77 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/44rfByX

Did you get all your work done this week? No. Well did you manage to relax a little? No. But you’re at least energised for the weekend? No.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin (who identifies as Jewish) called the UN “transparently antisemitic” after its Special Rapporteur accused tech firms including Google of profiting from genocide in Gaza. The report by Francesca Albanese named Google and Amazon as aiding Israel’s war

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

The Fourier transform of the discrete time impulse δ[n] is 1.

As a graduate student, his research doesn’t show much promise. It isn’t especially innovative, methodologically rigorous, or theoretically compelling. His willingness to throw his co-authors & professors under bus when he underachieves though shows real administrative potential!

Over the years, pacemakers have used various power sources — including plutonium-238 Nuclear pacemakers could last over 40 years, compared to 5–10 for conventional ones. A small number of people in the U.S. still have them

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Why does x86 have so many instructions? Because having too few would be too RISC-y.

A cross-regional group of countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Iceland, Namibia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela, along with members of the OIC) sent a letter to Volker Türk regarding the sanctions imposed on Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

I thank wholeheartedly the member states who are standing behind my work. In moment of pain and transition, comes the change. Together we can build a better system, and Palestine and the sacrifice of the Palestinian people cannot be in vain. No more empty words, may this be

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Why would anyone want to be a scientist? There are the pleasures of: 1. Having the initial idea or insight, 2. Watching the idea develop into new experiments or a new model, and 3. Telling others. Martin A. Schwartz also talks about this on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/74-…

In a rush of academia, don't forget to enjoy life, family, good food, outdoor activities, traveling, etc. If you are thinking to do it all after you finish a/an experiment, paper, school, Ph.D., Postdoc, etc., so remember this is just one life, & sadly time is not coming back!

Personal observation: The most popular SDR used in research papers I've read on Arxiv is USRP B210! Other USRP models (B200, N series and X-series) rank next.

Lukáš Hozda You're probably too young to appreciate this statement, but the real reason C became popular is that it compiles down to efficient assembly language. In the 70s and 80s, anyone doing real-time programming had to watch every clock cycle and either wrote in assembly or in C

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NVIDA chips are manufactured by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. They're created using EUV lithography machines manufactured by ASML, a Dutch company. These machines consist of >50% of German parts (by value), in particular ZEISS optics.