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2025-Jun-30 23:42:09 The parallax of Proxima Centauri, as seen between Earth and the New Horizons spacecraft.
#space #astronomy RT https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/114771849005032057 |
2025-Jun-30 23:20:16 Giant traffic #cone in underground neutrino observatory, which looks normal-sized because the cavern is huge. [photos]
https://x.com/dydt_Nao/status/1939201479912628571 |
2025-Jun-30 23:16:28 The theoretical minimum cost to launch a kilogram into #space. #physics
https://x.com/fermatslibrary/status/1939294973280530640 |
2025-Jun-30 20:33:37 It's small (70nA) but I got first beam out of the electron gun in my ion trap experiment. It's the dim green spot that shows up on the near screen, or the line on the far screen, where I steered it using the gun's built-in electrodes but it also changed the shape! There's also a photo with flash to show the screens. #physics #accelerators
They said to wait for better vacuum levels before increasing the current.
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2025-Jun-29 22:20:23 There's apparently a 4TB NVMe #SSD for about $250.
https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/61233-western-digital-drops-sn7100-4tb-gen-4-ssd-pricing |
2025-Jun-29 22:17:37 AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX #CPU to have 96 cores. Probably very expensive ~$5k.
https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/61079-amd-unloads-96-core-threadripper-pro-9995wx |
2025-Jun-29 17:29:13 The Webb #space #telescope can't look at Mercury, Venus, Earth or the Moon because they're always on the Sunward side of it. It also can't look at the Sun obviously.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/webb-earth-venus-mercury |
2025-Jun-29 15:56:40 The Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino detector cavern. [photo] #physics
RT https://x.com/YokoyamaMasashi/status/1939238136565113313 |
2025-Jun-28 23:18:24 My new kettle arrived, actually I ended up following its Amazon van coming home. |
2025-Jun-27 23:34:15 Finally, a mallard bollard.
RT https://x.com/WorldBollard/status/1938700203445662019 |
2025-Jun-27 01:40:40 Hmm time for new kettle, the old one now appears to be semi-on (LED light glowing) when it's on its charging base and supposed to be off and I worry where the 120V AC is going. |
2025-Jun-26 02:33:57 The Boring Company get the tunneller to come up out of the ground by itself ("porpoising").
[video] RT https://x.com/boringcompany/status/1938042215387041985 |
2025-Jun-25 20:16:37 It was hot again today. When I stepped on that tar they use to repair roads, it left imprints of my shoes on it and felt like it moved. |
2025-Jun-24 19:46:32 A few more of these lilies managed to flower without the deer eating them (most of the other buds were gone).
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2025-Jun-24 00:29:38 I have fireflies in my own garden now too. |
2025-Jun-23 15:55:56 New observatory to digitally map the entire sky. #astronomy #space
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3rmjjgx6xo |
2025-Jun-22 02:28:27 Bottle message sent from Scotland in 1994 found on Norwegian island.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmwgeykr8xo |
2025-Jun-22 01:28:34 Went on a dusk walk on the ~longest day of the year. Also saw my first fireflies. |
2025-Jun-19 20:17:57 https://www.spacex.com/updates/#starship-static-fire-update |
2025-Jun-19 20:08:32 Atoms with both muons and electrons in orbit have been produced. #physics
https://www.kek.jp/ja/press/202506191400muar |
2025-Jun-19 04:17:34 They blew up a #Starship during testing 15 mins ago.
#space #SpaceX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwWclAKYa0 |
2025-Jun-18 22:55:30 Hyperspectral imaging. #astronomy
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2510c/ |
2025-Jun-18 22:07:47 Report into UK high speed rail project problems.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0wr7nw7wxo |
2025-Jun-18 22:07:33
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2025-Jun-17 22:54:56 There were three goose families with three different sizes of goslings blocking the road at work today. |
2025-Jun-17 00:07:01 Observing the corona with two satellites flying in formation, one of which is a Sun-occulting disc. #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/esa-proba-3-mission-first-images |
2025-Jun-16 23:57:14 6-star system. #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/6-star-system-eclipsing-binaries |
2025-Jun-15 23:08:06 Part of this weekend's data acquisition involved me hitting a key as close as possible in time to the RHIC injector complex's 4.2sec or 6.0sec cycle. No time to implement a trigger for the cameras! But at least it captured four consecutive pulses using the laptop's clock timing. |
2025-Jun-14 21:55:55 #UK #nuclear #energy capacity over time.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/chart-the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-uk-nuclear-power-over-eight-decades/ |
2025-Jun-14 21:15:31 Today we put 70-250MeV protons through a non-scaling fixed-field beamline, the highest energy ever for this sort of beamline! It bends by 22.5° using 1.85 Tesla permanent magnets. Here is the 250MeV beam leaving at the largest radius (right of screen). #accelerators #physics
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2025-Jun-13 15:46:59 2007 Cassini image of a rainbow appearing on #Saturn's rings. #space #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/rainbow-on-the-rings/?linkId=829188603 |
2025-Jun-13 15:43:11 Nice picture of the colours of stars. #space #astronomy
RT https://x.com/apod/status/1933374092511445349 |
2025-Jun-12 23:36:51 If you remember Y2K and the talk of a UNIX "2038 bug", well, we're two thirds of the way there. |
2025-Jun-11 22:56:01 Deimos seen from #Mars before dawn. #space #astronomy
https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA26556 |
2025-Jun-11 19:42:53 Tried ungrouping the icons on the taskbar and restoring the labels (like in Windows 95!) There's enough space with 2560px width and many of these are tabbed in themselves, so it doesn't overpopulate as much.
