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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

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Post by walrus01 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #36
mjanx123 wrote: post #13

Earlier 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.

But make sure the ML/AI knows how to predict the quantity of bulk grain supply that will be needed to feed the hamsters, and supply long term delivery contracts.

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

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Post by tomaskafka »

etrautmann wrote: post #4

If you look at any neuroscience paper, mice will run 10k a day or more on a wheel overnight. I thought the axis labels were wrong when I first saw that type of study. It’s quite common.

Also cats - I saw experiments where they gave the “my cat is mostly sleeping and sometimes wandering around the garden” cats gps tracker, and found out they routinely wander 8 km away into the woods each night.

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Post by pants2 »

sokoloff wrote: post #16
pants2 wrote: post #15

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A quick search suggests one hamster can produce around 0.5 Wh/day, so 100 hamsters should easily power your phone laptop with a constant 50W!

That would be an average supply of just over 2 W. (50Wh/day is 50Wh/24h or 50/24 W)

You're right. Wh/day is a terrible unit!

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artisinal wrote: post #34
otherme123 wrote: post #17

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> 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?

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