Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

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#1

It’s been a while since I have had to use a Fourier Transform (it’s really useful in digital signal processing, among other things) but I am still impressed by the structure and the format of this explanation.

The color coding connects the words to the formula and makes it easy to understand what’s going on. Kinda…

#2

/ vs \

What’s your preference?

#3

I haven’t read this book yet but now want to. From all accounts Higgs was a brilliant scientist and an amazing teacher. Scores of his students have shared some really lovely stories about his impact on their lives.

#4

This is mind-bending but also technically correct - the best kind of correct.

Thanks to Pythagoras, we know that the hypotenuse is the square root of the sum of the squares of the other to side.

i * i + 1*1 = -1 + 1 = 0

What?!?

#5

Just because an algorithm predicts that a material could exist, doesn’t mean it actually exists.

Yet another example of why we need to be just a bit skeptical of the claims made by AI folks. Their capabilities are wondrous but also fanciful.

The full paper is at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00643

#6

301 Tbps of data transfer speeds! That’s like, really, really, really, fast!

This is impressive engineering! It’s still a research project (details: https://www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/aston-university-researchers-send-data-45-million-times-faster-average-broadband) but it could flow into consumer networks in the near futue.

If you remember the sounds the 28.8 kpbs modems made (I do!), this is proof that we are living in the future.

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Harshal