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adm4

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"Too many irons in too many fires."

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adm4··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
What do you say to... This is the "modern mechanical turk?"
adm4··on Are we sleepwalking into World War III?
any one have a non paywall link?
adm4··on How machines learned precision
Jo Blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block
adm4··on A security website that is a filesystem
Great. I like it. Be cool if there was a way to view the entire file tree... ah `tree` command works!
adm4··on Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
Thanks for sharing all of this insight. Here is some more hydrogen conversation https://www.fourier.earth/
adm4··on Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees
great idea... How do you make sure there is an exchange.
adm4··on Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)
the little beetle that could, and pawpaw's are self-incompatible. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba#Pollination
adm4··on Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup
great! have you seen https://openskimap.org/ and https://openskistats.org/... maybe change name to open golf map?
adm4··on Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
the dream!
adm4··on An Interactive Map of AI
anyone else also think better with visual nodes and edges?
adm4··on Max Ginsburg, War Pieta, 2007
true art.
adm4··on How Do Synthesizers Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
John Chowning is known for having developed the FM synthesis algorithm in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning
adm4··on Writers and Drugs
I've often wondered, with a cohort (community/society) of people who do not discourage freedom of expression, how many great works would come to fruition, but instead one is held back and then set free by drugs...?
adm4··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
great game and very satisfying.
adm4··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
as camping is to "glamping," splitting wood is to "sprinkle wood?"
adm4··on Leaving Mozilla
beautifully sad well put prose mentor encouraged
adm4··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
yep... I remember the day I saw a short ted talk explaining the correct knot. I had been doing it wrong for decades. thanks for even more knots to try.
adm4··on Logging Off
you can call 988, if you need mental health help
adm4··on The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
Wonderful man, here is a lecture on the topic from Joint Mathematics Meeting, Étienne Ghys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIxzewWilc
adm4··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
Sounds salty. https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/VisualMic_SIGGRAPH2... use a potato chip bag as a microphone
adm4··on Swatch Internet Time
This is great, I've always wanted some kind of local solar time. Like the old days when a town would set their clock tower to noon when the sun was highest. Apparently, the main push to coordinate was the train scheduling.
adm4··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
i remember hearing Porsche was doing some machine learning with vibration analysis to find car trouble. https://www.porsche.digital/en
adm4··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
good idea https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/heartRate.html , try setting it on the ground and see how sensitive it is to foot steps.... or earthquake https://seismosense.com
adm4··on Show HN: A lie detector game that reads your pulse through your phone camera
so much fun, thanks for sharing. https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/
adm4··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
guitar detuner that uses accelerometer instead of microphone, it doesn't really work, but amazing to see how sensitive they are.
adm4··on Make some art with your phone sensors
https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html
adm4··on Make some art with your phone sensors
great idea down this thread, make a guitar tuner that listens with the accelerometer. https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html
adm4··on Make some art with your phone sensors
does this work on pixel?

https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/sensor_etch_pixel.htm...

adm4··on Make some art with your phone sensors
intersting that phones ask for permission to camera and mic, but not always for accelerometer
adm4··on Make some art with your phone sensors
here is the full list, of trying something out with all the sensors. https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/
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