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- Six STEM Tweets - May 16 2024
Six STEM Tweets - May 16 2024
Most common PINs, web designers in space, A-Z of coding and more
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
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Here’s 6 more posts that are interesting and informative.
#1
The most common 4-digit PINs from an analysis of 3.4 million leaked PINs.
#dataviz source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…
— Randy Olson (@randal_olson)
8:19 PM • May 8, 2024
Lots of very interesting patterns.
FYI the top 20 PINs are: 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313, 8888, 4321, 2001, 1010
#2
This is a fun exercise! But you’re right I’m not entirely sure if there are non-markup languages for Q and Y
Ada
Bash
C++
Dart
Erlang
FORTH
Go
Haskell
Idris
Joy
Kotlin
Lua
Mercury
Nim
Octave
Perl
QML
Rust
SML
Tcl
Unison
VBScript
Wren
X86 Assembly
YAML
Zig— Skye Soss (@Skyb0rg)
2:45 PM • May 9, 2024
The ABCs using programming languages. How many have you heard of? How many do you know?
Spoiler: Wikipedia lists coding languages for both Q & Y - but they are fairly obscure.
#3
In 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if they could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes)
10:20 PM • May 8, 2024
These were the first web designers in space!
#4
The 251st Fibonacci number (12776523572924732586037033894655031898659556447352249) has a sum of digits equal to 251.
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
4:00 PM • May 9, 2024
#5
This wee girl named Opal was born completely deaf, but can now hear normally thanks to infusion of a working copy of a missing gene. Brilliant! Science and hard work improve the quality of lives, globally.
theguardian.com/science/articl…— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield)
12:47 PM • May 9, 2024
This story about the latest in gene therapy is really impressive!
The therapy uses a modified, harmless virus to deliver a working copy of the OTOF gene to repair the cells. So many cool techniques to help hard-of-hearing folks.
BBC report: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68921561
Harvard medical school report: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/experimental-gene-therapy-enables-hearing-five-children-born-deaf
#6
I told my son that we are having some of our graduating senior math majors over to our house tomorrow. He said, “When they graduate, do they get degrees… or radians?”
— Dave Richeson (@divbyzero)
5:39 PM • May 12, 2024
This is brilliant! 😀
#TheKidsAreAlright
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