Eric Cromwell

@PopSci "Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning" - Gen. George Hammond

“Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox without contradicting current astronomical measurements." trib.al/9ZRPL6V

@AJamesMcCarthy @Combat_learjet I am insanely jealous, this is the best I can get.

@Combat_learjet Thank you 🙏

This is ABSOLUTELY EPIC Andrew!

@ENERGY How about a compromise? music.youtube.com/watch?v=tkaZqJ…

Dropping 3 albums is cool but we're still on @ENERGY

@elonmusk @PhysInHistory ~ what Rocket said to Tony

@PhysInHistory Smart, for a human

Mathematician and polymath John von Neumann could speak eight languages by the age of six, including Ancient Greek and Latin. He could divide eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of six. He was familiar with differential and integral calculus by the age of eight. He entered the University of Budapest at the age of 15 and earned a degree in chemical engineering at the age of 19. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Berlin at the age of 22.

@jordanreviewsit Then send in the clones.

Sir a second version of this meme has hit the timeline

@DrBrianKeating Finally got how to describe particle spin perfectly! Forget the ball that's spinning but not a ball thing and not spinning. It's just a USB A plug. *nods*

@ItsRobbAllen plot twist, it's type c

He's trying to plug in the USB cable. Make it not fit. Now that he's flipped it, make that not fit as well. Good, he's flipping it back to the original orientation. Make it slide right in.

@Favwontmiss and all because all of us heard as children that ducks could sleep with half of their brain and wanted to try it

researchers just found that adhd brains literally slip into brief sleep-like states during demanding tasks, not zoning out. not being lazy. actual sleep-like brain activity. while you're awake. trying to work.

@DrBrianKeating The brain is the bulk of the machinery, but you aren't getting anywhere without the inputs or the available patterns from the deepest laws of physics.

What do you say:

Joscha Bach (@Plinz) says the self is a story your brain tells, not a "thing" that really exists. He also said Sam Harris's framework inherits structural elements from the Protestant tradition it rejected. Vote your honest gut in the poll below. youtu.be/7bqdPHLIY8w

@archaeologyart Clearly AI (Anglo-Impressionism) :D (this is a joke, ... a bad joke, but a joke none the less)

+++about left hands: ​I haven't found any clear info on this, so I didn't write about it. But if you ask me, it's a mistake. That's why it's explicitly noted in the catalog. Besides, in Christianity, healing and grace are always God's 'right hand', so intentionally drawing two left hands here doesn't make sense to me.

Two hands emerge from behind the clouds. Both are left hands**. Together, they grasp the same staff. A snake is coiled around the staff, its tongue darting out. This small woodcut printer's mark was stamped on the title pages of hundreds of books in the 16th century, and it managed to pack three biblical references into a single image. Look at the shape of the staff. It isn't a straight stick; it has a horizontal crossbar at the top. It's drawn in the shape of the Greek letter tau, meaning a T-shape. The early Christian theologian Tertullian wrote as early as the 3rd century AD: the Greek tau and the Latin T are identical in form, and this is exactly what the execution cross looks like. So the cross here is a T-shaped cross, known as the crux commissa or tau cross, which differs from the Latin cross. In chapter 9 of the Old Testament's Book of Ezekiel, God has this mark drawn on the foreheads of those who are to be saved. In the Christian interpretive tradition, this 'mark' has been read as the tau/tav and a prefiguration of the cross. Actually, this symbol is a motif associated with protection and salvation even before Christianity. Now, let's get to the snake. The Book of Numbers, chapter 21. The Israelites rebel against God in the wilderness. As punishment, the camp is struck by a plague of snakes, and people die. God commands Moses: make a bronze snake, set it on a pole, and raise it high. Anyone bitten by a snake will look at it and live. Here's the paradox of the story. The very thing that heals is a representation of the thing that kills. The image of the poison becomes the antidote. The Greek word pharmakon is ambiguous enough to evoke this paradox: it can mean both poison and medicine. The exact same image. Much later, in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 14, Jesus tells a leader named Nicodemus: 'Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.' So, with this single sentence, the bronze snake in the wilderness transforms into a prefiguration of the crucified Christ in Christian typology. The mastery of the printer's mark lies here: it carries three references at once in a single object. The tau/tav evokes the mark of protection in Ezekiel; the snake, the bronze snake in the wilderness; and their combination, the cross. The Old and New Testaments overlap in a single depiction. Let's return to the hands holding the staff. They aren't human hands; they reach out from behind the clouds. In the manus Dei tradition of Christian art, a hand emerging from the clouds signifies the intervention or approval of God, who isn't directly depicted. **The catalog record maintained by the US National Library of Medicine for the Valgrisi edition specifically notes this: 'two left hands.' collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nl…

@elder_plinius I woke up before the hospital when it happened to me. Walked into the living room said aw shit. Thump. Dr gave me wrong BP meds

i just woke up in the hospital wtf

@AJamesMcCarthy Random thought, I wonder if you could project the image directly into something like volcanic glass under a thin layer of water and get it to look like a 3D hologram, then record the projection with no danger to the electronics from heat.

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

@AJamesMcCarthy @EpigenScapes @kamin_amy Probably because people that don't do photography can sometimes forget you don't have to tap the button every 100 ms.

@EpigenScapes @kamin_amy I was shooting at 10fps for ~8 hours per day. Most cameras are capable of higher, so not sure why you’d say that’s impossible 🤔

@DJSnM The most 'respected' flerfers you can find.

Ok, what’s the coolest thing we could put on this one off, suborbital structure?

@Jediwolf @SHL0MS Yeah, that about sums up the depth of AI hater actual analysis skills.

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

@skdh The Answer is yes, I changed my squiggle to Ironman and they locked my card.

when the DHL guy comes and there's something to sign, I make a squiggle on the touchscreen and we both laugh and I wonder if anyone ever looks at any of those "signatures" and why we're still doing this

Hate to be the tider of bad bearings, ... There is a finite amount of infinite information our universe can process. So, the entire universe is basically just cycling through the same stuff over and over again. Don't be so down on it though. Just try to see as much of it for yourself as you can,(just, you know, everything) because there's not enough time for anyone to be doing repeats unless it's for practice.

@littmath For about a year back around 1990 I felt humans (inc myself) were just parrots that randomly picked scripts to run based on the situation That was a fun year

stochastic parrots: “it doesn’t think” “verification is the bottleneck” “solve math, solve everything else,” “they’re just stochastic parrots”

@conspiracyb0t The only problem is if the machine overlords play favorites. as long as the rich people get outed as degenerates like the rest of us, then they'll just relax the laws a bit

Klaus Schwab announcing the end of privacy: "You have to get used to it. You have to behave accordingly... if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid."

@JohnCleese That's 36 doctors putting their licenses at risk for diagnosing a patient without a formal exam.

I hope the Republicans will read this Or at least get someone to read it to them

@gabsmashh @RachelTobac Your printer you say? easy, no problem. I just need to know the manufacturer. *silence* "its got a scanner too." Who made it? "Best buy."

@RachelTobac "...cool but can you figure out why my printer isn't working?" 💀😭

me explaining what an ai deepfake pentest is at the family function