Tomas Kapler wrote that the PHP community thanked Ondřej Surý for backporting critical bug fixes to older versions of PHP, which, according to the original plan, were not supposed to receive them. According to him, some users could not switch to the newer version without enormous costs. He added that the necessary adjustments could possibly be handled by any Claude in half an hour, but someone would still have to ensure their verification and payment. #PHP #programování #software (translated)
Tomas Kapler rejected the claim that Europe cannot compete with Starlink because it cannot build rockets and satellites and does not have the money for it. He stated that SpaceX completed 165 Falcon 9 flights in 2025, while Amazon reserved 24 launches of the European Ariane 6, which has already launched 100 of its satellites. He also mentioned the German startup Isar Aerospace, the prototype of a reusable rocket in Sweden, and more than 900 million euros that the European Space Agency invested in a new generation of rockets. For comparison, he noted approximately 400 million dollars from NASA for the development of Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule. Kapler cited examples of European space technologies, including the Galileo navigation system, which he said is used by over 4.5 billion devices, the Finnish company ICEYE and its radar satellites, and the share of Thales Alenia Space in the living space of the International Space Station. He also wrote that Airbus, Thales Aerospace, and Leonardo are merging their space divisions into a company with 25,000 employees, while the EU network IRIS², with 348 satellites, moves towards full deployment. He challenged the claim of a lack of European capital by estimating that European households hold 12 trillion euros in cash and accounts, and Europeans own American stocks and bonds worth 8 trillion dollars. According to him, 300 billion euros in savings flow out of Europe each year. As a sign of change, he mentioned the creation of a single market for savings and investments and Danish pension funds, which he said began to divest from American government bonds. In the field of research and technology, Kapler reminded that three out of the last four Nobel Prize laureates in Physics were born in Europe and stated that the number of applications from scientists working in the USA addressed to the European Research Council has more than doubled. He also mentioned Italian designer Federico Faggin, the London origins of DeepMind, and co-founders of OpenAI born in Poland and Slovakia, and the Dutch company ASML, whose machines are essential for producing the most advanced chips for artificial intelligence. As further examples of European contributions to American space programs, he cited the NASA spacecraft module, which he said was assembled in Bremen, and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope by an Ariane 5 rocket. Kapler concluded that Europe has been repeatedly written off and reminded that Airbus has been delivering more aircraft than Boeing every year since 2019. According to him, Europe has gradually approached greater self-sufficiency in rockets, satellites, capital, and technologies. #Evropa #technologie #vesmír (translated)
Tomas Kapler in the series #WomenInScience wrote that lead balls hitting soft clay left a fourfold imprint at double the speed. He stated that the secretary of the Academy of Sciences wrote to her that she was mistaken, but her commented translation of Newton's Principles remained, according to him, the only standard French version for decades. He asked readers to share the series if they want it to continue. #Věda #Fyzika #ŽenyVeVědě (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote that the company Apate has built a fleet of approximately 350,000 AI agents who impersonate trusting individuals and communicate with scammers for as long as possible. According to him, they gather information such as bank account numbers, cryptocurrency wallet addresses, phone numbers, and details about fraudulent websites and scenarios used. The company passes this data on to banks, telecommunications operators, and other institutions. Kapler reported that Apate has recorded over 2.5 million conversations with scammers, which together took about 17 years, and obtained more than 250,000 intelligence data points. He mentioned examples such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which, according to him, saw publicly reported fraud losses drop by 76% after implementing the system, and TPG