#scientific computing

[stone-cold-groove]

Control Data 600 Series Magnetic Tape Transports brochure.

#control data corporation #control data tape transports #business computers #vintage computers #vintage electronics #control data 607 #scientific computing #big blue #control data 600 series #magnetic tape transports

[wikinley]

Does a USB drive get heavier as you store more files on it?

Nope. Paradoxically (and theoretically), the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets.

USB drives use Flash memory, which means the the ones and zeros of the data are stored on transistors.

When you save data, a binary zero is set by charging the float gate of the transistor, and a binary one is set by removing the charge.

To charge it, we add electrons, and the mass of each electron is 0.00000000000000000000000000091 grams.

This means that an empty USB drive (which mostly holds zeros) weighs more than a full USB drive (which has ones and zeros). Add data, reduce the weight.

#usb charger #usb port #usb cable #usb #technews #minimal techno #technoblade #technology #tech magic #tech memes #science and technology #science acumen #scientific illustration #scifi #science #the glass scientists #mad scientist #computer science #computer accessories #mobile application development #mobile app development

[scipunk]

The Quiet Earth (1985)

#the quiet earth #80s #scifi movies #post apocalyptic #retro aesthetic #1980s #vintage #computers #eighties #scientific equipment #80s aesthetic #scifi aesthetic #80s movies #retro scifi #indie movie #indie film #cult classic #hidden gems #gif #gifset

[p4nishers]

talking w ppl irl really is just like. wow. insane how unfunny you are compared to my close personal friend The Fictional Character

#fuck boring straight ppl computer show me a pic of mobius m mobius scientifically proven to be the funniest person alive #this also goes for the gay ppl in my phone like nobody gets me like tumblr user divorce enjoyer its hard world we live in man 🫤 #mobius m mobius #loki #loki season 2 #loki series

[trevodequatro]

daily tip: for increased productivity, you can pretend the google docs is a beautiful dragon dilf and you are feeding him whenever yoy type words. finish writing that project. give that dragon a nice stuffed belly.

#trevodequatro.txt #google doc?? it's short for. Dragon On the Computer. obviously #follow for more trustworthy and scientifically proved daily tips

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Reviews for Week 4, 2024

Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory. Buzsáki, G., & Tingley, D. (2023). Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46(1), 191–210.

Prefrontal Cortical Control of Anxiety: Recent Advances. Mack, N. R., Deng, S., Yang, S.-S., Shu, Y., & Gao, W.-J. (2023). The Neuroscientist, 29(4), 488–505.

Neural Circuits for Emotion. Malezieux, M., Klein, A. S., & Gogolla, N. (2023). Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46(1), 211–231.

Recent Insights on Glutamatergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Therapeutic Implications. Pinky, P. D., Pfitzer, J. C., Senfeld, J., Hong, H., Bhattacharya, S., Suppiramaniam, V., … Reed, M. N. (2023). The Neuroscientist, 29(4), 461–471.

#neuroscience #science #research #brain science #scientific publications #cognitive science #reviews #neurobiology #cognition #psychophysics #computational neuroscience

[thresholdbb]

Seven "act casual" of Nine walking into the galley, pretending to grab a cup of coffee, then walking out without it is so relatable

#scientific method #star trek voyager #seven of nine #I'd make gifs but zero computer space to download whole episodes #and my internet is both expensive and terrible #I would do this kind of shit all the time when I had a go to work kind of job #this is why I am now feral #free range if you will #speaking of I should go do some work to make some money

[commodorez]

Channeling my inner 1970s homebrew computer hacker using Byte Magazine Volume 00, Issue No. 1 for help with a surplus Sanders 720 keyboard. It's not the exact same model featured in the article, but it's close! What's more, that OSI-440 video board I'm working on has provisions in the manual for interfacing with a Sanders 720.

#sanders 720 #byte magazine #ohio scientific #osi 440 #osi 400 #kit computer #you have no idea how exciting this is

[makeshiftloops]

Spitballing here, but can you imagine Alice finding out the actual names of Norris and Chester, but just being like “Nah those are bad names” and continuing to use the ones she gave them? Cuz I think that’d be pretty funny

#lowkey hoping that Jon and Martin are actually stuck in Computer Hell too #and let them interact with the other characters #I wanna see how that’d go over #for scientific purposes #let them run free #the magnus protocol #tmp #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus pod #posts for the void

[exoflash]

the only thing that irritates me as badly as new agers is western christians trying to explain away the spiritual with pseudoscience

#brightts ramblings #religion #spirituality #someone i know believes that if your dna is wiped from existence my god it'll wipe people's memories #which is the moat pseudoscientific nonsense ive ever seen #AND TIED IT INTO SIMULATION THEIRY WITH #'well it's all a computer system run by god so it's like deleting a program' #EVEN DELETING A FILE LEAVES A TRACE UNTIL IT IS FULLY OVERWRITTEN WHICH CAN TAKE MULTIPLE FULL DRIVE WIPES #AND EVEN THEN. EVEN THEN DATA CAN BE FOUND #its like new age which puts so much focus on dna #like i do stay rational and believe everything should be approached from a scientific ANGLE #but you do not know everything. #you don't understand how sea creatures function why do you think you know #exactly how an almighty creator of the universe would wok #work*

[stone-cold-groove]

Just a girl and her IBM 7094 computer.

