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What is that cologne you're wearing? Eau de Sarcasm?

Peacock feathers can be lasers Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

Lasers!

www.science.org/content/arti...

Wishing a happy 79th birthday to physicist Shirley Ann Jackson!! The second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics, her optical, low energy, and electrical researches at Bell Labs beginning in 1976 led to her assuming the presidency, in 1999, of Rensselaer.

#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧪⚛️

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to geneticist Georgia Dunston. She has worked on tumor immunology and research on the genetics of conditions that are particularly prevalent in the Black community, including difficulties with organ donation, and type 2 diabetes.

#WomenInSTEM #BlackHealth #MedSky 🧪⚕️

Saturn has 274 moons, and I don't think that's fair.

I wish I could influence those to easily influenced by an influencer to be less easily influenced.

AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs Generative AI has demonstrated the potential to significantly outperform human CEOs in strategic decision-making by excelling in data-driven tasks like product design and market optimization. In an ex...

"AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs."
hbr.org/2024/09/ai-c...

Table of Names of base 10 values of bytes and Table of Names of base 2 values of bytes. Example a kilobyte is 10^ bytes or 1,000 bytes, but we use it to represent a kibibyte which is 2^10 bytes or 1,024 bytes.

When we get to larger values, like a terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes) we are really describing 2^40 bytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a difference of almost 100GB.
Maybe it's time to use the more fun binary term of tebibyte and all the bi-bytes (est. 1998).

We've used metric naming convention for binary byte size for a long time. A kilobyte would be 1000 bytes. But we are using metric base-10 to represent binary base-2. We use a kilobyte to represent 2^10 bytes or 1,024 bytes. That's 24 extra bytes.

#HoneycombConjecture #Hexagon #Math #Maths #Bees #UniversalLanguage #iteachmath #MTBoS #MathSky

#math #mathchat #problemsolving #mathresource #edresouce

District: We’re implementing a new curriculum!
Teachers: Can we help develop it?
District: no
Teachers: Can we see it?
District: no
Teachers: Has it been tested anywhere?
District: no
Teachers: Is it backed by data?
District: no
Teachers: Is there flexibility in implementation?
District: no

🙃

Adding -ai to any Google searches I do to skip the AI overview.

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86 - Berkeley News Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

meme - "Strong enough to remember a thousand song lyrics" image of a man. "Too weak to remember 20 math formulas" image of man getting punched.

YouTube video by AIRBOYD Weightless Cats - Do Space Cats Land On Their Feet?

Weightless cats.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Xt...

Image of 1972 Summit Series hockey game between Canada and the former Soviet Union.

Home - Vatican Observatory The latest news, images, content and educational resources from the Vatican Observatory, the Holy See’s scientific institution for astronomical research since 1582.

The Vatican has its own observatory.
www.vaticanobservatory.org
www.vaticanobservatory.va/en/

Meet the Pope's astronomer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3eq...

It's not too late to build this!

A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 Years The countdown is on.

The singularity within 20 years? What could go wrong?

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a652...

Asteroid Day - June 30, 2025 - Nevada Nasa Programs Asteroid Day - June 30, 2025, NASA, asteroids, comets, meteors, meteorites and other bodies in our solar system

Tomorrow, June 30, 2025, is national Asteroid Day!

nasa.epscorspo.nevada.edu/asteroid-day...

Scientists achieve teleportation between quantum computers for the first time ever Researchers have used the teleportation trick to forge a working logic gate between two separate quantum chips.

Trying to wrap my mind around this...

"Scientists achieve teleportation between quantum computers for the first time ever"
www.earth.com/news/scienti...

A graphic showing the mathematical sign for Tau followed by an equal sign followed by an illustration of two pies.

It's also #TauDay today, a celebration of the circle constant. It’s numerically equal to 2*Pi, so some think it’s better than Pi. Are you #TeamTau or #TeamPi?

Maybe the Tau Manifesto will help you decide
https://tauday.com (we're not taking sides on this...)

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Claude (Sonnet 4)
Same prompt.

My eyes went directly to Perimeter and Area. What?
And then I read your text. Oh, that makes sense now.

Pluto as visualized by NASA's New Horizons.

-Credits: NASA

How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem (Gift Article) Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions.

Dear #mathsky, if you repost this, it will let people see the article for free. Thanks!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Reminds me a little bit of Ted Harrison, but you have much smoother lines and a different color palette. These are fabulous.

#mathsky

"...the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."