We are all hamsters on Strava.
The only difference is the hamster doesn’t pretend the morning run was enjoyable
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
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Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.
No, they would collapse into a singularity with an infinite event horizon that eats up the universe at the speed of light
Unless you're using miniature giant space hamsters
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#33I love this. I feel like there’s a business and/or product line here if it doesn’t already exist (hamster habitats with integrated cameras).
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#34Neat! Not to toot my own horn too much, but I put together a similar project for my cat's exercise wheel. Hackaday featured it a while back: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/02/spy-on-your-cat-to-make-sure... His exercise routine is somewhat variable but he usually goes for a short jog a few dozen times a day. Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Since the article I also built and hooked up a treat dispenser for extr…
> Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Cats are crepuscular animals. They are "programed" do start at 5 AM, hunt, and go back to sleep until afternoon. Living in homes tweaked them a little, but the 5 AM thing is still strong in a lot of them (mine included). https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/cat-keeping-you...
> Sorry, you have been blocked
> You are unable to access animalhumanesociety.org
Is this because I laughed when our family dog fell down the stairs when I was six years old?
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#35Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#36I wonder if one could calculate the watt-hours produced in a day by a theoretical 100 hamsters on generator-attached wheels, and if you could run a laptop and LTE hotspot from that (or similar load).
An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.
Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#37Neat! Not to toot my own horn too much, but I put together a similar project for my cat's exercise wheel. Hackaday featured it a while back: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/02/spy-on-your-cat-to-make-sure... His exercise routine is somewhat variable but he usually goes for a short jog a few dozen times a day. Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Since the article I also built and hooked up a treat dispenser for extr…
> Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Cats are crepuscular animals. They are "programed" do start at 5 AM, hunt, and go back to sleep until afternoon. Living in homes tweaked them a little, but the 5 AM thing is still strong in a lot of them (mine included). https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/cat-keeping-you...
> crepuscular
So not specifically at 5AM, but around twilight. In my area, and for my cats, that changes a lot between summer and winter.
Same for my chickens, which is why "automatic chicken doors" are difficult/impossible around here: It'd need to calculate sunset and sundown, and then also consider clouds and trees: in winter the sun sets around 16:30, but the low angle makes sunlight more blocked by clouds, particles and trees and such. My chickens often decide its bedtime before 16:00 already.
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Cats are crepuscular animals. They are "programed" do start at 5 AM, hunt, and go back to sleep until afternoon. Living in homes tweaked them a little, but the 5 AM thing is still strong in a lot of them (mine included). https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/cat-keeping-you...
> Sorry, you have been blocked > You are unable to access animalhumanesociety.org Is this because I laughed when our family dog fell down the stairs when I was six years old?
That would be an amazing and creepy track record of the website :)
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.
Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.
Isn’t this uncomfortably close to the premise of the Matrix?
Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.
Isn’t this uncomfortably close to the premise of the Matrix?
As long as we don't drug the hamsters and jam them into some sort of fake digital world, we should be fine? Put OpenAI's security researchers on it, heard they're good at containing experiments.