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Chadtech retweeted
Man if we get to Europa and there’s life there that’s gonna be wild
If it’s life *from earth* that will be even wilder and also a yuuuuge letdown
0.3-0.8 trillion trillion dust particles containing living bacteria would have been ejected from Earth and landed on Europa in the past 30-80 million years, and there's enough fracturing of its frozen crust to let them enter the subsurface ocean:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Chadtech retweeted
Americans are spending 5% of their goods spending to hobbies, an all time high, per Bloomberg:
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Sailing under the flag of the United States of America 🇺🇸 the @DominionEnergy self lifting Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (#WTIV) #CHARYBDIS, IMO:9941922 heading out to the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (#CVOW) farm construction area off the coast of Virginia Beach. – at Virginia Beach, VA
Chadtech retweeted
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
Chadtech retweeted
Cultural history is a lot more random than most people think.
Bach was forgotten for 79 years after his death
The composer considered the foundation of Western music died obscure in 1750
His manuscripts were used as wrapping paper
A 20 year old named Mendelssohn rediscovered him in 1829 and performed the St Matthew Passion for the first time in decades
The audience had no idea what they were hearing
Western music nearly lost Bach entirely
Chadtech retweeted
They would
The Founding Fathers would get blackout drunk and break stuff. Washington was a famously drunk dancer
President Jackson threw a kegger in the White House when he got elected. Later, Teddy Roosevelt staged fights at the White House—Trump isn't even the first to do it!
Chadtech retweeted
Oh, I remember. The good old days! Before codex, you would open Claude Code, and start prompting like a caveman
Chadtech retweeted
In some very real sense, Ozempic was invented in 1990. Pfizer ran the human trials and just never published them.
They showed it lowered blood glucose in diabetics, slowed gastric emptying, and killed hunger; the same 3 things that make Ozempic work today.
The joint venture agreement said internal data stayed internal, and that was that. Pfizer killed the program in 1991. The reasoning, as far as I can tell, was that nobody would ever want an injectable diabetes drug besides insulin.
So, the license went back to the hospital in Boston that held the patents.
Novo picked it up in 1992 and spent the next two decades building liraglutide, then semaglutide.
It's insane that data sat in a filing cabinet for 30+ years.
I only know this because Jeffrey Flier, one of the Harvard scientists in the room, finally wrote it up. He's in his late 70s and didn't want the history to die with him.
This makes you wonder what else is in those filing cabinets.
Ozempic could've existed 27 years ago.
Chadtech retweeted
"On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, an anonymous Belarusian wrote a note of thanks on the prediction platform @Metaculus: 'I left Kyiv nine days ago thanks to this thread.' He had convinced himself that the invasion was a real risk by reading the press and trusting that community—a sort of Wikipedia dedicated to prediction—where they assigned a 60% probability to the Russian attack." (NB: text translated from Spanish)
A powerful opening statement from data journalist @kikollan in this piece for @el_pais, which demonstrates the why of forecasting; surfacing collective wisdom helps individuals, entities, policymakers, & institutions make informed decisions. This is why we often frame our mission as improving epistemic infrastructure & promoting better decision intelligence. Article in linked tweet.
Aplicaciones como Polymarket o Kalshi son una forma de aprovechar el conocimiento colectivo de sus usuarios, pero también pueden ser vistas como casas de apuestas de alto riesgo y poca ética. ¿Hay que poner límites a las plataformas de predicción? elpais.com/opinion/2026-05-0…
Chadtech retweeted
"fact-checking discourages politicians from making factually incorrect statements, with effects lasting several weeks. … [but] neither increases nor displaces correct statements. Politicians who are fact-checked tend to substitute incorrect statements with either no statements or unverifiable ones" d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:iz…
Chadtech retweeted
I ran the game with my kids (age 3 and 5), and we all survived both rounds.
3yo picked randomly. 5 year old was clearly sensitive to the concept of dying, but not sensitive to the altruistic element, I think just because the impact on others was confusing. Playing this with my kids opened my eyes to the possibility that kids might be red pickers just due to the simple fear of death being the main factor in their minds, and so in practice picking blue with kids might be functionally letting kids kill you.
Chadtech retweeted
1) yes
2) yes
3) yes
humans are wonderful.
more humans is more wonderful.
these are all factors leading to not-more-humans.
Chadtech retweeted
ChatGPT will confidently tell you inaccurate information. That’s its most human trait.
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A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo_io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding
"Estimating π with a Coin" (by Jim Propp): arxiv.org/abs/2602.14487
