The "OpenCooler"
A silent, drop-in water cooling unit for labs, temp controlled mattress covers, pet coolers, whatever. The current market stuff is too expensive and it looked like a good learning project
<https://hackaday.io/project/205182-opencooler>
I tried gamedev before, but was never able to fully commit to getting over the learning curve for Unity and Unreal. Godot has proved much easier to just jump in and make things. I really like where the project is heading. Godot + Blender = the dream
This is literally my first time hearing this. All the stuff I see from china is about lying flat, giving up because no matter how hard you work it won't make a difference? Is this a Shenzhen attitude?
Organic adaption and persistence of memory I would say are the two major advancements that need to happen.
Human neural networks are dynamic, they change and rearrange, grow and sever. An LLM is fixed and relies on context, if you give it the right answer it won't "learn" that is the correct answer unless it is fed back into the system and trained over months. What if it's only the right answer for a limited period of time?
To build an intelligent machine, it must be able train itself in real time and remember.
I honestly can't tell if this is a bot post because of just how bad I find Deepseek R1 to be. When asking it complex questions based on an app I'm working on, it always gives a flawed response that breaks the program. Where Claude is sometimes wrong, but not consistently wrong and completely missing the point of the question like Deepseek R1 100% is. Claude I can work with, Deepseek is trash. I've had no luck with it at all and don't bother trying anymore
That is exactly what TikTok does, they are more popular because their tastes algorithm is even better than Shorts for figuring out what you actually want to watch
> Best Novel: Emily Tesh -- Some Desperate Glory (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you
> Best Novella: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) -- Thornhedge (Tor, Titan UK)
A retelling of sleeping beauty from the perspective of an atypical fairy godmother and knight. There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
> Best Novelette: Naomi Kritzer -- “The Year Without Sunshine” (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2023)
One tiny community pulls together – and does it effectively – because one community member is suffering from COPD and will only live as long as her oxygen concentrator has power.
> Best Short Story: Naomi Kritzer -- “Better Living Through Algorithms” (Clarkesworld May 2023)
Linnea, a young woman working a boring office job, is told about a new productivity and wellness app called Abelique from a friend. When her boss encourages her to download it to increase her productivity, she is surprised when the app encourages her to prioritize her personal life to the neglect of her professional life.
> Best Series: Ann Leckie -- Imperial Radch (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Ancillary Justice is a space opera set thousands of years in the future, where the principal power in human space is the expansionist Radch empire. The empire uses space ships controlled by AIs, who control human bodies ("ancillaries") to use as soldiers. The Radchaai do not distinguish people by gender, which Leckie conveys by using "she" pronouns for everybody, and by having the Radchaai main character guess, frequently incorrectly, when she has to use languages with gender-specific pronouns.
I love this controversy. I swear it's the most exciting thing in modern physics. The thought that there's something fundamentally wrong with the cosmic distance ladder and the way that we measure the expansion of the universe.
I'm no mathematician or physicist, but this stuff just fascinates me. I interpret it something like:
The further one looks, the faster objects in the universe are expanding. However, when one looks out at the universe, they are looking backwards in time, to a time when the universe was expanding at a more rapid pace. Right? Close to the big bang? Because there was a period of rapid expansion after the big bang, so the universe had to have moved faster in the earlier universe? So the only part of space that actually appears to be static would be around our local space, the stars we can see?
Often the universe is depicted as a giant bubble, expanding outwards in all directions. It is how the human mind is built to think, a classic blunder dating back to the days of Ptolemy, where Earth was the center of everything.
At the edge of our observable universe is the beginning of it all. We can fast forward then through time to see the most modern picture of our universe, the reference frame that is our own galaxy. We are not at rest in a static galaxy, so why should the laws of relativity and dilation not apply to massive objects
Everywhere else we look is in the past, and the cosmic background is visible from every direction. So once expanded in 3D space, and accounting for time, all of space would appear to be accelerating towards the cosmic background and point of the big bang?
“[...]But in 1929 astronomer Edwin Hubble measured the speed of many galaxies and found, to his surprise, that all were moving away from us-- in fact, the further away the galaxy, the faster it was going. His measurements showed that space is expanding everywhere, and no matter where you look, it will seem as if all galaxies are receding because the distance between everything is constantly growing. Faced with this news, Einstein decided to remove the cosmological constant from his equations.” -some scientific American article
It’s not moving away from us, it’s moving towards the beginning of time at a faster and faster rate, but only because we’re looking backwards through time. In reality, due to our reference frame, and other subsequent frames of observed bodies, we are the only point in the observable universe that is in the “present”. To that effect, when everything appears to be moving away from us at a faster and faster rate, it is moving away from the origin (big bang) at a slower and slower rate.
Galaxies are not moving away, they are showing an accelerating speed due to the time difference, and the slightly higher cosmological constant several hundred million years in the past, a constant that scales with time and its relation to distance according to metric expansion and the speed of light. It is the higher constant with relation to distance that gives the illusion of a universe whose expansion is accelerating.
It can be assumed then, that as you move between vast points in space, the universe will update; showing that astronomical objects aren’t accelerating away, but are not in fact moving at all. If not moving towards each other and closer together.
So no matter where you travel, it is likely that the bubble of the observable universe travels with you, you do not accelerate away faster the closer you get to the galaxies that appear from Earth or other reference points from Earth to be expanding faster away.
If you look at the night sky from a planet in one of these far away galaxies, the overall structure of the universe would be very similar if not the same to the structure as it appears from Earth. With all galaxies appearing to be accelerating away from each other at a faster and faster rate.
Yep, take a look at the side effects. There are a lot related to chest pain, and believe me when I say I got all of them. A few minutes after I put even a single drop on my scalp it was doubled over clutching my chest. It was the Kirkland signature 5%. I stopped taking it after a few months (I really wanted it to work) and even after I kept getting chest pain episodes until about a year later.
This, especially if it is early onset. I had a friend who lost most of his hair by the time he was 20 and it absolutely destroyed his confidence for many years
There was a law passed that allows ISPs to block sites that host copyrighted content illegally. It's not just Italy, also the Netherlands and many other countries. You can still access it with a vpn or tor. Tor browser on the phone works fine for mobile carriers that block the sites.
I almost exclusively read fiction, in particular science fiction. Why? Because the authors often spend a great deal of time thinking about new, interesting technology and ideas. It is all based on reality, the ideas are new combinations of existing concepts, and could be applied in the real world to inspire innovation.
I get enough of the real world in the real world, when I read, I want see something new
I was going to short a few shares just for fun, but TIL that the tokyo stock exchange only lets you trade in multiples of 100 shares (~228 USD per share right now for TYO: 6920 Lasertec Corporation)... https://www.jpx.co.jp/english/equities/improvements/unit/