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Jan 3, 2022

55-foot-long Triassic sea monster discovered in Nevada

Posted by in category: futurism

The beast shows that ichthyosaurs grew big really fast.


The discovery of a semitrailer-size ichthyosaur from the early Triassic shows that these reptiles got big really fast, evolutionarily speaking.

Jan 3, 2022

The curious story of Elon Musk’s Tesla stock sales and SpaceX’s fundraising

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space travel, sustainability

It looks like Elon is putting more of his money into SpaceX. This makes sense as he has tons of money and SpaceX seems to have more growth potential than Tesla because his Starlink and Starship will both be very hard for other companies to compete against. (Just the amount of capital it would take to make competing products is staggering.)

I’m not saying that Tesla won’t be worth $10 trillion one day, I’m just saying SpaceX has more growth potential. Elon seems to agree.


What’s Elon Musk doing with the billions he’s collected in the past two months from selling shares in Tesla?

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Jan 3, 2022

Nanotech Energy Unveils Fireproof Graphene Battery

Posted by in categories: energy, nanotechnology

Explosive if true. Figuratively speaking.


Explosive if true, figuratively speaking. The technology replaces the typically flammable electrolytes in batteries with graphene.

Jan 3, 2022

Fine-Tuning the BART Large Model for Text Summarization

Posted by in category: futurism

According to The Atlantic, The New York Times publishes more than 150 articles a day and more than 250 on Sundays. The Wall Street Journal publishes about 240 stories every day. Other websites, like Buzzfeed, publish more than 6,000 stories every month.

Jan 3, 2022

Why 2022 could be the year to create your avatar and join the metaverse

Posted by in category: futurism

Meta, Sony and Apple could reshape the way we think about the metaverse, but they won’t be the only companies working on it.

Jan 3, 2022

Elon Musk Thinks Every Child Should Learn About These 50 Cognitive Biases

Posted by in categories: education, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Would the world be more rational if we did as Musk recently suggested and taught kids about cognitive biases in school?

Jan 3, 2022

More workers are resigning than ever. Here’s how to keep them

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, habitats

Some of the churn is transitory. It was hard to act on pent-up job dissatisfaction while economies were in free fall, so there is a post-pandemic backlog of job switches to clear. And more quitting now is not the same as sustained job-hopping later. As Melissa Swift of Mercer, a consultancy, notes, white-collar workers in search of higher purpose will choose a new employer carefully and stay longer.

But there is also reason to believe that higher rates of churn are here to stay. The prevalence of remote working means that more roles are plausible options for more jobseekers. And the pandemic has driven home the precariousness of life at the bottom of the income ladder. Resignation rates are highest in industries, like hospitality, that are full of low-wage workers who have lots of potentially risky face-to-face contact with colleagues and customers.

One conventional solution—identifying a few star performers and bunging them extra money—is not a retention strategy if large chunks of the workforce are thinking differently about their jobs. What should managers be doing?

Jan 3, 2022

Christians point to genetics breakthroughs to show Adam and Eve are not incompatible with evolution

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics

Many Christians have rejected the scientific theory of evolution in part because they think it rules out the existence of a historical Adam and Eve. Yet some scientists and theologians argue that recent breakthroughs in genetics make a historical Adam and Eve compatible with evolution, and that this development may help bridge what many see as a conflict between faith and science.

“For over 160 years, the societal conflict over evolution has been deep and stubborn. But now, in a surprise twist, evolutionary science is making space for Adam and Eve,” S. Joshua Swamidass, an associate professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, told Fox News Digital. “It turns out that the theological questions are about genealogical ancestry, not genetics. In this paradigm shift, we are finding a better way forward, a better story to tell.”

In his book “The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry,” Swamidass argues that genetics and evolutionary theory do not conflict with the existence of Adam and Eve, universal ancestors of all humans whom Jesus died to save.

Jan 3, 2022

Harnessing programming techniques to improve R scripts

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, engineering, robotics/AI

Automating repetitive tasks with loops and functions.


Many R users get into R programming from a statistics background rather than a programming/software engineering background, having previously used software such as SPSS, Excel etc. As such they may not have an understanding of some of the programming techniques that can be leveraged to improve code. This can include making the code more modular which in turn makes it easier to find and resolve bugs, but also can be used to automate repetitive tasks, such as producing tables and plots etc.

This short post in c ludes some of the basic programming techniques that can be used to improve the quality and maintainability of R scripts. This will also save you a whole lot of time if you are carrying out repetitive tasks that are only marginally different. We assume that you have a basic understanding of writing simple scripts in R.

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Jan 3, 2022

Physicists “cautiously optimistic” about CERN evidence for new funda

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

If the finding really is the result of new fundamental particles then it will finally be the breakthrough that physicists have been yearning for for decades.


When CERN’s gargantuan accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), fired up ten years ago, hopes abounded that new particles would soon be discovered that could help us unravel physics’ deepest mysteries. Dark matter, microscopic black holes, and hidden dimensions were just some of the possibilities. But aside from the spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson, the project has failed to yield any clues as to what might lie beyond the standard model of particle physics, our current best theory of the micro-cosmos.

So our new paper from LHCb, one of the four giant LHC experiments, is likely to set physicists’ hearts beating just a little faster. After analyzing trillions of collisions produced over the last decade, we may be seeing evidence of something altogether new – potentially the carrier of a brand new force of nature.

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