Intuitive understanding of Euler’s formula
IBM acquires Red Hat. Bad news for open source?
From NASA website:
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope returned to normal operations late Friday, Oct. 26, and completed its first science observations on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 2:10 AM EDT. … Originally required to last 15 years, Hubble has now been at the forefront of scientific discovery for more than 28 years.
Talking Hawking – his new book and ‘last’ scientific paper
The hardest part of being an artist - Light Roast Comics
Patrick Honner on imaginary and complex numbers, Quanta Magazine:
… And they are the first step into a world of strange number systems, some of which are being proposed as models of the mysterious relationships underlying our physical world.
Good read.
Facebook, Google hit with lawsuits for ‘secret’ location tracking
I’ve been using Android Pie for the last two days and quite impressed. Using it without google apps seems like missing those AI functionalities. I’m looking forward how custom ROMs will handle that.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
– P.A.M. Dirac
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Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses” ." 1
Best at being me
#dearMoon
Interplanetary Postal Service is an open-source game that lets you control a lunar lander module. The challenge is to land the module safely against gravity and winds. I had some fun time with it, and seeing how the physics of CFD was implemented is always great!
/e/ is a custom ROM for smartphones based on LineageOS 14.1 which aims for a privacy-focused user experience. It’s Android with no Google. The first beta is out!
China is rising globally in scientific achievement. China researchers are doing great!
A Japanese team of researchers from Shizuoka University will conduct the first run of their space elevator prototype this month.
Tell me about your world.