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xaellisonon Economics and Similar, for the Sleep-Deprived (2005)

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xaellisonon Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them

"This username is not okay." c'mon "barfnuggets" is not that offensive

xaellisonon Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance

"bacteria do not seem to develop resistance" - Dr. Quentin Michaudel

The press release is (predictably) more cavalier in its claim!

All this release says is that the polymers "[disrupt] the membrane of these microorganisms". At that level of detail, penicillin works similarly, and is vulnerable to resistance.

I'd love to know more detail about how this is a different kind of disruption.

xaellisonon No Stinking Loops

Weird name for a site whose first content is a looping gif

xaellisonon "Heaving oscillators" use wave power to extend shipping range

This article needs to die. People see stanford and think it's legit. This is an early grad school student's work and it probably shouldn't be visible outside the dept.

xaellisonon "Heaving oscillators" use wave power to extend shipping range

Free the science. Full PDF https://www.wosonhj.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=594810

xaellisonon Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

I tried something similar! Interestingly, picture 2 was what I wanted. After that... weirdness ensued https://dalle.party/?party=C2w7zuwe

xaellisonon The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)

nice thanks for the history!

xaellisonon The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)

Whatever happened to stumbleupon? I feel like that was a popular website that served this purpose.

xaellisonon Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

I think there is less of unifying theory than an assortment of artful tricks - and it's a pretty small assortment, too.

If you want to be able to reproduce every clever mathematical trick of the last 200 years you probably can (I believe in you!). But everyone short of Ramanujan learns them by studying many problems, repeated exposure, and either systematically or organically memorizing them. Afterwards, using them in a problem is more about pattern recognition. This is my experience as a physics phd-master-out ymmv

xaellisonon The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones

For those who don't want to climb the expensive paywall: https://hu.ma.ne/

xaellisonon Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

What's UO? This would've been a great comment with a little more info :)

xaellisonon Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs

I really like the visual artistic direction... but the Mind Place feels like a Jira simulator.

xaellisonon Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity

I suspect we're in for a future of batin' bonobos given the economics of it

xaellisonon Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

what's the TLDR: memorize, or generalize?

xaellisonon Do something, so we can change it

everything is reversible for the right price. Too high a price = 'irreversible'

xaellisonon Experiments show knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work [pdf]

A paper claiming that an account about shit is bullshit is, I think, the best representation of Elsevier's presence in academia.