Some time ago, I had the brilliant idea whenever a @Waymo vehicle passes me, I would give it a very friendly (read vigorous) wave. I may look ridiculous but I’m ensuring when the robot overlords take over, they recognize me as a friendly from the training set. 🤖👾🤓😅

Air sacs in gliding birds reduce the force required from flight muscles as they hold the wings in place during soaring

Mexico has been suffering through one of the worst heatwaves in its history over the last two weeks, shattering dozens of all-time records with no signs of letting up. Temperatures will soar above 45°C (113°F) as a relentless heat dome restrengthens and remains parked overhead

Analysis of publicly available viral genomes published in @NatureEcoEvo shows that humans may give more viruses to animals than they give to us, and reveals evolutionary mechanisms underpinning viral host jumps. https://t.co/NhY80cfDaw

"It is dangerous to treat nation-states like home teams, without acknowledging that these forms are containers, whose function is to hold power over subjects, and that those wielding power from within these structures can do so benevolently, or with unspeakable brutality."

This is the BEST analysis on the proposed Tik Tok ban that I have read. @mer__edith reminds us of something we desperately need to remember amidst rising authoritarianism around the world—we must be weary of ALL attempts to centralize power—in both corporations & nation states.

All US case law — 360 years’ worth — now available to the world for free!

I am old enough to confess... ... that I used TF-IDF in *all* my NLP projects.

Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”

8/8 I cannot contain my excitement. It feels like January of 2020 with a huge wave coming that no one realizes yet, but in a much better way. What a time to be alive!! Check out the original paper:

To support the world's most impressive builders, you have to exercise your own builder muscle. 💪💪💪

Would you rather: keep your head and grow a new body or keep your body and grow a new head?!

I deleted this tweet because the “AI powered drone turns on its operator story” was total nonsense—the Colonel who described it as a simulation now says it was just “a thought experiment.” 😑

More people will have read and believed the "killer-drone" story than its correction, which means it will reinforce greater fears about AI's extinction risk, an idea that seems to be spinning out of control.

🤯 holy #%*^

The alphabet could have been way different!

For Americans to understand what happened tonight in Mexico ... Through most of the 20th century, Mexican elections were run by officials answerable to the Mexican president. The president told the officials the result he wanted. They delivered it. 1/x

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd

New Years Resolutions 1902 v. 2022 1902: - Read less novels - Stop riding the bicycle so much - Don't read in bed 2022: - Read more books - Ride the bicycle more - Read in bed, instead of going on phone

We used machine learning to quickly recreate key moments from the World Cup in 3D using just a single photograph. Read about our process: https://t.co/aYaMCQ0phJ

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