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Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:34AM (#50245513)
What do you say to... This is the "modern mechanical turk?"
Re:Are we sleepwalking into World War III? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:26PM (#50145148)
any one have a non paywall link?
Re:How Machines Learned Precision on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:26PM (#50001283)
Re:A security website that is a filesystem on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:46PM (#49852716)
Great. I like it. Be cool if there was a way to view the entire file tree... ah `tree` command works!
Re:Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:50PM (#49326036)
Thanks for sharing all of this insight. Here is some more hydrogen conversation https://www.fourier.earth/
great idea... How do you make sure there is an exchange.
the little beetle that could, and pawpaw's are self-incompatible. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba#Pollination
great! have you seen https://openskimap.org/ and https://openskistats.org/... maybe change name to open golf map?
Re:Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:17PM (#48954866)
the dream!
Re:An Interactive Map of AI on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:58PM (#48930175)
anyone else also think better with visual nodes and edges?
Re:Max Ginsburg, War Pieta, 2007 on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:06PM (#48813257)
true art.
John Chowning is known for having developed the FM synthesis algorithm in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning
Re:Writers and Drugs on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:17PM (#48668030)
I've often wondered, with a cohort (community/society) of people who do not discourage freedom of expression, how many great works would come to fruition, but instead one is held back and then set free by drugs...?
Re:Firewood Splitting Simulator on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:40AM (#48527656)
great game and very satisfying.
Re:Firewood Splitting Simulator on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:34AM (#48527589)
as camping is to "glamping," splitting wood is to "sprinkle wood?"
Re:Leaving Mozilla on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:28AM (#48515276)
beautifully sad well put prose mentor encouraged
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:40PM (#48406979)
yep... I remember the day I saw a short ted talk explaining the correct knot. I had been doing it wrong for decades. thanks for even more knots to try.
Re:Logging Off on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:26PM (#48231634)
you can call 988, if you need mental health help
Re:The Letter S, by Donald Knuth [pdf] on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:43PM (#48217617)
Wonderful man, here is a lecture on the topic from Joint Mathematics Meeting, Étienne Ghys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIxzewWilc
Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:11AM (#48118097)
Sounds salty. https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/VisualMic_SIGGRAPH2... use a potato chip bag as a microphone
Re:Swatch Internet Time on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:57PM (#48115684)
This is great, I've always wanted some kind of local solar time. Like the old days when a town would set their clock tower to noon when the sun was highest. Apparently, the main push to coordinate was the train scheduling.
Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:19PM (#48102999)
i remember hearing Porsche was doing some machine learning with vibration analysis to find car trouble. https://www.porsche.digital/en
Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:17PM (#48098613)
good idea https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/heartRate.html , try setting it on the ground and see how sensitive it is to foot steps.... or earthquake https://seismosense.com

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