Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨💻
@abesamma.bsky.social
Doctor, researcher, data wrangler, coder, open source dev & knowledge tool enthusiast. Current day job: working on healthcare software ⚕️ You can also find me over @ the fediverse: https://toolsforthought.social/@abesamma
#PPOD: At first glance, this is just another image of Earth. But look closely, and you will be able to make out Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft hiding in plain sight, covering parts of the Indonesian Archipelago to the right of the Indian Ocean’s vast expanse. 🧪 🔭
The river Danube is at record low, exposing old Nazi Germany shipwrecks and mammoth remains. London looks like a city smack in the middle of the Serengeti during the dry season. Drought has been declared in half of England and all of Wales. Europe is warming up faster than other continents. Wake up!
I think there are other ways of enhancing human decision support with AI, but the hype is just making it difficult to get buy in. When decisions are "product driven"... Adaptive decision support can fight overreliance on AI https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-decision-overreliance-ai.html
Adaptive decision support can fight overreliance on AI
From doctors diagnosing symptoms to judges intervening in court cases, humans make complex decisions every day. Increasingly, artificial intelligence tools are being used to help with those decisions.
techxplore.com
1/11 #JWST has revealed something unprecedented about Neptune. For the first time we have spectra of three small inner moons (Larissa, Galatea, Proteus) and the rings. 🔭 Their composition is unique in the outer Solar System.⚛️🧪 www.caltech.edu/about/news/n... #planetsci #Astronomy #Science
Because of how roles are so fundamental to how LLMs track a conversation, no reliable defense exists for role spoofing, which leads to chain of thought forgery, allowing you to get LLMs to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. #llm #ai #machinelearning www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
technologyreview.com
Mastcam imagery acquired two days ago by Curiosity on her way up the slopes of Aeolis Mons, capturing some sort of ridge barring the valley. #Mars July 29, 2026 - Sol 4969 🧪🔭 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
It is clear that: 1. AI companies have no moat to speak of. 2. The data center boom is the real bubble we should all be looking at. #ai #llm #software venturebeat.com/technology/t...
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
For companies that want control over data, model behavior and fine-tuning, that smaller footprint may be more important than chasing the highest possible benchmark score.
venturebeat.com
It is becoming increasingly clear that: 1. AI companies have no moat to speak of besides their harnesses.
Oh wow, we can now call Windows Runtime API methods dynamically within Typescript and JavaScript without needing a native add-on. Cool. #javascript #typescript #windows #nodejs https://github.com/microsoft/dynwinrt
GitHub - microsoft/dynwinrt: Use WinRT methods dynamically
Use WinRT methods dynamically. Contribute to microsoft/dynwinrt development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Mars as imagined just before the landing. This painting, one of a trio done for NASA HQ, ended up being used for the JPL landing press badge. What a thing that was to see when I arrived and signed in!
It is now too hot even for camels 🐪 🐪 🐪 we are on the brink of an irreversible disaster. #climatechange Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlxvvw06pqo
Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar
Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
bbc.com
If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"
I just saw The Odyssey and it was amazing. I've read Homer's poem countless times and it was everything I ever hoped from Nolan. #TheOdyssey
CW: Auspol So it turns out Pauline Hanson and her gang just want to restore the White Australia policy. It's not like we didn't know but I guess we can move past the usual "no, that's not what she meant" bull shit. #auspol
This is confirmation bias on steroids. The exact "idol of the mind" that Francis Bacon wrote about when he established the "Baconian method", the precursor to the scientific method. #science
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3w agoThis.is.insanity. "A U.S. health secretary prepared to spend billions to seek a link between vaccines and autism. Vaccine skeptics shaping policy. A proposal to eliminate the entire federal immunization schedule for American children." www.reuters.com/world/americ...
This was wild: I asked Fable to make a website of the famous Catalog of Ships from the Iliad. It did a beautiful job creating this interactive map: catalogue-of-ships.netlify.app ...but it also identified that Butler's version of the Iliad actually made two mistakes in the Greek translation!
So many people are dying needless deaths from these heatwaves. Climate change should be declared a global emergency. #climatechange #climate #uk https://bbc.com/news/articles/czx5zy82n7no
Thousands will have died in UK's unprecedented May and June heatwaves
An early estimate suggests more than 2,700 people will have died from heat-related causes during the UK's exceptionally hot weather in recent months.
bbc.com
China has landed its first booster. Now things are getting serious and interesting 🚀 #space #rocket https://bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rmmx86pdo
China successfully lands reusable rocket, state media says
It follows similar landings of reusable rockets by US-owned companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.
bbc.com
Opinion: I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I’m not so sure by Jonathan Freedland #uspol #july4th https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/03/united-states-constitution-donald-trump-washington-dc
I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I’m not so sure | Jonathan Freedland
On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
theguardian.com
Aussie losing to Egypt is a flipping embarrassment! #fifa2026
Now that the DOJ has flat out refused to hand over the Epstein files, we can say for sure (not that we didn't know this already) that whatever is in there is so bad that even shameless Trump doesn't want it out in the light. This is America at 250. Not impressed. #uspol
Can a planet survive the death of its star? ☠️ For WD 1856 b, the answer is yes, based on Webb observations. 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/2
