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by jcims 2y ago
In the mid 80s my best friend brought in a select fire (aka full auto capable) mauser c96 with the case that doubles as a stock. His grandpa acquired in wwii, the teacher just asked if it was loaded.
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by jcims 2y ago
Yep, I think the title should be “things that are way harder than they seem”.
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by jcims 2y ago
I don't know why but I always find these high resolution physics simulations/eye candy to the thing that really blows my mind about how much processing is done inside of a cpu/gpu. I watched a two minute short earlier today
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by jcims 2y ago
As long as it actually makes it out the other end. Bits of undigestable matter the size of smoke particles is a relatively new phenomenon.
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by jcims 2y ago
>Anthropic's definition: Some customers define agents as fully autonomous systems that operate independently over extended periods, using various tools to accomplish complex tasks. But that's not their definition, and they expl
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by jcims 2y ago
I agree, it's like watching a meadow ablaze and dismissing it because it's not a 'real forest fire' yet. No it's not 'real AGI' yet, but *this is how we get there* and the pace is relentless, incredible a
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by jcims 2y ago
He's on Lex Fridman's podcast as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU Great conversation.
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by jcims 2y ago
It's not insane in the least. I try to always make a point of observing the ecliptic when I travel, it creates a wonderful interconnectedness to places all over the planet. There are going to be some lovely conjunctions in the next f
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by jcims 2y ago
Thank you! You as well! The shadows are very much my favorite part of this kind of shot. It provides so much visual texture to the surface, showing not only how rough it is but how smooth it is. the 'scar' to the bottom right (
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by jcims 2y ago
It feels like this is the barrier to that 3D economy. The width of an iphone is approximately the interpupil distance of an average adult, moving one camera to the other side would make stereoscopic image/video capture a widespread ca
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by jcims 2y ago
No, but i did just get a wedge so I could start tinkering with polar alignment. I also bought a Seestar S50 last year and have been having an absolute blast with it. Feels like a renaissance in astronomy is upon us.
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by jcims 2y ago
I’m sure it’s different for everyone but I think it would just be the unbridled enthusiasm and love for the subject that they would show, the tidal dopamine surge of all the mysteries that have been unlocked, the validation of all the myste
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by jcims 2y ago
This is wonderful!!! Generalizing here but we really do take the moon for granted. I bought a 'big ass telescope' a few years ago in an effort to bootstrap a hobby that I'd flirted with for decades but never really committed
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by jcims 2y ago
Yes. Lots of folks on reddit running it on 24gb cards.
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by jcims 2y ago
That airport is a bit of a haul. :/
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by jcims 2y ago
Same!!! I just asked chatgpt “Based on what you know about me, what do you think I would be interested in seeing in Athens?” The Herakleidon Museum was third on the list. May have to try this again in the future.
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by jcims 2y ago
I just used it (a day later). It's only available on the 1.5 model right now. If anything it found a bunch of cool articles on the subject matter that I could use on my own. The actual results from its research in the domain I was u
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by jcims 2y ago
Work at a bank? That’s my reaction to 95% of the cool stuff I see every week.
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by jcims 2y ago
Totally agree, but it seems likely to me that diet can make a body more or less hospitable to cancer, which in turn could lend less or more effectiveness of targeted therapies.
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by jcims 2y ago
Went though a cancer journey with a loved one a few years ago. I was quite surprised at the complete lack of specialized guidance on nutrition. It was basically ‘eat healthy’, which isn’t bad advice but it seems like there are probably op
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by jcims 2y ago
The width of modern mobile phones isn't far off from the average pupillary distance of adults. It feels like there is an opportunity to create a glut of useful 3D data by simply placing one camera on each side of the phone rather than
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by jcims 2y ago
I’m sure it varies but I’m from the midwest and it’s just regional vernacular. It’s what I would say if I were speaking instead of writing.
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by jcims 2y ago
Very possible! I actually have a 100MHz scope and sdrs that tune from 9khz to 2ghz, could be an interesting distraction on the weekend to see if that axis is any noisier than the others.
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by jcims 2y ago
I have a 3D printer where presumably a smoothing cap just fell off the X axis controller section of the mainboard. Didn't make a lick of difference in anything operationally. Still works great.
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by jcims 2y ago
I tried it with something fairly abstract about a decision I was working on making. Fed it a bunch of information, details about me, my background, the factors I'm considering in the decision and the impact of getting it right/wr
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by jcims 2y ago
If you just listen to the narrative of most of these videos, there is all sorts of agency referenced in the vocabulary. When in reality it's like a bunch of tiny magnets of indescribably complex geometry bashed around in a box until a
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by jcims 2y ago
Oh dang! I bet that's it! Nice find, thank you!
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by jcims 2y ago
Apologies for the ADHD induced tangent. Has anyone else noticed that regular little party balloons seem to have a passive noise cancelling effect? If you bring them close to your ear there's a zone of 'dead air' when they a
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by jcims 2y ago
Terrestrial fees
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by jcims 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but because they are so amazing here are a few videos that illustrate the process of transcription (creating mRNA from DNA) and translation (creating a protein from mRNA). https://www.youtube.com/w

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