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Whale watching in Monterey Bay last weekend. Three moms and their calves form pod CA51, plus Jimmy from CA50 hanging around, showing off a huge dorsal fin. The moms would surface and then the calves would surface right next to them. I found the calves chubby and cute (caveat: I'm not a sea lion).
#NaturePhotography #California #Orca #Whale #PacificOcean -
Hey all, just saying you should watch our kickass video about our kickass fusion magnet. 24 tons, 4.3 meters tall, made with 300km of high-temperature superconducting tape, strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier.
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"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
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"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
A desert millipede in New Mexico. I rarely saw these when I was growing up, but now they're common in the White Rock Canyon area of Los Alamos County. Curiously, this species was kept as pets in Europe awhile back. They're harmless to humans (though they'll munch on your fingers) and I find them endearing.
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For reasons lost in the mists of time, TWA (the long-since defunct Trans World Airlines, acquired by American Airlines in 2001) used to hand out miniature staplers with a box of staples, too.
#Airlines #tchotchke #Americana -
80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum. LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55. Heavy thoughts.
#History #LosAlamos #NewMexico #NuclearWar #AtomicBomb #WW2 #Science -
Back in New Mexico for a couple weeks. Here's a nursing bighorn sheep, a rufous hummingbird, a sphinx moth gathering nectar, and a still life with Big Milly the millipede, named to contrast with a beetle my kid called Little Billy a couple weeks ago.
#NaturePhotography #moth #hummingbird #millipede #NewMexico -
I love the Project Indigo camera app, though on my older iPhone 14 Pro, Adobe disabled super-resolution by default because of overheating.
Settings are hidden in the app, but I figured out how to re-enable the feature from the FAQ: "How do I access camera settings?" https://helpx.adobe.com/project-indigo/get-started/faq.html
So worth it for 12MP 2x and 6x shots.
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Is this 1. 3D model of a protein or 2. twisty magnets in a stellarator?
Answer: It's the Type One Energy magnets shown in their physics basis papers published today on the Infinity Two power plant: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant
#FusionEnergy #Stellarator #Physics -
"Learning curve" actually has a technical meaning about manufacturing expertise — see up Wright's Law. At Commonwealth Fusion Systems we build magnets 30x faster now than when we first started, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom said at #FusionXInvest this week.
#FusionEnergy #Manufacturing #EnergyTransition #Magnets #Superconductors
https://blog.cfs.energy/how-cfs-is-building-a-fusion-factory-not-just-a-single-fusion-machine/ -
New PPPL paper uses higher fidelity computer simulation (at NERSC) to evaluate our plan to handle plasma disruption problems in SPARC. TL;dr: the new simulation validates our approach, six injectors that squirt in gas to rapidly cool the plasma.
#FusionEnergy #ComputerSimulation #Science https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad9ec4
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If only there were some technology that would mean the Texas power grid isn't so isolated, able to send power out of the state when production is high and able to draw on sources out of state when demand is high... Something like a more interconnected power grid...
https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/electric-power/010625-extreme-wind-cold-swings-texas-power-prices-from-negative-to-almost-triple-2020-24-averages #Power #PowerGrid #TexasPowerGrid
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Three #TsunamiWarning updates.
1. I got the web alert ~10 times in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari using various Google properties — Google Docs, Gmail, Google Messages, Google Maps.
2. Later web alerts added a "more info" button but I didn't see where it pointed.
3. My kid said a bunch of students' Apple Watches alerted at school. (They're generally of pre-smartphone age.) -
I hadn't heard of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) until this ARPA-E award to CFS. $2.5M to use multiple computer models across different length scales to design 2 joined materials for our ARC power plant. Specifically the vacuum vessel . https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/arpa-e-award-boosts-cfs-quest-for-the-best-fusion-power-plant-materials #FusionEnergy #Plasma #DOE #Fusion #physics #engineering #ICME
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We've now detailed the second core superconducting technology we developed at CFS for our fusion machines: PIT VIPER cables. Four years from idea to manufacturing, which is a breakneck pace for new magnet tech. Peer reviewed paper so people don't just have to take our word for it. Dig in here: https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-systems-second-breakthrough-superconducting-technology-handles-mammoth-pulses-of-power
#fusion #FusionEnergy #Superconducting #Engineering #Magnet #Climate #Science -
If you're in the SF Bay Area, I strongly recommend getting to Pacifica to see the humpback whales that have been pottering around for the last month. Quite remarkable. They lunge up when feeding. Track where they are with this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/352947586172817/
#NaturePhotography #Whale #HumpbackWhale #MarineMammal #SanFrancisco #Pacific
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Greenland weather is unpredictable — several planned excursions were canceled because of storms or icepack — but that once gave us time to check a random fjord where there were a pair of bearded seals, or as I would call them, mustached seals. Tubular!
#WildlifePhotography #Photography #NaturePhotography #Greenland #TravelPhotography #MarineMammal #Fjord
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China has a new cable-laying ship almost as big as an aircraft carrier for networking, offshore wind turbines, etc. 10,000-ton payload, good for 75km of AC power line, 150km of DC power line, or 2000km of fiber-optic cable. It can install cables 4.5m deep under the seafloor.
#InternetInfrastructure #China #SubseaCables #WindTurbines -
Watching videos on Apple log video shot with iPhone 15 Pro models and appreciating better how much camera processing is involved in producing regular video, and how much latitude there is in linking the original scene to the finished video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcy35RLo8_0
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Boy, I wish I could post this photo in glorious HDR and you could see it in glorious HDR. Because it looks really good in glorious HDR. (Background: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hdr-photography-blew-my-mind-its-glorious-and-complicated/)
#HDR #Photography #ligh om -
Wait, you can't add links in the Gmail mobile app? What madness is this? What's the best workaround for that?
Update: To be clear, I'm talking about typing some text, selecting it, then attaching a link to that selected text. Not just pasting in the URL as text.
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I got some questions about astrophotography mode on Pixel 8 Pro. In general, it's fine, though I could only use the ultrawide at 12MP. I wasn't bothered by the nature of the noise, though I only had time for ~15 test shots. Here are 100% crop screenshots of 50MP shots showing Andromeda and a house; the house is at the corner of the frame with +3EV exposure boost to pixel peep (note noise reduction), plus 2 full shots.
#Photography #Astrophotography #Google #Pixel8Pro #NightSight -
Annular eclipse as seen from UNM in Albuquerque, NM, this morning. You can see sunspots in the first photo. It was very exciting getting to the ring of fire moment, and everybody applauded and cheered, but after the climax finished, everybody got bored and skedaddled. I swear I didn't just Photoshop a white circle onto a black background for that last shot.
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Another one of the Adobe AI-generated parachuting elephants. I kind of like this one in watercolor style, but its posture makes it look like it's on the ground, just with the ground missing.
#AI #Adobe #elephant
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Another quantum computer is here — Fujitsu and RIKEN in Japan. They went with superconducting qubits, like IBM, Google, and various others (but not all). 64 qubits so far. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2023/1005-01.html
#QuantumComputing #Japan #superconducting #qubits