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I mean, LLMs would make perfect CEOs

- Confident
- Persuasive
- Well read
- Never admits a mistake, and will degrade you if you point one out to it
- Can make up reasonable sounding bullshit on the spot to explain their every action
- Relies on exploiting the unpaid labor of thousands of people
- Lives in a reality they invent for themselves
- Fundamentally uncreative

Something neat happens when you sort stars by color and brightness.

In this visualization of the stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri, we can clearly see several groups of stars emerge from this sort: normal, main sequence stars; red giants; blue, horizontal branch stars; and white dwarfs. These are all stages in the lifecycle of Sun-like stars.

Download: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/35-Video
#astronomy #space #stars #hubble

Ich würde jede Wette eingehen, dass uns in 10 Jahren Autos in Innenstädten genauso absurd vorkommen werden, wie heute Rauchen in Innenräumen.

Kao član nadležnog Odbora za mlade u EP-u, zajedno s MEP-ovima iz Italije, Španjolske, Austrije, Njemačke imam dužnost upozoriti da se ovaj Zakon mora povući!
Više info👇
https://www.telegram.hr/politika-kriminal/fred-matic-trazi-od-plenkovica-da-povuce-zakon-o-mladima-u-koji-su-potajno-ubacene-ideje-mladezi-hdz-a/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/fred_matic/status/1679473174113656834

#TeamSloth

"...the city of Paris has made enormous investments in public transit, built hundreds of miles of bike paths, and closed many streets to cars. Car trips within the city dropped by almost sixty per cent between 2001 and 2018, car crashes dropped by thirty per cent, and pollution has improved. The city is quieter and calmer; test scores go up as the air around schools cleans up."

#TheWarOnCars #Paris #climatechange

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower

Favourite summary of the current situation, from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/twitter-is-burning-bluesky-is-smug-where-is-the-best-place-to-do-your-pathetic-doomscrolling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"It's unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars, and housing is expensive for people."
— Donald Shoup.

Simple urban math.

Evolution of cars in urban spaces.

1. We all need to be able to drive to the center of the city!
2. Let's widen streets & build parking so we can make that happen.
3. Wait! Where did the city go? And why are we driving in circles?

From Schneider's Autokind vs. Mankind (1971) 🧵

Sir Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was published #OTD in 1687. Often referred to as just “the Principia,” it presents Newton’s laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation.

336 years old and we still teach its main results!

So wunderbar zu sehen was gerade in London geschieht. Neben der Ausweitung der City-Maut, verfolgt London eine mutige Radpolitik. Die Stadt baut jährlich neue und sichere Radwege. Bis 2030 soll der Radverkehr nochmal um ein Drittel steigen und 40% aller Einwohner:innen soll dann maximal 400m vom Radverkehrsnetz entfernt sein. Seit 2000 ist der Radverkehr in ganz London um unglaubliche 155% gestiegen. In der City ist das Rad jetzt schon mit bis zu 40% das wichtigste Verkehrsmittel. Das sieht man❤️

I'm SUPER EXCITED to share with you this series of quantum physics explainer videos I produced with the Perimeter Institute! Check out Episode 1: Wave Particle Duality now ➡️ https://youtu.be/DfQH3o6dKss Subscribe the channel to catch each episode as it’s released! #Quantum101