"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70… weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1."

Okay, sure, but Cray came with a built-in couch to sit on. Checkmate, Raspberries.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/31/0017205/how-a-cray-1-supercomputer-compares-to-a-raspberry-pi

As for every astronomer next to a pool, it is impossible for me not to notice the similarity between the light patterns that refraction creates on the bottom of the pool, and the image of the cosmic web produced by cosmological simulations.

The similarity is not by chance, but there are deep connections between the two!

Let’s have a quick look at this #AstroPhysicsFactlet

#astronomy
#astrodon

Being a Sunday sports spud, watching the relentless flood of pro-gambling ads, wondering if we’re heading for an echo of the Oxycontin disaster; a tsunami of lives wrecked by addiction.

A different flavor of catastrophe; what’s the same is that the perpetrators get to walk away with billions.

Destroying whole generations is good business.

Great first meetup for #BlackPythonDevs.

@oleksis our speaker did a wonderful job sharing how he forked and became the primary maintainer of a stale project and @coreylweathers gave excellent feedback and tips for giving excellent feedback.