Osnat Katz Moon

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Science in practice | science reform | #ActuallyAutistic | forecasting | photography enjoyer | TTRPG enthusiast | she/they
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For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time | Quanta Magazine

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.

Quanta Magazine
I have no telos, no inherent and fixed nature. I am what I make of myself and I seek not my true heart but to know and meet the world outside myself
all those write-protect tabs you broke off cassettes. where are they now? micro-flotsam, broken down, ground to dust, eaten by a salmon, then by you. a particle of mixtape remains in your ventricle. the songs of youth, forever in your heart
These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.
MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms

MIT physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the “free-range” particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gotta be honest, seeing ads for Gemini on my phone and computer is *really* weird to me.

This is supposed to be the technology that's changing our future. The thing nobody can get enough of.

And instead, I need to have it pushed in my face (according to advertisers).

*skill issue*

Learning about prompt engineering is always so strange to me in terms of the terminology. Oh yes, of course everyone is gromblegoobling now because we've surpassed the limits of pineappling the shogooroth.

That's what it sounds like to me!

Update. "How #Trump is following #Project2025’s radical roadmap to defund science."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

"Indiscriminate firings. Terminated grants. Cancelled programmes. The barrage of actions by US President Donald Trump has shocked the country’s research community over the past two months. Yet, much of it was planned out years in advance and laid out publicly…The Wall Street Journal found that more than half of Trump’s executive orders (EOs) align with Project 2025 recommendations. And most of its 40 listed authors are now key figures on Trump’s team…Here, Nature examines science-related policies from Project 2025 that have already come to pass, and which ones might be on the horizon."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science

Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to.

NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250424.html #APOD
APOD: 2025 April 24 - NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.