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New comment by a9h74j in "Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim"

a9h74j — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:47:37 +0000

Likewise, see the phrase "grist to the mill".

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grist-t...

New comment by a9h74j in "Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years"

a9h74j — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:13:30 +0000

I've imagined having an OLED screen which only flashes on momentarily. Could be used for writing without editing.

New comment by a9h74j in "Tesla steering wheel falls off while driving"

a9h74j — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:03:25 +0000

Elon: If there is no owner of the requirement to have a steering wheel, then we won't take it as a requirement.

New comment by a9h74j in "Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)"

a9h74j — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:41:28 +0000

Sadly or happily for me: one device, one specific pair of bluetooth headphones. I've started getting the $15 ones.

New comment by a9h74j in "Masonry Heaters: 18-24 hours of heat output from a single wood fire"

a9h74j — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 22:11:40 +0000

> I would have thought anything that can radiate heat slowly and consistently would by necessity also absorb heat slowly and consistently

Something like a ratio of flame-side heat absorption at flame temperatures, to room-side emissivity at room-side temperatures(wavelengths)?? This could fall out from material properties without appearing as an explicit design detail (e.g. a surface treatment).

New comment by a9h74j in "Buddhist Temple Left Without Monks After They All Test Positive for Meth"

a9h74j — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:28:04 +0000

As is commonly known, the Buddha taught that there is the high path, the middle path, and the meth path.

New comment by a9h74j in "Portable low-field MRI scanners could revolutionize medical imaging"

a9h74j — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:36:42 +0000

Besides cost today, may also help mitigate a possible helium shortage in the future.

Also: MRI@Home?

New comment by a9h74j in "There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research"

a9h74j — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:30:36 +0000

Forty years ago there was already this sentiment, as best as I can recall the quote: "It is well known that as the scale of the research grows, peer review becomes less effective."

New comment by a9h74j in "The Tilde Text Editor"

a9h74j — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:58:03 +0000

Walter Bright had a similar looking zed.exe, at least as part of Zortech C++.

New comment by a9h74j in "Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript"

a9h74j — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:42:21 +0000

Jef Raskin: "Intuitive" == familiar.

User never used/discovered it before == not familiar.

New comment by a9h74j in "Humans retain ‘ancestral’ understanding of ape gestures, study says"

a9h74j — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:44:15 +0000

Temple Grandin has a newer book titled Visual Thinking. She tells of two groups taught to sharpen flints (IIRC). The first group had instruction only by gestures and example; the second group also had written or spoken instruction. Apparently persons in the first group developed skill faster. Overall she suggests that words can distract from visual observation or attention.

IIRC Derrick Jensen refers to an experiment in which apes caught on to cheating behavior faster than humans, presumably because they were not fooled by any spoken claims.

New comment by a9h74j in "What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?"

a9h74j — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:03:58 +0000

It would be very very small.

New comment by a9h74j in "Realistic computer-generated handwriting"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:35:47 +0000

Trick: "Dear teacher, Johnny was sick yesterday and could not attend school. Sincerly, Johnny's mom."

Anti-trick: Soon the teachers themselves will not be able to read cursive (or perhaps, recognize the spelling error).

New comment by a9h74j in "Realistic computer-generated handwriting"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:32:46 +0000

Although correlated, I'm less worried about the doctors than all the prescription errors which were said to kill many people.

New comment by a9h74j in "Realistic computer-generated handwriting"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:29:50 +0000

And still the style does not go to 11.

New comment by a9h74j in "Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 05:09:22 +0000

> Rubber Duck AI chat bot

This sounds more like friendly AI than [different] "Devil's Advocate chat bot."

New comment by a9h74j in "Amazon has radically transformed small businesses in both the U.S. and China"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:29:36 +0000

And it's whitelabel all the way down. So, is this just one generic universe of many?

New comment by a9h74j in "Amazon has radically transformed small businesses in both the U.S. and China"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:21:01 +0000

> make no money on sales

On the model of "make the profit on replacement parts," perhaps grocery chains should be buying hospitals chains to profit from all the unhealthy food they are selling.

New comment by a9h74j in "Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch Costs <$160k"

a9h74j — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:06:07 +0000

Can the training be parallelized in a manner similar to SETI-at-home?

New comment by a9h74j in "NASA nuclear propulsion concept could reach Mars in just 45 days"

a9h74j — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:54:39 +0000

> the retro burn won’t slow you down, and you’re flying into deep space.

Came here with the same question: But can it stop?

> if I were to leave Earth orbit

Tangential or off-topic, but there must be some potential to send semi-autonomous avatar robots, with on-Earth help with perceptual interpretation and executive control. Yet another counterfactual "if only the manned space budget had been spent on that" question.