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New comment by gorpy7 in "Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds"

gorpy7 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:59:14 +0000

“…good enough” and why is it that we can’t be a part of the planet’s ecology? it must have happened when we exceeded the beaver and ascended. there’s a cake joke in this somewhere but i’d rather just suggest it than wait for the joke to come to me.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

gorpy7 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:30:09 +0000

Thanks for the response. i had too many noodles tonight and forgot to check my writing. I’m a rare generalist and so it is so very hard to keep up with this without saying “better autocomplete” my one goal is to not get washed out like my parents did in the great username and password wars. i used to have this theory about knowledge in society/silos and i likened it to condensation on a window. you have all this water so close to each other and yet not touching-then, something happens and a bead runs down the window and it all connects. i guess distillation reminds me of it but ai overall reminds me of it. because we all know there are silos and complementary info just waiting to run together and make something happen. I am undoubtedly a naive optimist and believe there are good things coming. it’s not a popular opinion and i think that’s mostly because people would rather spend their time guarding than defining their future. oh baby, there are more noodles in the fridge and to think i almost left them at the restaurant.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

gorpy7 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:07:49 +0000

i’ve often thought that less than one second is all you need.One of my fun super powers when someone asks what i’d like to have is 1 second ahead of everyone else- that’s all i need. i honest don’t know where the distillation conversation is at. is it real, is it ongoing? i think that aspect would big one. Your point is valid if it’s valid. i’m not a great global citizen, you know, lots going on out and about.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Golf game built last night with Claude Code, Svelte and ThreeJS"

gorpy7 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:19:00 +0000

Programming is hard, even for someone who has an interest in it. i know some c# just for selenium work- honestly im quite terrible and have too little concentration or innate skill to get anywhere. i’ve made attempts but they fizzle. Those barriers of esoteric knowledge are folding like card castles now. would it be helpful to understand perfectly the underlying principles, heck yeah, but i want to see my visions for different programs come to life! apps that i believe don’t exist. I sincerely don’t mean it as jab to the author but programmers tend to be rigid thinkers and it’s totally practical to do PoC on golf but yeah, rigid thinking doesn’t always result in novelty. let’s let things play out and see what happens when this sort of capability reaches other creatives/types of people. and as the tools strengthen and expand.

New comment by gorpy7 in "You need a kitchen slide rule"

gorpy7 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:14:18 +0000

i believe i threw a slide ruler in the trash recently. i stopped reading as soon as they said something about a c position. i’d rather have a digital scale- so many fewer measuring cups/spoons used, just do the addition in your head or tare as you add additional ingredients.

New comment by gorpy7 in "2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)"

gorpy7 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:38:31 +0000

anyone have anything positive to say?

New comment by gorpy7 in "American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks"

gorpy7 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:25:55 +0000

i bought a bottle from cvs. 60 gummies each 5 mg. my kid was having trouble sleeping and these worked like a sledghammer, it was great! also comical, knowing the dose was way too high, i would slice the pinky-fingernail-sized gummy into 10 tiny pieces. “do you want this gummy?” “can i have more?” “no” “do you still want the little piece” “yes”. so then she would try to make it last by sort of licking it or just taking it in and out of her mouth and it would get lost of forgotten- funny business. anyway, we dropped off the use of the sledgehammer precipitously as we wanted her to develop her own sleep skills and avoid any of these lesser known potentially negative effects. we still keep the (lifetime supply)tool in our back pocket for rare occasions, like traveling.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures"

gorpy7 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:39:45 +0000

Tesla’s current products are similar to older failed products from other manufacturers. Tesla’s future products are similar to older failed products from other manufacturers. Tesla’s current products are largely profitable. Just exactly why are we bashing on attempts to bring products to market? I will say i view the “lies” as woefully aspirational but not malicious in intent. and i do think the lines can blur. but i’d rather have cool new things and a few fools fooled benevolently than, for instance, no true EV market.

New comment by gorpy7 in "New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency"

gorpy7 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:22:18 +0000

I tried gpt to get an idea of what this meant relative to compressor tech and i had to put my tail between my legs and crawl back in my cave. it said it could be COP very efficient iirc COP 50 over tiny temp lifts. i don’t fully understand that yet. But the theme is matching the application with techs characteristics. solid state should be great but as someone mentioned, expansion and contraction at the solder or connection is troublesome. on the other hand, those that mention it wouldn’t work for residential cooling/heating should keep in mind the cost of installation for current heat pumps- if this cost could be reduced or homeowner-capable, then that’s a huge win. My point is is this constellation of characteristics the SOTA and how they interact with the moving world can be hard to track and if something isn’t viable, it may suddenly become viable. it’s a tricky thing to notice if you’re just looking at the one characteristic of efficiency.

