@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 05:16:56
Diamonds,
particularly those with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers,
are being used to create advanced quantum sensors
that can measure magnetic fields with high sensitivity.
To unlock the full potential of these sensors,
researchers need to understand the behavior of the material at the atomic level.
In a recent study conducted at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME),
Prof. David Awschalom’s team has developed a n…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-27 01:58:34
Steps to greatly advance the state of the art in any relatively obscure field:
1) Find a bunch of autistic nerds whose special interests broadly overlap with said field
2) Put them in contact and let them share ideas or, better yet, lab space
3) Buy them whatever they ask for
4) Wait and see what they come up with. Excitement guaranteed, you just have no idea exactly what kind.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 20:40:43
GOP Advances Bill Limiting Census Counts For Congressional Seats to Citizens (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-advances-bill-limiting-census-counts-for-congressional-seats-to-citizens/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p107#a251202p107
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-16 20:37:25
This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153
@adrianco@mastodon.social2025-12-09 23:04:33
#AdventOfSystemSeeing I finally caught up with @… - partly by using some skill enhancement automation. Here’s days 8 and 9 on Contexts and Interactions.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-16 14:34:55
The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 16:29:08
Trump has been an outspoken critic of Biden’s use of the autopen to conduct executive business,
going as far as to display a picture of one such device in place of a portrait of his predecessor in a new “Presidential Walk of Fame” he created along the West Wing colonnade.
His Republican allies in Congress last month released a blistering critique of Biden’s alleged “diminished faculties” and mental state during his term that ranked the Democrat’s use of the autopen among “the gr…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-11 12:56:58
This is an important announcement. Google uses it's ecosystem to gain an advantage, "Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services"
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ann…
@tarah@infosec.exchange2026-01-11 14:41:04
It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-11-17 01:14:57
It'll be interesting to see how long this takes to cover the whole UK train network - basically allowing anyone with a contactless payment to travel without buying tickets in advance.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/simpler
