danielkhent 1 month ago

Programming Cells: Towards an Automated Genetic Compiler Vibe coding cells. Yikes. #genetics #vibecoding

PROGRAMMING CELLS: TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED ‘GENETIC COMPILER’ - The Science and Applications of Synthetic and Systems Biology - NCBI Bookshelf

One of the visions of synthetic biology is to be able to program cells using a language that is similar to that used to program computers or roboti...

danielkhent 1 month ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (in the middle of the day). Mine while the sun shines #renewableenergy

Electrek

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

danielkhent 1 month ago

Iceland starts drilling into a volcano? I like the sentiment, but I don’t think there is any drilling going on. Too bad, because this would be a good first step towards an evil lair. #geothermal #evillair

Iceland starts drilling into a volcano — 100 MW to power 50,000 homes from extreme heat

danielkhent 1 month ago

A lot of hyperbole but this part is true: The University of Reading study did find that ozone recovery could contribute about 40% more warming than previously estimated, with an additional 0.27 watts per square meter of warming expected. Who wants: skin cancer, cataracts, crop damage, ocean ecosystem damage? #climatechange

Climate change advocates face humiliation as scientists warn saving the ozone layer will backfire | Daily Mail Online

A surprising new study has revealed how 40 years of work to repair the ozone layer may end up causing its own climate change emergency that no one ...

danielkhent 1 month ago

“AI Could Unlock a Post-Scarcity Society” That old chestnut. #AI #postscarcity

Bitcoin News

Decentralized AI Could Unlock a Post-Scarcity Society, Says 0G Labs CEO

Discover how 0G Labs and founder Michael Heinrich are pioneering decentralized AI to ensure transparency, data integrity, and affordability.

danielkhent 1 month ago

First neuromorphic computer with 2 billion neurons The system consists of 15 blade-type neuromorphic servers with 960 Darwin 3 chips. Each chip supports more than 2.35 million spiking neurons and hundreds of millions of synapses. #AI #neuromorphiccomputing

Futura

Darwin Monkey, premier ordinateur neuromorphique au monde à 2 milliards de neurones

En Chine, une équipe de chercheurs a mis au point un ordinateur neuromorphique d'une puissance jamais atteinte. Cette innovation va permettre...

danielkhent 2 months ago

danielkhent 2 months ago

Cicero Leo

danielkhent 2 months ago

Wait. Adjectives are ordered? #writing https://test-english.com/explanation/b1-2/adjective-order/

danielkhent 2 months ago

The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda This beats the tired changing-the-motor-while-the-car-is-moving metaphor #technology

Damn Interesting

The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda

In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.

danielkhent 2 months ago

I know this has been incessantly posted and yet...

danielkhent 2 months ago

Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too Heinlein has nothing on Mary Shelley. #scifi

Vanity Fair

Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too

As another Frankenstein film debuts, here’s a full accounting of the writer’s tangled romantic history, involving Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord By...

danielkhent 2 months ago

danielkhent 2 months ago

danielkhent 2 months ago

“Scientists achieve electrically driven perovskite laser using dual-cavity design.” If only Mars had high concentrations of perovskite instead of perchlorates then we could make Mars a giant space laser. #scifi https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-electrically-driven-perovskite-laser.html

danielkhent 3 months ago

Intersection of #bookstr and #architecture

danielkhent 3 months ago

Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change #climatechange https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/clownfish-are-disappearing-because-of-climate-change/

danielkhent 3 months ago

Microbes found in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements Yellowstone microbes, so cutting edge. #science

Earth.com

Microbes discovered in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements to produce energy

Scientists found a microbe in a Yellowstone hot spring, Aquificales, that can use oxygen and sulfur at the same time to produce energy.