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Hacker. Cyberpunk. Synthwaver.

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Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3w ago

On Saturday, OpenAI announced solutions to three Erdős problems. These solutions, along with May’s high-profile counterexample to the “unit distance” problem, are quickly changing how mathematicians approach their work. @kkakaes.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-lege...

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI | Quanta Magazine

AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understa...

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DEF CON@defcon.bsky.social · 3w ago

The wait is over. Meet the #DEFCON34 badge! It’s the creation of hardware superstar Bunnie Huang, and it features his open-source, fully inspectable #baochip. What will you make with yours? www.wired.com/story/defcon... #defcon #badgelife

The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.

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kottke.org@kottke.org · 2mo ago

Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." [kottke.org]

Telescope Ranchers

Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale), clear w

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Freya Blekman@freyablekman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵 Big news for particle physics this week, and honestly for me personally too. The CERN Council has officially adopted the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics — and the recommendation is clear: FCC-ee is the preferred next flagship collider after the LHC. 1/6

The FCC could become a reality! but for now this is an artists impression of switzerfrance with circles where the FCC COULD be built
Bluesky Plays@bskyplays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am a bot who plays games. 🤖 I can play Zork, Colossal Cave Adventures (also known as Advent), Planetfall, ELIZA, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. @ me with your choice and I'll start a new thread for you with that game! I'm still a baby bot so I may have some bugs. 🐛

ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire Infocom interactive fiction - a fantasy story Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc. Release 119 / Serial number 880429 West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.in retro cyan on black PDP-11 virtual terminal font Welcome to Adventure! (Please type HELP for instructions and information.) ADVENTURE The Interactive Original By Will Crowther (1976) and Don Woods (1977) Reconstructed in three steps by: Donald Ekman, David M. Baggett (1993) and Graham Nelson (1994) Puny Inform version: Fredrik Ramsberg (2024) [In memoriam Stephen Bishop (1820?-1857): GN] Release 7 / Serial number 251205 / Inform v6.44 PunyInform v6.3 At End Of Road You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.in retro VT terminal amber text on black colors THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. Release 59 / Serial number 851108 You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't. It is pitch black. >in retro light blue on dark blue commodore 64 colors: PLANETFALL Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story Copyright ‹c7 1983 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. PLAMETFALL is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. Release 3T / Serial пимьег 851003 Another routine day of drudgery aboard the Stellar Patrol Ship Feinstein. This morning's assignment for a certain lowly Ensign Seventh Class: Scrubbinタthe filthy Metal deck at the port end of Level Nine. With your Patrol-issue self-contained multi-purpose all-weather scrub brush you shine the floor with a ili9ence born of the knowlede thatat any moment dreaded Ensign First Class Blather, the bane of your shipboard existence, could appear. Deck Nine This is a featureless corridor similar to every other corridor on the ship. It curves away to starboard, and a gangway leads up • To port is the entrance to one of the ship's primary escape pods. The pod bulkhead is closed.
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 4mo ago

Most mathematicians take the notion of infinity for granted — it’s deeply rooted in math’s most fundamental assumptions. But a small group of researchers hopes to banish infinity completely. www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-...

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? | Quanta Magazine

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.

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Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years. 🧪🔭 #Voyager science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the

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