New comment by gorpy7 in "What could have been"

gorpy7 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:48:55 +0000

it’s peculiar because i love to use chat gpt to fill my knowledge gaps as i work through solutions to building and energy problems that i want to solve. i wonder how many people are doing something similar and, although i haven’t* read through all the comments, i doubt much is being said let alone giving credence to that simple but potentially profound idea. learning amplified.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors"

gorpy7 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:49:16 +0000

I used to try it for a few drives after each release then revert to driving myself. with the newest version i let it drive a lot- and i’m on the older hardware. Everyone likes to bemoan the lying but every corp lies, at least with Tesla you get to point the finger instead of yell at a faceless mass. and if it’s 15 years of lying and a well known political target, then at some point it’s not lying- it’s a feature. people need to take some personal responsibility. also, of course, every day that goes by without a fatality is another day that all the naysayers should capitulate- but we won’t hear it. time and pressure will solve fsd sooner than later, i doubt there is a soul in here that doubts it, so there is also /that/ clock that is ticking.

Cars, one of life’s current greatest killers. by accidents and by pollution-hmmm, let’s run down that evil dude!

edited: made on writing mistakes

New comment by gorpy7 in "2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says"

gorpy7 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:40:08 +0000

Someone very local to the scene said they have received about 5 alerts so far.

New comment by gorpy7 in "OpenAI can stop pretending"

gorpy7 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:05:03 +0000

I always get a little triggered when i hear the phrase job creation. it’s like a solution in search of a problem. here idk if you’re using it in the way i usually hear it because i generally agree -productivity gains boost the economy. for me, i wish the focus was on value creation. i think of the economy like a bike, the slower it goes the harder it is to balance. i come from a biology background and there there is ‘boom bust’ as a widespread and normal process. if humans are clever enough, even when we run out of resources and are about to bust, we can just suddenly invent fertilizer or countless other things. we took natural gas and added value to it. humans have lots of tricks to keep the bicycle chooching along. Regarding ai, it’s a systemic change. most people aren’t great at systems thinking because most people are specialists. so it’s not too likely you’ll hear a salient take on what ai will do despite some rather smart people commenting. The one trend i like to look at is sort of a scale reset or, how do you say forest from the trees? what i mean is, one of corporate’s great advantages are their size and swath of roles and the coordination that allows them to have an outsized advantage-essentially leveraging the collection of specialist to gain a dominate effect in working ‘the system’(navigating government, economy or scale, overwhelming capital, etc). Enter AI, subsuming these roles into one thing and sort of resetting the required scale to have some of the corporate power/advantages. Of course these are some rosy shades but i often approach new things with “what’s the best that could happen” and it has served me well.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM"

gorpy7 — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:10:32 +0000

i think it offered a few formats but specifically remember it would do it in obsidian to use concept map ability within.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM"

gorpy7 — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:08:52 +0000

idk if it’s precisely the same but o3 recently offered to create one for me in, was it markdown?, recently. suggesting it was something it was willing to maintain for me.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes""

gorpy7 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:21:04 +0000

regarding poe doing lighting, my early search after posting my first message suggests i don’t know squat about poe or ethernet.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes""

gorpy7 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:52:58 +0000

nobody has a clean enough microwave to give that a try. I don’t even have the courage to look at the roof of mine. i just wait for something to truly explode before i begrudgingly clean it. so yeah, the essence will permeate the purity of a clean moist cloth. anyway, I’ve often wondered if poe could take the place of 14 ga copper for doing primary lighting. also, my bro in law is building a new house with double cat to all locations just for a backup if one fails. doesn’t want to have to rerun wire. seems brilliant given its ease and low cost.

New comment by gorpy7 in "As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond"

gorpy7 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:52:16 +0000

It’s known as the ricky bobby theory.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results"

gorpy7 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:23:08 +0000

Maybe there should be a universal basic job. jobs can be rated by how much value is created- it can’t be moving rocks from one location then back again. maybe that’s too hard to calculate. weekly, if you create enough value, you’ve earned your basic income. This might be 2 days of road work. you get 40k for this. take responsibility and up your skills with the remaining time. I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to give money out just for being- i understand there are sales taxes etc. I hate the idea of creating jobs, it has always felt wrong. If the jobs fulfill a valuable and timely need, sure. But i’d rather kill jobs, i say, if you can automate your job with no loss in value, you should be paid at least double that for the rest of your days. If we focus on creating value, we’ll all benefit. it’s just a matter of measuring value i suppose. things like teaching a valuable skill should be of enormous value- as an example. call me crazy.

New comment by gorpy7 in "Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing"

gorpy7 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:58:45 +0000

depends on the distance between stoplights. but, in general, this will reduce throughput- if you’re the lead car and you accelerate slowly when it turns green then the 10th car may not get through the light. and if you slow down early and gently, that’ll ripple backward. slowing down gently also doesn’t let the cars pack densely quickly and here again you can’t get enough cars in the space between lights, especially over freeways/bridges. sometimes you’ll see zipper merges just to combat this low density as cars accelerate.