xeonmc

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631.
by xeonmc 2y ago
I wonder if some degree of RPM-dependent shape change could be designed, like F1’s flexi-wing trick that extends its aerodynamic operating range
632.
by xeonmc 2y ago
See https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/
633.
by xeonmc 2y ago
hightlights: (From Abstract) > The presence of a lipid peroxidation sensor at the core of homeostatic sleep control suggests that sleep protects neuronal membranes against oxidative damage. Indeed, brain phospholipids are depleted of vul
634.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Not all assholes are created equal. Case in point:
635.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Mass transfer?
636.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Where do Dick Van Dyke fit in all of this?
637.
by xeonmc 2y ago
I think you meant “any sufficiently commoditized magic is indistinguishable from technology”, or “any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.”
638.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Let me tell you about this thing called Turnitin and how it was a purely advisory screening tool…
639.
by xeonmc 2y ago
You will own nothing and be happy. Not even your family photos.
640.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Similar concept to FTIR in terms of de-convolving a known agitation pattern to enable more robust signal collection.
641.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Can’t expect too much reliability from the result of vibe coding.
642.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Between this and the drone-swarm command experiment from yesterday, seems like whoever is heading DARPA mains Zerg in StarCraft.
643.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Or Unity
644.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Reminds me of Ferrari sparkling wine, for a few years they were the only Ferrari’s on the podium.
645.
by xeonmc 2y ago
I will never buy an EV, not because of its powertrain but because there is no way to avoid their spyware. Granted, the same goes for modern gas cars, which is also why I stick to secondhand but premium pre-infotainment cars
646.
by xeonmc 2y ago
> In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony God's blessing, but because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence.
647.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Is it possible to keep resist fingerprint enabled and only add an exception for dark mode?
648.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Turns out Mozilla’s abandonment was a blessing in disguise.
649.
by xeonmc 2y ago
> Metals don't need to melt to fail. Another example: “jet fuel can’t melt steel.”
650.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Probably a DEI-ty.
651.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Direction in 3D has two degrees of freedom, orientation has three.
652.
by xeonmc 2y ago
It takes a village to raise a child, and modern society is not conducive to such an environment.
653.
by xeonmc 2y ago
1. In this application, floating point drift affect matrices far more than quats. Drifts in quats results in a drifted value of rotation + uniform scaling, but will never introduce deformation. Drifts in matrices may result in total mutilat
654.
by xeonmc 2y ago
I feel like there should be a followup post "Dear Sir, you have reimplemented quaternions" noting how implementing GA and using it only in 3D gets you precisely right back to quaternions-but-with-a-different-name since they'r
655.
by xeonmc 2y ago
What a genius.
656.
by xeonmc 2y ago
The formal, general name is “Dual space” I think.
657.
by xeonmc 2y ago
As I mentioned, unnormalized quaternions just adds an extra uniform scaling, so it’s just a matter of dividing the final vertex by qq* to remove the scaling. EDIT: I guess if you use a shitty overzealously reduced version of the quaternion
658.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Quaternions are automatically orthogonal, whereas matrices can shear and therefore may accumulate floating point distortions under repeated opreations.[0] Think of matrices as computational instructions, which are straightforward but lossy,
659.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Do keep in mind that FFT is a lossless, equivalent representation of the original data.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
I'd argue that Ramanujan was taking much more of a moonshot mailing Hardy as an unknown clerk, than Bose who was already an established academic when he contacted Einstein.

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