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New comment by cellular in "How the Heck does Shazam work?"

cellular — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:46:12 +0000

I did this for a science project in 1986 on an Apple ][c computer !

New comment by cellular in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

cellular — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:49:47 +0000

Same goes for fusion 360 when you just want to do CNC. Use "GatorCAM for cnc". $30 with future upgrades included.

https://sites.google.com/view/gatorcam/home

New comment by cellular in "Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life"

cellular — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:12:11 +0000

Why is the density greater at equally spaced grid lines?

New comment by cellular in "Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life"

cellular — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:08:40 +0000

https://youtu.be/hhK8J8i6CTg

Primordial particle system

The rules are 3 lines of code!

New comment by cellular in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

cellular — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:30:55 +0000

Maybe if Firefox tabs weren't such a memory hog it would be only 0.005% !

New comment by cellular in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

cellular — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:57:09 +0000

Yeah how? A solution means EVERYONE gets sucked into vr world.

Surely a small percentage, at least, would go on to colonize.

New comment by cellular in "Postal Arbitrage"

cellular — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:09:09 +0000

"Include a note with this purchase" = Free postage for a letter!

New comment by cellular in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

cellular — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:12:43 +0000

When i worked on image pipeline the images were circular and had to be warped to square. Also the edges of the circular image were darker than the middle, and needed to be brightened.

New comment by cellular in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

cellular — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:42:14 +0000

CPU affinity? I haven't been able to change priority in task manager since window 8 i think. Cpu affinity seems only to allow which cores get assigned...not really good management.

New comment by cellular in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

cellular — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:47:03 +0000

Ultrasonic agitation? Or vibration?

New comment by cellular in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

cellular — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:11:33 +0000

Can the liquid be agitated to avoid dendrite growth?

New comment by cellular in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

cellular — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:53:22 +0000

I'm guessing they'll break it later by actually using said requirement.

Then say "i told you so!"

New comment by cellular in "CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years"

cellular — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:44:21 +0000

Just hang the batteries over the water in containers. Dip them into water if they catch fire.

New comment by cellular in "Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help"

cellular — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:18:50 +0000

IRS should create a spreadsheet with irs forms so the user types in their numbers and the calculations are automatic.

An intern or 2 could do this for the entire nation to benefit!

New comment by cellular in "N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics"

cellular — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:05:16 +0000

https://youtu.be/ByLhzd5biag

Commentary on close radius interactions. Very interesting wrt nuclear forces!

New comment by cellular in "How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research"

cellular — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:51:39 +0000

If a magnet were attached to the turtle, would it lose its sense of direction?

New comment by cellular in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

cellular — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:11:37 +0000

Those few smells of extremes (garbage /clean air) make me think they are saturating the sensors.

New comment by cellular in "The New AI Consciousness Paper"

cellular — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:38:57 +0000

Consciousness is unprovably true.

New comment by cellular in "The New AI Consciousness Paper"

cellular — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:41:55 +0000

Pain.

I haven't publicly stated this before now: Consciousness requires the ability to perceive PAIN.

All human learning is based upon the single kernel of pain (vs pleasure).

A newborn is hungry or cold and cried. It learned to cry. It learned to smile. Eventually, delayed gratification lead to less pain (more pleasure).

The rest is human history.

New comment by cellular in "Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths"

cellular — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:22:03 +0000

I use a circular font I made in inkscape for outputting SVGs to GatorCAM for CNC.

Inkscape lets me adjust kern of each letter because the curve can cause letters to touch.