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Learning how to prevent invasive species from overrunning an ecosystem could prevent billions of dollars in environmental damage, and protect human gut health. Recently uncovered ecological dynamics could provide an answer. Gabriel Popkin reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-ecosyste...

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Not even pretending to be about some putatively universal notion of security, as opposed to a cult of personality for one guy.

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Damn. This glut is just awful.

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#generativeArt #Hitomezashi

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Seven charts that show the perilous situation NASA is facing. www.planetary.org/articles/nas...

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A surprising approach to quantum computing brings new possibilities to the field, but at a high energy cost. Stephen Ornes reports: www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-...

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Normalize v1.0 of software adding no new features. 1.0 comes with an expectation of greater stability than pre-1.0 releases. Debuting new features in that release makes it less stable, not more. Put the new features in an earlier release and let them stabilize before the 1.0.

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There are now so many fiber-optic cables from tethered #drones laying around in Ukraine, birds integrate them into their nests www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...

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A phenomenon at the heart of one of the most famous proofs in modern math is now even more useful.

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So is France seriously considering proportional voting? Honestly I think it might do them a lot of good to shatter the dream of a minority faction ruling without compromise. www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

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Summertime

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I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

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Actually beyond parody the first major bill after Trudeau leaves is an actual assault on our rights and freedoms in the name of frivolous identity politics. It just so happens in the identity of white Canadians

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Just putting this here for no reason whatsoever

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#generativeArt #Hitomezashi

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Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

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A nice write-up in the Chronicle that follows up on the Bluesky discussion a couple weeks ago about in-class writing, AI, and that New York magazine article. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

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New blog post: How chaotic is chaos? How some AI for Science / SciML papers are overstating accuracy claims. www.stochasticlifestyle.com/how-chaotic-... #julialang #sciml #chaos #ergodic #ai4science

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#generativeArt #Hitomezashi

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Trump Shares Own Experiences As Victim Of White Genocide theonion.com/trump-s...

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We tend to say that an artificial neural network is a “brain” made of “neurons.” What are the actual similarities between AI and a human brain? @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social has some answers. Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2FJL...

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Btw, the fact that Euroskeptic, far-right Simion quickly backed down from his initial claim he had won, conceded, and congratulated his opponent is the second sign that Romanian democracy is more robust than the American one right now.

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TopoTune is going to ICML 2025!🎉🇨🇦 Curious to try topological deep learning with your custom GNN or your specific dataset? We built this for you! Find out how to get started at geometric-intelligence.github.io/topotune/

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“If I were a science journalist writing an article about a supposedly shocking development like this, I would email some experts and check to see if it’s for real. But plenty of science journalists don’t bother with that anymore: they just believe the press releases.”

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If not a magma ocean, what is feeding Io’s volcanoes?

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For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.

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'Such cruel actions would be an affront to human decency', indeed, and yet all the governments who make up the UN have seen fit to make a world where this kind of atrocity is normal. Incidentally, this story was broken by Maktoob Media, a news org currently blocked on Twitter by the Indian gov.

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The mathematician Yang-Hui He spent many of his Sunday afternoons at Princeton studying in the plot of grass between Kurt Gödel’s and John von Neumann’s graves. Listen to his conversation with co-host @StevenStrogatz.com on “The Joy of Why.”

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The physicist Sidney Nagel’s research on coffee stains informs today’s nanotechnology. His experiments on water droplets reveal how splashes would look on the moon. www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beau...

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So I finally figured out what's the deal with these quilts

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How to make #autodiff user-friendly? What lies beyond the safety of Python-world? Why does it matter for scientific machine learning? All this, and more, in our latest preprint with @adrhill.bsky.social! Spoiler alert: it describes the most useful software I ever wrote. arxiv.org/abs/2505.05542

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#generativeArt #Hitomezashi

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Holy heck.

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Bullshit Jobs is truly one of the worst books ever written, not just for the abominable influence it’s had on the world (the worst since The Population Bomb in this respect) but because of how incredibly poorly written it is

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