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@zach-r.bsky.social

New dad. Like to read about math history. California near Monterey Bay. I only eat plants (it's easy!)

18 Followers  |  36 Following  |  11 Posts  |  Joined: 06.09.2024  |  1.6416

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Too polite

03.08.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 236    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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I've been testing this internally for.a while. Fun to see Veo start to roll out to Gemini app gemini.google.com/app

02.05.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful morning

27.04.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My dog gets the AI treatment. Based originally on a photo at Nisene Marks.

31.03.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽGemini - Vegan Food Identification Created with Gemini Advanced

Gemini 2.5 is pretty impressive. It pretty well identified the components of this meal and gave a reasonable layman's assessment of its amino acid profile. g.co/gemini/share...

26.03.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cosmic forces interact with our bodies every day, sometimes in surprising ways.

🧡

07.03.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Daffodils are out this morning

01.03.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: β€œAll malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

28.02.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 38137    πŸ” 13900    πŸ’¬ 1155    πŸ“Œ 816
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Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

27.02.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5383    πŸ” 2481    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 151
Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart cutting his hand while breaking his coffee mug and still powering through. So great to see him firing on all cylinders in the daily show. youtu.be/utl2uLh1wVI?...

25.02.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Federal employees, don't waste your time with this. Have AI write your response email.

24.02.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery - Google's AI solved it in 48 hours Professor JosΓ© R PenadΓ©s told the BBC that Google's tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had – that superbugs can create a tail that allows...

Really cool to see. Co-Scientist has only been out for less than a week. www.techspot.com/news/106874-...

24.02.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language.

The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.

Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.

This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

22.02.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4117    πŸ” 1474    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 39
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Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.

Pure ridiculousness electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

22.02.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
MAGA Farmer wants us to β€œcome together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote
YouTube video by Franchesca Ramsey MAGA Farmer wants us to β€œcome together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote

youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...

14.02.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $6M training cost claim is "exaggerated and a little bit misleading" and a "fraction of the total cost" (Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

10.02.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Super Sunday. Good day for Football. Bad day for Chickens.

Indeed, every day is a bad day for Chickens. While you gnosh on wings today I offer this annual reminder that in the US, we lay, hatch, grow, slaughter, bring to market, buy, cook, and eat, one million chickens per hour.

09.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2926    πŸ” 422    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 63
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These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars

08.02.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 573    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 33

Many of the White House candidates for high level positions in the Federal government come across as badly qualified for the jobs they are seeking.

If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?

05.02.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3255    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 22
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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.


Speechless. Currently in the hospital as the Pediatric Infectious Disease Attending & access to vital info is limited. My duty to each child that I take care of is to have to most up to date information - in order to provide the best possible care. This is unacceptable

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

31.01.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11
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The China is crushing US rhetoric totally forgets about Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.

Likely cheaper, longer context and better on reasoning.

We're still early in the AI race.

26.01.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars

Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

25.01.2025 06:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1110    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 30

Would be happy to delete my Instagram account when this happens

15.01.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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