Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621 On Musk’s Twitter, Users Looking to Sell and Trade Child Sex Abuse Material Are Still Easily Found

*cries in high school trauma*

#cartoon #academia #science

Sometimes I miss Twitter, but then you find out how Elon Musk reinstated traitor Flynn on the 2 year Anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection & you are reminded why you can't be a part of it anymore.

My Twitter timeline is full of anger. My Mastodon timeline is full of photos of far off places, wine, and poetry. To those who complain Mastodon isn't Twitter my reply is, you're right, it's different and better. #TwitterMigration

Just South of San Francisco, Mori Point in Pacifica CA was our home for twelve years, before we moved to New Hampshire.

Just finished updating my trail review with better maps and photographs. More here: https://www.trailspotting.com/2021/07/mori-point-pacifica.html

#Hiking #SanFrancisco #Pacifica #California #NorthernCalifornia #Coast #Sunset #Photography #Trails #Outdoors #Walking

@zleap @ilyaz

Well, it can do citations. But all the ones I checked were made up.

Here's what I wrote a while ago for my students:

https://ts-cubed.github.io/roam/20221206182426-using_ai_for_coursework.html

The origin of hacking.

Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.

“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/

Reconstructed trajectories of galaxies, galaxy groups and galaxy clusters at the core of the Great Attractor, computed from when the Universe was 1.5 Gy-old, and projected in the future to the next Hubble time (23.6 Gy).

Start a 4D interactive visualization at https://skfb.ly/o8ZMM where the time evolution is run on the basis of 1s for 1Gy.

This is Fig.23 of https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4f66

News Story: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/02/03/galaxy-flows-across-700-million-light-years/

#universe #galaxies #astronomy #space #science #research #scicomm #3d #4d

Facts are facts.

Because I've been asked privately a few times what I think of students using #ChatGPT to cheat with essays and stuff, just a very short word on that here:

It's completely understandable in a society that teaches people that degrees are more important than skills.

@zleap @samyalkenawi The book partially overlaps with Queisser's book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13747807-the-conquest-of-the-microchip

Queisser was a pretty bigwig guy in German solid state physics, and his book (in the original Klingon titled "Crystal Crisis") served as a warning at the time (mid-80s) that Germany is not focusing on semiconductors enough. He held up Japan as a role model, which is ironic, because outside of DRAM, the Japanese did not succeed much in advanced integrated circuits. Smith's book covers that nicely.

@samyalkenawi @zleap Here's a great book to put this into a historical but also current perspective:

https://www.christophermiller.net/semiconductors-1

A very interesting read.

@zleap Who will win the global chip war?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XA7y0t8Ywc