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This is the spiritual successor to my Speck project, which was getting a bit long in the tooth. Big improvements are path tracing, video generation, and trajectory support. Right n…

> Bile is used to process food in the gut. It does not go back into our system. I don't think that's correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterohepatic_circulation I also think y…

My understanding is that: 1. When someone consumes fat, bile is released into the gut. 2. Oatmeal (and other soluble fibers like psyllium husk) capture this bile and it is excreted…

I'm not sure. It seems like the harder they squeeze, the less they can hold onto. Books, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, music - you can find it all online for free and acquire it pr…

Until we get robots with really good hands, something I'd love in the interim is a system that uses _me_ as the hands. When it's time to put groceries away, I don't want to have to…

I love the idea of open source hardware, but one issue I struggle with is - what happens when one or more components go out of production? I suppose one solution is that the mainta…

> Moore waited at least five years [1] before deriving his law. OpenAI has been around since 2015. Even if we give them four years to ramp up, that's still five years worth of data…

How does anything swing -1000%?

Do you mean medium of exchange? I think it's difficult to make the claim that the USD is a good store of value.

Any word on when it'll be supported on Linux without a flag?

I'm sure there's a fantastic midi-chlorian joke here.

With consistent representation of characters, are we now on the precipice of a Cambrian explosion of manga/graphic novels/comics?

I know my priorities are questionable, but I'm more annoyed that I can't expect consistent canvas rendering.

Can anyone help me understand how this works without special bitnet precision-specific hardware? Is special hardware unnecessary? Maybe it just doesn't reach the full bitnet potent…

> We aim to investigate in a reliable animal model whether activating the cervical lymphatic vessels through pharmacological or mechanical means can prevent the exacerbation of Alz…

Yes, simply accepting the inadequacy of our current technology is always going to be easier than working to improve it. It's also going to lead to infinitely less progress. Humanit…

I assume people will continue to use real estate as an investment for as long as they are forced to escape the inflation of their currency.

Seems like this is some kind of legal inevitability that is acknowledged to be counter-productive: > The IASDA report stresses: “There is concern that this decision may cause consu…

I'd be worried they'd wait until the population was reliant upon it, and then flip a switch disabling privacy. Seems risky.