This is brilliant: using magnet+light to detect malaria. (Malaria parasites release Hemozoin which is magnetic...) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/24/613099137/how-a-cheap-magnet-might-help-detect-malaria
#innovation
Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories.
Therefore, this year I will put more priority on shared experiences with other people: I will treasure my time with family & friends. We will visit more places, an try all kinds of food we never tried before, and drink stuff we never had before :)
https://www.wired.com/story/your-brain-is-memories/
I've never heard anyone else lament the wasted CPU cycles spent on bitcoin mining, so this is just me expressing how we could've used all those computing power for more novel purposes. I could be wrong. I mean no offense to bitcoin miners. so please educate me gently, dear #Federati.
Pretty cool to witness the birth of a black hole (or maybe a neutron star) which happened around 2 million years ago, but we're just seeing only now!
Not so cool for lifeforms (if any) on any planet around its vicinity, though.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/11/researchers-witnessed-birth-black-hole/
I thought this was straight from The Onion hahaha 😅 https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/09/683298815/speakers-at-indian-science-congress-say-newton-was-wrong-ancient-demon-had-airpl
#science
Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem
Simple artificial-intelligence problem puts researchers up against a logical paradox discovered by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel.
i think it's cool if a young new sun captures a crystallized red-dwarf in orbit that then becomes a crystal planet! http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_how_Sun-like_stars_turn_solid_after_their_demise
9 Tricks for Kickass #JavaScript Developers in 2019
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/9-tricks-for-kickass-javascript-developers-in-2019-eb01dd3def2a
Big Crowds Flow Like Water in Amazing (and Terrifying) Ways
Hydrodynamic theory helps to explain how large human crowds flow like water.
#Minimalism isn’t about removing things you love. It’s about removing things that distract you from the things you love. #minimalistHome
And this is why I love #scifi.
Early Predictions of the Internet Date Back to 19th Century #Sci-Fi
Science fiction writers are professional future-dreamers, imagining worlds far beyond their own. With technology advancing at astronomical rates, real life feels more and more like sci-fi every day (for better or worse). So it’s fun to look back at those writers who, decades and even centuries ago, imagined what life would be like now—and some of their predictions were surprisingly accurate.
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/early-predictions-of-the-internet-date-back-to-19th-cen-1831319970
@ajroach42 very nice! Best of luck and have fun! Cool thing to do! 👍
Interview with mathematician John Baez. Hadn't had a chance to meet him the few times he's been to Singapore. @loke
Potential #scifi books to add to my reading list for 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/29/18131076/best-new-sci-fi-books-2018-science-fiction
#ScienceFiction predictions, right and wrong, about 2019
The future is now. Back in the early '80s, we were wondering what the distant future had in store, what it would be like. Well, that #future -- 2019 -- is almost here.
A Single Amoeba Cell Hints at a Solution to the Biggest Problem in #ComputerScience, The Travelling Salesman Problem #math #mathematics
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25686417/amoeba-math/
Fragmenting into ever smaller pieces to explore ever widening spaces.
Pattern-hunter, Thinker and Tinkerer.