metapsyche @metapsyche@qoto.org

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.

When I think about the more important problems that could use cpu cycles, such as Hilbert's Mathematical problems, or Riemann's conjecture, I SMH at the wasted computing power devoted for bitcoin mining. Such a waste, man!

I'm so glad i didn't get into bitcoin mining. I was attracted to the idea of decentralized currency but i could not get myself to waste cpu cycles & energy for calculating what i see as wasteful--because mining is intentionally designed to be resource-intensive and difficult.

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.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00083-3

#patterns

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.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-athletes-way/201901/big-crowds-flow-water-in-amazing-and-terrifying-ways

#patterns

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

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.

https://triblive.com/business/technology/14448704-74/science-fiction-predictions-right-and-wrong-about-2019

#scifi

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/

New Horizons sees world beyond Pluto, "Ultima Thule", as it readies for historic flyby ringing in the New Year!

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-spacecraft-sees-world-beyond-pluto-as-it-readies-for-historic-flyby/