This might be the most impressive thing I've ever seen a robot do. Just a flawless slapstick routine
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The backlash against artificial intelligence is growing. What do you think about its impact on science? go.nature.com/4tJWk6t
Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature's poll
The backlash against artificial intelligence is growing. Nature wants to know what its readers think about the impact on science.
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Penn State is hosting a summer school this July on "Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter". Consider applying if you want to hear me give lectures about strongly correlated matter while ignoring the "quantum simulation" part. sites.psu.edu/cteq/cteqss2...
CTEQ SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 | CTEQ
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This animation alone should win a science journalism award
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 11mo agoThis is the Noperthedron. A portmanteau of “nope” and “Rupert,” it is the only known shape that does not have a trait called Rupert’s property. No matter how you bore a straight tunnel through it, a second Noperthedron cannot fit through. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
Live footage of Nobel committee giving the Physics prize to quantum computing.
Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson. scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
"Just as Jay Gatsby is an enigmatic larger-than-life figure driven to accumulate wealth at all costs in a futile bid for the love of Daisy Buchanan, the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly, printing page after page, for reasons that readers cannot fully comprehend."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
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I've been doing some percolation calculations lately, and I decided that I was tired of letting my computer have all the fun
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia #AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
bloodinthemachine.com
Good correction, which shows that I misremembered / omitted some context in my summary. Weiss came up with the idea of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector, which eventually became LIGO. Much better to read his summary of what happened than mine: www.kavliprize.org/rainer-weiss...
Rainer Weiss life story
Rainer Weiss life story
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1/ Rainer Weiss, who conceived of the idea of a gravitational wave detector (which eventually became LIGO), has died. I was at MIT when the first gravitational wave detection was announced, and he gave perhaps the most inspiring colloquium I have ever heard. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92
MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed a longst...
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The Mask of Sorrow is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
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My four year old just asked me "Dad, is a bowl a plate?" and I'm not sure I'm ready to have the talk about topology already
⚛️ David Tong goes to a doctor. David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it. Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..
For no particular reason I am thinking today about the Simpsons joke about the struggling jazz musician who is ultimately made destitute because his income can't keep pace with his $1500-a-day habit: collecting Faberge eggs
I looked into the claim that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories a day and found it was made up by popular author Robert Sapolsky open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...
Chess Grandmasters Do Not Burn 6000 Calories Per Day
A Note on the Production of Facts
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All the "AI Safety" people seem to be focused on the possibility that we will build something dangerous to humanity. Is anyone worrying about the possibility that we will build something capable of suffering and then abuse it horribly because it will be profitable not to acknowledge its personhood?
taking my vizier to the vizier park so he can scheme with the other viziers
Ask a caterpillar your question, and it will become the answer. Slime in a silky cradle, computing a reply; from god's own tongue, translated into butterfly
Sometimes I browse Bluesky looking for allergy advice. I call that rheumscrolling.
Adam Music@musicadamt.bsky.social · last yr.Sometimes I check on grammar pedantry groups on Bluesky. I call that whom-scrolling.
Funny that Krusty the Klown has so dramatically outlived the thing he was parodying. Any other prominent examples like that? Maybe Bugs Bunny and that Clark Gable character that he was parodying?