Telecom, which redirected nearly 590,000 suspicious calls to Apate's agents. One other Australian bank, according to his post, broke up 22 fraudulent campaigns based on the information obtained. He added that the company secured $8.15 million in a seed round in August 2026, just shy of $10 million in total, and planned to expand into London and the United States. Kapler also wrote that Apate expected the proliferation of AI among scammers would lead them to spend more time communicating with its agents instead of potential victims. Finally, Kapler asked whether a similar system would work in Czech. He noted that Czech models may not be as advanced, but older individuals might not regard any mishearing or misunderstanding as a sign of artificial intelligence. He also mentioned that fraudulent AI farms from India, China, Russia, and Ukraine might not recognize such a deception. #AI #podvodníci #technologie (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote that the woman he reported on in the series #WomenInScience gave a lecture in Cambridge and worked as a geographer for the Allies during the war. Upon returning to Prague, he noted that she found out that her relatives did not survive the Holocaust and that her family's property was gone. She then lived in the attic of her faculty's dean's office for several years. Kapler urged readers to share the series if they wanted him to continue it. #ŽenyVeVědě #historie #holokaust (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote that a 1,600-year-old recipe recommended soaking wormwood instead of boiling it, as hot water supposedly destroyed the active ingredient. He stated that extract number 191 achieved a hundred percent success rate in combating malaria in infected mice and monkeys. According to him, the initial results were released anonymously, and the woman behind the discovery remained almost unknown for decades. He also urged readers to share his series #WomenInScience and to give a "Likes" label to other posts. #historie #věda #malárie (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote that the woman died on September 30, 2026, in a hospital in Cambridge at the age of 90. According to him, MIT announced her death on October 7 and did not disclose the cause. He stated that she is survived by her daughter Lauren, son-in-law, two grandsons, four great-grandchildren, and siblings John, David, and Kathryn. In the obituary, the institute referred to her as more than just a pioneer. Kapler also described that the computer reported an overload three minutes before landing on the Moon, not a malfunction, and thanks to the design of the system, it safely deferred some tasks. According to him, few in the lab initially believed in this concept, but it proved itself during the landing. He also wrote that the woman advocated for the foundations of reliable programming and a safety net allowing for landing despite a software error, even though she was initially only allowed to make a note in the manual. #ZenyVeVede #Veda #Historie (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote that the onboard computer reported an overload three minutes before landing on the Moon and that a landing failure was imminent. According to him, the computer deferred all tasks that were not essential for the crew's survival. Kapler stated that this logic was advocated by a woman who was previously told that a trained astronaut would not make such a mistake. He added that the media reported her death the previous day and that the series Women in Science would commemorate her life and achievements. #ŽenyVeVědě #Měsíc #Inovace (translated)
Tomas Kapler wrote in a post from the #WomenInScience series that Adéla Kochanovská, born Němejcová, discovered a hidden flaw in the armored casings of grenades using X-rays. According to him, in the storage facility, 60 out of 100 pieces ended up as scrap due to cracking; Kochanovská changed the hardening process and reduced the defect rate to a few percent. She became the first woman to obtain the title of professor at the Czech Technical University after the age of fifty. Kapler stated that Kochanovská was born on March 8, 1907, in Silesian Ostrava, where Czech, Polish, and German were commonly mixed. Her father, František Němejc, was a mining engineer, and her mother, Eleonora, née Maurerová, spoke several languages, was a photographer, and played the piano. Her mother wished for her daughter to pursue a musical career, while her uncle, academic painter Augustin Němejc, guided her towards painting. #ŽenyVeVědě #ČVUT #Inovace (translated)
Tomas Kapler stated in his contribution that the discovery of two fragments of pyrite in a former clay pit near English Barnham, according to him, pushed evidence of fire being used by humans back by 350,000 years. A team from the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, found them in reddish clay, even though pyrite was not naturally present in the area, according to Kapler. Archaeologists also discovered charred and heat-cracked hand axes and soil burned at over 700 °C there. It reportedly took scientists four years to eliminate the possibility of a fire caused by lightning. Kapler wrote that research published in December 2025 in the journal Nature described the oldest unequivocal evidence that humans could make fire themselves. According to him, the previous such evidence came from Neanderthal sites in northern France and was 50,000 years old. The find from Barnham, according to Kapler, shows that humans had this ability already 400,000 years ago. Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London speculated that they were early Neanderthals, among other reasons based on finds from Swanscombe and Atapuerca. The contribution also addressed the fact that archaeological finds mainly preserve stone, while wood, leather, and plant fibers deteriorate. Kapler recalled a 35,000-year-old tool made from mammoth ivory from the German cave Hohle Fels, whose holes, according to him, allowed for the production of rope, and a six-millimeter fragment of a cord 50,000 years old found in the French Abri du Maras. Archaeologist Bruce Hardy's estimate that we know less than 10 percent of the ordinary life of prehistoric humans was linked by Kapler to the items that did not survive, such as nets, bags, bowstrings, or footwear. According to his conclusion, the image of the Stone Age captures primarily what has not perished. #Archeologie #DobaKamenná #Historie (translated)
Due to health reasons, she closed her practice in 1939 and died on October 13, 1940. A commemorative plaque on the house at Na Moráni honors her, although it has an incorrect graduation date. By 1939, approximately twelve hundred women had graduated from medical school. Among scientific assistants from 1909 to 1939, women made up about fourteen percent, and by 1936, only two women had achieved the title of associate professor — both in the field of dermatology. Anna Honzáková was not among them. Today, the situation has turned completely upside down at first glance. While in Anna Honzáková’s time, women stood before closed doors, current medicine resembles an inverted funnel. Today, 65 to 66% of medical school graduates are women, and in regular practice, female doctors make up over 60% of all professionals. However, the higher you look into the management structures, the more women disappear. Among leading doctors and heads of departments, the proportion of women drops to 37%. Among the eight Czech medical faculties, there are eight deans — not a single one is a woman. A similar imbalance exists in academia: women make up only 15.7% of professors in Czech science, and in the management of universities or research institutions, women occupy only about 19% of positions. Anna Honzáková did not lead a university department, did not leave behind a named medical finding, nor did she manage a clinic. However, she had a practice whose waiting room was fuller than those of her colleagues, to whom the professorial body allowed an academic career. She paved the way for thousands of successors. The story of full recognition of female expertise and authority at the helm of healthcare continues even today. P.S.: Every day I bring a story about an overlooked female scientist. Help spread the #ZenyVeVede series – through reactions, comments, shares, or by following @tkapler, so you don't miss the next episode. What do you think about her legacy and the current imbalance of women in leadership? Isn't it time to change that? #ZenyVeVede #Zdravotnictvi #Rovnost (translated)
The lecture hall was bursting at the seams. The students whispered that the girl would finally meet with the strict professor. However, he accompanied her presentation with just the words: “Good. Excellent. Good.” She became the first woman in our country to graduate as a doctor (the words "doctor" and "physician" only came into use thanks to her and her successors). However, she did not get a position in the clinic. MUDr. Anna Honzáková. If you like the series #WomenInScience, share it (preferably this first post). You can like every post so you know where you left off. #ZenyVeVede #historie #medicína (translated)
