Yep! It became public domain in the United States this year. But it's been public domain in Canada since 2020 (70y after death) and has been available from Canada's Project Gutenberg equivalent: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531
It’s not shipwrecks themselves that are particularly interesting, but in what they provide in contextual evidence to answer the foundational six questions: who, what, when, where, why, how.
> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.
Gravity experiments? Easier to do accurately in lower gravity environments, like away from the Earth? And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?
I thought this would be obvious from TFA. I should have been more explicit.
> And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?
Resources are finite, and even though they're not fungible, which current ISS experiment would you replace for this?
Also: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062003
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LISA Pathfinder (LPF) [10] was a drag-free interfer- ometer located at the first Lagrange point in space be- tween the Earth and Sun. It measured the differential acceleration between two gold-platinum test masses sus- pended in drag free control. By the end of its lifetime, it had surpassed both its requirements and those of its full scale model LISA [11]. Given the success of the mission, and in coordination with other system tests, a handful of days near the end of the mission extension were allocated to performing a dedicated big G experiment for the first time in space. However, because Pathfinder was not de- signed to perform this sort of measurement, it was known that systematics such as absolute distances would limit the results to no better than 1 % relative uncertainty.
codeberg, self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, still-beta sourcehut, tangled? github was “the git community” and now it’s fracturing—you need accounts everywhere, you can’t easily discover neat projects
i like tangled if only because it’s built on atproto which emphasizes ownership and transferability of identity: something that would make the move off github so much easier
n=1 but i don't really discover new projects via github, it's mainly here, reddit, or via colleagues. then again, i selfhost forgejo so don't have a real presence on github
Self-hosted Gitlab is great. A lot of the US government uses this via bigbang if familiar. Designing things with an "airgap" in mind and control of your services is paramount in today's AI rush of slop.
Whittaker’s background is in AI research. She talks a lot (and has been for a while) about the privacy implications of AI.
I’m not sure of any one thing that could be considered to prompt it. But a large one is the wide-deployment of models on devices with access to private information (Signal potentially included)
