22:44:25 Stop worrying and just cut metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo33kOJfw70 |
2025-May-19 13:20:01 Changing your moment of inertia by changing shape means you can rotate yourself in space without touching anything (and angular momentum is still constant). #space #physics [video]
RT https://x.com/Astro_Onishi/status/1924053663238046048 |
2025-May-18 16:23:40 Really nice image of galaxy Fornax A. I wonder if the unusual structure is related to the black hole, or a previous galaxy merger as Wikipedia mentions? #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/fornax-a-shara |
2025-May-17 00:46:10 Electrical transmission lines are not made of copper.
RT https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1923152113078542565 |
2025-May-17 00:45:51 Did you know that F7 enables Caret Browsing? I found this out while vacuuming around my keyboard. |
2025-May-15 21:53:36 Crazy fix for GRBL/Candle not starting on Windows.
open "settings.ini" in text editor; remove line, which starts with "formGeometry=@bytearray"; https://github.com/Denvi/Candle/issues/173 |
2025-May-15 20:06:26 Long exposure image of #Mars at night. #space #astronomy
https://x.com/NASAPersevere/status/1923053343791776039 |
2025-May-15 01:22:00 This tree looked like it had blossom on it but actually the leaves are pink when they are small.
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2025-May-15 01:17:31 Added some accessories (vacuum dust shoe, offline controller). #CNC
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2025-May-14 22:58:44 Rotating Detonation #Rocket Engine flown for the first time in the US.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/venus-aerospace-completes-historic-us-hypersonic-engine-flight-test-302455690.html |
2025-May-14 20:18:12 Converted some ALGOL code for singular value decomposition from a 1970 paper into C and got it working. A lot of it carries right over, had to make arrays start at 0 instead of 1. #programming #maths
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2025-May-14 15:47:12 32mph #mallard caught by speed camera in 20mph zone.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ldnedvde9o |
2025-May-14 14:29:03 Saw my first goslings of the year near the lab entrance this morning. A family of about 8! 🪿 |
2025-May-14 02:07:27 I've guestimated settings for the CNC Router that seem to work for aluminium. Currently doing a coarse cut (but only 0.15mm layers!) |
2025-May-13 23:20:52 Tyres for the Moon. #space
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrve1zrlg3o |
2025-May-13 14:48:54 Boring Company fully automated tunneling and installing #tunnel walls robotically. [video]
RT https://x.com/boringcompany/status/1922177999472042315 |
2025-May-13 01:10:54 Earthquake fault line rupture caught in real time on security camera.
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114496484780138413 |
2025-May-13 00:49:01 The robot dances:
[video] RT https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1922083384085430492 |
2025-May-12 22:10:34 Estimating the probability distribution of time to complete a task. #computing
https://thesearesystems.substack.com/p/task-estimation-conquering-hofstadters?triedRedirect=true |
2025-May-12 00:53:51 From the Google monopoly court ruling of August 5, 2024. They found degrading their search result quality by "two Wikipedias" reduced revenues by less than 1%.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Google%20Search%20Engine%20Monopoly%20Ruling.pdf
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2025-May-11 17:31:04 Electricity consumption and GDP are roughly correlated, with some variation due to arid/hostile vs. temperate climates. #economics #energy
RT https://x.com/magattew/status/1852377505883128026 |
2025-May-11 17:30:06 A machine demonstrating the probability of winning the lottery [video].
RT https://x.com/TaT12364250/status/1921161181999337889 |
2025-May-10 23:36:51 Reduce web tracking with Privacy Badger.
https://privacybadger.org/ Test how identifiable your web browser is here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ |
2025-May-10 22:49:21 #SpaceX have used a fairing half 30 times.
#space #spaceflight #rockets RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1921091226541191342 |
2025-May-10 22:30:59 Mowed the lawn, also had to dig out 2-3 inches of soil from in front of the shed door. The heavy rains recently had washed it down there (which is a bit worrying as it means the soil is being removed from somewhere else). |
2025-May-10 21:20:42 Still have to finish the wiring though.
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2025-May-10 21:19:59 Built a table, then built a CNC machine.
