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Cuneyt Ozdas

@cozdas.com

Principle Engineer at Autodesk. Mostly working with photons, electrons, human visual system and their interactions with each other. 🫖 San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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Janel Comeau 🍁@verybadllama.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 2w ago

Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]

JPEG version of a 1-page Factsheet: El Niño 2026-2027: A Potentially Historic Global Climate Event By Daniel Swain, PhD | August 2026 There is a banner image depicting projected warming of the Pacific Ocean by early winter. The content begins: "What is El Niño? El Niño is the warm phase of a natural cycle, known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), that occurs roughly every 2-7 years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño events, the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to well above typical levels. El Niño directly affects local climate in the countries closest to the unusually warm ocean waters, but can also indirectly influence the climate of distant regions thousands of miles away. During the strongest events, El Niño can profoundly affect climate even on global scales, causing temporary planetary warming and disrupting large-scale precipitation patterns..."
Ken Shirriff@righto.com · 6d ago

Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 32 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...

The core stack from the Spacelab computer. This is a stack of six rectangular circuit boards, joined by blue connectors on each end. The cores are visible on the top board. The 294,912 cores are way too small to see; there are eight large reddish-brown squares, each holding a region of cores. 18 reddish and greenish stripes are slightly visible, showing regions for the 18 bits of storage.
Cuneyt Ozdas@cozdas.com · 4w ago

I saw this curious National Geographic plane at the airport and searched online. Apparently they have private jet tours with ~$100,000 price tag. 😲

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SETI Institute@setiinstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#PPOD: This image is quite extraordinary, and it's not the big disk that's attracting the most attention. Although the large planet-forming disk around the star PDS 70 is clearly imaged and quite interesting in its own right. 🧪 🔭

An orange circumstellar disk around a star. The disk is bright with a dusty inner ring. At the three o'clock position is a bright spot just inside the dust -- a Jupiter-sized exoplanet. There is a faint haze around the planet where a moon could be forming.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3mo ago

While moving, I found a jar of soy sauce probably there from when I moved in 15 years ago at the back of a kitchen cupboard. Tipped it out and in the jar were little rocks - salt crystals. They're beautiful - and they taste amazing.

A photo of four large salt crystals, golden coloured and like little cubes of transparent gold. Three of them are groups of cubes joined together, and one is a single slightly rectangular cube by itself, all with wonderfully ninety degree angles on them. A photo of four large salt crystals, golden coloured and like little cubes of transparent gold. Three of them are groups of cubes joined together, and one is a single slightly rectangular cube by itself, all with wonderfully ninety degree angles on them. A photo of two large salt crystals, golden coloured and like little cubes of transparent gold. They are groups of cubes joined together, all with wonderfully ninety degree angles on them. A photo of some large salt crystals, golden coloured and like little cubes of transparent gold. Three of them are groups of cubes joined together, and one is a single slightly rectangular cube by itself, all with wonderfully ninety degree angles on them.
That Tom Hall@thattomhall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

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Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Special update: Rising odds of a strong-to-historic El Niño event in 2026, with growing likelihood of significant regional-to-global scale impacts - Weather West

June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the #

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MetJam@metjam.co.uk · 3mo ago

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
Cuneyt Ozdas@cozdas.com · 3mo ago

Günün anlam ve önemine ilişkin en en sevdiğim sözlerden: "Çocuk bezleri ve politikacılar sık sık değiştirilmelidir.... Aynı nedenle!"