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Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits
This paper presents two fundamental principles that redefine the nature of reality: electromagnetic phenomena are two-dimensional and follow the Cauchy distribution; and there exists a non-integer var...
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Liashkov, M. (2025). Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Liashkov, M. (2025). Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits
This paper presents two fundamental principles that redefine the nature of reality: electromagnetic phenomena are two-dimensional and follow the Cauchy distribution; and there exists a non-integer var...
doi.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Liashkov, M. (2025). Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Nineteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. Get a great deal on the ebook edition of his classic sci-fi tale, "His Master's Voice," over at BookBub: www.bookbub.com/books/his-ma... #scifi
May 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nineteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. Get a great deal on the ebook edition of his classic sci-fi tale, "His Master's Voice," over at BookBub: www.bookbub.com/books/his-ma... #scifi
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Excellent capture of rare upward positive lightning in which a negative CG return stroke triggers upward propagating negative leaders from a nearby tower. It is called upward positive lightning because positive charge is effectively lowered to ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rogb...
VERY RARE Upward Positive Lightning Flash (Upward Negative Leaders)
YouTube video by The Lightning Hunter
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May 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Excellent capture of rare upward positive lightning in which a negative CG return stroke triggers upward propagating negative leaders from a nearby tower. It is called upward positive lightning because positive charge is effectively lowered to ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rogb...
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Little star trail action from the Sawtooths 4/25. Pretty night. #idaho #photography #sawtooths #snra #startrails #astrophotography #longexposure
April 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Little star trail action from the Sawtooths 4/25. Pretty night. #idaho #photography #sawtooths #snra #startrails #astrophotography #longexposure
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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March 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
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There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars
Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
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February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
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Welcome to Covid-25. Great time to fire public health experts!🙄
“This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.
HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.”
“This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.
HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.”
New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm
The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.
www.newsweek.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Welcome to Covid-25. Great time to fire public health experts!🙄
“This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.
HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.”
“This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.
HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.”
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Computer scientist Panos Louridas traces the evolution of secret communication, from ancient Greece to the quantum era.
A History of Cryptography From the Spartans to the FBI
Computer scientist Panos Louridas traces the evolution of secret communication, from ancient Greece to the quantum era.
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February 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Computer scientist Panos Louridas traces the evolution of secret communication, from ancient Greece to the quantum era.
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New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
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1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky
🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi
🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon
🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi
🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon
Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol, listed on...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky
🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi
🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon
🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi
🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon
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🧪 A Nature survey of nearly 6,000 readers found that 70% now use Bluesky, drawn by its supportive, science-friendly environment.
Many see it as kinder, safer, and less toxic than X, despite fewer users. 🩺💻 #AcademicSky #EduSky
Many see it as kinder, safer, and less toxic than X, despite fewer users. 🩺💻 #AcademicSky #EduSky
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🧪 A Nature survey of nearly 6,000 readers found that 70% now use Bluesky, drawn by its supportive, science-friendly environment.
Many see it as kinder, safer, and less toxic than X, despite fewer users. 🩺💻 #AcademicSky #EduSky
Many see it as kinder, safer, and less toxic than X, despite fewer users. 🩺💻 #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Learn to reuse this FAIR data management self-paced tutorial to facilitate self-learning or workshops online, in-person or in a hybrid format. Co-developed for the LMU-MPG Open Science Summer School 2024 amongst other self-paced tutorials. Overview here: github.com/lmu-osc
January 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Learn to reuse this FAIR data management self-paced tutorial to facilitate self-learning or workshops online, in-person or in a hybrid format. Co-developed for the LMU-MPG Open Science Summer School 2024 amongst other self-paced tutorials. Overview here: github.com/lmu-osc
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"Ready to test?...
“jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory”
The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck
#evaluation too
Read + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
“jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory”
The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck
#evaluation too
Read + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Ready to test?...
“jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory”
The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck
#evaluation too
Read + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
“jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory”
The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck
#evaluation too
Read + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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We have a News and Views in Nature Computational Science with a back of envelope estimate on how expensive whole brain neural simulations can be. 🧠🧪
Long story short... very very expensive
This maybe ends up behind a pay wall (sorry ...), but check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Long story short... very very expensive
This maybe ends up behind a pay wall (sorry ...), but check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
On the path toward brain-scale simulations - Nature Computational Science
Today’s high-performance computing systems are nearing an ability to simulate the human brain at scale. This presents a new challenge: going forward, will the bigger challenge be the brain’s size or i...
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December 19, 2024 at 2:35 PM
We have a News and Views in Nature Computational Science with a back of envelope estimate on how expensive whole brain neural simulations can be. 🧠🧪
Long story short... very very expensive
This maybe ends up behind a pay wall (sorry ...), but check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Long story short... very very expensive
This maybe ends up behind a pay wall (sorry ...), but check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others!
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
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Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
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January 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others!
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
thread 🧵👇
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
thread 🧵👇
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How Multitasking Drains Your Brain
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#Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology
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#Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology
How Multitasking Drains Your Brain
Renowned neurologist Richard Cytowic exposes the dangers of multitasking in the digital age.
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January 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How Multitasking Drains Your Brain
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-multitas...
#Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology
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#Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology