Date | Topic |
Jan 3, 2024 | We Will Have a Syncing Feeling: Using applications and files across platforms - a forum (Drew King, lead) chat messages |
Jan 10, 2024 | LIDAR mapping with Dale Fried of 3DEO, hosted by Dan Kleppner chat messages . watch the presentation
For more information on the company and its technology, visit the 3DEO website at https://3deolidar.com/ and their YouTube Channel |
Jan 17, 2024 | Unifying Nature’s Laws: The State of String Theory. |
Jan 24, 2024 | Videos played:
How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?
Bill Gates talking with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, about AI transforming education |
Jan 31, 2024 | potpourri: Feynman: Fun to Imagine (67min) followed by luncheon at Bamboo in Bedford |
Feb 7, 2024 | Space Update (George Gamota) chat messages |
Feb 14, 2024 | Nifty Smartphone apps. Like Seek; Shazam; Pedometer; etc. chat messages |
Feb 21, 2024 | Nifty Smartphone Apps Part 2 chat messages |
Feb 28, 2024 | More neat apps for phones and computers – and more (Adam Broun)
* several interesting apps from the useful to the idiotic: Authy (2-factor authentication); Arc Search (Browser with summarization); Windy (weather in depth); Rise (Sourdough baking); Can of Soup (silly pictures)
* Self-hosting, moving services away from Google and Apple to resources you can control yourself: Proxmox (virtual machines); OPNSense (router); Home Assistant (Home automation); Photoprism (photo management); NextCloud (file sharing and collaboration)
List of self-hosted apps: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted, Self hosted forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted
slides chat messages |
Mar 6, 2024 | potpourri
* "Watchroom", a short film by Noah Wagner on AI and Robotics. It'll make you think. (Dick Wagner)
* Android Apps (Drew) – continuing our topic of Interesting Apps from previous weeks. watch the presentation chat messages |
Mar 13, 2024 | Sleep Deprivation (John Rudy) watch the presentation slides
What is Passkey and how does it work as compared to Passwords (Steve Isenberg) watch the presentation [ notes on passkey used during presentation ]
chat messages |
Mar 20, 2024 | 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: mRNA (Harry Forsdick & Dick Wagner) watch the presentation
slides chat messages
The link to videos in the slides may not work; here are the links to videos included in the presentation:
How mRNA Vaccines Work
mRNA Vaccines Questions and Misconceptions
Announcement of the prize
TED talk, how mRNA medicine will change the world, Melissa J. Moore |
Mar 27, 2024 | How the MIT museum has restructured itself to a Technology gateway to MIT
Moving and rediscovering the MIT Museum collection (4m) and Tour of the MIT Museum (49m) chat messages |
Apr 3, 2024 | “The Science & Lore of Eclipses – Shadows in Space” a Road Scholar lecture chat messages |
Apr 10, 2024 | 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine - mRNA - Part 2 |
Apr 17, 2024 | Richard Feynman Lecture: "Los Alamos From Below" (1h18m) |
Apr 24, 2024 | GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning) chat messages |
May 1, 2024 | Five Levels of Difficulty Day. Five levels of difficulty on:
Time: Brian Greene explains Time in 5 levels of difficulty
Wormholes: Wormholes Explained - Breaking Spacetime
CRISPR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUgBiologist Explains CRISPR in 5 Levels of Difficulty
PickPocketing: 9 levels of pick-pocketing, easy to complex, from Wired mag
chat messages |
May 8, 2024 | Inflammation Unmasked: Insights into its Physiology, Detection, and Treatment. (Jerry Harris, Rheumatologist)
slides . chat messages . watch the presentation |
May 15, 2024 | Spacecraft Technology, the Design of the International Space Station, and Comparison of Technology in Spacecraft Over Time. Presented by Dr. Gary H Kitmacher from NASA Johnson Space Center. chat messages . watch the presentation |
May 22, 2024 | Potpourri: Check Washing 101
Your favorite apps and websites. Follow-up to meeting 2/14 slides
Eclipse photos (TedK) 15m [link to Ted's pictures - coming soon] |
May 29, 2024 | Oppenheimer and the Institute for Advanced Study, presented by Dan Kleppner watch the presentation chat messages |
June 5, 2024 | Selected talk(s) from Google |
June 12, 2024 | Materials and Medicine - talk by Robert Langer, a replay of his presentation at Cary Library on May 28th.
Retro Technology: examples, how it/they work, how to use. Sliderule, rotary telephone, abacus, etc. |
June 19, 2024 | 5G and 6G: 10-fold increase in top internet speeds. (TedK & BobP) 5G slides . chat messages |
June 26, 2024 | YouTube topics on Quantum Mechanics: Sabina and others. (BarryK) Videos shown:
Don't fall for quantum hype
The Quantum Hype Bubble Is About To Burst
Quantum Computing with Light: The Breakthrough?
Quantum Computers cross 1000 Qubits Threshold! What does this mean?
It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing
Bad News for Quantum Computing: Another Advantage Gone
Quantum Internet: No One Needs This
How to Detect Quantum Bullshit |
July 3, 2024 | Potpourri
Considerations and specifications for your next computer slides . chat messages |
July 10, 2024 | GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning) |
July 17, 2024 | Development of the Abiocor total artificial heart (Alan Millner)
The Abiocor total artificial heart developed by Abiomed, is an electro-hydraulic device implanted in a patient with the original damaged heart removed. It is self-contained with no tether to hospital equipment. chat messages . slides . watch the presentation |
July 24, 2024 | Fusion Update (TedK) watch the presentation |
July 31, 2024 | Old Technology 1968-1994 (JohnRudy) watch the presentation . chat messages . slides |
August 7, 2024 | Bob Metcalfe talk: Connectivity is the Thing chat messages |
August 14, 2024 | WinGet - Windows Package Manager (Drew) |
August 21, 2024 | Several Tech-for-Seniors episodes. Will be useful/interesting even if you're not old enough to be a “senior”. Ep 170A 6/17/2024 Hackers, Duck Duck Go, and more Ep 176A 7/29/2024 Screenshot on Chromebook, Snopes, Trackers |
August 28, 2024 | Euclid Telescope (JerryS) chat messages watch the presentation |
September 4, 2024 | Potpourri
* Bringing back the dead (info JohnR found)
* JerryS Covid vaccination update chat messages Watch the Covid presentation |
September 11, 2024 | Quantum Computing (Vladan Vuletic, Dept. of Physics, MIT)
Are quantum computers possible? And if yes, what will we be able to do with them (and when can I buy one)? Vladan will discuss the state of the art in quantum computing, with particular focus on neutral-atom quantum computing based on atoms in Rydberg states. watch the presentation |
September 18, 2024 | Claude Shannon - Father of Information Theory and Father of the Information Age (George Gamota)
30 minute overview 60 minute MIT lecture by Bob Gallagher
Claude Shannon Tricks for Creative Problem Solving |