Fuck that scale bar though. The decimal separator makes it look like the human hair is 10cm thick.

The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.

The first person to coin the word meme was Richard Dawkins in his book ‘the selfish gene’. He also postulates in the same chapter that religion is a particular form of a meme. So you’re one hundred percent correct!

You should read the book Superintelligence, it’s very interesting, and catches not only possibilities and limitations, also societal impact.

Sick that you shot this without a telescope! You must have great night skies where you live! Maybe I’ll try galaxy shots as well some time, I mostly do star trails

Kind of petty from Zuck not to roll it out in Europe due to the digital services act… But also kind of weird since it’s open source? What’s stopping anyone from downloading the model and creating a web ui for Europe users?

Auckland botanical gardens!

Interesting to have a humidifier under your guitars. I’d say high humidity would rust your strings in no time right? And possibly be bad for the wood as well

Omg Abby, I want her so bad.

Same, was very surprised. Also there are almost zero to no cats in New Zealand, they are extremely protective of their native bird species.

But it’s not about hopelessness. It’s about coming to terms with having lived a full life and being fully ready for a dignified end of it. My girlfriend works in a Dutch nursing home and has had the privilege of assisting a couple of euthanasia tracts for the elderly, and she says it’s one of the most magnificent things she was able to do for someone, emotionally speaking. People are very clear about the reasons (which have to be not only discussed, but thoroughly vetted by 2 doctors) and do not make this decision lightly. These is a very high level of clear communication between the family, doctors and patients about all relevant aspects for everyone involved.

I think when you and I reach that age, we will have very different thoughts on life and death.

Time series forecasting is a pretty well-established statistical method though.

It is pretty cool, but it’s a bit misleading… They didn’t ‘see’ dark matter, because it doesn’t interact with light or any particles. But they detected weak gravitational lensing caused by the dark matter (or any alternative source of the gravity we’ve coined dark matter), so this is not really conclusive physical evidence of dark matter.

But I’m no expert, please let people with astrophysics background correct me if I’m wrong.

Thanks for keeping it all together! I am going kiwi spotting on Stewart Island tonight. Unfortunately the tour is fully booked, so we’re just gonna go walk around at night and hope for the best.

Just recovering from walking Kepler in 3 days. Feet are still sore… Weather was supernice, except for the second day on the saddle, lots of rain. Slept like a baby in the van last night!

I was there a couple of days ago, got a great tour from Rosie. Did you go up the tower? Was quite the climb, and underwhelming view.

Thanks, that’s very good to know!

So… They watched Aliens?

They say very easily that it is economically viable, but I don’t see any proof or even calculations of this. It’s a nice discovery to be sure, but this kind of journalism is not the best way to communicate to the people.

And another side note, this is nothing new. Researchers have been doing this for ten years in this and other area’s, for instance to design new antibiotics against resistant strains. AI has just been slapped on here to make it sound cutting edge, which it isn’t.