Last week we installed a camera to monitor the northern sky. It didn't have long to wait to capture a brief but intense show of red #AuroraBorealis this morning.
#aurora#northernlights
Actor and writer Robert Shaw passed away #onthisday in 1978, just three years after his iconic performance as Quint in Steven Spielberg's #JAWS. He was just 51 years old.
Probably the best "slow fuse" paper I've discovered yet. This is the citation history for Fritz Zwicky's 1937 paper on the possibility of dark matter in the Coma cluster of galaxies. It really didn't get going until the '90s:
Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us | Opinion https://t.co/o2a08AZ8FQ
Sam Altman has an OpEd in today's Washington Post: "Who will control the future of AI?". He frames the future of AI as an urgent competition between the US / West and "nations or movements that donโt share our values".
https://t.co/bvCHWKmUsY
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OK Computer should have been an EP with Airbag / Paranoid Android / Subterranean Homesick Alien /:Electioneering and nothing else. All of the other songs are rubbish.
Check out our new work led by Jianhang Chen: pushing the detection of ordered galactic B-fields back to z=5.6 in SPT0346-52! https://t.co/jEKYof3EJw with @Enloro et al.
BREAKING: Prominent security consultant Troy Hunt says 'this will be the largest IT outage in history' and 'this is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except itโs actually happened this time'