Jason Bentley

Leaving this here just in case a @X engineer comes across it. Deleting my X app today. @X started showing a lot of politicized content on my "For You" feed. The #algorithm then seems to have entered into a positive feedback loop. Now my feed is littered with "toxic" content (I don't like using buzzwords but that's what it is). Now, every time I use X, I end up feeling angry, frustrated, dismayed, and even somewhat vindictive. This is not a healthy relationship with social media. Obviously, my own habits on this app are partially to blame, but at the same time I believe the algorithm should deal a more "even" hand when it decides which content to show. Afterall, this isn't fb! Just my $0.02. Cya sometime in the future.

@JonFreemanSr @astro_Pettit @Space_Station @NASA @NASA_Astronauts Thats great but all that white fuzz are just distant stars, no atmosphere so no atmospheric haze to clean

@astro_Pettit @Space_Station @NASA @NASA_Astronauts Just a little clean up

Star field image of the Southern Cross from @Space_Station during Expedition 6 in 2003 showing the atmosphere on edge illuminated by green airglow from atomic oxygen. At this time Space Station’s orbital attitude was a solar inertial attitude (XPOP) that allowed the solar panels to point towards the sun without any tracking (solar tracking was not added to ISS until much later). Essentially, the station itself was the tracking mechanism thus for a camera mounted to Space Station, a time exposure yielded stars as pinpoints. Since about 2006, ISS has flown an Earth pointing attitude where one side remains pointed nadir towards Earth (LVLH) and time exposures yield stars that are arcing trails. This attitude limits sharp star images to less than a half second. For my upcoming flight, I am bringing a wind-up tracking device that will compensate for the current space station motions and once again allow long time exposures with pin point stars. With our current generation of digital cameras, I hope to continue these astrophotography star field images. Nikon-Kodak 760 camera, 58mm f1.2 lens, 30 second exposure, ISO 400.

@Haruzo1234 @gfodor lol what? Go look at research surrounding IQ statistics in prison populations vs the general public.

@gfodor Also, smart people find legal loopholes, they don't obey laws

Prediction: as soon as we have the technology to raise IQ via a medical procedure, it will be obvious that vast swathes of crime and poverty disappear upon applying this to everyone in a region

@DanMulroyjr Calculus is the mathematics of change. If you’re taking a calc course you’re probably targeting a hard science or engineering field in college. Calc is the fundamental language of most of these fields. CS arguably is more based in linear algebra.

Why is calculus the default higher level math in high school and not statistics? Is there a reason I don’t know about? I feel like society would be way better off if they understood the basics of statistics. I’m honestly curious.

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@amuse Here is a close up of the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas. The surface is made up of an array of around 1.2 million LED pucks, each consisting of 48 individual LEDs and designed by SACO. You can see the sphere being calibrated in the video youtube.com/shorts/v0U4GKb…

VR has been around for centuries! This early attempt at a view master is from the 1830’s. Here’s a video going over the history of VR from 1800 to today: youtu.be/TV1G6pUIARY

Babies’ nervous systems are developing so quickly that sensations, sounds, and sights can be intense and disorienting. As such, grass makes many small contact points with skin and this can be very overwhelming for an infant Read more here: bit.ly/3smpcaG

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by animals. The exact reason for this phenomenon is still unknown however in some cases we do know that it is used to attract pray or scare off predators. Watch more here: youtu.be/jJdLiKYKWzY

@integralprojec1 @PicturesFoIder Honestly, saw this meme like 10 times before i realized what the question was asking, the boxes threw me off

@JasonBe01306124 @PicturesFoIder Finally somebody got it!

@BrennaDIsMe @PicturesFoIder For simple math it is useless but when you get into calculus you don’t have a choice but to think about math in this way. Why not start early?

@JasonBe01306124 @PicturesFoIder It makes useless extra steps

@sone2455 @PicturesFoIder Yeah the boxes threw me off too

@JasonBe01306124 @PicturesFoIder Looks like these boxes and dots (apart from giving trypophobia) made the question difficult to understand. Just three blanks were enough. "_____+_____+_____=? "

@David24843470 @PicturesFoIder I believe there is a deeper issue there with our education system as a whole, kids are good at whatever they are interested in

@JasonBe01306124 @PicturesFoIder I never see a kid anymore that is good in math. I my days we where really good at it. Just stop with giving kids a phone and let them learn the normal way

TIL after walking into a spider web and observing the spider eat the remains of its web that spiders will do this to recycle the long chain amino acids that make up the web. Read more here: bit.ly/45cBuBj

This is called common core math, albeit controversial it attempts to teach a different way of thinking about basic math operations. The idea is that you don’t think of numbers as objects but as groups of 1’s. So then you can say 8+9 = 7+9+1 = 7+10 = 17. This may seem arbitrarily complex for simple operations like addition but this way of thinking about math becomes essential starting in pre-calculus and beyond where complex expressions can be reduced down to simple and solvable concepts. Here’s a video going over the intended idea behind the concept: youtu.be/gC3ukHLvUzY

It has no purpose now or here but like any innovation we have to look towards the future! For example, when we colonize the moon and mars it will be much cheaper, much more energy efficient, and much cleaner (do you really want that many animals transmitting disease on a closed loop air and water system?) to grow lab meat instead of raising live stock. This is great and is going to be a vital technology of humanity is going to be exploring space.

What is the point of lab grown meat? 🤔 🔊 1) The energy cost is dramatically more expensive than just raising chicken and cattle the traditional way. 2 The concept doesn’t scale. We will never be able to make billions of pounds of lab grown meat. They will struggle to reach 1%. 3) Most people prefer a more traditional meat. Not an artificial lab product.

Just graduated, time to get to work! #engineering #EE #Electronics

The boat is not heavy enough to keep that much air below sea level. The pressure from the surrounding water would push the air up, and the boat with it, to the surface. This is called buoyancy. They would need more weight to keep the boat underwater. Here’s a better explanation of buoyancy: youtu.be/16HDJNoXQII

Gotta love @CommunityNotes lol. Arguably the most non-biased fact checker currently available.