Gondlar

Informatik PhD Student, Weltraumgedöns, Mittelaltergedöns, Pen&Paper, ...

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

What % of Greenlanders Think Becoming American Is a Good Idea?

[Gondlar @Gondlar]

@DJSnM Have you played it yet? The last time I looked into it, I was told to stick to the original version, but that was almost a year ago.

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Ethan Mollick says students don't raise their hands in class as much because they don't want to expose their ignorance when AI can answer their questions, and the use of AI is leading to the illusion of competence and lower test scores

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks" https://t.co/lPSzEI6Psp

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Is hunting unicorns legal in your state?

[سعدان @ChimpTales]

@wingod This too

[Dennis Wingo @wingod]

This should win science cartoon of the year award!

[Joseph Conlon @JosephPConlon]

One hundred years ago right now, exactly one person understood that the Sun was overwhelmingly made up of Hydrogen and Helium. 1/16

[Gondlar @Gondlar]

Excuse me, what?

https://t.co/bjfm8au3oQ

[Gondlar @Gondlar]

Data Centers in Space? We live in truly interesting times.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

So, Lumen orbit argue that the power costs of putting a data center in space make it massively cheaper than a data center on earth.
But I think their figures are overly optimistic for a number of reasons - mainly cooling hardware and energy, and the need for higher orbits.
https://t.co/TKiq7iLpO4

[PVLDB @pvldb]

Vol:17 No:11 → Partition, Don't Sort! Compression Boosters for Cloud Data Ingestion Pipelines https://t.co/31IS2oJAZg

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

There are several noises I'd prefer not to hear inside my spaceship, including this one that @Boeing Starliner is now making.

[Where is this? @CsabaSzekely7]

@TerribleMaps Choose your fighter

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Here’s a fascinating item on display at the Glasgow transportation museum, a fake bomb carried in hand luggage by the father of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing, attempting to show airport security was poor. The fake Explosive was Marzipan, there’s a bite missing from the corner to demonstrate this.

And the story of Pan Am flight 103 is still not over:
https://t.co/k4GJ9vu2C4

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

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[Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII]

German health & military authorities have announced a "war on beer", & are searching for a non-alcoholic "people's drink" to supplant it.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Historic vs Present distribution of lions

[Gondlar @Gondlar]

My PC says its 1014. Need tips to hide in the Holy Roman Empire or how to get back to the present before the big tsunami hits the north sea coast in september?

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Art by Robert McCall.

[Anshel Sag @anshelsag]

For those who don't remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee's CTO at that time is now the CEO of Crowdstrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel.