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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know, things like Trip Maps 3 have Gary written all over them (fsol.bandcamp.com/album/trip-m...), and on Environments 7.003 they're both credited. Gaz leaving never crossed my mind...

TRIP MAPS 3, by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON

19 track album

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 4d

The thing I'd like more is if him or Gary (or the two as FSOL) were finally on bluesky...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 6d

Note to self: using LLMs (colloquially known as "AI") as ChatGPT for creative tasks such as writing *does*, after all, decrease your brain activity (colloquially "make you stupid"). Take it from the MIT: www.media.mit.edu/publications... (The link has both an arXiv paper and YT vid.)

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

www.media.mit.edu

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 17d

Made this cabinet, on and off over the last 7 mo. As usual, *all* wood is palette/garbage/dumpster_finds. So its cost was 0 (but the man-hours would take you back some 4k€ easily). Some tech infos in the image alt-texts. Had tons of fun - and that's why it was made. #DIY #woodworking

The newly made cabinet (on the left). This is the painted furniture with four visible drawers, placed below a tabletop. Portions of the image are blurred.

Three shots of the wooden cabinet. (Left) the pine crate with four drawers (no side walls), some of them partially drawn. The center image has the side walls (palette wood pine/spruce) and drawers inserted. The third image (on the right) has the cabinet w/o drawers, with a fresh coat of paint (parts of the interior have transparent varnish).

A montage showing one of the four drawers I made for the project. I started with two large drawers found in a dump. Each of them was cut in half, resulting in four new drawers; these needed reconstructed walls as shown here, same goes for the wallnut fronts. Also, keyholes had to be made/remade and new locks bought. An old keyhole is visible above in the insert. While this one was re-filled and cemented, I made 4 of new such lock-nests in different locations...

Four images showing: the dovetail joint used in the crate (Upper-left), the assembled crate with two inner walls (upper-right), the crate while fitting drawer rails (lower-left), the cabinet design in Blender (lower-right).

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mainstream media takes stories like: dx.doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2023-0594, and runs FAR with them ("meat is good for you!"). Risky. A talented statistician can use NHANES data even to prove the existence of Atlantis. Oh, and the work is sponsored by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. No kidding!

Animal and plant protein usual intakes are not adversely associated with all-cause, cardiovascular disease–, or cancer-related mortality risk: an NHANES III analysis

We used data from NHANES 1988–1994 to examine associations between animal and plant protein usual intakes and IGF-1 concentration with mortality from all causes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CV...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Sep 2

I find it actually touching that 70y ago they took a column in a physical newspaper to write this sort of a thing. You can imagine a guy reading it at a cafe, nodding in wonder... I doubt if, in today's media world, we would stop our 'rat race conditioned brains' for a moment for a column like that.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Aug 2

It might do "much more", but it does NOT allow you to tune into a FM/AM station *on its own*. This Sinclair and the Phillips watches did. Apple Watch is a sensor-equipped front-end to the iPhone, not much more. These old devices were standalone, hence in a way much more ambitious.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Aug 2

He just signed a major deal with Palantir (P. Thiel's AI corporation literally named after Tolkien's evil artifact) he might've just as well sign all defense to Skynet, at this point I think noone cares anyway...

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jul 7

By the way: If anyone reading this has some serious sources on the stats for the probability of thermal runaway in li-ion (aka spontaneous combustion), I'm a taker.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jul 3

Witnessed a skirmish with an anti-nuclear activist about what the lack of river/sea water means for a plant (coal vs nuclear). He says: "obviously, the coal plants do NOT use water for anything, while the nuclear do". Humanity is lost

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 23

Very impressive. It's almost a shame it's an engineered E. Coli strain, so hard to assess how 'industrially realistic' this process will be. We will see. (Also trauma warning for non-biologists: do not open the 45p. PDF appendix)

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 16

Went into the rabbit hole a bit, this interesting paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... mentions how crows judge numerosities (i.e. the Weber-Fechner law) but between the lines, they say their judgements are very strong up to the number of 30. I'd probably do worse than that myself.

Numerosity representations in crows obey the Weber–Fechner law

The ability to estimate number is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. Based on the relative close phylogenetic relationship (and thus equivalent brain structures), non-verbal numerical represent...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 10

The 1926 silent movie "The Johnstown Flood" showcased hundreds of early proofs of why fluid mechanics breaks your SFX. E.g. in this composite (~100y ago!) shot,we see a miniature flood,matchsticks pretending to be tree logs, people (rotoscoped in) and ...droplets with d=15cm. Good luck with that!

A still frame from the 1926 movie "The Johnstown Flood". This image shows a composite of miniatures, people (near the bottom-left, superposed over the miniature footage). The special effect is "broken" by the fact that the omnipresent water doesn't "behave" to scale, we get e.g. a huge, applie-sized droplets circled in the image. In Earth gravity, water won't create such forms, thus breaking the illusion.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 7

AFAIK crows can count (up to 7). The experiment that showed this had a group of N people show up next to a feeding point, except the feeder was behind an obstacle. So the bird waited in the safe distance, counting people who had left and only visiting then. As long as N<7, it was never wrong.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 6

You just created the shortest-lived share price spike for the Red Bull GMBH - I was climbing aboard after your first post and jumping ship after the second...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 5

Nice catch, took me some time to get the sense of scale in this photo. BTW if you're sure its Jugorum, maybe you can consider freeing the photo and uploading it to the wiki, as they're begging for it even in the Italian one: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesubia...

Vesubia (genere) - Wikipedia

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is highly imprecise. There ever were only 2 helicopters (Russian Ka-50 and Ka-52) which use rocket ejection system. Not sure if this vid comes from them though as they have double rotors (2x3 blades)?

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 22

Some 9mo ago I made a desk cabinet (I twitted about it here: x.com/echo_dancers... ).
Now, I'm preparing it's left-hand-side brother, which due to a higher degree of complication, needs come prototyping in 3D...

a 3D rendering (in Blender) of a cabinet made of wood (the so-called "exploded view")

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 14

And, as any caring mother would, she first grabbed the smartphone, snapped a photo, sold it to Newsweek and the passed Harrison some paper towels.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 11

Ever thought you're living in a historic era of the breakthrough of the electric car? Well, no. Check out this Detroit Electric (prob. model 47). They used plug-in charging (pictured), had >300km range (in tests) at ~32km/h. And more style than a 'Tessler'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit...

A Detroit Electric car during plug-in charging at an American home in the 1910s.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 5

2018, 2035, 2050. What do these dates have in common?

Mars Oppositions

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 3

To decarbonize humanity w/o nuclear is about as realistic as run an ocean freighter w/o fossil fuels (except, they could of course run on nuclear). Guerilla ecology is not "evil" - they're ideologically noble. The problem is practicality. They have utopian expectations and often miss their mark.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · May 1

Both feature phones, smartphones or quasi-smartphones with keyboards (even with Android) still exist, as well as flip-phones. They're far out of mainstream, ( and in the antisocialmedia world, what's not in mainstream "doesn't exist"). But you can actually still use them.

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · Apr 24

Multifractal to be more exact