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Bill Parker, W8DMR, was the first amateur to transmit an amateur television test pattern (see picture of it on page 4 of the PDF at www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/H... ) using a solid-state image sensor, having been active in amateur television since 1949.

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He was an electrical engineer known for pioneering the use of solid-state image sensors for amateur television in 1974. His extensive technical contributions include designing the Dual Rhomboid antenna and authoring numerous articles on microwave transmitters and J-pole antenna theory.

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

He was a brillliant person and had several tech articles published in radio magazines that you can find on https:// archive.org by searching "W8DMR." This is a Youtube video from 2014 of Bill Parker giving a talk about his favorite subject, LEDs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI3X... .

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The war ended while he was waiting to be deployed for the invasion of Japan. He came home and got a BSEE degree from Ohio State Univ. He was a radio station engineer, and taught night school. He got his ham license and built his own gear. He liked SSTV & was a member of the local SSTV club.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 23/07/2026

Locally prominent ham radio William "Bill" Parker, W8DMR, of Columbus, Ohio died on Fri. July 24, 2026 at the age of 99. He died peacefully in his sleep at home. He was a WW2 Navy vet who worked with early radar. As a teen, he was training others on how to use radar!

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The formatting of this article cuts off text on the left side if you view the article in the Firefox web browser.

Davy @davyhall.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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The glow of the morning sky... with clues of recent air travel. #photographersofbluesky #photography #columbus

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I think Discord did not work for me in web because: Browser Security Is Blocking It (Most Common) The web version depends on: Cookies Local storage JavaScript My browser privacy extensions If any of those are blocked, login can fail or loop forever.

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I finally succeeded in joining CORE with your new weblink. I had to do it via the Discord app for Windows 11 instead of using Discord in my web browser.

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I will add something else that might be relevant to why I am getting errors trying to get into your Discord group - I cannot get into any Discord server now. Something is hosed up on my Discord account where it needs some type of email verification that I haven't been able to fix.

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Thanks Guy - I tried your new weblink and got the same error. Is it possible for you to also set up an email list for your group so that you don't need a lot of time debugging a lot of users' Discord problems?

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Guy, I got a message that the Discord invite code from your website is invalid after I clicked on it. Message says "This invite may be expired or you might not have permission to join."

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I had Google Gemini critique the article: gemini.google.com/share/2e6ec1...

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‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A brilliant, interactive tutorial by the University of Sheffield on how to do a literature review: Covers: What is a literature review? Finding information sources Organising your sources Synthesising your sources Writing your review Link: tinyurl.com/h5nrx5ev

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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 28/11/2025

Networking Bottleneck: What’s Really Slowing AI Infrastructure - A November 2025 analysis that argues the next structural bottleneck in AI infrastructure isn’t compute/GPUs but networking: switches, optics, NICs. ASICs are not scaling as fast as compute. www.fusionww.com/insights/res...

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The Networking Bottleneck: What’s Really Slowing AI Infrastructure

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Example: quickarxiv.org/abs/2510.26692

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

‪Mott‬ ‪@mottgq.bsky.social‬ · 2m The 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence This is an excellent 23 page guide on ethical use of AI. It is a general guide instead of a libguide doing a deeper dive into specific AI tools. studentguidetoai.org #research #LLM #AItools #ethics

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Using AI for creative work - Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence

AI tools can be used for a wide range of creative work Suggestions Cautions Examples of creative AI tools that generate images, videos and music

Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I lost a lot of my old saved reports after Asta was rolled out. They were saved to qa.allen.ai. but my saved links are being redirected to asta.allen.ai. and the saved reports are gone from the new redirected URLs. I sent in a feedback form on your Asta website with my email address for a reply.

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"Paralpi," 2023, Acrylic and Ink on Canvas painting by Zaachariaha Fielding

abstract acrylic and ink painting in bright red and purple colors

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"People With AI Friends Feel Worse" The authors found a consistent correlation between chatbot companionship and lower well-being, but they didn’t establish causation. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/st...

