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eternauta3k··on The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use
Also some 3D models: https://www.bavarikon.de/3dmodels?lang=en
eternauta3k··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
> Due to majority of worker being spinless

Are you seriously accusing most employees of being pions?

eternauta3k··on 4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) [video]
What do you mean by "this", and how does it work around the restrictions? Do you mean just making bigger chips instead of shrinking the transistors?
eternauta3k··on E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
Are you thinking km? I would think riding 20 miles = 32km daily is more of a bike enthusiast thing, at least in Germany.
eternauta3k··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
> A CGM also needs perfect access to your free flowing blood

I thought CGMs measure the interstitial fluid?

eternauta3k··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
Also, instant oatmeal / rolled oats / steel cut oats / the whole dang oat?
eternauta3k··on Kagi and Wolfram
Please refrain from such inane, low-effort comments, regardless of how annoying Wolfram is. If you want to contribute to the discussion, say something about how this will impact Kagi.
eternauta3k··on AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist
We'll be lost in a Library of Babel full with every possible syntactically valid article, regardless of truth value.
eternauta3k··on The Black-Scholes/Merton equation [video]
Are you talking about backpropagation in neural networks? Do you mean as a differential equation? It already is a normal algebraic equation.
eternauta3k··on Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
I like the last one, but how do you connect the boards to each other? Solder balls? Just pressure?
eternauta3k··on Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
A fine reason, I just thought you had a niche need prompting you to do it like this.
eternauta3k··on Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
Why webdav instead of making short sqltocsv, sqltojson, etc scripts? You could make completion work (with some enormous time investment).
eternauta3k··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
They still do!
eternauta3k··on How AI is changing gymnastics judging
Formal sports like artistic gymnastics and figure skating are doomed to degenerate into rigid attempts to maximize points. That's why we have disciplines like freestyle skating, where people can be creative. Unfortunately, there's less money in that.
eternauta3k··on Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
Maybe your consciousness does sometimes occupy other bodies. Of course you don't remember it, because memory and working memory are tied to brains. When consciousness is in another body, it feels that it is another person with his memories and context and none of yours.

Another way of saying this is that there's no need to postulate separate consciousness for separate people, one is enough.

eternauta3k··on Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
Thanks for the links and the explanation, very interesting. I guess it's silly to go through the whole debate here, I'm sure reams of A4 have been written on this topic.
eternauta3k··on Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
Could you link to the single strongest, most well-sourced example you can think of where the state media is biased/lying? I honestly want to find my blind spots. Please put effort into this, this is your chance to effect change.
eternauta3k··on Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
Forcing all conservatives to pay for media made by an unelected clique with very different values is still not great.

I know we want to avoid ending up with super-polarized media like the US, but I don't believe this is the way. I don't know what the way is, since you also don't want to give airtime to the crazies, and I feel the market for sane conservative news shrinks by the minute.

eternauta3k··on Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study
I'm vaguely for pan-psychism as in, it sounds good but I haven't thought about it for even 5 minutes. But I'm more interested in the version where all matter has some kind of proto-consciousness. Still, no idea how it's suposed to work in detail: how can it make a difference whether a particle is part of an information-processing system? There is an infinitude of mappings between physical systems and mathematical functions (I'm probably plagiarizing a half-forgotten version of this https://joe-antognini.github.io/ml/consciousness )
eternauta3k··on Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
With extreme-right parties polling >30%, I hesitate to give the state so much power for propaganda. See e.g. Poland https://www.ft.com/content/1861164c-1e41-4640-95a1-5615a0e9b... .
eternauta3k··on Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
Not saying I agree or disagree with your conclusion (I'm undecided), but I disagree with your reasoning. The question whether the Rundfunkbeitrag is good is partly philosophical ("what is the role of the state?") and partly practical ("does the state provide better media than private enterprise?"), and I don't think this example sheds light on either aspect.
eternauta3k··on Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study
Sounds like this

* pushes the problem one level down ("why are cells conscious?")

* adds the problem of explaining how consciousness of a person relates to consciousness of its cells.

What would this model help explain?

eternauta3k··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
> German: AstroGeo episodes "Asteroseismologie" (starquakes) and "Der Atomreaktor Oklo" (a natural nuclear reactor)

Thanks, always looking for German podcasts! In return, check out Omega Tau: https://omegataupodcast.net/

eternauta3k··on Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
We changed a million things about our environment and a couple of those things turned out to be important.
eternauta3k··on Lab Notebooks (2020)
What's the advantage of Quarto over Jupyter? I looked at Quarto and rejected it because I couldn't find a way for a single cell to programatically generate interleaved markdown and plots (I can do this with Jupyter).
eternauta3k··on How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
Really? I imagine datacenters are not reaching powers anywhere near those of e.g. arc furnaces.
eternauta3k··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Vos is informal, Usted is formal. That's it. We don't use "Tu" AFAIK.
eternauta3k··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
Cute, same thing in Buenos Aires Spanish.
eternauta3k··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
If this were proven, we would be forced to set a rigorous foundation for our values where all people have the same rights and worth regardless of how smart they are. Instead of saying people are only equally worthy if they are equally smart, and hoping no one proves the latter wrong.
eternauta3k··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
Power electronics are a mainstream, very profitable market.
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