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2025-May-10 00:05:48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrametric_space |
2025-May-08 23:04:36 Solved a difficult calculation bug today. Had to figure out which in a stack of numerical algorithms was producing noise/errors. Turned out a threshold in my SVD implementation was set wrong, but required a lot of plotting of graphs timestep vs. error in various sections of a 21x21 matrix to find it. |
2025-May-07 03:00:49 They're going to move the new #Starship launchpad to its final location:
[live] #space #SpaceX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDSF7AJ6YU |
2025-May-06 14:31:52 Wild beaver filmed in Wales after being extinct in the wild for 400 years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c705le51rpzo |
2025-May-05 17:14:54 Here's the other big connector plugged in for the electron gun. #physics #accelerators
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2025-May-05 17:13:33 My electron gun comes with a countdown timer, I think it's preparing the emission filament for use. #physics #accelerators |
2025-May-04 22:00:22 Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/ |
2025-May-04 18:28:55 Warm but grey day at the beach today. |
2025-May-04 08:41:26 The speed of light visualised. #physics #astronomy
RT https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/114446866242731419 |
2025-May-03 18:17:01 Mowed the lawn, although it's still mostly dry sticks, dust and crab grass. |
2025-May-03 05:17:14 New EUV tool could be used in Intel 14A lithography process. #silicon #computing
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-hedges-its-bet-for-high-na-euv-with-the-14a-process-node-an-alternate-low-na-technique-has-identical-yield-and-design-rules |
2025-May-03 02:35:15 If I ever get nostalgic for 2025 it'll be remembering how I propped my mobile phone up near the window to get reception, then logged in to my online banking then ran back to the phone again to receive the security code, memorised it and ran back to the PC to enter it. |
2025-May-03 00:50:37 Often technology that is widely useful also has low profit margins through competition at scale. This leads to the spectacle of the investment and advertising industries dancing around overpriced irrelevant things. |
2025-May-03 00:40:31 Mossy tree nodules
RT https://mastodon.social/@Rachelburch/114437972599809570 |
2025-May-03 00:25:41 UN switches to CryptPad open source collaboration tool.
RT https://social.linux.pizza/@MichaelRoss/114436559526591536 |
2025-May-03 00:22:59 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/04/29/microsofts-ai-starts-secretly-copying-and-saving-your-messages/ |
2025-May-02 20:17:48 It's almost time to go on Friday but I can attach these thick cables. Grey is 32 channels of +/-150V, black is up to 2kV for the electron gun.
http://everyspec.com/categories/AN-connectors/
https://connectorsupplier.com/what-are-mil-c-5015-sae-as50151-connectors/
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2025-May-02 20:17:14 Why has a hat stand appeared by my experiment?
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2025-May-01 22:12:56 Iridescent clouds in #Mars's atmosphere. #space [photo]
RT https://x.com/MarsCuriosity/status/1917992266842660933 |
2025-May-01 14:06:44 Walking around the ion trap experiment (April 14, 2025). #physics #accelerators |
2025-May-01 01:23:24 Nice crescent Moon and Jupiter in the evening sky. #space #astronomy |
2025-Apr-30 23:14:39 RT https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/114426114672371026 |
2025-Apr-30 00:11:35 I'm kind of surprised the carrier concept has advantages in #space but I guess it could be a fuel depot, repair centre and various other things (space stations ARE a big asset).
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/us-space-force-orbital-carrier |
2025-Apr-29 23:10:45 Put the AC units in the windows. Also interfaced to a vacuum pressure gauge (with serial-USB or VISA driver) at work this afternoon. Had to use ASCII control codes and a CRC byte to construct a message, and set the baud rate and stop byte right. |
2025-Apr-29 00:57:12 The #Mars Relay #Network.
#space https://science.nasa.gov/mars/mars-relay-network/ |
2025-Apr-28 17:15:28 Boats can fly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq5w1jx4l1po |
2025-Apr-28 04:10:45 Come to think of it, electricity generation probably is a decent indicator of industrial base size. You can't tell me the US got 4x more "efficient" over that period.
#economics #energy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation?tab=chart&country=IND~USA~GBR~CHN |
2025-Apr-27 09:36:10
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2025-Apr-26 19:03:58 Found a valley.
