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New NERDS paper on COVID genome sequencing over whole Denmark in 2021, co-authored by @…
https://nerds.itu.dk/2024/09/16/new-ne

New Website Helps Researchers Overcome Peer Reviewers’ Preference for Animal Experiments #AnimalRights #AnimalTests #AnimalTesting

New Website Helps Researchers Overcome Peer Reviewers’ Preference for Animal Experiments
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new website, AnimalMethodsBias.org, created by the Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias (COLAAB), provides researchers guidance and resources aimed at helping them successfully publish nonanimal biomedical research by overcoming the preference some peer reviewers have for animal-based research methods.

new things i want to learn now:
- geoDNS to route people to nearby servers (why do all the geo DNS servers look kinda janky?)
- TLS via acme protocol / let's encrypt, but without certbot

Some #GenArtAPI updates from this week:
- switched from Apache 2.0 to MIT license
- started publishing API files & types as package (optional)
- updated readme & diagrams
New installation & getting started instructions:

genart-api/README.md at main · thi-ng/genart-api
Generalized API for browser-based generative art projects, plug & play support for platform specifics, parameter declarations, GUI creation, IPC - thi-ng/genart-api

New NERDS paper on network analysis of Italian music
https://nerds.itu.dk/2024/09/10/new-nerds-paper-on-network-analysis-of-italian-music/

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: They couldn't. Which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
ORAC: Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

"Microsoft and its collaborators on the Azure Quantum project have been consistently breaking new ground with quantum computing research projects, most recently by quadrupling the number of logical qubits they are able to create."
Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age - Forbes

Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age
Microsoft and its Azure Quantum collaborators keep breaking new ground on research projects that advance different critical aspects of quantum computing.

TIL about a bit too much "new" (new to me) tech that I need to study: OpenNebula, Firecracker and Flatcar. They all seem amazing. How did I miss them for so long? 🤯😵

new blog is deployed and loads articles in 700ms on plane wifi!
`wrk` suggests that it can do ~3500 requests per second on a single digitalocean vCPU.
is that good? i have no idea!
am i satisfied? yes!

Global Methane Levels Show ‘No Hint Of Decline’ According To New Research #environment #methane https://

Global Methane Levels Show 'No Hint Of Decline' According To New Research
New research describes how human activities now fuel two-thirds of global methane emissions, which are growing at an unprecedented rate

So, #chopin dropped this new waltz, and it's pretty dramatic. Nice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfse_wSUmw&t=67s

i stayed up working on it 2 nights ago and then spent an hour yesterday putting the finishing touches on it (preserving old URLs, etc).
total time invested: 8 hours
lines of code written: 160 (74 Go and 86 shell)
new things learned: 2
satisfaction: priceless

Microsoft's Azure Quantum platform for QCaaS already supports 5 different Quantum Computing providers, not incl. Microsoft's own offerings:
✅ Quantinuum
✅ IonQ
✅ Rigetti
✅ Pasqal
✅ Atom Computing (NEW)
"Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum"

Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum - The Official Microsoft Blog
At Microsoft, we’re ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This is why we’re building Azure Quantum — to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale. In April, we announced...

 
#Mathematicians Prove #Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme #BlackHoles
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Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About ‘Extremal’ Black Holes | Quanta Magazine
For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

🇬🇧 Is there already a clever way (or maybe there has always been, and I don't know about it) to add some more functionality to the #ActionButton of the new #iPhone? What I mean is, is it possible to assign some additional actions, e.g. for double or even triple presses instead of just the …

The latest version of the #Unicode standard adds legacy computing symbols. The attached image shows some of them.
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf<…

Yeah, from what I've seen, this checks out. Brain fog is real & seems permanent.
COVID-19, even once, can be hugely detrimental & maybe unrecoverable.
"Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores"

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

Attn Star Trek fans:
I challenge you to listen to this episode of "A Closer Look" without bursting out laughing at Seth Meyer's legendary reference that only we Trek fans will understand. 🤣
✅ Jack Smith Reveals Damning New Coup Evidence Against Trump in Bombshell Filing: A Closer Look
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California has the 5th largest economy in the world, bigger than India & just under Japan.
Now, Governor Newsom signed a law permitting Marijuana dispensaries to serve food & drink... so next year, come visit CA's Cannibus Cafes!
In other news, they just released 165pg of incriminating testimony & evidence.
HOW IS THIS ELECTION EVEN CLOSE?
"Trump's MELTDOWN Over New Election Fraud Evidence, Melania's Abortion Stance" - Jimmy Kimmel L…

At #d3a we just started our session "Networks, data, society and AI" 🥳: https://d3aconference.dk/networks-data-society-and-ai/
Find us in Sal D!

"Technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity." Inspiring words from Mustafa Suleyman our CEO of Microsoft AI .
Here's 4 different video demonstrations of Microsoft's new Copilot:
An AI companion for everyone - Microsoft
https://blogs.micro…

An AI companion for everyone - The Official Microsoft Blog
We’re living through a technological paradigm shift. In a few short years, our computers have learned to speak our languages, see what we see and hear what we hear. Yet technology for its own sake counts for nothing. What matters is how it feels to people and what impact it has on societies. It’s about...

Warming Temperatures Threaten Sloths, Especially in High-Altitude Regions #environment #weather #temperature #wildlife

Warming Temperatures Threaten Sloths, Especially in High-Altitude Regions
New research reveals that rising temperatures pose a serious threat to sloths, particularly those living in high-altitude environments.

#KaterMurch at #WashU: #Building '#TimeTraveling' #Quantum

Building ‘time-traveling' quantum sensors
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, physicist Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrates a new type of sensor that leverages quantum entanglement to make time-traveling detectors.