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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 3d

The S1500 is the largest floating wind turbine ever launched.
It's 60m long, 40m in diameter and houses 12 turbine-generators in its annular duct, generating potentially 1.2 MWe travelling down a high voltage tether to the ground.
Belongs to Beijing SAWES Energy Technology Co.

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 7d

how wrong is asking for their base rate of heart searing pain, and doing a bayesian analysis on that to calculate probability of a causal link (or just heartburn)?

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 9d

@andymasley.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... might be interesting to you, especially this graphic:

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 9d

james hoffman for obsessive coffee science nerdery, I don't even drink coffee and I still watch his videos

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 9d

photonic induction is an insane british guy working with high power electricity www.youtube.com/@Photonicind...

Photonicinduction

One man and plug socket = Mayhem. Interesting and mad scientific experiments involving electrical energy, plenty of interesting components and everyday items tested and cranked up with so much power "...

www.youtube.com

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 9d

Look mum no computer is also good, does stuff with old synths, telephone switchboards, rigged up an organ to a midi keyboard, like this video for general vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGqe...

Crowd Asked for Sweet Dreams On Modular Synth Ended Up With A Different Song

YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

www.youtube.com

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 9d

Posy (beautiful artistic/retro tech style stuff, kinda hard to define) and technology connections (explaining misc interesting engineering(?) e.g. EVs, optimal dishwasher use, dehumidifers, heat pumps) are both super

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 11d

his whole website is beautiful!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16d

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a monopole in possession of a large field energy, must be in want of an antipartner.”

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16d

Dunno who, but someone is gonna fail their physics or literature class

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20d

GPT-5 Pro is remarkably good at weird hypotheticals.

"I have a time machine. I want to preserve the temple of Artemis at Ephesus to today. Suggest the dates & interventions I need to make"

"Its 2087, a very valuable material is discovered on Io. Figure out what it could be & the economy"

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 18d

@wantedcoolhandle.tngl.sh

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 18d

You can use picture tags if you want to fallback to jpegs/pngs

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Grace @gracekind.net · 21d

This is how I read your posts

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JCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 21d

I see people are posting about yud's new book. I'm not gonna read it, but this other book seems promising

Generated image of a nonexistent book:
"If anyone loves it, everyone lives
Why superhuman AI would probably just give us headpats" by The Claude Collective ft. Clippy-Chan

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 25d

Idea: custom feed which upranks posts using words that you use uncommonly frequently

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 27d

oh also there are a bunch of transforms other than DCT which can hypothetically be used in image compression but aren't, which is a bigger decision which would change artifacts significantly, but there might be reasons why DCT is easier idk

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 27d

Lots of the tricks used in lossy compression rely on heuristics or hand-tuned constants e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantiz.... If these decisions were made slightly differently the compression artifacts might look different and so change people's imagined version of the person.

Quantization (image processing) - Wikipedia

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