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Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
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#1
2⁴ = 4² is the only positive integer solution of aᵇ=bᵃ, assuming that a≠b.
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
4:00 PM • Jun 4, 2024
#2
rebranding Linear Algebra as Artificial Intelligence was the most successful marketing campaign of all time.
— ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ — e\acc (@Hamptonism)
5:20 PM • Jun 5, 2024
Math is indeed all around us. Sometimes it’s called something else.
#3
The concept of zero (0) was formalized by the Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta in the 7th century. In his work "Brahmasphutasiddhanta" (628 CE) he defined zero and established arithmetic rules - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with zero.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
2:54 PM • Jun 8, 2024
I find it so interesting that so many cultures were able to manage without having a numerical representation for 0. They obviously knew the concept of ‘nothing’ but didn’t think it was necessary for their number systems.
What are our blind spots?
#4
Layers of a road in England
— Daniel Feldman 🟥 (@d_feldman)
8:19 PM • Jun 9, 2024
We stand on the shoulders of cephalopods.
#5
The device on the right stores 5 million times more information than the device on the left, all in a single lifetime.
— Aaron Levie (@levie)
10:26 PM • Jun 9, 2024
Fundamental science and innovations in engineering for the win!
#6
Lynn Conway was a remarkable woman who touched all of our lives. You most likely never heard of her, but she was instrumental in developing the technology you are holding in your hand reading this tweet. She pioneered the VLSI chip that was small enough to fit in one's pocket.… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Kelly Lepley ✈🌍👩✈️✈️👩👧👧🇺🇦 (@kclepley)
4:08 PM • Jun 12, 2024
Lynn was a trailblazer in very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design. Her contributions revolutionized microchip design. She invented out-of-order execution at the microcode level which revolutionized modern chip architecture.
She authored a really interested paper at ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Lynn_Conway_VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf
She was also a pioneer in other ways. IBM fired her in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition. They didn’t apologize until 2020.
Hackaday also has a really good tribute to her.
That’s it for this issue.
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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal