Nathan Q
@nathanmecheng.bsky.social
Mechanical engineer, University of Galway
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Trump has accepted the Young Scientist Award from Presentation College in Kerry
"I'm the best young scientician apart from the great Thomas Edison. No including him. I've done so much for science"
"I'm the best young scientician apart from the great Thomas Edison. No including him. I've done so much for science"
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Trump has accepted the Young Scientist Award from Presentation College in Kerry
"I'm the best young scientician apart from the great Thomas Edison. No including him. I've done so much for science"
"I'm the best young scientician apart from the great Thomas Edison. No including him. I've done so much for science"
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If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest.
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Look at this cute little thing!
The solar-powered compact car driving Tunisia’s electric vehicle revolution | CNN
Bako Motors, a Tunisian startup, is creating small electric vehicles powered partly by solar energy.
www.cnn.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Look at this cute little thing!
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
April 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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March 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM