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From #primes to #pulsars: All in for science and humanities.
#Linux fan. #Julia #Python #swl
Just got here... looks nice.
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If you are unable to download the full version of our newly published language evolution article in Science, there is a link for direct free access on the Max Planck Institute website here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Theorem of the Day (November 22, 2025) : Bertrand’s Ballot Theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : buff.ly/QKVqBpU
notes : buff.ly/W9V4Rc3

#mathematics #maths #math #theorem
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We are excited to share the NetSci Conference announcement of its 1st plenary speakers! 🥁 🥁

Two pioneers—one stage: 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will reflect on the ideas that shaped their work and transformed our field in a joint keynote!

NetSci 2026: tinyurl.com/4jdxb4kv
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life
We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age
Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life
www.newscientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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A story I absolutely would have been covering if they hadn't killed off Science in Action.
We had @carnegiescience.bsky.social 's Bob Hazen on about the steps building to this precisely because the chemical traces of early life seemed so promising.

carnegiescience.edu/chemical-evi...
Chemical evidence of ancient life detected in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks
New study shows life’s signature still exists in rocks long after the original biomolecules are gone.
carnegiescience.edu
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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The image I chose for the start is a detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps. What a cool reader, right?
October 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The telemetry packets contain many interesting strings with log messages, which appear to be generated by a Linux system running Rocket Lab's MAX flight software.

Read more: destevez.net/2025/11/deco...
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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This is a "reindeer cyclone", a defensive behavior that has been observed in herds of reindeer, even in captivity.

The fawns and older animals are at the center, the strongest animal in the outer lanes.

The point is to confuse the brains of predators accustomed to stalking a single outlier.
February 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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No evidence for local $H_0$ anisotropy from Tully--Fisher or supernova distances. Richard Stiskalek et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14997
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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International collaboration drives daily, integrated global air quality forecasts. Hear from Guy Brasseur, Senior Scientist and Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, as he explains how Europe is leading progress in atmospheric modelling.

#CopernicusAtmosphere
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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And here is the page with the dragon in full glory:
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery
Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...
pubs.asha.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#CNRSnews 📰 The chemical revolution of the early 20th century was a golden age for painters with the rising number of pigments available. Scientists are scrutinising Robert Delaunay’s colours, especially his purples, in an effort to conserve his works 🎨🖌️

👉 news.cnrs.fr/slideshows/s...
Seeing life in purple
The early 20th-century artist Robert Delaunay began painting at a pivotal moment in art history, namely during the chemical industry revolution, when the number of pigments available on the market increased. Today scientists are trying to solve the mystery of the painter’s colours, his purples in particular. One of the objectives of this research is to generate knowledge essential to conserving the works.
news.cnrs.fr
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches
software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/m...

This was one of the hardest concepts to learn back in college – but once you’ve truly understood it, it gives you a great appreciation for system design principles.

#programming #cpu #cache
Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches
As a computer engineer who has spent half a decade working with caches at Intel and Sun, I’ve learnt a thing or two about cache-coherency. This was one of the hardest concepts to learn back in coll…
software.rajivprab.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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"[Pure mathematics is] good to give chills in the spine to a certain number of people, me included. I don't know what else it is good for, and I don't care. But I speak for myself only. Like von Neumann said, one never knows [...]"–Serge Lang (1927-2005)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Language Design
cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/l...

Of course you want to design (and implement!) your own programming language! It’s fun. It’s creative. It’s empowering.

#programming #paradigms #design
languagedesignnotes
cs.lmu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
david.coffee/cloudflare-z...

Couldn’t properly penetrate NAT/firewall and get a p2p connection -> decided to invest some time into learning something new: Cloudflare Zero Trust + Warp.

#tunneling #server #ssh #routing
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Everything you wanted to know about using Cloudflare Zero Trust Argo tunnels for your personal network
david.coffee
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sandpiper
sandpiper.qut.edu.au

Sandpiper 1.0.1 is a resource for interrogating public shotgun metagenome datasets, presenting the results generated by SingleM.

#biomedicine #microbiome #metagenome #dataset
sandpiper
sandpiper.qut.edu.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
C'était Paris en 1970
paris1970.jeantho.eu

La Ville de Paris et la FNAC ont organisé au printemps 1970 un concours de photographie amateur visant à produire une couverture photographique exhaustive du territoire parisien...

#urbanism #paris #photography
C'était Paris en 1970
Photographies numérisées du fonds C'était Paris en 1970
paris1970.jeantho.eu
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A Heat Transfer Textbook, 6/e
ahtt.mit.edu

This introduction to heat and mass transfer, oriented toward engineering students, may be downloaded without charge.

#physics #heat_transfer #engineering
A Heat Transfer Textbook, 6th edition
Download site for A Heat Transfer Textbook
ahtt.mit.edu
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Heard at #SfN25 from @earlkmiller.bsky.social: Cognition and consciousness emerge from the dynamic organization of the cortex produced by traveling brain waves performing analog computations. picower.mit.edu/news/brain-w... #neuroscience #consciousness #cognition @mitbcs.bsky.social
Brain waves’ analog organization of cortex enables cognition and consciousness, MIT professor proposes at SfN
On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller proposed that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog computatio...
picower.mit.edu
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Shattering the Illusion: MAKER Achieves Million-Step, Zero-Error LLM Reasoning
www.cognizant.com/us/en/ai-lab...

MAKER became the first system to complete a task requiring over one million LLM steps with zero errors, and the analysis shows it can, in principle, scale much further.

#ai #llm
MAKER
A new approach from Cognizant AI Lab shows how breaking reasoning across millions of AI agents can achieve unprecedented reliability, pointing to a practical path for scaling LLM intelligence to organ...
www.cognizant.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Robot Learning from a Physical World Model
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07416

This synergy transforms implicit visual guidance into physically executable robotic trajectories, eliminating the need for real robot data collection and enabling zero-shot generalizable robotic manipulation.

#robotics
Robot Learning from a Physical World Model
We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstration...
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/

You press the power button. A second later a wall of text scrolls by, or a logo fades in, and eventually Linux appears. What happens in between is not magic.

#linux #boot_process
The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
A detailed walkthrough of the Linux boot process from power button to kernel initialization
www.0xkato.xyz
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM