Turn an Avenger into a mundane household Avenger. Ironing Man
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Software engineer, living and working near York, father of two. Messes about with heat pump performance data "for fun". Reposts are other people's opinions.
I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.
Slightly increase a band. 5 Non Blondes
MJW@the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 4mo agoSlightly increase a band. Gigadeath.
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Episode 1 of Map Men was uploaded TEN years ago today!!! 🎂 🎉 Why not celebrate by watching all 37* episodes in a row right now? youtube.com/playlist?lis... (*33 if you don’t count the ones that don’t count)
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Georgia Tennant is the Doctor's daughter, who went to school with the Doctor's daughter, went on Doctor Who and played the Doctor's daughter in the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", then married the Doctor and had the Doctor's daughter.
If this time travel experiment works, I should be able to go from here and now and reappea—
Jeffw@jeffw.bsky.social · 2y ago—r about here. It worked!! Ahah! Of course, I can't reveal any of what will happen, to avoid paradoxes. Sorry. I'll just act normal.
My contribution to conversation about using AI at work: "When your tool is AI, every problem looks like a nail"
In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.
This made national news yesterday but I figure it's worth sharing to ensure maximum exposure. Time to take down our bird tables, folks: they're spreading diseases that are decimating bird populations. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Our latest guidance on what and when to feed garden birds: Feed Safely, Feed Seasonally
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Artemis II is about to return to Earth: Here's how NASA tested their Orion capsule for re-entry before even sending one to space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvA21...
Did NASA Crash-Test Artemis‽
NASA showed me how they tested their Orion space capsule for atmospheric re-entry as part of the Artemis program, before one ever went to space! Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes This video has no adverts or sponsors, and my Patreon supporters helped cover the costs. I'll be posting some extra clips from this visit on my Patreon, which is completely free to join! https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Producer: Alex Bate @alexjrassic Thank you to everyone at NASA Ames Research Center for giving us this amazing opportunity! https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ Captions to follow in the next hour. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 📺 Video Footage 📺 Several Clips from Scott Manley's three videos of our day at Ames The Biggest Gun In The West! NASA's Hypervelocity Free Flight Test Range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3alzHF8TPM Why NASA Is Making Air Explode Using Electricity - The Electric Arc Shock Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEl6M8L8ULc NASA's Most Powerful Supercomputers & One Billion Pixel Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWQHZ4Fy6I Car Crash Testing from NHTSA (public domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_NHTSA_frontal_oblique_overlap_crash_test-2017_Honda_Ridgeline.ogv All other video footage is from NASA, including: Hypervelocity Free-Flight Aerodynamic Facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXLIliuFy0 Astronaut Matthew Dominick Flies Through The International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKsghZt8bLs Meet Artemis Team Member Matthew Dominick: https://youtu.be/3jQuovAcUm4?si=pF6enQvgEcUCIWas&t=107 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work 💷 All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn't cost you more. Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV.
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Artemis II just set a new record: the furthest any human has ever been from Earth. But how far is that? I made a to-scale diagram of the Earth–Moon system to try to make sense of it. 🧵
Government looking at decoupling electricity and gas prices to bring down bills news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...
Government looking at decoupling electricity and gas prices to bring down bills
Ed Miliband spoke to Labour MPs about possible action after the chancellor faced questions about how she plans to help households if the war in Iran continues to impact their finances.
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It has been discovered that Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities,' was serialised in a couple of local newspapers. It was the Bicester times It was the Worcester times. 🐢💨
As a bit of a space nerd, it's fun to see Artemis getting people excited about spaceflight again. But what happens after you've launched a satellite, with no astronauts on board to drive it to its new home‽ I visited the European Space Agency to find out. youtu.be/0i1Xz-xiYSU
Meet the people who fly spacecraft, without ever leaving Earth!
The European Space Agency invited me to their mission control centre in Germany to find out what it takes to be a Satellite Operations Engineer working on their new Earth observation satellite, BIOMASS. Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Series Producer/Director: Cambria Bailey-Jones Camera Operator / Editor: Jamie MacLeod | https://www.jamiemacleod.co.uk Sound Design: Dan Pugsley | https://www.cassinisound.com Captions: Jacob Salas | caption.plus Executive Producer: Guy Larsen A Matt Gray & Penny4 Production https://www.penny4.co.uk Special thanks to Elia, Jakob, Maya, Nicola, Lucy and Daniel at ESA and ESOC along with all of our contributors for this episode! @EuropeanSpaceAgency 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 🌍 Extra Info 🌍 ESA: Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Biomass_satellite_returns_striking_first_images_of_forests_and_more More about BIOMASS: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass People always ask about my t-shirts. I bought my white one from https://thespark.company. And the ESA one was a gift from ESA. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV. Previous video titles These EXPERTS show what it takes to FLY A SATELLITE at the European Space Agency What actually happens after launch‽ (at the European Space Agency!) What hapens in the European Space Agency's Mission Control?
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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
On their way to the moon, but they’ll have to stop at a space service station every 90 mins for a wee and a quick stretch, wondering why, even in the depths of the inky endless firmament, the WH Smith’s are always trying to sell them wetsuits and neck pillows.
April Fool’s Day. A day where you shouldn’t trust anything you read or anything anyone says. So basically the same as every other day then.
It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.