Month: August 2024

Bangladesh needs many things for everyone, before quantum toys for a few

Preschool Lecture on Quantum Mechanics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNobtjRPr0 This is the wrong way to teach quantum technologies, for Bangladesh that has many needs before playing with technologies that require specialized resources only available at high price from other places. You need to start with what you want to do, and then find the best tools and
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We need global open gravitational compasses, not demos

Postholer – GIS Resources @postholer Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality Replying to @postholer Is an atom interferometer something to look at? Yes, but this one is not sensitive enough or fast enough. Too many cooks. Too expensive R&D overhead. I
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“Plant the deserts?”, see what would happen, in detail

Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate  IPCC AR6 MITIGATION: 1.5C TOO LATE 2C IMMEDIATE DECLINE AR6 projections confirms 1.5C too late & 2°C requires immediate global emissions decline. 2°C planet catastrophe. For your Kid’s sake End Fossil Fuel Subsidies https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/figures/summary-for-policymakers/figure-spm-5/ #CO2 #climatechange #globalwarming https://pic.x.com/fxzu0iwxos Replying to @PCarterClimate I am fairly certain that if all the deserts are
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Using old labels very often prevents the insight needed to “just do it”

Deep Prasad (yug-cybera) @Deepneuron I should crack anti-gravity. https://pic.x.com/uuoe4njrnq Replying to @Deepneuron It is not “anti-gravity” it is “a synthetic acceleration field” that you design and apply for real tasks. Not magic, just plain old “gravitational engineering”. No cheating, no magic, no smoke and mirrors and false promises. Just “move it with fields”. And lots
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Global problems can be “whittled away”

Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway  “We studied 230 fisheries around the world. We found populations of many overfished species are in far worse condition than has been reported, and the sustainability of fisheries was overstated” We need a global treaty to end all industrial fishing https://theconversation.com/investigation-reveals-global-fisheries-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-thought-and-many-have-already-collapsed-237306 Replying to @whittledaway If you produce “fish” from other sources that
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Has Berkeley changed at all? Remote Food Production is really going to be needed

Noah Whiteman @NKWhiteman Professor Ben Blackman has asked me to broadcast this search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UC-Berkeley in Plant Developmental Biology within in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04554 Replying to @NKWhiteman One of the schools that offered me a full scholarship in 1967 was Berkeley. I have wondered how
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Looking for the perfect noise, but enjoying ones I find

Frank Nielsen @FrnkNlsn  Thermodynamic process viewed as a trajectory on a statistical manifold satisfying laws of thermodynamics Entropy and informational energy have opposite variations “Onicescu’s Informational Energy and Correlation Coefficient in Exponential Families” https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2020025 https://pic.x.com/w5butqtmry Replying to @FrnkNlsn Sometimes adding noise helps. Sometimes two noises with identical metrics – one produces an outstanding result, and
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Hans Otto Meyer and the PHELEX experiment, it might make a great gravitational potential sensor

I was reviewing the life of Hans Otto Meyer who started out at Basel University, spent most of his career at Indiana University in Physics. I found him looking at photomultipliers as I was searching for calibration data on Hamamatsu detectors. Any experiments that run continuously and precisely will run into gravitational potential effects. So
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NEVER share static ‘ink on paper’ forms, but real models and tools for billions of humans to work together for all

Brianna Bibel @biochem_bri I added another one of my charts to Zenodo. Here’s the link & citation. As always, hope it helps! Bibel, B., & The bumbling biochemist. (2024). Expanded TCA cycle (TriCarboxylic Acid Cycle, aka Citric Acid Cycle, aka Krebs cycle). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13369827 https://pic.x.com/rhcovhzwd9 Replying to @biochem_bri Make it a living tool to share
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