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How the PicoCray Was Made(raspberrypi.com)
18 points by _Microft 3y ago|7 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
To quote the movie of the same name: „I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
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by _Microft 3y ago
Here's a video of someone holding a hand full of golden beetles, of the type on which the study was done: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVaHvmIhjbb/ Mirror on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@
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Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials(opg.optica.org)
1 points by _Microft 3y ago|1 comments
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Unproctored online exams provide meaningful assessment of student learning(pnas.org)
2 points by _Microft 3y ago|1 comments
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Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why(caltech.edu)
146 points by _Microft 3y ago|60 comments
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How to Make a Superconductor at Home (2015)(greenoptimistic.com)
2 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
> This paper It's not a paper. It's an idea that sounds plausible, presented in a highly entertaining form.
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by _Microft 3y ago
There is (the project doesn’t seem to be actively pursued at the moment) a blog series documenting someone‘s journey in procedurally generating fantasy maps. For a while (a bit over a dozen entries from what I could find) he explored map bo
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by _Microft 3y ago
A delicious example of a buttercream cake is "Frankfurter Kranz" ("Frankfurt crown cake"). Here's an excerpt from its Wikipedia article to get an idea what it's like: "Preparation starts with the baking o
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by _Microft 3y ago
The thruster seems to be based on ideas of Prof. Mike McCulloch at Plymouth University [0]. The page includes links to a number of publications. His theory seems to be called "Quantised Inertia" (arXiv search: [1]). I think (not b
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SpaceFox – A 6DOF DIY HID(github.com)
2 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
There are actual negative temperatures (Kelvin scale!). One example are lasers in which a population inversion facilitates lasing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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How Many Photos Are There? (Statistics and Trends in 2023)(photutorial.com)
1 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
This is light on details if I haven’t missed a link to another page or something. Definitely browse the links to the images in the „See:“ section of the submitted page though - the images and videos on the knots and nature pages are beauti
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by _Microft 3y ago
There is also http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/
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by _Microft 3y ago
That’s linking to a think tank website.
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by _Microft 3y ago
> There are many theories and computer models, but no evidence. Models and theories are what enabled us to develop all our technological progress. Before, there was random chance and tinkering. That changed when we started doing experime
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by _Microft 3y ago
> let's just agree to disagree That‘s one, I‘d say.
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by _Microft 3y ago
Analog electronics [0] uses a continuously variable signal while digital electronics interprets the signal with thresholds that define states like 0 and 1. Here is a simple example: using a few discrete parts, like two transistors (Darlingt
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by _Microft 3y ago
We are the cause, that‘s not a narrative but concensus.
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by _Microft 3y ago
> I keep wondering if I misremembered since it's so different to the whole global waking narrative I don't see a problem with both being true: we can technically be in an "ice age" and still experience warming that wo
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by _Microft 3y ago
GP wrote in a different comment that they worked with DARPA in the past, so I would assume that they know more about the processes than other people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637805
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by _Microft 3y ago
No, it does not depend on our technological capabilities. The observable universe [0] of a point is defined as the space from which it is theoretically possible that a signal can reach it. So: every point in space has its own observable uni
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by _Microft 3y ago
That was might first thought as well but "diode" might make people think about polarity. I would rather describe it as unidirectional valve for microwaves instead.
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by _Microft 3y ago
It‘s not that we are not trying to make progress: „‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 countries“ , https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/06/s...
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by _Microft 3y ago
Google for „acquire a disease“ or „acquired disease“.
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by _Microft 3y ago
Yes - another example is in the acronym AIDS which stands for „Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome“.
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by _Microft 3y ago
How could the scale be reasonably expanded? "Level 4: can create the tools needed to solve the task"? PS: shout-out and thanks to ben_w who mentioned this article in the discussion about the Algerian internet shutdowns.
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)(nngroup.com)
47 points by _Microft 3y ago|58 comments

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