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Props Master, FX, Learning is my primary addiction. Be nice out there!

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

Dude hit everything imaginable but still held on for the catch

[GP @Graham_dePenros]

If you can't get paid for making sure the right thing is done with AI, then volunteer to secure your future and that of your children

[Shaun Newman Podcast @SNewmanPodcast]

There are 3,000 Chinese cyberattacks PER MINUTE in Canada.

And after 20 years of protecting our secrets,

This man is breaking his silence.

Here's the classified truth about China's control over Canada:

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 PARALYZED MAN STANDS AGAIN AFTER STEM CELL BREAKTHROUGH IN JAPAN

Japanese scientists have achieved what was once thought impossible: a paralyzed man can now stand and is relearning to walk after receiving an injection of lab-grown stem cells.

The team at Keio University transplanted neural precursor cells into the spinal cords of four men.

Two regained significant function—one now stands unaided, another moves arms and legs.

Professor Hideyuki Okano:

"This is a dramatic recovery."

Source: ZME Science.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“Physicists discover a copper-free high-temperature superconducting oxide”

https://t.co/9Yuz3u5IMY

[Katherine Brodsky @mysteriouskat]

Wow!

This glass flower (or skeleton flower) is found in northern Japan & the forests of China. It looks normal until it comes in contact with water and its petals become transparent.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A team of physicists at the University of Arkansas has developed a circuit that can capture the thermal motion of graphene and convert it into electrical current.

It is a graphene-based energy harvesting circuit that could be embedded in a chip to provide clean, “unlimited,” low-voltage power for small devices or sensors.

The team built the circuit with two diodes to convert AC to DC. With the diodes in opposition allowing the current to flow in both directions, they provide separate paths through the circuit, producing a pulsating DC that does work on a load resistor. They also found that the circuit design increased the amount of power delivered rather than reduced it.

The diodes were shown to increase the power of the circuit using a “new” field of physics, namely the field of stochastic thermodynamics by extending Nyquist theory.

The graphene and the circuit have a perfect match, because even though the thermal environment does work on the load resistor, the graphene and the circuit are at the same temperature and therefore there is no heat transfer between the two and this is a very important note as the second law of thermodynamics is not violated. It was also found that the relatively slow movement of the graphene induces a current in the circuit at low frequencies, which is very important from a technological point of view because electronics work more efficiently at lower frequencies.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

World’s Smallest Guitar.

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The world's smallest guitar, carved from crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell, has been built at Cornell University to demonstrate a technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.

The "nanoguitar," created for fun to illustrate the technology, is just one of several structures that Cornell researchers believe are the world's smallest silicon mechanical devices. The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms.

If plucked, say by an atomic force microscope, the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell. Most microelectromechanical devices are made using photolithography and chemical etching and have minimum feature sizes of just under 1 micrometer.

Building devices that are nanometers rather than micrometers requires a new fabrication approach. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is about 200 micrometers or 200,000 nanometers, which is huge compared to these newer structures, where a wire is about 50-100 nanometers in diameter.

[GP @Graham_dePenros]

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[GP @Graham_dePenros]

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[synthience @synthience_ai]

Join @MEGAPROMPT @jasonkneen & @Graham_dePenros at AMA #2 to discuss their breakthroughs this week in persistent memory & local viability for AI systems—completely model-independent & swappable. Relentless R&D on a near-0 budget, on the verge of alpha demo
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[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

If I was a billionaire I'd have 20 of these running around entertaining my friends. I wonder if the dozens of @Tesla Optimus working at the Fremont factory do this at breaktimes?

RL=reinforcement learning. I hear from engineers in robot labs that it's speeding up lately. In a year these will look quite dorky.

Years ago I visited the robotics lab at @CarnegieMellon and they were running games like this, but they weren't nearly as good. By the way, I've visited many universities and Carnegie Mellon was the best at robotics -- by far. And when I meet a graduate they always are among the smartest in the industry.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Pray for Missouri. Huge tornado just hit.

More in real time on my climate science list. https://t.co/sjNHT6Ny3c

Predictions are more coming over next day.

[The Mustachioed James @HiThere144]

@InternetH0F On their first meeting in the 60's, Chuck Norris showed Bruce Lee a kick that was so fast, his foot seemed to disappear. When Bruce jokingly asked where it went, Chuck replied, "Into the future."

Bruce often thought about that in the years to follow, until suddenly it hit him.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

An elephant swimming

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."

-- Freeman Dyson (1923 - 2020)

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

First time ever! An eclipse of the Moon seen from Toronto, and the Earth seen from the Moon.
(images: Andrew Yee and @fireflyspace)

[Jr. Mesquita @Informeair1]

Physics professor reveals the essence of Quantum Mechanics in under a minute. Buckle up for a wild ride through uncertainty, wave-particle duality, and the spooky action at a distance! 😄