M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒

Current affairs | evolutionary algorithms & machine learning | astronomy | learning. Salesforce Dev (PD1/PAB/SCA) || Runner & CS Prof IRL. Grüßt euch
No Kings!

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

It is doubtful any person of color hasn’t heard ‘go back to your country’ before. Hearing this from POTUS demeans the office of the presidency.
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, ....” - R. F. Kennedy #NotMyPresident #Resist #WeWillNotBeDivided

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), The Harvest, 1888

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

My dog after eating my philosophy book

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@AdamKinzinger I agree with what you say, but you have to make it clear that the money in question comes from the frozen Iranian assets, not US taxpayer money.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

Well, this went (surprisingly:) well, and quick. Being a minimalist at heart too. #Wordle 1,822 2/6

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[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

The nicest thing literature does is this: it tells you that your strange little feelings are not that strange. Someone, somewhere, in some century, was also confused by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@Acyn Stop teasing us with a better future Ted ...

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

Couldn't love this any more if I tried.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME

he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying.

then projects them onto his ceiling in real time

when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination

pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible

but he didn't stop at planes

it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time

so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO

there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter

vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

The Age of #Dystopia

#Privacy #DigitalSurveillance #BigBrother

https://t.co/YyUuJBUzS2

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

"The internet has already allowed us to feel more connected than ever while becoming lonelier than ever. A.I. lets us cut out the human part of human interaction entirely."

#AI #Education
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https://t.co/ADX3JgXAub

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@SundaeDivine 😂🤣😂 what a clown.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@Partisan_12 Such entitlement ...

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Edward Hopper
New York Movie, 1939

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@netanyahu War criminal says what?

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@SenFettermanPA How about you pay for it then?

[NWS Fairbanks @NWSFairbanks]

☀️ Today in Utqiagvik (the northernmost city in the United States), the sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM and won’t set again for 84 straight days or until August 2nd! Here's a look at a timelapse showing the sunset and sunrise this morning. #akwx

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@rachelvscott He's the disgrace, keep doing your job.

[M45 🏃‍♂️📚🟧🔭🚲✒ @Messier_45]

@atrupar This needs a link: https://t.co/jjsjnAtDUh