What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 9 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-9-august-1ab6b2dde859 #AI #DistributedSystems #science #engineering #SoftwareEngineering #cybersecurity #ProductManagement
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‘"Project Hail Mary" demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts.
From @TheConversationUS: An anthropologist explores the hit film.
Chinese scientists are turning plants into glowing streetlights with firefly genes, aiming to create bio-cities powered by water and nutrients instead of electricity
Our crew at the observatory has CAPTURED THE ORION SPACECRAFT... despite the weather in #Toronto #canada ... the low position of #ArtemisII in the sky and having had to take the science ccd off for repairs.
Enjoy everyone, now you too can wave at the pixel of #jeremyhansen ! Video is up on the @AllanICarswellObservatory YouTubechannel! https://www.youtube.com/live/dT_ykVY1VaI?si=wDd_GQHUpdYP0-qy
#space #orion #Artemis2 #moonmission #science #telescopes #yorkuniversity #moon #observatory #Astrodon #astronomy
☀️ 🌙 Europe’s Eclipses Trilogy from 2026 to 2028: A three‑year sequence of spectacular solar events!
See how to follow the first eclipse taking place on 12th August 2026: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4m8umydv
THE ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS TALKING,
WE JUST COULDN'T HEAR THEM 💎
Here is some genuinely good news.
Scientists are using AI to find patterns in animal communication that humans have struggled to detect for a very long time.
Elephants appear to use individually specific calls, rather like names.
AI is revealing extraordinary structure in sperm whale clicks.
Researchers are developing systems that can analyse dolphin vocalisations and even generate dolphin-like sounds in return.
No, we have not yet built Google Translate for dolphins. Nobody is discussing fish with a porpoise over breakfast.
But something remarkable is beginning.
For most of human history, we assumed animals had relatively little to say because we couldn't understand what they were saying.
That assumption is becoming harder to maintain.
Perhaps the great breakthrough here will not be teaching animals to speak to us.
Perhaps it will be discovering that they have been communicating richly with one another all along, while we stood nearby, unable to hear them.
And I rather love the irony.
We built artificial intelligence partly to make machines think and talk more like us. But AI may end up helping humans become less deaf to everything that isn't us.
That seems like progress to me.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
The video gets a little excited in places, but the underlying science is extraordinary:
https://youtu.be/jh0UFCyqNEQ?si=NbuXMSAdyHYYeYqu
#AI #Animals #Science #GoodNews #Nature #Technology #Scientists #video #artificial #intelligence
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
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In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Measles #Medicine #Children #Vaccines #Science
Thread with a message from Solve ME:
"A proposed federal rule could let the government cancel active ME/CFS research mid-study when political priorities change.
The public comment window closes July 13.
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"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.
Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.
Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 14 June 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-14-june-2026-78cf0be34087 #science #cybersecurity #ai #SoftwareEngineering #politics
NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia
🏆The European Physical Society is happy to announce that the 2026 EPS QEOD Prize for Research In Laser Science And Applications is attributed to:
• Dr. Carlo Callegari
• Dr. Kevin Prince
• Prof. Giuseppe Sansone
👏Congratulations to all the winners!
https://www.europhoton.org/
#physics #physik #research #laser #science #europe #awards
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Environment #Research #Science #Academia #Princeton
2005年，在庆祝创刊125周年之际， #Science 公布了125个最具挑战性的科学问题。这些问题包括： #宇宙 是什么？ #意识 是什么？ #黑洞 是什么？ #重力 是什么？ #时间 是什么？以及…… #玻璃 是什么？
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.309.5731.78b#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20glassy%20state%3F
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RE: https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/116744843684193974
🚨 Reminder for USA folks 🚨
Have you submitted a public comment on the new OMB rule? The deadline is Saturday, July 13.
This new rule could impact any research study, not just ME/CFS research!
Solve ME has instructions and a template to make writing a public comment easier, link in quoted post.
There's also a tool to help you call & email Congress.
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Follow #StandUpForScience everywhere to fight for #science, protect #health, and defend #democracy. https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 12 April 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-12-april-2026-b2497d4bc433 #ai #leadership #lean #science #engineering #SoftwareEngineering
What stops a solar eruption from escaping the Sun? ☀️
On the next #SETILive, Dr. Becca Robinson talks with Dr. Kathy Reeves about new research on a solar eruption that rose—then collapsed—and the magnetic forces that stopped it.
📅 Aug. 20 | 2:30 pm PDT
🔴 https://youtube.com/live/N214VE49Lf0
"RFK Jr.'s "Re-Parenting" Brain Worm Strikes Again" https://www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jr-really-thinks-he-can-re-parent I unloaded on RFK Jr's dipshittery and racism...I'm quite sure you'll like it. Check it out!
A TASTE: "There are bad ideas, worse ones seemingly produced by that monster truck filled with congealed-month-old-cheese-whiz #Trump calls an IQ, and then there’s RFK Jr. Here he goes again, he’s talking, so he’s saying something racist or stupid or ignorant or conspiratorial—usually all four!
I mean, JFC, has anyone not reached a point where they’d like to duct tape the guy’s mouth shut to just not hear the noise anymore? And, no, I’m not talking about the voice caused by inherited spasmodic dysphonia. I mean the idiocy exiting Jr.’s pie-hole"
#news #politics #usa #iran #health #ai #publichealh #tech #culture #us #media #press #donaldtrump #maga #science #fascism #israel #eu #tv #america #unitedstates #middleeast
I derive the correlation of the two-channel optical Bell test (the Aspect experiment) without quantum mechanics and assuming action by direct contact.
Therefore Bell and Clauser have made mathematical errors. The entire subfield of physics and engineering based on their work should be withdrawn.
“Quantum computers” are in true theory polynomial-time devices at best. The theory is wrong that says they are fast.
Chinese Medical AI Revolution: Beijing Deploys While the...
China deploys medical AI at scale while Western regulators debate. Beijing hospitals operationalize AI triage, cancer prediction, and microbiome medicine as FDA and EU maintain regulatory paralysis.
https://theboard.world/articles/science/chinese-medical-ai-revolution-beijing-hospitals-race-ahead
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 16 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-16-august-722524ba1f76 #philosophy #culture #management #lean #AI #SoftwareEngineering #economics #science
PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-launches-discovery-and-futures-lab-to-explore-the-human-dimensions-of-life-beyond-earth/
The SETI Institute announced the launch of the Discovery and Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to understanding the global scientific, philosophical, and societal dimensions of discovering life beyond Earth.
The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond Earth by connecting science with other kinds of research.
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children