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Study Shows Heavy Use of AI Companions Correlates With Lower Emotional Well-Being

People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.

Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Vidify - a useful AI search tool for Youtube videos vidify-chi.vercel.app/en/ #Youtube #Vidify #vercelApps

Screenshot of Vidify AI search for Youtube videos, showing how it summarizes some key points in the video.

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This game is a fun little amusement. You are shown 2 images and need to guess where you are and what year you have been dropped into in history. www.eggnog.ai #fun #history #geography

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Time Portal Challenge

Experimental AI video experiences

Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twenty-First Century" Interesting free (to download) new book from U.S. Army War College offering some insights on how AI will affect warfare in the 21st century. press.armywarcollege.edu/irps/1/ #AI #military #AIwar

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Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twenty-First Century

The US government and the US Army are unprepared for a great-power war. This integrated research project (IRP), sponsored by Vice Chief of Staff of the Army General James J. Mingus, is a critical firs...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Sometimes these techniques helped, sometimes they hurt performance. It averaged to almost no effect. There was no clear way to predict in advance which technique would work when. Papers: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Prompting Science Report 1: Prompt Engineering is Complicated and Contingent

This is the first of a series of short reports that seek to help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working with AI thr

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

DARPA’s N3: The Future of Non-Surgical Brain Interfaces DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) project is an ambitious initiative aiming to develop vast array of nanoscalar sensing & transmitting brain-computational interfaces. biodefenseresearch.org/darpas-n3-th... #neuroAI

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DARPA's N3: The Future of Non-Surgical Brain Interfaces - Institute for Biodefense Research

DARPA's latest breakthrough: Brain interfaces without surgery? The N3 project aims to revolutionize how we interface with our minds using nano-tech and electromagnetic fields. But with great power com...

Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

You're welcome. Have a good weekend!

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Justynn Tyme @justynntyme.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ah, the lament of mail art never sent. I love mail art & when I do it I try very hard to make it a one of kind experience. But I can be thrown when the responses are nil or banal. #Art #DigitalArt #popart #collageart #dada #absurd #design #patterns #zine #drawing #Illustration #odd #abstractart

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Bohrium, the free AI-powered search engine for researchers, just launched a new feature: AI Posters. Upload a paper and within a couple of clicks you get a poster with key insights from the paper. Here's how to do it:

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTip... is a Reddit thread that has a good tip for removing lower quality search results from Google search. Some of the comments in the thread are very useful, eg. the list of blocked domains for Kagi search: kagi.com/stats?stat=l... . #research #search #academia

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LPT: How to permanently remove Quora, Pinterest and other low-quality sites from your Google searches

Are you tired of seeing Quora answers, Pinterest boards, and WikiHow articles clogging up your Google search results? Here's how to permanently...

Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence." #GenAI #education #edtech

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Apps like ChatGPT are unsuitable for scientific research. They generate fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at Future House built an AI scientist. It generates detailed literature reviews with references to state-of-the-art research. And it's free.🧵

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars" edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie. Free book download at: media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/18/... #AI #neuroAI #military #war

Image of book cover of "Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars" edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie.

infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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New Preprint: "The Rise of Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 #socialmedia @bsky.app

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is a large collection of resources for learning AI: www.reddit.com/r/learnmachi... This syllabus has some good resources for the becoming highly productive part of your question: mlip-cmu.github.io/s2025/

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r/learnmachinelearning Wiki: Your Guide to ML Resources

Welcome to r/learnmachinelearning - a community of learners and educators passionate about machine learning! This is your space to ask questions, share resources, and grow together in understanding ...

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Mott @mottgq.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I wonder if there will be a resurgence of pulp fiction and other escapist entertainment in the U.S. given the current chaos in the country. The documentary video below is about the rise of pulp fiction during the Great Depression. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87E... #pulpFiction #documentary

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Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling (2009)

YouTube video by Down The Rabbit Hole