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flancian
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- flancian parentFile under "unexpectedly interesting and cool". I'd never seen such good visualizations of magnetic fields before, or of the magnetization process.
- 3 points
- Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
- 5 points
- About the person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin
The observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory
- Pretty weird article. Just on the title alone:
- 'Mysterious': there's very little of substance in the article to advance the position that it is mysterious at all.
- 'Sacred': OK, I guess!
- 'Pyramid': "A fourth explanation — one for which there is no evidence — is that Cerro El Cono sits on the ruins of a pyramid built by ancient Indigenous tribes". So... no evidence then :)
- 'Hidden': "It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from as far west as the Andes — 250 miles (400 kilometers) away — on a clear day."
- Hello fellow hobby factorizer :)
I wanted to share this small gem of a paper in case it helps you like it's helped me:
"Simple divisibility rules for the 1st 1000 prime numbers": https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0001012
- This is by Hans Moravec, of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox fame; a student of John McCarthy.
- 2 points
- Not the author but: yes. This word emerged from online discourse a few years back about 'wordcels' vs 'shape rotators':
- This is precisely https://social.coop, of which I am part of, except for the "not being Mastodon" bit :)
Governance happens on Loomio, which is a forum tailored for community decision making, but the main platform that coop members get access to is a Mastodon instance for now. We are experimenting with Bonfire, which is more flexible and might end up providing a solid base for federated apps in general.
Let me know if you have any questions!
- Claude seems promising, but after giving it a try two things stood out to me (I have previously used ChatGPT and Gemini):
1. I miss voice I/O more than I thought I would, in particular on mobile. Maybe because of how great of a job Whisper has been doing in the case of ChatGPT in particular.
2. Claude seemed hyper-conservative in ways that I would personally classify as annoying. Example: it refused to detail the plot of a ~60 year old book, claiming that doing so would infringe copyright (!). It relented only after I pointed out you can find the same information on Wikipedia.
- 2 points
- I've been an early access user for a few months and I'm really enjoying Beeper -- I hope they continue to deliver like this and can scale the operations as needed.
I currently use through it: Telegram, WhatsApp, RCS (Android Messages), Signal.
Beeper is built on Matrix and their client is based on Element but I would say the experience is slightly better than native; for example I prefer how client verification works in Beeper over vanilla Element.
Congrats on the open beta!
- Even worse, I can confirm that logging in is not sufficient, despite what the initial call to action seems to claim.
After logging in the article is still incomplete and the dialog is changed to one prompting the user to "upgrade", meaning payment.
This seems like a dark pattern to me.
- Not the parent but I really enjoyed Scott Aaronson's "Quantum Computing Since Democritus":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computing_Since_Democr...
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