I wonder if they paid royalties for this image considering it is under copyright.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

This article about what is going on at NIH is insightful. It details why the fight over the indirect rates are existential and show how the administration is trying to seize power that is directly given to Congress by the constitution www.sensible-med.com/p/the-nih-is...

Just wanted to share this little bit of tech news. Once upon a time I worked alongside Brian. I was so happy to see how the last decade has evolved for him. From biology to comp sci and back again. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...

This is hands down the most impressive home hacked project I've ever seen. Using multiple microcontrollers for passive radio imaging with several Hz update frequency hackaday.com/2025/02/15/o...

Researchers have uncovered the science behind achieving the perfect Cacio e Pepe. By studying the sauce's phase behavior, they identified starch concentration as critical for stability. Insufficient starch (<1%) results in clumping ("Mozzarella Phase"). #FoodScience #Cooking arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

SHARE IT is a solid bill which has been years in the making. Finally a solid law which requires code made for the federal government must be stored in a repository and shared across government. fedscoop.com/agencies-mus...

FCC holding the VOIP providers to account. Wow. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

NGL, I'm shocked TCE was still used as a solvent in 2024. That stuff is bad news. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/c...

I built a stratum 1 NTP server last month and added it to pool.ntp.org. Its tracking the GPS atomic clock signals with less than a microsecond of offset from them and less than a millisecond vs NIST's atomic clocks. 1/2

"it tastes like the biggest hug from your heavest grandmother, which by the way, she's beautiful." This looks so tasty. Love his cooking videos. youtube.com/shorts/MKjyq...

This is such an interesting angle, because the number of large organizations that have this level of discipline to evaluating new models is likely to be tiny Running a bunch of test prompts specific to what your company does through a new model feels like it should be pretty low hanging fruit

This is a neat new variant on RAG - no vectors, not even full-text search, instead showing the model a header hierarchy and giving it a tool to read the relevant sections My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...

The valiant health knights. I love reading stories like this about the benefits of science and technology. moreisdifferent.blog/p/a-pro-scie...

Fascinating read about going IPv6 only in the home and what breaks. I was expecting more chaos than this, but it looks like we've come a long way! blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-1...

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

Does it count if you get the right answer, but in the jankiest way ever? Yes. I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

Another year, time for Advent of Code 2024! I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

A Brazilian Certificate Authority (CA), ICP-Brasil, issued an unauthorized TLS certificate for google.com. This breach could enable malicious actors to impersonate Google, potentially intercepting user data. Discussion here news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228... #cyber

This is absolutely wild that the explosion of a SpaceX rocket blew a hole in the ionosphere. #hamradio #physics agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Open source can be both collaborative and competitive. When a new project shows up, it competes with existing solutions, but that doesn't prohibit collaboration, even between competing projects and ideas.

Professor Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence, leads Wharton's "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course. Looks like it will cover integrating AI in the classroom to enhance rather than detract. www.coursera.org/learn/wharto... #AI #Education #ChatGPT #Teaching #EdTech

Anthropic released an interesting thing today: an attempt at a standard protocol for LLM tools to talk to services that provide tools and extra context to be used other the models modelcontextprotocol.io

I like this new analogy for working with LLMs by @emollick.bsky.social "treat AI like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation, one that comes highly recommended but whose actual abilities are not that clear" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...

Turn your data into answers instantly: Simon Willison's sqlite-utils-ask lets you query SQLite, CSV, and JSON files in plain language via your terminal. Simplify decisions with AI-powered SQL queries. #DataTools #AI #SQLite simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/...

Breaking records on a budget: USC students at Rocket Propulsion Lab launched Aftershock II to 470,000 feet, shattering amateur spaceflight records held for 20+ years. Proof that innovation doesn’t always need billions. Details: hackaday.com/2024/11/24/a... #SpaceInnovation #science

uh HOLY SHIT everyone. iykyk, but lemme summarize: it's often been beyond hard to do user research at the federal government because of a bizarro law called the Paperwork Reduction Act. fixing this has been a civic tech holy grail for YEARS. some heroes somewhere got this through 🫡

Department of Labor is creating a 'Retirement Savings Lost and Found' database to help workers recover lost retirement savings. Tool launches Dec. 2024! Learn more: www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel... #RetirementSavings #WorkersRights

An absolutely incredible collection of maps published during WWII. These tell stories in ways most data viz folks can aspire to. nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/v....

Non-euclidian Doom is entertaining. youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4?...