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2025-Jun-11 18:14:56 First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft. #space #astronomy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyqry9ppl9o |
2025-Jun-11 02:33:54 There's a new TRON movie October 10th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVG_X_7Naw |
2025-Jun-11 00:13:12 Today I was capturing images from a camera over ethernet. Had an SDK with examples but my Windows Python installation was so messed up that using the C API was easier.
Fewer dependencies too. |
2025-Jun-09 21:57:17 Agrivoltaics: when intercepting some sunlight also helps crop yields. #solar #energy #farming
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032124007925 |
2025-Jun-09 18:30:17 Handheld XBox runs Windows, can launch other #gaming platforms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1de113lkdpo |
2025-Jun-09 17:54:11 Windows 11 usability guide.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-usability-guide.html |
2025-Jun-09 01:07:52 Some interesting discussion of LLM-type AI reasoning:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms?publication_id=888615&r=2cr2lz |
2025-Jun-08 22:45:24 Last night I dreamt I was at a conference centre and entered a huge room that was so big there was haze visible before you could see the opposite wall. |
2025-Jun-07 21:37:28 Sinking cities - partly due to groundwater extraction.
https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-14d00552-9211-4dab-89d1-60e34e226e43 |
2025-Jun-07 20:11:42 🧀
https://www.youtube.com/live/LfIMOl4BoeM?t=8140 |
2025-Jun-07 18:44:45 It just started raining today. It was warm and had been getting more humid all week. Yesterday evening the haze made the Sun orange and clouds moderated the heat a bit. |
2025-Jun-07 00:25:39 Water freezes fast when exposed to the #vacuum of #space but salty brine might last for an hour:
#NASA #astronomy https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/lab-work-digs-into-gullies-seen-on-giant-asteroid-vesta-by-nasas-dawn/ |
2025-Jun-07 00:12:36 Guys, it requires me to do 2FA to run the Clock app. |
2025-Jun-07 00:12:27 The boat is back!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79e4pr2qjro |
2025-Jun-07 00:12:08 OMG. When you switch virtual desktops in Windows 11 it randomly re-orders the open application icons on the taskbar 🤡 |
2025-Jun-06 00:03:32 Amazon delivered one item and one empty bubblewrap sleeve. |
2025-Jun-05 23:47:44 The Sun looked very orange at sunset just now, could be the smoke from wildfires. |
2025-Jun-05 17:19:54 The elephant in the room (or the supermarket).
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ceqgprdye1do |
2025-Jun-05 01:32:00 Jared Isaacman Breaks Silence on Sudden #NASA Nomination Withdrawl
#space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3-GZpBxmI |
2025-Jun-04 19:44:03 Satellite imagery of destroyed Russian planes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9zdxwk29o |
2025-Jun-04 00:16:21 Woke up in the middle of the night so walked around my garden at both 6am and 8pm (sunrise and sunset). Interesting how the light is different, the smell is different. Seems to be a busy time for wildlife as well. |
2025-Jun-03 18:27:15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_ratio #maths |
2025-Jun-02 22:47:34 Some of the things I criticise AI for may actually be (🐝) problems with floating point optimisation algorithms in general. Not that they're not useful, they are, but you can't trust them if you start outside the convergence region. #programming #maths |
2025-Jun-02 01:38:20 UK to build up to 12 new submarines.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2jr1m49no |
2025-Jun-01 22:15:07 It used to be scientific computing piggybacking on the larger video games hardware industry.
But now it's scientific computing piggybacking on video games hardware piggybacking on the larger LLM slop industry. |
2025-Jun-01 01:34:46 Oh no it's 250 million bees
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23mrprk |
2025-Jun-01 01:34:35 AI model collapse happens when AI trains on AI-generated outputs. What happens when humans train on human-generated outputs? |
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