Carmelo Trischitta

[Alex Socoloff @socoloffalex]

Bad news for Figma, I woke up.

[Tomás Vendel @vendel_tomas]

Todavía lo releo cada semana.

Es, sin exagerar, uno de los artículos más valiosos que he leído sobre cómo cambiar tu vida.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

China outdoes itself again…

After setting a world record with over 8,000 drones in a light show…

Now they have a 10,000 drone light show.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bacterial nanomotors spin at up to 20,000 rpm

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Do you ever wonder how Venice seems to float on the Adriatic Sea?

Well, the entire city was built on a forest of 10 million tree trunks — over a thousand years ago... (thread) 🧵

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

F-35B RC jet model.

[📹 joelvlashof]
https://t.co/YaXsszMSjW

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity

[📹 Never Enough Architecture]
https://t.co/Chfp9StN9H

[Mr.Automotive @mr_automotive_]

NEW 5M $ Bugatti TOURBILLION! 😱

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The mesmering effect of a bubble full of smoke floating over water, then popping (color edit by the author).

[📹 Austin Lawrence]

[YUDHO @YUDHO_XYZ]

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"𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓."

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[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

I received a mysterious aerospace computer from the early 1970s, probably for navigation. It is crammed full of flat-pack integrated circuits surrounding a core memory module. Let's take a look inside... 1/17

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

An aircraft carrier model that a father made for his children in his workshop.

[Payload 🚀 @payloadspace]

There were 2,877 spacecraft deployed in 2023, an increase of 14.6% over the year before, bringing us to 9,241 active satellites in orbit— plus 3,356 derelict vehicles clogging the spacelanes and putting missions at risk.
https://t.co/nBHvTcAFyl

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Claude Shannon’s timeline is so good.

Went HAM for the first 40 years of his life then crushed some stock investments and kind of chilled for the last 44 years.

1. HAM Phase

▫️Born in 1916
▫️In 1938, he wrote a Master's Thesis that laid the foundation for digital circuit design (Boolean gates)
▫️After his Math PhD from MIT in 1940, he worked on cryptography to aid the Allies in WWII
▫️At Bell Labs in 1948, he became "Father of Information Theory" and laid the groundwork for future electronic communication networks by publishing "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
▫️In 1950, he designed one of the first "machine learning devices" (called Theseus, a robotic maze-solving mouse) and inspired the AI field

2. Chill Phase

▫️Given an endowed chair at MIT faculty in 1956
▫️Gets interested in the stock market and made a fortune as an investor in Hewlett-Packard and Teledyne (he was close friends with Henry Singleton)
▫️Until his death in 2001, Shannon spent 44 years pursuing random curiosities (math problems, juggling, unicycling, chess, a machine to solve the Rubrik's Cube etc.)

To Shannon, it was all the same. 

He just went where his curiosity took him, as Jon Gertner notes in "The Idea Factory": https://t.co/lPXXaz9pgd

➡️ With information theory, Shannon had never had any intention of changing the world, it had just worked out that way. He had pursued the work not because he perceived it would be useful in squeezing more information into undersea ocean cables or deep space communications. He had pursued it because it intrigued him.

In fact, Shannon had never been especially interested in the everyday value of his work. He once told an interviewer, “I think you impute a little more practical purpose to my thinking than actually exists. My mind wanders around, and I conceive of different things day and night. Like a science-fiction writer, I’m thinking, ‘What if it were like this?’ or, ‘Is there an interesting problem of this type?’ . . . It’s usually just that I like to solve a problem, and I work on these all the time.” ⬅️

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A brief introduction to the architecture of universities:

Starting with Kyung Hee University in South Korea...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Laser + vapor from a fog machine

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A LED is basically a photodiode.

If you shine light with the corresponding wavelength onto the LED, it will generate a voltage over the pn junction.
https://t.co/8hTg5oeWun

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

If you're interested in the Middle Ages, here are 16 paintings you'll absolutely love...

[Ad Professor @The_AdProfessor]

23 creative ads I collected this year:

1. Nescafe

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On September 19, 1991, while hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Austrian Alps, German hikers Erika and Helmut Simon stumbled upon what they initially thought was the body of a recently deceased mountain climber.

However, it turned out that this was a remarkably preserved mummy, later named Ötzi, which had been encased in ice for over 5,300 years.

The mummy was surrounded by various artifacts, including a bow and a quiver containing arrows, a copper-bladed axe, a flint dagger with a wicker sheath, birch wood vessels lined with maple leaves, remnants of a backpack, a leather pouch holding small items, and clothing and shoes made from fur and leather, among other minor items.

Researchers analyzing Ötzi concluded that he likely met a violent end due to an arrowhead found lodged in his left shoulder and other injuries on his body, suggesting he was the victim of murder.