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by westurner 5d ago
Meshtastic InkHUD on a device w/ LoRA, BLE, Wifi; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060831 , an unfinished start at weather, and then Mu Animation Video w/ gaussian splatting to do better than GIF on ESP32-S3
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by westurner 7d ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44693991 : > EPS3.9 also had significant anti-tumor effects in the mice with liver cancer and activated anti-tumor immune responses “A Novel Exopolysaccharide, Highly Prevalent
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by westurner 7d ago
ScholarlyArticle: "Large-scale AI-guided liver malignancy diagnosis: multicenter study and a single-arm trial" (2026) Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04589-y Source: https:/&#
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by westurner 8d ago
Will roughly crash landing scrap on the moon cause nearby cave systems to collapse, and where are the caves to shelter from meteorite bursts in? "Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half" http
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by westurner 11d ago
- enactic/openarm_mujoco: https://github.com/enactic/openarm_mujoco - "Robots – Comprehensive catalog of 115 humanoid and quadruped robots" re: MJCF in mujoco_menagerie, awesomerobots, robot-description
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by westurner 12d ago
"The Optics and Image Processing Behind Fundus Cameras" (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283744 : > low-cost retinal imaging attachment: https://www.google.com/search?q=low-cost+r
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by westurner 12d ago
Neat! Geisswerks has Navier-Stokes visualizations that run on Win98/2k IIRC. Milkdrop3/projectM can vary visualization parameters according to audio attributes samples in real time. Could be in an open source bowling alley: https
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by westurner 13d ago
ScholarlyArticle: "A nanolaser with extreme dielectric confinement" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3865 NewsArticle: "Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half&quot
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A nanolaser with extreme dielectric confinement(science.org)
2 points by westurner 13d ago|1 comments
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by westurner 13d ago
ScholarlyArticle: "Uncovering piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea8318 NewsArticle: "Scientists discover diamonds can gene
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Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes(science.org)
3 points by westurner 13d ago|1 comments
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by westurner 13d ago
Is this what we call "net metering" here in the US? Unfortunately this region only has "buy-all-sell-all", no intraday prices, and and still not enough storage to store solar from peak at noon until evening commute: ht
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by westurner 14d ago
Which part of that comment are you referring to in specific?
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by westurner 14d ago
WAVM in Rust? WAVM does not yet support ARM MTE or RISC-V CHERI? wasmtime-mte could be added to the benchmark.
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by westurner 14d ago
But what about shearing force in a wind storm from mounted panels? The other day on YouTube I saw a solar shingled roof that pointed down into a rainwater cistern; a roof with circular curved negative pitch for rainwater collection. Apparen
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by westurner 14d ago
How to better solve for solar roofs (BIPV: Building-integrated photovoltaics)? Should they sell this product to another firm that will get it done? Or is there a lower cost, safer, more sustainable product? With a compatible part stream?
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by westurner 14d ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38454406 re: XBRL and Value Investing: > https://github.com/topics/xbrl
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by westurner 14d ago
A few resources for Digital Literacy: From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 : > Media Literacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy#Media_literacy_... Internet safe
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by westurner 14d ago
> Unlike blanket bans, A.B. 2071 and A.B. 2298 address online safety through education rather than prohibition. [...] +1. > A.B. 2071 and A.B. 2298 fill critical gaps in California’s school curricula by equipping students with acti
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by westurner 14d ago
Emulation of RISC-V in software; container2wasm has TinyEmu for RISC-V. dearchap/tinyemu: https://github.com/dearchap/tinyemu Qemu also supports 32bit and 64bit RISC-V: "RISC-V System emulator — QEMU document
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by westurner 14d ago
Here's another example: "EPA to Weaken Rules on Methane Pollution From “Stripper Wells”" (2026) https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-... Methane is a potent greenhouse gas; it&#x2
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by westurner 14d ago
Other datacenter concerns in other communities? - water usage - water pressure - water contamination (from evaporative cooling towers concentrating metals) - purple pipe water - heat waste from air cooling - corrosion from evaporative cooli
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by westurner 15d ago
So plan for a heavy crack down or a severe rule change after this probably short-lived partisan deregulatory action? And a return to voluntary membership in the Paris Agreement?
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by westurner 16d ago
(I am again posting this comment, which was certainly censored in error: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915#49633297 ) What about compressible fluids? Existing Navier-Stokes models for compressible fluids: "
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by westurner 16d ago
There are various specs for this; Schema.org/WebAPI; https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1423#issuecomm... RFC: WADG0001 WebAPI type extension https://webapi-discovery.github.io&#x2F
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by westurner 16d ago
Can a process loaded this way be reverified once loaded?
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by westurner 17d ago
Is everything in NavierStokesAndEuler/NavierStokes [1] precedent to the derivations? How to tree shake Lean4? (Edit: `lake shake`,) [1] https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/tree/main/Nav...
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by westurner 17d ago
"Blowup for the Euler equations with smooth forcing" (2026) https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/euler.pdf "Blowup for the Boussinesq equations with smooth forcing" (2026) https://cims.nyu.edu&
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by westurner 17d ago
"OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588063-openai-has-solv... $15m in tokens; but what about labor? What about compressible f
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by westurner 19d ago
Well, perhaps a thought experiment about this then: - One person lives in a world where people have applied AI (the smartest tech we have) to solving for datacenter impact and broader climate change objectives. - The other lives in a world

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