Kevin Wilkins

Former Meteorology student. Now MIS Administrator for an ISP by day. Citizen scientist, self learner, and researcher of things by night.

[MindFuelNG @MindFuelNG]

You were not built to play small.
Stop apologising for your ambition.
Stop shrinking for people who are uncomfortable with your growth.
Take up space. Unapologetically

[NWS St. Louis @NWSStLouis]

An Extreme Heat Watch is in effect Sunday through Tuesday. Heat index readings of 105+ will be possible each afternoon during this period. #stlwx #mowx #ilwx #midmowx

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the 13th flight test of Starship!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather.

A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship’s heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won't be possible with today's weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal for a Friday attempt.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

View of Earth from Falcon 9's second stage

[Merlow @exeMerlow]

Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it.

The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago.

He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.

Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow.

No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk.

An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.

You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Tornado outbreak possible Monday PM Wisconsin, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northeastern Iowa with high-end #tornado environment.

Then dropping to Kentucky and Ohio for supercell with #tornado potential on Tuesday PM. After that, likely pivot back to tropical weather with Tropical Storm #Bertha.

Never stop chasing

[John Bickel @drjhbickel]

Messier 83 - the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

[NetworkChuck @NetworkChuck]

Everything in Linux is a file, literally everything! 🗃️

[Kevin Wilkins @kwilkinsrd]

In case anyone's using WordPress in the wild... 😬
https://t.co/ubtrmc6Kk4

[NWS Chicago @NWSChicago]

A lake breeze is pushing west across northern Illinois. A wall of thick smoke is blowing in along and behind the lake breeze. Incredible shots of this happening on the @NIUwxcams in DeKalb, IL this evening.

[Kevin Wilkins @kwilkinsrd]

https://t.co/eOFqmxfXgH

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

Tuesday night the moon is basically gone, so you get some of the darkest skies of the month.

With no moonlight washing things out, it's a great chance for the Milky Way and faint stars once you get somewhere without a lot of light pollution. Right now Chicago, Indianapolis, and much of California look clear and dry for it, though this is a few nights out so keep an eye on the clouds.

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Suction vortex intercept with a strong #tornado in China on July 8. These were associated with the remnants of a typhoon

[Know Your Computer 💻 @ComputerrBooks]

Starting Windows 3.1 like it's 1994

[📹 pc_user_486]

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Quantum mechanics did not merely add new equations to physics. It changed what physicists believed reality could be.

Energy became quantized. Light and matter refused to remain only particles or only waves. Superposition replaced a single definite state with several possible outcomes. Heisenberg showed that uncertainty is not simply poor measurement, but part of the structure of nature itself.

Probability entered the foundations of physics. Entanglement revealed correlations with no classical equivalent. Quantum statistics explained why atoms have structure, why chemistry works, and why ordinary matter does not collapse.

These ideas are strange, but they are not philosophical decoration. Together, they form one of the most precisely tested frameworks in science.

Quantum mechanics taught us something deeply unsettling and beautiful.

"Nature is not required to behave according to the categories human intuition finds comfortable."

[Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) @MWObs]

Weather Observer and Education Specialist Bailey Nordin checks in from the summit of Mount Washington to share the current temperature while the Mount Washington Valley hits 91 degrees. For a look at the higher summits forecast, visit https://t.co/d1cUZjg1E0.

[Kevin Wilkins @kwilkinsrd]

https://t.co/wAMiwvpuKS
#weather #comic

[NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC]

There is an Enhanced Risk (level 3/5) of severe thunderstorms over parts of the Central Plains and Middle Mississippi Valley on Friday https://t.co/kPv4k077nv