FFT Explained

MIT: "60 years ago this month, the Fast Fourier Transform was created, a powerful tool for image compression & data analysis. Watch a classic MIT breakdown of FFT"

Your Tech At The Border

"How to Protect YourselfFrom Phone Searches at the US Border"

Exotic Quantum States

"US scientists discover never-before-seen quantum 'species' in twisted material"

Douthat On AI

Ross Douthat: "An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here's How to Survive."

I think he's too pessimistic. But his essay does make some good points.

AI Code Generation Update

"Making AI-generated codemore accurate in any language"

A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.

Lunar CPU

"The MoonShould Be a Computer"

Smell Friends?

Ars Technica: "Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends". (Via H.R.)

Hype On Alien Life

Nature: "Signs of life on a distant planet? Not so fast, say these astronomers"

Missing Matter

"A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding." (Via H.R.)

My first guess was under the couch.

New Color?

"Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before"

Human Vs. AI Reading Medical Notes

This question was posed recently on social media -- basically, asking someone to interpret a near-indecipherable orthopedic clinic note.  

My own translation:

Ortho
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R(ight) knee pain
R(ight) knee: + effusion, +pain, decreased ROM (range of motion)
Xray right knee: moderate OA (osteoarthritis)
A/P (assessment/plan): Right knee osteoarthritis
Right knee injection
F/u (followup) 3 months.

I also asked Grok AI to attempt to translate the image, and I have to confess it did surprisingly well!

 

 

 

Wave Confinement

"Thought To Be Impossible: Scientists Break Century-Old Physics Barrier". (Via H.R.)

A research team from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) and Jeonbuk National University has achieved a groundbreaking feat: the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long considered theoretically impossible. Their study, published on April 3 in Physical Review Letters, represents a significant advance in solving the century-old puzzle of bound states in the continuum (BIC).

iPhone Tricks

"18 ThingsYou Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do"

Gifted Bird Caller

"Oklahoma boy astounds classmates with his ability to do 50 different bird calls"

Travel Hacks

"10 Travel HacksReddit Users Swear By"

TB Diagnostics

"New handheld device can diagnose TB without a lab in under an hour, its developers say"