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The blurry black hole photo
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2 min read
In the New Republic, writer Matt Ford rightly argues why we should be in awe of the blurry photo of the black hole. It’s not about the picture as much as the effort in went in to capturing it. Context is king. This level of cynicism is better understood as ignorance. The image itself might…
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NASA’s “women computers” 🚀
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1 min read
Katherine Johnson helped launch America’s first orbit around Earth. She also “computed the path” that would eventually get Neil Armstrong to the moon. In 1962’s Mercury-Atlas launch, astronaut John Glenn personally requested that she hand-crunch the machine’s calculations around the planet. She confirmed the math a day and a half later. The 2016 film Hidden…
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Are we living in a computer simulation?
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1 min read
Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that we can live forever? Says theoretical physicist James Gates: “If the simulation hypothesis is valid, then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have…