riccard0.bsky.social
Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, exploring light at the nanoscale, trying to make sense of the world, nanophotonic enthusiast - proud dad of 2
👤 Joined on 07 October 2023
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@riccard0.bsky.socialPlaying around with a new tool (in development, url might change), showing how the peak of a spectral distribution changes depending on whether you plot in wavelength or frequency Try locking the \lambda or f range and drag it around. Pretty neat katsgroup.ece.wisc.edu/tools-in-dev...
Show PostI was on a DARPA project with a program officer who came from industry and didn't go to grad school One day the program officer told us that before working at DARPA, he thought universities were inefficient, but now was shocked at how much we and other university performers got done for so little $
Show PostAviation is inherently dangerous: a million pounds of metal and fuel magically flying at 500mph. The engineering and systems we have developed are just amazing and have given everyone the idea that it’s all cheap and safe. It ain’t. It’s expensive and it requires constant vigilance and organization.
Show PostIn the shorter term, we should resist the use of LLMs in reviewing science, and reform the system to avoid the problems we already have with human PR. A good start would be getting rid of journals and switching to post publication, open and ongoing review.
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