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The great Egyptian desert. Those raised "lines" across the wadis - what is their function? The remote border stations near the Egypt-Libya-Sudan border: what is

by jfil 2mo ago

The great Egyptian desert. Those raised "lines" across the wadis - what is their function? The remote border stations near the Egypt-Libya-Sudan border: what is life like for the soldiers stationed there? What are all those trucks nearby on the Sudanese side of the border? Smugglers? On the Eastern side of the Nile, what are all those small areas of bulldozing near the gold mines? "Artisanal" mining? Is that profitable? What have you been curious about, adityaathalye?

adityaathalye 2mo ago
Ooh, are you using satellite views to explore? When google earth first came out, I was hooked on making the globe go round and round and zooming into strange and wonderful places. Incredible. As for yours truly; I'm trying to do "ten year projects" as part of my "second life" (the first is before 40, the second is after). Allen Center / Levin labs / TAME / Bioelectric networks as the software plane of morphology https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346 and other work from that fecund lab is ever-fascinating. I have been following their work for five or six years. Much of that informed a giant essay I wrote prompted by an essay contest on Consciousness: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/consciousness-lives-in-a-dedekind-cut/ https://www.evalapply.org/posts/consciousness-lives-in-a-ded... How to write a Hard SciFi novel that does not have magic technology genius, and certainly not magic ET showing up to save the day? A spec fic author friend is on my case about it, because he said "why the hell haven't you written your novel yet?" and I foolishly said "yeah why not? okay let me do it", and now I'm stuck in an honour pact. Write or die trying. How the hell does the weather even work (metrology)? This is because of my current work project, helping an applied sciences team run weather forecasting models, like WRF (pronounced "Worf", which I absolutely love :D). My day-to-day is packer and FreeBSD and shell scripts, but I have to also understand enough about the domain to be somewhat dangerous. And also... why the hell isn't everybody using FreeBSD for server workloads?

by jfil 2mo ago

adityaathalye 2mo ago

Ooh, are you using satellite views to explore? When google earth first came out, I was hooked on making the globe go round and round and zooming into strange and wonderful places. Incredible. As for yours truly; I'm trying to do "ten year projects" as part of my "second life" (the first is before 40, the second is after). Allen Center / Levin labs / TAME / Bioelectric networks as the software plane of morphology https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346 and other work from that fecund lab is ever-fascinating. I have been following their work for five or six years. Much of that informed a giant essay I wrote prompted by an essay contest on Consciousness: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/consciousness-lives-in-a-dedekind-cut/ https://www.evalapply.org/posts/consciousness-lives-in-a-ded... How to write a Hard SciFi novel that does not have magic technology genius, and certainly not magic ET showing up to save the day? A spec fic author friend is on my case about it, because he said "why the hell haven't you written your novel yet?" and I foolishly said "yeah why not? okay let me do it", and now I'm stuck in an honour pact. Write or die trying. How the hell does the weather even work (metrology)? This is because of my current work project, helping an applied sciences team run weather forecasting models, like WRF (pronounced "Worf", which I absolutely love :D). My day-to-day is packer and FreeBSD and shell scripts, but I have to also understand enough about the domain to be somewhat dangerous. And also... why the hell isn't everybody using FreeBSD for server workloads?