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by gilleain 2mo ago
What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
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by gilleain 2mo ago
Fair point - but I wonder how many people that have visited Wikipedia know about simple wiki. I was probably aware of it, but not enough to remember to suggest it as an alternative! I mean - it is certainly better ... but it is still a lot
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by gilleain 2mo ago
Wikipedia is a great _reference_ but not necessarily the best way to learn about a topic. Of course, this depends on the topic, on who has been writing the page, etc A particularly bad example is higher maths - a wiki pages on a complex mat
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by gilleain 2mo ago
Hah instantly knew it was a Patrick Boyle video. He's a well-known expert in rap music that also does finance on the side.
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by gilleain 2mo ago
Nice. This part was especially interesting: > “When we react phosphite, a form of phosphorus that naturally occurs in hydrothermal vents, with organic compounds, we get metabolic phosphorylation reactions overnight in water. Phosphite a
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by gilleain 2mo ago
Interesting, however that was 1966: > the explosive was detonated at a depth of 1,500 m (1,640 yd) on 30 September 1966. The hole that the explosive was lowered into had also been sealed with cement so as to prevent atmospheric radioacti
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Interestingly (well to me) this is also how some ion channels in cells work - the solvation shell (water cage) allows protein pores to distinguish between sodium and potassium. Not sure this is the best paper, just a random pick : https:&#
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Perhaps also vary the bird? Wikipedia tells me pelicans are in the order _Pelecaniformes_ so shoebills or herons might do.
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Reminds me of an interview I saw at the height of the NFT/crypto craze, when the interviewee was challenged to come up with a use-case, and they threw out "buying a house". So there is (AFAIK) just one part of the process to
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by gilleain 3mo ago
A good music track does not _need_ a video, but some videos definitely can enhance the music or are just amazing by themselves. 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys (Spike Jones), 'Hunter' by Bjork (Paul White), 'Praise Y
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by gilleain 3mo ago
If I was feeling unfair I would say there is no difference! However, if a friend drew me an eye on A3 paper would I frame it? Probably yes... Others have said this better, but art is an qualitative/emotional thing, not a simply measura
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Interesting, so the 'pure vision' of the director can remain unsullied by the inept crew, huh? :) More seriously, it reminds me of a video I was watching yesterday about a tabletop roleplay DM who was great at _telling_ stories bu
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by gilleain 3mo ago
I partly agree with you - I used to think of mechanical difficulty as a kind of 'proof of work' for art. Nowadays I am less interested in the idea of what counts as art or not. However, consider works like photorealistic drawings
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by gilleain 3mo ago
The only solution? Answer the phone in an over the top comedy accent, such as Simpsons characters, or just whatever comes to mind.
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Well, confusingly, the last picture on the blogpost look (to my untrained eye) to be tetrapods. Those are 'tetrahedral' (ish) shapes. In contrast, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos (plural 'Dolosse
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Interesting point - usually people approach the question "who draws the tiger" from the other end. As in, the assumption is (not unreasonably!) the genAI is doing all the work and the AI 'artist' is doing nothing. Of cou
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by gilleain 3mo ago
Of course, now the question the boy in the article asked - "where does the Tiger come from?" - could be answered with "the prompt". The arguments today are whether a prompt like "draw a Tiger" are the same som
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by gilleain 4mo ago
I see that I was unclear - I did not mean "the law goes along with this, and I don't know why?" I meant "I do not understand why Sov. Cit. would believe that the law would agree to these ideas".
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by gilleain 4mo ago
A very clear example of this is the 'Sovereign Citizen', who have bizarre beliefs around how to interact with courts. As far as I understand it, there are some 'cheat codes' people believe (incorrectly) are effective in
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by gilleain 4mo ago
I suspect Sandi Toksvig, one of the hosts of QI. One of the 'success' messages is "quite interestng!". No offence mean to anyone, but the whole exercise feels very QI : superficial 'understanding' of a large ra
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by gilleain 4mo ago
That's actually a feature that washing machines have had for a while - "generative washing" - it is where the extra odd socks come from.
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by gilleain 4mo ago
I recently bought the book 'Watch Repair for Beginners' for reference (a project I slightly unwisely agreed to do). It has some great diagrams, but obviously nothing on these interactive animations (er, naturally, since it is a bo
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by gilleain 4mo ago
I meant metallocenes in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallocene A metal atom sandwiched between two Cp rings. You _can_ model this as 5 single bonds between each atom of a ring (so 10 total C-M bonds), or yo
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by gilleain 4mo ago
There is a lot of graph theory in Chemistry - modelling chemicals as (vertex/edge coloured) graphs, reaction networks, etc. Of course some molecules (eg aromatic systems, like ferrocene) are not naturally representable as graphs. I won
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by gilleain 4mo ago
You got me. Usually I read them. edit: Huh. Actually not a bad read. It even mentions ' On Growth and Form' which is interesting, if outdated. There are more modern texts like 'Shapes', 'Flow', and 'Branch
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by gilleain 4mo ago
Surface area to volume ratio?
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by gilleain 4mo ago
A very reasonable question, that I don't have an immediate concrete answer to! Apparently I upvoted this question in the past (found it by searching for an answer - no AI, like the good old days) https://biology.stackexchang
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by gilleain 4mo ago
That would be difficult - a metabolic map is a diagram showing the known reactions. At any point in time, only a subset of these will be active. Like a road map - at midnight, only some roads will have traffic. I think what you are looking
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by gilleain 4mo ago
> add too numbers Did you do this on purpose to anger both Mathematicians and keen spellers?
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by gilleain 4mo ago
Heh, on my watchlist - ""The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Group Theory" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XsXRUsNEC4

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