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by rotexo 2y ago
Once you finally meet up with the person on the other end “oh my god, I hate my AI dating concierge too!” Then you have an actual connection.
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by rotexo 2y ago
Almost 20 years ago I helped my mom make a hole for a deep pond in her backyard—a previous occupant had a concrete shallow pond, and her attempts to add goldfish only resulted in turning it into a buffet for the raccoons. The deeper one jus
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by rotexo 2y ago
I’ve been reading Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep where that is a characteristic of one of the species in the novel, and had the exact same thought.
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by rotexo 3y ago
Isn’t the problem of robotic kinematics very much unsolved? I seem to remember hearing that kinematics are a major barrier in the path towards effective robots. Are there promising ml approaches to the problem?
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by rotexo 3y ago
Second this book recommendation. He is a very engaging author (and his music is amazing too).
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by rotexo 3y ago
I really want to play microscope, I bought the pdf but I couldn’t successfully tempt my gaming group with it on one of our off-nights. Wish I had a bunch of time and my friends did too. I also want to use it for generating a homebrew world
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by rotexo 3y ago
Some really incredible stuff there!
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by rotexo 3y ago
I was reflecting at lunch today on how grateful I am that we are at least trying to decarbonize. All of this activity still seems fragile to me--Trump (or a similar Republican) could win and implement Project 2025, the geopolitical situatio
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by rotexo 3y ago
Yeah, very probably fraud. Only puzzle is why they would choose something so easy for other labs to try (and fail) to replicate.
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by rotexo 3y ago
This is a really good point. I wasn’t at all aware of this case study. Makes me suddenly very pessimistic about carbon dioxide removal efforts as well.
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by rotexo 3y ago
Yes, though as I understand it, that still leaves a public record. Also, I looked into it when I got married, and the sense that I got was that name changes for men are logistically challenging.
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by rotexo 3y ago
Yes it is an interesting set of trade offs. I have first-hand experience. Six years ago, people on one end of the political spectrum mistook me for someone on the opposite end, and doxxed me. My name is similar to theirs, but I have an addi
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by rotexo 3y ago
Quick google indicates that a 1MW solar array yields around $40k revenue per year [1]. (I might be misinterpreting that, and also might not be the best source, but multiple hits gave the same ballpark.) With that route, you don’t pay up-fro
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by rotexo 3y ago
A nice cheap (as modular synthesizers go) testbed for logic noise circuits is the AE modular format made by Tangible Waves ( https://www.tangiblewaves.com/ ). It all operates on 0-5V, so experimenting with CMOS chips (as well
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by rotexo 4y ago
Also Pisound ( https://blokas.io/pisound/ ) which has the benefit of built-in din MIDI, but without the active community sharing software (you kind of have to build everything yourself with PD or SuperCollider). Some peo
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by rotexo 4y ago
Just finished this book and I agree wholeheartedly. It is pretty mind-bending for me to consider the extent of the technological changes that happened in my grandmother’s lifetime, and how quickly those changes just faded into the backgroun
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by rotexo 4y ago
Not so much fatigue as extreme anxiety. I keep trying to think of ways for creative professionals to use it as a tool, but of course the rewards that will go to creators (tiny compared to the rewards going to suits and engineers) will all g
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by rotexo 4y ago
On the subject of Caracaras, want to plug “A Most Remarkable Creature ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251787/a-most-remar... ) by Jonathan Meiburg, lead singer of Shearwater
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by rotexo 4y ago
As a biologist with nearly no physics knowledge, this sort of work seems to have more in common with setting up quantum computers than it does with thinking about self-replication in living organisms, at least in terms of the lack of robu
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by rotexo 4y ago
Also made me think of the parallel universe to the show “Silicon Valley” where Richard Hendricks sells Pied Piper to Gavin Belson for like $10 million and happily retires in La Veta, Colorado.
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by rotexo 4y ago
On a tangent, and I’m just spitballing here, how is this for a business idea. I: have a PhD (which is not to say I’m smart, it is just to say I have been exposed to lots of facts that other people may not have been exposed to), and I have a
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by rotexo 4y ago
The response I saw on Twitter that made the most sense: “sell your button press for $5 or 10 million to a person who has $100 million”
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by rotexo 4y ago
Soon to evolve into “bird remembering” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220505114633.h...
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by rotexo 4y ago
Yeah I can imagine no circumstance in which winning that kind of money in full view of the public could be good for anybody. Like even if you said “I am giving it all away,” either a) people don’t believe you and want some money and think y
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by rotexo 4y ago
I was the target of an online harassment campaign, and very soon afterwards I got a bunch of emails confirming registration on a whole range of forums I had never heard of. Seemed like people were using my email address for forum spam. I’ve
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by rotexo 4y ago
I had that experience with some pieces in this work: https://mikiplayspiano.bandcamp.com/releases A lot of it is sparse, and then there are moments that remind me of the black MIDI genre.
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by rotexo 4y ago
Thanks!
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by rotexo 4y ago
So does anyone have a sense of what this means if you have an account with Varo? I mean, they are FDIC insured, so if they go under, is it just a matter of time until one gets their funds back?
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by rotexo 4y ago
Thanks, will have to read up on it.
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by rotexo 4y ago
So you would recommend Optery? Some of the paid opt-out services seem to me to be essentially extortion schemes, want to make sure any service I use wouldn’t be like that.

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