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Incredibly well executed Youtube project IMO. The DIY many-poled rotary encoders are particularly gorgeous cost engineering in a hobby project like this.

Fun old project but the technology has improved[0] since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQbPdiuUTw

I have a fun omega-3 anecdata point going right now. A friend of mine researches the stuff in mouse models and told me it's extremely beneficial, but you need to buy a fancy brand …

It works if you just plainly describe what you're looking for, I write a new prompt for different images just like "re-render this as a matte untextured 3d model, remove all detail…

I've had surprising success with meshy.ai as part of a workflow to go from images my friends want to good 3D models. The workflow is 1. Have gpt5 or really any image model, midjour…

Bad popularizing article, doesn't cover the actual conclusion: The main points emerging from the combined simulation and experimental study on atmospheric entry of the paper plane …

Also the GOAT of cable laying articles: Neal Stephenson doing gonzo journalism on the topic in the 90s https://euripides.dk/setebos/frx/matrix/ai/books/stephenson_...

I found myself reading this more for the excellent notetaking than for the content. I suspect the discussion was about as charged, meandering, and nitpicky as we all expect a PL de…

> RO desal splits the incoming ~3% salinity stream into two halves, one fresh and one ~6% salinity. This concentrated brine is fed to adjacent brine processing facilities (ideally …

IIRC we've found some big exoplanets in wild orbits. They tend to form in a circular-ish orbit because that's how you get a big enough chunk of the dense bits of an accretion disk,…

Please also be careful about selling to incumbents without a strong guarantee (ie contractual penalties) your product will stay in market for many years. I know smoke detectors and…

Almost nobody in tech is interested in the degrowth solution to climate change, we’re all in on increased affluence with tech mitigations for the environmental harms. Somebody’s go…

Active vacuum insulation isn’t a thing because you need high vacuum to reduce thermal conductivity at all , because mean free path and therefore specific conductivity grows at the …

Anyone curious about psychedelic methods of action, particularly based on their personal experience, should read Surfing Uncertainty or at least the SSC review/summary of it. The p…

Jane Street recruits silly hard from Cornell’s CS dept because part of our required curriculum is functional programming w OCaml. They definitely introduce a lot of math/cs kids to…

Water also has an almost uniquely large enthalpy of melting. EG paraffin freezing releases 1/3 as much heat as water

The tether article a week or two ago described them lending tremendous amounts of USD to exchanges and various crypto bank-like entities with Bitcoin as collateral “ I also learned…

Has anybody reverse engineered the interface for Apple's camera modules, particularly the front modules with LIDAR? They can be had for $10 a pop on Alibaba now, and they're much n…

In the original General Fusion plan: Pneumatic pistons which strike anvils in the chamber wall creating a shockwave which implodes the liquid wall with fusion-igniting pressures. I…

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Scrolled pretty far and haven’t seen mention of this: Water shortages will be entirely solved in the next decade by cheap renewables and desalination. Clean water can be manufactur…

This process has nothing to do with sintering - it's a new material for FDM that supports electroless nickel plating. The hypothetical medical application is probably to seal a sur…

I want somebody to isolate these, re-engineer them to respond to a control input, and use them to implement nanowire network reservoir computing https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…