Wednesday, August 14, 2024

A New Way of Thinking About Cancer, Life, the Power of Genes, and DNA, from Philip Ball, Author of How Life Works

https://nautil.us/how-life-really-works-435813/

Photonic Chip Cuts Cost of Hunting Exoplanets - IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/photonic-integrated-circuit

THE ATLANTIC: Inside the effort to crack one of history’s most mysterious puzzles


Inside the effort to crack one of history's most mysterious puzzles
Culture The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets. August 08, 2024 Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early books and manuscripts, and he stuck her with an unenviable duty: answering letters from the cranks,

Read in The Atlantic: https://apple.news/AHCZmIJ07TLKASOYUzYN5kA


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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Post by Eric Partaker on X

The Physics Nobel Prize Winner of 2022 just Proved That The "Universe is Actually Not Real" - Science And Nature

https://www.sci-nature.vip/2024/07/the-physics-nobel-prize-winner-of-2022.html

Revisiting Fundamental Equations in Computer Graphics

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2024/siggraph-research

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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

How to help students enjoy physics lessons

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02443-0

nina args

class Options {

            [Option(shortName: 'p', longName: "profileid", Required = false, HelpText = "Load profile by given id at startup.")]

            public string? ProfileId { get; set; }


            [Option(shortName: 's', longName: "sequencefile", Required = false, HelpText = "Load a sequence file at startup.")]

            public string? SequenceFile { get; set; }


            [Option(shortName: 'r', longName: "runsequence", Default = false, HelpText = "Automatically start a sequence loaded with -s and switch to Imaging tab.")]

            public bool RunSequence { get; set; }


            [Option(shortName: 'x', longName: "exitaftersequence", Default = false, HelpText = "Automatically exit the application after the sequence has been finished.")]

            public bool ExitAfterSequence { get; set; }


            [Option(shortName: 'd', longName: "debug", Default = false, HelpText = "Activates Debug Mode in the application, revealing additional UI elements and features that are available only for development and testing purposes. This mode is intended to assist developers and testers in diagnosing issues, understanding application flow, and verifying UI elements that are not accessible in the standard operation mode.")]

            public bool Debug { get; set; }

        }

Attention in transformers, visually explained | Chapter 6, Deep Learning

https://youtu.be/eMlx5fFNoYc?si=0dxzyTOEtUGsZBG8