Bill C. White

Pioneer in social distancing.
Retired (disability) Systems software specialist.
Google Scholar: pronouns!

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

Converted Panasonic DMC-ZS5 to #fullspectrum then added a proper 720nm #infrared filter then conversion to monochrome. Looks better, after many experimental fails. Neighbor's yard across the street. Damn finger hand holding filter. GRR!

#IR #irphotography #infraredphotograph

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Smaller may be better when it comes to transistors.

But what if the next leap in computing is embedding geometries that compute through resonance itself?

Enter quartz crystals.

They’re already extraordinary:
stable oscillators,
coherent frequency regulators,
piezoelectric transducers.

But viewed another way, they are structured resonant manifolds.

Traditional silicon computing pushes electrons through etched pathways.

Crystalline computing could eventually work more through:
wave interference,
phase coupling,
standing resonances,
topological information flow.

Less “current moving through wires.”
More geometry constraining the possible states information can occupy.

Which is interesting because the same structures keep reappearing everywhere:
helices,
lattices,
toroids,
braids,
crystal symmetries.

Biology uses them.
Plasma uses them.
Photonics uses them.
Even AI latent spaces increasingly resemble them.

At a certain point it becomes difficult to ignore: geometry may not just carry computation.

The geometry itself is the computation.

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

This paper was just published in Academia Quantum!
https://t.co/aUJhn3Jxmk
with Vinit Singh, Amandeep Singh Bhatia, Mandeep Kaur Saggi, Manas Sajjan, Sabre Kais
#AcademicTwitter @academia-quantum

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

Spring Update 20260605 #flickr https://t.co/KZZ4Yr4T7Z

[theglobalphotocommunity @the_gpc_]

A bokeh evening 📸
By: fennika

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

On this day June 7, 1954, British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist Alan Turing died at age 41 in Wilmslow, England. He is widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence for his work on the Turing machine - a foundational model of computation that defined what it means for a machine to compute anything.

His groundbreaking contributions helped break the German Enigma code during World War II, shortening the war and saving countless lives. Turing’s visionary ideas also gave us the Turing Test, a foundational concept for evaluating machine intelligence that continues to shape the field of artificial intelligence today.

A true genius whose work laid the groundwork for modern computing, Turing’s life was tragically cut short. Yet his legacy endures as one of the most influential minds of the 20th century; a man whose ideas still power the digital world we live in.

[Earthglory @ab_cd_1235]

Voyageurs National Park 🇺🇸

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

Spring Update 20260604 #flickr https://t.co/pofMiGitz6

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

The 74 most incredible lines in "Moby Dick", by @delia_cai https://t.co/bqbq6OLS3g

[Frank Nielsen @FrnkNlsn]

Usually books on geometry have only a very few if no figures....

...But personally, I like figures to understand quickly and grasp concepts!

IMHO, this ***great book*** is a masterpiece at conveying notions and intuitions of geometry with many figures!

Highly recommended!!!

[Amber Brunsden Art @AmberBrunsart]

Putting emotions onto canvas ❤️
'Remain' Available on my Website ✨

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Ed Valigursky. "Refueling the Space Station", cover art for Orbit Science Fiction Magazine, 1954.

[Ron Eisele @ron_eisele]

6 June 1927. Canadian innovator Wallace Turnbull sold the parent of the variable-pitch propeller to Curtiss-Wright in the United States and Bristol in the United Kingdom.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Zenith Electronics, televisions manufacturing in Chicago, Illinois, 1951.

[Ferrarisi Olmayan Bilge @bilgeamadeli]

@Rainmaker1973 Bende de vardı format atardık

https://t.co/UNucD52Arm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Floppy Disk Patent #3,668,658 was issued Today in 1972, with named inventors Ralph Flores and Herbert E. Thompson. It was an 8" floppy disk.

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

Rate my new monitor.😉

[Simon "King of Bokeh" Diamond @simon_diamond]

Happy summer Caturday!😸

Leica CL
Summilux-TL 35mm F1.4

#Caturday #Photography

[Bill C. White @hexheadtn]

Brian Ulrich https://t.co/iE3gLpNZDY