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plipton BlenderGPT

I appreciate you sharing this. However are you not concerned that Google might flag your accounts as being somehow fraudulent? And then get locked out of your digital identity?

Maybe I am too reliant on my gmail account.

plipton Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

I find the discussions on Metabunk.org helpful with news stories like this.

For example here is a clip that a Fox News host recorded. Presented as a drone, but is it not clearly just an airplane filmed flying directly overhead?

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/drones-over-new-jersey.1377...

plipton Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

A few years ago there was a slew of articles about storing energy by lifting and stacking heavy blocks of concrete.

I have no idea how efficient those designs are compared to hydro storage but I imagine they solve a problem for regions where there is no suitable site for the water reservoir.

Haven't seen that concept in the news recently, maybe it didn't pan out?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/gravity-energy-storage-will-show-i...

https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/

plipton Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

Speaking of preventing free discussion: I don't currently see this very discussion on the front page of HN.

Yet there are newer submissions with fewer points shown there

plipton Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

That’s a good one

Also check out

https://satellitetracker3d.com/

For a 3d visualization of Starlink as well as many other (all other?) satellites.

Be sure to zoom out

plipton First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing

At the scale of individual neurons, or clusters of neurons, would the performance of human brain cells significantly differ from that of a pig? or house fly?

Those would be some interesting LLM performance benchmarks to see.

plipton My AI Timelines Have Sped Up (Again)

I agree with you, however when talking about jobs that are relegated to the physical world like the trades, I dont think it safe to assume that robotics wont also benefit from the AI advancements. Thereby eventually encroaching on those jobs as well.

The following is a recent video from the youtuber "Two Minute Papers" about some researchers (Clemens Schwarke, Victor Klemm et al.) who have created a highly mobile autonomous robot running software trained via simulated reinforcement learning models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpm-rJfFjQ

i think it demonstrates the potential for the kind of motile finesse that could be used by robots to complete trades-like tasks.

plipton How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

--My question as well. Am I missing a published date on this podcast? It’s my first time seeing their content. This isn’t their latest episode and I am wondering how recent it is.--

Edit: it’s from April 27, 2023. I did miss it. Says it on the linked page