posted 1 day ago #
Some various reads for you to kick off April 2025. These are no joke! Just some insightful text to spend your time with:
- No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation - I've really enjoyed everything I've read from Ethan Mollick over the past few months. This latest post about the increasingly impressive multi-modal image generation from OpenAI and Google is just more to enjoy! I also suggest you read Speaking Things Into Existence.
- Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth - I don't expect you to have a nature.com subscription but maybe you can have a peek over the wall to learn about this fridge-sized satellite that is sending pulses of light that exist in quantum states. I'll be honest, this is beyond my comprehension but I sure do like reading about its existence.
- First Venus bounce with the Dwingeloo telescope - did you know that you can bounce radio signals off the surface of Venus? This Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) bounce was done frequently in the 60's and 70's but only done by a amateur in 2009. They've done it again and documented it extensively. Again, do I comprehend this? Not exactly. But I love to see it.
- HAM Weekly - keeping on theme, do I know anything about HAM radio? No, not a thing. Do I highly enjoy this weekly blast of Amateur HAM Radio insights? Enthusiastically, yes!
