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Well look at what arrived today Explosions&Fire

Nice weather, nice campus Uni of Adelaide (Just out of frame: work waiting for me to finish lunch)

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12 years on Twitter apparently. I wonder if I’m averaging more than one tweet per month…#MyTwitterAnniversary

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This is the moment Mars peeked out from behind our moon after being hidden for an hour. This shot was captured using my largest telescope and a special high-speed camera. Seeing another planet rising on the horizon of our moon was such a surreal experience.

And now, for something different: medium.com/@gtsiminis/clo… I wrote this a few years ago, just as the #covid pandemic was gathering speed. (Image below made using Midjourney)

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I need to try this

I helped.

This is my kind of obsession.

As someone with both interest and a career in technology, I have watched AI become widely accessible and more powerful in recent times and have used it myself. I have however struggled to express an opinion on what is happening at the moment, until now: arstechnica.com/information-te…

youtube.com/watch?v=1AbBpY… Wow. The combination of pointless over engineering and amazing craftsmanship is really quite something. If only someone out there could test it… (But not James Hoffmann presumably)

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Excellent results from the team at Uni of Adelaide and @IPASadelaide highlighting how well-known materials still hold on to some secrets that only careful investigation and new ideas can reveal. A lot of work here! lnkd.in/gJ496bV4 (Free via the link till Mid August)

This is a great explanation of what makes a discovery, well, an actual discovery in science.

This week has felt like a loooooong one

In a world of screens and digital photography (I know, I know) there’s something immensely rewarding in using the old eyeball on a telescope approach to look at the full moon. And then take a digital photo of it, of course!