#ibm #ibm computers #business computers #vintage computers #vintage electronics #ibm 7094 #scientific computing #big blue

[bluegreenpurple-writesandreads]

You ever read so many papers by a person and you’re like okay I guess we should make out now

#writing #writblr #studyblr #research #dark academia #classic academia #academic validation #light academic aesthetic #academicexcellence #academicsuccess #academic writing #literature #science #computer scientist #scientific illustration

[gailynovelry]

SCREAM I love dystopias and I love worldbuilding and I am appalled at the thought of how desperate a person would have to be to get something called a Worker Bee Implant omg

Please tell me more fun things about this please

aaaaaaa hello! So this is from Mindhive and boy is Mindhive a ride. Still working out a lot of things about it, but also it's 80k long, so there's a lot of thoughts to choose from. Hmmmmm.

More context about the implants! But not all of the context, hehehe;

~ The trial volunteers do not go into the trial with any idea of what the implant actually does. It's only specified to be a "mental enhancement." Within the context of the world of MH, this means that most trial volunteers are going in assuming that it's going to be another failed attempt at a "general intelligence enhancement."

~ We say "another failed attempt" because the tech industry in MH has been in a hype cycle for "we're going to use science to enhance IQ!" for a while. But "intelligence" is complicated, and brains are complicated, and there's no magic bullet to "enhance" these things.

~ (Can you tell that the tech industry in MH is prone to eugenic lines of thinking and hype cycles for things that will never pan out for practical reasons? Real life is an unfortunately great source of inspiration for dystopia.)

~ But the implant is not an intelligence enhancement.

~ It could be considered a communication enhancement. If you've read the summary, you know one of the things it is capable of!

~ Hooray telepathy : D

~ It's intended to work in concert with a different type of technology, known as an EIS - an Emotive Intelligence System. Basically, a classic sci-fi AI, but under a new name because MH takes place in the future and in my present the tech industry has made the term "AI" into a marketing buzzword associated with art theft and scams.

~ The ideal EIS for this set-up has enough interpersonal skills to communicate with contractors, but only enough interest in workers to maintain Baseline Aliveness.

~ So, not V.E.R.T.I.G.O, who has a near-anthropologist curiosity about people, and a firm desire to provide them with a decent quality of life whenever possible. : (

~ What does this add up to? Not the horrors, of course, I am sure that the way these ideas click together have nothing to do with the way that corporations approach labor costs, working conditions, and bodily autonomy. : )

Also we're really into making webpages right now, so this WIP has some Neocities funstuff happening! Yay!

#Mindhive #thanks for the ask! #you came here at just the right time! #we spent a decent chunk of today rereading Mindhive for a break from Breathing Gods and boy howdy do we have thoughts & excitement <3 #i do think it is very funny that we have worldbuilt a situation where telepathy is very plausible #in a world that otherwise skews high on the realism #it's kind of because of the way we set up the implants tbh; basically the implants communicate w/ brains they are attached to #and also w/ each other #which lets the brains communicate w/ each other indirectly #and that's as scientific as we can make it lmao #telepathy: believable. compassionate computer programs: sure. intelligence enhancements: no. #hgkdhg i love biting into our awful little dystopias #MH is about on par with PP in “worst quality of life for the inhabitants of the world” #all i can say is . . . poor poor Avery / Nathaniel / Lucine

[self-spaghettification]

they/themavos real

#the dragon prince #lgbt #aaravos #i know tumblr hates chat ai but personally i enjoy it it amuses me #im also going into computer science so like #u can view me as The Enemy if you want ig #but #idk personally i feel yeah #publishing ai writing for a profit anywhere is totally wrong #and underpaying/overworking workers #but being a little silly and goofy with the chat bots #without feeding it anyone else’s writing #that’s coolio #yk basically there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed #it’s like any sort of technological advancement. it can be used for good but also to cause harm in the wrong hands. arcane tv series moment #but you can’t deny the advance it doesn’t rlly care if you do or not lmao #unsolicited rant yk but here u go #self spaghettification #😘 #original post #tag rant #it’s a tool. like anything else #it’s good not to become too reliant on it though #its a tool with a lot of possibility :) #i do have some of that guilt going into cs like am i selling my soul to the devil?…. i mean maybe #but also automating things is nice. making advancements is nice #so yk. ultimately i think it’s best to be a well rounded person with both scientific and humanitarian intent in mind #and im open about basically every facet of myself good or bad lol

[roseve-art]

Michel Tcherevkoff

#art #surreal #space #cosmos #universe #stars #galaxy #trippy #rainbow #michel tcherevkoff #electronics #circuits #science #scientific art #science art #vintage art #80s #old computers #computers

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Folks have got to get better at learning the difference between average life expectancy and maximum lifespan. No, bottlenose dolphins do not “average” 60 years. The oldest known wild bottlenose was 67 and the oldest in captivity was 61. Reaching the 60s is exceptional, and a dolphin’s 40s is typically the end of its natural lifespan. Median survival rates are teens/early twenties for wild dolphins and late twenties/early thirties for those in human care.

#I’ll add sources to this later once I’m at a computer #inspired by an 11-year-old boy mansplaining to me AT WORK that well ACTUALLY wild dolphins live to be 60 but die as teenagers in captivity #which I’m sure he learned by googling since the first few articles list 60 as ‘average’ #dolphins #bottlenose dolphin #dolphin life expectancy #scientific illiteracy #marine biology #zoology