Man of science, metal bender, EUV producer, and human-powered traveler
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13 May 2025
*in my most woo voice*
yeah, i study the harmonics of crystals' natural energy resonances. this one is titanium:sapphire
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Does anyone wish they had a visual plot editor? Even with AI, I hate making plots with code. I always wanted to adjust my plots visually, drag legends around and change colors by clicking on them - so I made an editor that can do exactly that! Try it out - link below
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Right now it only accepts CSVs - if you try it and want me to add support for more file formats, or if there are any features that would make it useful for you, let me know!
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I wish Jack Bogle were around to see this. Absolute chicanery designed to use disciplined and otherwise unwilling retail investors as exit liquidity for VCs at astronomical private market valuations. Shameful.
Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:
Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.
This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.
Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.
Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.
The rules built to protect passive investors:
1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.
2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.
3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.
All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.
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May 31
Please please please
May 30
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
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May 30
Huh who knew you could hear the space weather!
May 30
#UPDATE As per WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher the loud explosion was of #meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom to be heard throughout the state.
#Satellite data showed that the meteor entered the atmosphere over the South Shore near Boston.
Dozens of phone calls came into the WBZ-TV newsroom reporting a loud explosion heard around Boston and as far as Ipswich.
#Boston #Massachusetts
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May 28
unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.
(eyelash vipers of costa rica, 2026)
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May 27
When we idolize our tools, we become tools ourselves - "Idols of the Valley"
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May 26
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part…. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
-Richard Feynman
(Photo from the Osa Peninsula)
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May 25
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Putting “Ph.D.” in your social media name is a sure sign of a pompous retard
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May 24
Sometimes the trip is scary as hell, but you can't beat the view
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May 23
You’d swear it’s AI, but once again truth is stranger than fiction
May 22
🚨This is a Fried egg jellyfish, a floating wonder that looks just like a sunny-side-up egg drifting in the sea.
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May 22
The strangest thing I noticed when I lived in SF was a lack of desire. Few people seemed to want something specific with a passionate intensity
May 21
Pope Leo XIV will use his Magnifica Humanitas to articulate a vision of the human person as a desiring creature—which is no surprise, given his Augustinian formation. "Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee."
Now if only there had been a non-utilitarian understanding of Girard in Silicon Valley these past few years—or something like a book that tried to share an Augustinian understanding of mimetic desire and its teleology.
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May 18
First step to building government bee-drone: building regular drones that can navigate like bees
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May 18
Step 2: secure the bag, accomplish the task, fly far away and do whatever you need to do. Maintain a path-integration estimate of where home is (green arrows)
Step 3: fly straight home. Go back towards home as efficiently as you can (orange arrows)
Step 4: final homing sequence. Accumulated errors caused you to slightly miss your target, but you landed within the initial learning flight zone, so you can get home based on the neural net trained on the original images (red camera sequence)
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May 18
Teach your drone to fly the same way and you're halfway to making your very own bee-bot.
Read more at: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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May 18
oh my
May 17
Sort of! Jumping spider eyes arent like human eyes where they have an orb or eyeball. The round part that we see is a fixed lens that cannot move, but under the lens of the primary front eyes are telescope-like eye tubes and retinas that can go side to side, up and down, and rotate! Their side eyes are stationary and don’t move. Heres a really cool video that shows how the eyes move inside!
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