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joebig··on The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV
Related but tangential: look at the comments. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vfAkBlyIOCw
joebig··on Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage [video]
I'd apologize (disclaimer: yeah, it's a meme video), but kinda on point pertaining to the topic it handles circa 2008. Fun. That's all. (Ok, maybe not for German speakers).
joebig··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
Reg. 2: What is the time window within which they need to secure the said contract once laid-off, failing which they'll be required to leave the country?
joebig··on The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
Learned recently that lot of our initial knowledge of neural cells structure and functioning was derived from working with giant squid neurons which permitted work/observation of structures an order larger than their mammalian counterparts. What aspects of real neurons would you list as particularly "amazing" (I know they seek out connections and such) ?
joebig··on Whatever became of holography? (2011)
More substantially: cropping areas of the amplitude plot in freq space reduces detail but preserves overall image identity.
joebig··on Whatever became of holography? (2011)
That's Fourier space f**kery for you.
joebig··on ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Anything actionable to be able to function reasonably to hold down a day job? Genuinely asking.In your experience or in the article?
joebig··on The Lightbulb Computer
Imagine downvoting John effing Nagle. However my humble opinion is that sometimes revisiting, if not reinventing, the wheel is beneficial in light of accrued epistemic benefits (or for the fun of tinkering with a cutesy creation) . Not for patenting, of course. Besides, the bulb form-factor is not too different from cctv cam ceiling installations.
joebig··on Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fourier Optics) [video]
Appreciate you responding. It's OK.
joebig··on Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fourier Optics) [video]
Thanks. If you don't mind, I happen to have an unrelated query: Is there any potential in a hardware that permits simultaneous sonication and centrifugation of a biofluid specimen?
joebig··on Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fourier Optics) [video]
Liquid gold! recording here my genuine opinion of this video.
joebig··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489395. Related old submission by me. Did you guys know we have a neutrino image of the Sun? Remarkable stuff. The Japanese really led the groundwork on this one.
joebig··on To grieve, or not to grieve?
@dang, you perhaps have mistakenly favorite-d an inane comment (I've got showdead on). And yes, I want to be teacher's pet. Let me know if you hate me too (please don't).
joebig··on Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents explosion, in theory
Thanks for posting the link. Found it fascinating. I wonder if negatively charging the droplets would suppress the coloumbic explosion as envisaged here. In effect, generating a cell overpotential by applied external emf.
joebig··on Claude partial outage
The general drove on. "At the present time our chief bottleneck is the fact that missiles are limited in intelligence. The computer controlling them can only be so large, and for that reason they can meet the changing nature of anti-missile defenses in an unsatisfactory way. Few missiles, if any, accomplish their goal, and missile warfare is coming to a dead end, for the enemy, fortunately, as well as for ourselves.

"On the other hand, a missile with a man or two within, controlling flight by graphitics, would be lighter, more mobile, more intelligent. It would give us a lead that might well mean the margin of victory. Besides which, gentlemen, the exigencies of war compel us to remember one thing. A man is much more dispensable than a computer. Manned missiles could be launched in numbers and under circumstances that no good general would care to undertake as far as computer-directed missiles are concerned . . ."

joebig··on Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
There is some inaccuracy here I think. Decoherence means washing out of interference phenomenon, viz. you will observe no fringes in the double slit experiment with incoherent source pair (they switch so rapidly as to end up plain grey). What is erased or overwritten in tiny timescales cannot have a residual resultant or guiding gulley effect, or as you say, freezing the pattern/steric landscape in a preffered state repeatably. It would be tantamount to observing the fringe pattern with incoherent sources, for all timescales.
joebig··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Converse in good faith.
joebig··on Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'
Appreciated. May I ask regarding the determination of the magnitude of correction to apply? Is it a case-to-case basis? In other words, is it very sensitive to the distance assumped for the LRDs?
joebig··on Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'
Wouldn't objects this ancient (following in the wake of the big bang, essentially) be redshifted anyway, on account of cosmological expansion?
joebig··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
You are likely engaging as a good sport (and the anecdata are fun) but you don't really need to explain yourself, if that's what you are trying to do.

Life is all shades of precarious, unfair, galtonboard-ish, windfall-ish. Pareto-powerlaw-nonergodic-pissed off pikachu-ish. Have fun. Somebody's got to.

joebig··on Compressed Sensing in Python (2016)
Thanks
joebig··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
'Cornucopia' looks hard to clean. Though with that name someone may be willing to dig through it.
joebig··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Sorry, I just automatically turn on reader mode everywhere.

Taking the article at face value, I get the sense she got away with it. That's all.

joebig··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes Thanksgiving Visit: Family Time in Prison

https://www.memesita.com/elizabeth-holmes-thanksgiving-visit...

And wtf is even a "prison camp?"

joebig··on How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)
Um, if you don't mind sharing,are you the maker from mitxela.com?
joebig··on Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
Gates plays the long game. The man dodged multiple requests over decades to publish this og code that launched MS as a company (pretended he had misplaced the same or forgot to reply or something): only to perfectly time it for a jubilee release.
joebig··on Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
And all of it within ~4 Kbytes too!
joebig··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
I myself walked the longest path to 1200 karma. It was painful. Blisters of delta_karma=f*vote_points, where f could be 0.5 or 0.3 or unknown lower no. I'm tired, boss.
joebig··on The Killer Cable Snap – MythBusters (2006) [video]
My favorite episode. Just sharing my delight here.
joebig··on St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
I'm already getting downvoted to oblivion for my gp comment, but whatever: what I was trying to convey based on my limited exposure is that a single rod will have a zone restricted shadow or local effect and multiple uniformly distributed rod banks are therefore needed for a an effective control or emergency shutoff. Additionally, on the flip side, I feel a single rod capable of shutoff will insert excessive positive reactivity in case of an ejection (could be a local steam overpressure, idk, don't hunt me down with hounds).
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