fudged71's comments

On: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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“You are an expert 10x software developer. Make me a billion dollar app.” Yeah this checks out

On: 3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power

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I can't find it now, but there was a youtube video of a guy building a fence to block road noise by building interlocking pottery 'bricks' with cavities that would absorb certain frequencies

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This video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-p4AkgVU8&pp=4gcMEgpwZXJwb...

[fudged71 → antgiant]

Yes! That’s the one

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helmholtz resonators, well known in acoustical engineering, also known as beer bottles and people, enough of which can significantly alter an acoustical signal. the idea of useing specific shapes to redirect sound is new to me, but parralels how reflected coulor can work in birds and insects, where two mechanisms are employed, pigments that simply absorb(heat up) with some frequencys and reflect others, and then mechanical structures that are tuned to capture some frequencys and reflect others, producing the iridesent effects that are so attractive. recent work has revealed that silk and artificial cloth's, can convert sound into heat quite effectivly, and other work where transparent plastic is put as an extra sound absorbing layer in windows

On: How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

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I think that's backwards, higher HRV is better?

[go_prodev → fudged71]

Yes, higher is better. The CPAP lowers HRV during use.

On: Mapbox Geospatial MCP Server

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1. This is fantastic and a really useful set of capabilities

2. I was recently looking into vibe coding an app to generate isochrone maps with google maps API and estimated over $50 to generate the data. You're telling me that this MCP can just generate isochrone maps on demand with up to 100k data points for free? bonkers

On: Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

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game.prompt("Dude, you ran out of eggs!|Would you like to buy|an 80 pack of eggs?", "Yes", "No");

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await game.openDialog("Dude, you ran out of eggs!|Would you like to buy|an 80 pack of eggs?") game.prompt( "Yes", "No")

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That one egg was forty eggs?

On: Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals

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It took me a while to find, but here is a BestOf Reddit comment from 16 years ago where a user Saydrah discusses communicating with Cuttlefish for an hour with her fingers https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/TBfh8u9MGX

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The linked photo of the cuttlefish "greeting" gesture no longer exists where it was, but you can still see it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20071027131254/http://www.thepas...

[thinkingtoilet → fudged71]

I'm impressed you remembered and found a reddit comment from 16 years ago. +1 internet points

[fudged71 → thinkingtoilet]

This would make my wife laugh so hard. If only I could remember more important things!

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   javascript free clickers,   
   can replace "www" with "old"  
   post is unarchived

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Uncannily similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOTbnHzGrI

On: As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often

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Isn't your Observable notebook more applicable to what he's talking about (scraping the Claude UI)? https://x.com/simonw/status/1821649481001267651

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I'm interested in any approach to better organize LLM outputs offline, but it would probably be more pragmatic to use some sort of scripting tool.

On: Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

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Cue toilet paper panic Part II. Interesting to see how this plays out.

[deadbabe → fudged71]

Big Toilet Paper really doesn’t want Americans to get into using bidets, so they will make sure there is enough supply to feed the panic buying.

[toast0 → fudged71]

I mean, I don't doubt it, but I don't think the US imports much toilet paper. Not that factual basis is required for a panic.

On: First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone

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Like most things, you’d probably end up heating water somehow and using that energy.

On: AI assisted search-based research works now

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you.com is surprisingly good for this as well (I like the corporate report PDF export)