#Engineering

Matt Burnell

mdburnell

Friends, it is T-26 minutes until Apollo 13 launched 50 years ago. One of NASA's finest engineering achievements was getting the 13 crew home alive. We’ll ignore the engineering failures

Alok Kumar Verma, IRSE (Retd.)

trains_are_best

Railway Board's debacle on the Kashmir Rail Link and 6 other new line projects in the Himalayas. With tense military situation across India's Himalayan border, it is time the Govt

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

#TodayinHistory Operation Shakti, when the India Govt under AB Vajpayee, conducts 5 nuclear explosions in 1998 at Pokhran over two days, the second such, after Operation Smiling Buddha in 1974.

Cam Iadeluca

cameroniadeluca

1/ Snowflake released their S-1 today. Here is a quick breakdown of the disclosure in a [THREAD]. Here is the link: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/000162828020013010/snowflakes-1.htmQuick Notes:- Ticker $SNOW- "Emergin

Bea Caicoya

BeaCaicoya

Naomic Novik on fanfiction: "The magic of fanfiction is that you don't have to please anybody but yourself. It makes you value your own desires, and to figure out what

Big Cox Energy

tracycox

///A thread on what classical music can learn from the outpouring of music sharing that is happening right now. 1. Seeing all the videos of singing lately - from classical

TProphet

TProphet

1/ Officially ended my last day as a government employee (I have been on leave while starting the NDA gig). Laptop, cell phone, badge returned. I'm walking away from a

Giulio Zompetti

1nsane_dev

This is a thread on what we know about Apple’s prototyping and development process of manufactured products.1/ All info here could be incomplete/wrong/outdated. I may (or may not) update this

dr stephanie moore

steph_moore

*sigh*https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1359480274468433926 I will grant him that if your online course is online lectures or recorded lectures and that's it, then yes, your online course sucks.But I expect better of academics

Bobby Blanchard

bobbycblanchard

1/ The @TexasTribune is hiring student fellows for the Spring/Summer! We have fellowships in:Data VisualsEngagementEngineeringEventsMarketing / CommsMultimediaPhotographyReportingI'd like to make a pitch for the engagement one:https://w

balajis.com

balajis

The difference between a religious and secular society is that the latter is ostensibly predicated on scientific fact.The similarity is that most people in both societies rely on authorities rather

Cassie Kozyrkov

quaesita

When science/math/engineering folk use "artsy" as a derogatory term, I have to wonder whether they're immune to irony. 1/ Bad art is easy and plentiful, and it's easier to create

Lila Krishna

lilastories

There's another angle too. Americanism is aspirational for most Indians, but those with engineering backgrounds manage to get to America much easier than those with humanities degrees even from top

David Booth

david__booth

Consider the cost of joining a paid community vs. the "cost" of a free one.If you're a founder, writer, engineer, angel, etc; time/attention is your scarcest asset.The more you value

Meredith Ringel Morris

merrierm

Today's #chi2020 virtual reading group paper is by @pokristensson - "A Design Engineering Approach for Quantitatively Exploring Context-Aware Sentence Retrieval for Nonspeaking Individuals with Motor Disabilities" - http://pokristensson

Charity Majors

mipsytipsy

storytime. so, one of my last social outings (Feb) was a bunch of women in tech, out for drinks, telling war stories. at some point one says, a little sheepishly:"i'm