Undecided whether this forecast is good or bad for our half term holiday. Certainly far too hot to do anything but better to have that weather on holiday than at work?
The freezer in the house we are renting, at the border of the black region here, is currently unable to stop ice cubes within it from melting.
Can people please stop giving me short and easy tasks?! Can't they see this is helping me procrastinate on the big, difficult task I need to do?
The UK also has one of the best university systems in the world so we can train our own people to do high skill jobs. And the whole concept of "high skill" is dodgy anyway; there is human capital in excess demand and human capital not in excess demand.
Terence Tao doesn’t think AI will replace human mathematicians anytime soon, but he does consider it well suited to helping solve certain types of complex mathematical problems: ones that can be broken into thousands of small, manageable subproblems.
The Arrakihs mission has been adopted as ESA's next F-class mission, with an expected launch in 2030! It will look at the low surface brightness outskirts of 80 Milky Way-like galaxies.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Reposting for the Sunday morning reading crowd with a free-to-read link that isn't behind the Nature paywall! 🔭⚛️🧪👩🔬
📖: rdcu.be/floXQ
Astronomer, Associate Professor of cosmology at Portsmouth. Works on galaxy redshift surveys, from telescopes on remote mountaintops or in space. Dad, occasional climber, likes cricket. Occasionally has opinions.
