blair kirkpatrick
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blair kirkpatrick
@mac_siccar
🧬 physicist / data-nut / raconteur 🔬

Mantis shrimp hold the world record for the most complex visual system. They have up to 16 photoreceptors and can see UV, visible and polarised light being the only animals known to detect circularly polarised light. [📹 MJ Ogata]


The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”

Tuvan throat singing is a style practiced in Tuva, Mongolia, and Siberia. It is noted for including overtone singing manipulating the air resonance from lungs to lips to produce a melody This is artist Batzorig Vaanchig [YT: buff.ly/3MYkk26] twitter.com/blabla112345/s…


Using a mug of beer to test the gun stabilization on a German Leopard 2 tank



Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.




When are we going to focus on the real and useful applications of #AI? There are tons of business use cases where we can apply this technology. Yet, we keep only anthropomorphizing it…The narrative should change. Let’s start treating AI for what it is: a tool.

