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Wow! New research reconstructs a billion (!) years worth of plate tectonics. Mouth watering research. Source: buff.ly/3ah9jpA
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The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it works so I’m going to try my best here in this thread while I’m waiting for a patient to show.
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I froze a piezo inside an icecube so I could listen to my Friday afternoon whiskey ⚡🥃 – at Berlin, Germany
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Today the world changed forever.
Why? Because a group of Artificial Intelligence researchers released something called "GPT-3".
In short: it's a computer program that can interact like a ridiculously intelligent human.
And it will blow your mind 👇
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Crew Dragon is designed to be fully autonomous, but @Astro_Doug and @AstroBehnken can take control of the spacecraft if necessary. Simulator here → iss-sim.spacex.com/
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Q: When I was 4, my sister was 2. I am now 44. How old is my sister?
Programmer: 44 - (4 - 2) = 42
Tester:
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The final Bitcoin block with a subsidy of 12.5 BTC was mined by @f2pool and contained the following message in its coinbase transaction:
🐟NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue
blockchair.com/bitcoin/block…
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Tabs vs spaces?
Let me tell you about Fibonacci indentation ! Great way to reduce the number of nested loops 😄
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Vi helsearbeidere står daglig tett innpå kritisk syke mennesker med en livsfarlig smittsom sykdom. Vi jobber ekstra lange vakter, og får kanskje ikke sommerferie i år. Vi er redde og slitne men gjør så godt vi kan. Kan dere la være å gi faen? For faen.
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This is what Tesla Autopilot sees using neural networks that take 70,000 GPU hours to train and output 1,000 tensors (predictions) at each timestep.
Source: tesla.com/autopilotAI
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Ok, did I just see @elonmusk bring out a triangle on wheels called a #Cybertruck filled with Mad Max cosplay dudes, beat it with sledgehammers, break it's windows, drag around an F150, race a Porsche and then stick an ATV up it's ass and then say 'good night!'?
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Hours of daylight as a function of day of the year and latitude. Took me a second to read this chart. Totally worth the second of effort. A marvellous animation. Source: buff.ly/33E1d5T
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IT WORKS! Castlevania played on an LED Matrix Cube with infinite scrolling. SPOOKY! 🦇🧛♂️ #ledcube #Castlevania #NES
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This is what radiation LOOKS like. Uranium emitting alpha particles through cooled vapor