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2025-Apr-25 17:05:50 The juvenile 🦅 decided to perch in a tree for half an hour rather than fly to the trainer but they eventually caught it.
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2025-Apr-25 16:55:06 🦅🦅
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2025-Apr-25 16:52:43 Snowy owl.
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2025-Apr-25 15:46:17 Vulture escape attempt? |
2025-Apr-25 15:40:03 Vulture being a vulture. |
2025-Apr-24 18:58:03 Visited Buckler's Hard today, which built wooden warships until iron took over.
https://bucklershard.co.uk/attractions/bucklers-hard-museum/ |
2025-Apr-23 13:17:51 Nice view in the New Forest yesterday.
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2025-Apr-22 15:52:43 Put rose syrup in Pepsi Max and got a Turkish-delight-tasting drink. |
2025-Apr-21 19:18:33 Huge amount of flowers on the gorse in Dorset right now.
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2025-Apr-21 19:16:08 🗿
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2025-Apr-21 19:15:03 Improvements of Intel 18A process over 3nm:
#CPU #lithography #silicon https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-details-next-gen-18a-fab-tech-significantly-more-performance-lower-power-higher-density |
2025-Apr-21 19:14:27 #Asteroid flyby yesterday:
#NASA #space https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-images-asteroid-donaldjohanson/ |
2025-Apr-18 13:52:37 Narrow bridge.
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2025-Apr-18 13:51:05 Egret.
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2025-Apr-16 18:40:49 Extremely Large #Telescope construction reaches maximum height. #astronomy #space
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25002/ |
2025-Apr-15 23:34:33 Found $5 on the road. |
2025-Apr-15 23:34:28 Today I fixed a bug where I had to link a g++ program to a 64-bit .lib made with 💩Visual Studio💩. It turns out if you put __declspec(dllimport) in the headers, instead of __fastcall, it magically works. |
2025-Apr-12 22:18:59 Couple of deer wandering through my garden.
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2025-Apr-12 17:37:31 I put some pistachio nuts that I couldn't open outside and just watched a squirrel open them and leave the shells on the deck railing. |
2025-Apr-10 23:38:04 Went to see the trees.
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2025-Apr-08 21:09:41 3D scan of the Titanic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6o |
2025-Apr-07 22:15:59 Boris Johnson gets bitten by an ostrich.
RT https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1909277771609612679 The King plays tunes on a woodwind instrument made out of carrot. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn91x90241go |
2025-Apr-05 22:52:48 Default trajectory.
#space #SpaceX RT https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1908146388417843337 |
2025-Apr-05 22:52:23 The microplastic mouse and the microplastic cat found each other.
RT https://x.com/LegoLostAtSea/status/1908424370399158301 |
2025-Apr-04 23:50:41 I went to see the #quantum internet today.
https://www.bnl.gov/instrumentation/quantum/index.php |
2025-Apr-04 00:41:11 Crush crinkly plastic wrapper and throw it into the bin.
Get freaked out by crinkling noises coming from the bin. |
2025-Apr-04 00:02:05 They've tested a big booster for reflight on #Starship flight 9.
#space #SpaceX RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1907876664274473132 |
2025-Apr-03 23:56:22 Seeing if Europa Clipper gets anywhere near Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
https://www.whereisroadster.com/europa_clipper_charts/ |
2025-Apr-03 23:16:59 How were Donald Trump's tariffs calculated? #economics
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gq72n7y1o |
2025-Apr-03 23:16:42 Timelapse from Antarctica to the Arctic. #space
https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907705976356221108 |
2025-Apr-02 21:58:34 US tariff values for selected countries:
#economics https://www.ft.com/content/8351fd09-ceea-4a3d-9eb2-cd18bee8c7e9 |
2025-Apr-02 00:47:38 Cool video showing what it's like riding in the Dragon capsule (Fram2 mission). #space
RT https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907225381721227312 |
2025-Apr-01 22:13:01 What really happened on the faulty Starliner craft. #space #NASA (but why did they publish this on April 1st, just makes it extra confusing!)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/ |
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