ben_ja_min

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Re:Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy s... on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:57PM (#45316811)

Neo: "Woah."

Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:27PM (#44219286)

Thank you for this. I was going nuts trying to figure out where I had read this before. Peace and love! For the uninitiated, the Neil Stephenson novel, "Anathem", is brilliant and extremely entertaining.

Immaculate Constellation

Posted by ben_ja_min on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:44PM
from the mace.house.gov dept.

https://mace.house.gov/immaculateconstellation

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Re:Make It Yourself on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:22PM (#42023603)

Thank you so much for sharing! I needed an inspirational smack in the face and this did the trick.

Re:Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary... on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:52AM (#41502068)

Why not target the enthusiast first? The buzz created around something interesting an "amateur" cooked up may be what you need. The investment involved with creating dev hardware should be minimal, correct?

Re:Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:17PM (#40034963)

I've been looking for this! My method requires too many steps. I look forward to seeing if this improves my results. Thanks!

Re:Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:11PM (#33499249)

Looks like a one to my bad eyes.

Science at Home – Turbulence

Posted by ben_ja_min on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:11PM
from the scienceathome.org dept.

https://www.scienceathome.org/games/turbulence/about/

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Re:Inter-continental quantum encrypted video call method successfully ... on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:34AM (#15384594)

Information regarding the satellite used can be found here:

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/events-communication/public-relati...

Inter-continental quantum encrypted video call method successfully tested

Posted by ben_ja_min on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:27AM
from the oeaw.ac.at dept.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences/the-oeaw/article/erstes-abhoersicheres-quanten-videotelefonat-zwischen-wien-und-peking-geglueckt-1

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Re:What I Heard from Trump Supporters on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @01:44PM (#13698190)

I find myself flipping between these two states and find it exhausting.

Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to S... on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:09AM (#12685078)

Here's a short story on that topic:

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/

Re:DARPA-Funded Clojure – Probabalistic Modeling and Execution Learning on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:24PM (#11508814)

This video is private. :\