On the cliffs by the English Channel lay a fossilized spine with a neck so long that the science of the time deemed it impossible. A prominent Parisian anatomist declared the find to be a hoax and a conglomerate based on just a drawing. The woman who had dug it up with her own hands was not even allowed into the lecture hall. She was left with only debts and unrecognized merits. If you like the series #WomenInScience, share it further (preferably this first post of the thread, the others just need to be liked so you know what you have already read). Her name was Mary Anning and she lived in Lyme Regis, a small coastal town on the Dorset coast. Today, this area is called the Jurassic Coast. Two hundred million years ago, a warm sea flowed through here, and the bodies of creatures, which no one could name at the beginning of the 19th century, fell into clay sediments and limestones. #ZenyVeVede #MaryAnningova #Veda (translated)
In the laboratory without a photomicroscope, she counted forty-seven chromosomes in the child's cells. A colleague took the preparations for photography. She was then listed as the first author on the article that laid the foundations of human genetics. Additionally, her name was misspelled in the publication. Welcome to another episode of my series #WomenInScience. If you like it, please like and share it. Recommendation for threads - like each tweet (also for you to see where you left off), it's best to share just the first one (if you do it right away, then you won't have to come back). #ŽenyVeVědě #Genetika #Věda (translated)
🧵 1/8 V kilometrech papíru s vlnovkami uviděla tik. Opakoval se každou vteřinu a třetinu, přesně jako metronom. Pulsoval. Školitel tvrdil, že je to jen porucha. O šest let později si Nobelovu cenu za ten tik odnesli dva muži. Učebnice znají pulsary. Jméno studentky, která je v záznamu objevila, však dlouho ne. Jocelyn Bell Burnellová. 👇 #věda #NobelovaCena #pulsary
🧵 1/8 Nacisté nad ní vynesli trest smrti. Komunisté jí vyměřili dvaadvacet let vězení. Mezitím usedla jako teprve druhá žena v zemi do profesorského křesla. V cele znovu vytvořila univerzitu: spoluvězeňkyním diktovala dějiny antického umění, protože posluchárnu jí sebrali. Jmenovala se Růžena Vacková. Četla římské dějiny vytesané do kamene — a dva režimy se ji pokusily vymazat z učebnic i ze seznamu vyučujících. 👇 Vítejte u dalšího dílu mého seriálu Ženy ve vědě, omlouvám se včerejší výpadek, dodělával jsem počítače pro sbírku, teď už jsou v autech směr ukrajinské sirotčince, obce a školy, dám sem pak videa z předávání a ještě jednou díky za dary, pro druhou už zbývá jen 29 tisic, to věřím že dotáhnem. #ŽenyVeVědě #Historie #Vzdělání
🧵 1/8 Zákon zachování energie zná ze školy každý. Málokdo však ví, že jej se symetrií přírody propojila žena, jejíž přednášky se čtyři roky vypisovaly pod cizím jménem. Oficiální rozvrh v Göttingenu hlásil: Seminář z matematické fyziky. Profesor Hilbert, za asistence dr. E. Noetherové. Pondělí od čtyř do šesti. Bez školného. Ve skutečnosti však stála u tabule ona. Dokázala větu, která drží pohromadě moderní fyziku: každá spojitá symetrie zákonů přírody má svůj zákon zachování. 👇 #Energie #Fyzika #Matematika
🧵 1/9 Jedna z největších krádeží v historii autorství neproběhla v temné uličce, ale na pultu hračkářství. Deskovou hru Monopoly, na níž korporace vydělaly miliardy, nevymyslel nezaměstnaný chudák v době hospodářské krize. Stvořila ji geniální žena jako ostrou kritiku kapitalismu. Místo milionů však dostala almužnu, její jméno vymazali z historie. Dokonce i český fenomén „Dostihy a sázky“ stojí na jejím ukradeném nápadu.👇 Vítejte v dalším díle seriálu o opomíjených ženách. Ptali jste se, jak máte lajkovat a sdílet vlákna - asi nejlepší je dát like každému příspěvku, budete tak i vědět, co jste přečetli. A sdílet nejlépe první (abyste se nemuseli vracet, tak jej sdílejte hned :-) ) Omlouvám se dnes za pozdější publikaci, celou noc jsem instaloval notebooky pro sirotky a studenty na Ukrajinu z veřejné sbírky, díky že přispíváte, už zbývá jen 59 tisíc (https://t.co/gVtuZ0HDVL). #historie #ženy #kapitalismus
Tak a jde se na věc, prvnich 50 kusu k vyčištění, nastavení, prověření. Ve čtvrtek už pojedou na Ukrajinu pro sirotčince a školy. Díky všem co přispěli, už zbývá jen 65 tisíc, tak kdo chce přispět, ještě může. Budou pak záběry z předávání atd. https://t.co/OnWfzbDv0G #pomoc #Ukrajina #dávámeto
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