Bear Down Wildcats

Merkin wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:01 am

azgreg wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:23 pm Successful landing for the SN10 today. the third time is the charm.

azgreg wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:46 pm Looks like Independence Day was a documentary.

Sydney university student Pablo Bonilla, 21, had his first academic paper published overnight and it might just change the shape of computing forever.

As a second-year physics student at the University of Sydney, Mr Bonilla was given some coding exercises as extra homework and what he returned with has helped to solve one of the most common problems in quantum computing.
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"We just made the smallest of changes to a chip that everybody is building, and all of a sudden it started doing a lot better.

"It's quite amazing to me that nobody spotted it in the 20-or-so years that people have been working on that model."
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Mr Bonilla came to Australia with his family as a boy.

"I was 11 years old when I came to Sydney," he said.

"We came from Uruguay in 2011, so it's my parents, one brother and one little sister and they're awesome.
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Mr Bonilla showed academic promise as a student at Bossley Park High School.

After completing HSC-level maths at the age of just 15, he was invited to work on a research project at the University of Sydney.

Mr Bonilla is now a fourth-year honours student and plans to go on to do his PhD.

An opioid treatment being introduced around Australia has been dubbed a game changer after dozens of users at Melbourne’s safe injecting room stopped taking heroin.

The Richmond site was among the first in Australia to provide depot buprenorphine, a slow-release injection given weekly or monthly, outside clinical trials after it was approved for use in September 2019.

The treatment is designed to stop withdrawal symptoms, and in most cases blocks the effects of heroin altogether, helping to reduce and stop heroin use.

Medical director Dr Nico Clark has analysed the experiences of the first 41 people to try it at his clinic, finding that 59 per cent did not use heroin at the safe injecting room at all over eight months of monitoring from September 2019 to April 2020.

“For the majority of people, they either stop or have very, very little heroin use,” said Dr Clark, who believed it was the first injecting room in the world to administer the long-acting treatment.

Participants all used heroin at the injecting room 10 times in the 28 days leading up to treatment, on average. This dropped to an average of less than once in the first 28 days of treatment.

ghostwhitehorse wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2017 2:02 pm Still some juice in the old probe yet!!! https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/detai ... cle_id=108" target="_blank

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use.

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. The spacecraft, which has been flying for 40 years, relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980.

Woooo!!!

dovecanyoncat wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:17 pm I want one.

Merkin wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:34 pm Was supposed to get 4 seconds of weightlessness, which I assume they did get.

Longhorned wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:04 am Maybe the whole thing will grow on me but I still hardly see the point. I'm all in on science involving unmanned space exploration and astronauts for clearly stated purposes, but I don't give two shits about getting rich people into space.

Chicat wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:09 am

Longhorned wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:04 am Maybe the whole thing will grow on me but I still hardly see the point. I'm all in on science involving unmanned space exploration and astronauts for clearly stated purposes, but I don't give two shits about getting rich people into space.

Which was all this is. Alan Shepard did the same thing 60 some odd years ago with the computing power of a Gameboy and balls of steel.