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Honey isn’t actually created or stored in the bee’s stomach. It is excreted through the mouth of the bee: but it is not 'vomit' since it does not empty from the bee's primary digestive stomach, but a separate, dedicated, pleated expandable pouch or crop.

Good work, bees.

https://theholyhabibee.com/honey-bee-stomach

This idea has been discussed for decades now. I like it

https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti-spam_20_27stamps_27#124...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E

I had to hunt this 'custom colour' noise paper out since that link was dead. It is quite neat. Here it is on ACM in case anyone else is interested:

Point Sampling with General Noise Spectrum (2012) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2185520.2185572

Who created the image? When? Where? How can I find more from the same book, or by the same artist?

Cultural amnesia is one thing, but annihilating the credits and context deliberately is very bad indeed.

Pinterest does this evil trick, and Cosmos bills itself as 'Pinterest for creatives' = pure internet cancer.

Great resource, terrible site.

Why can't any serious museum create a good, simple image gallery? Low resolution, missing images, curatorial cruft, bad UI, dead ends.

Just show me the work. It shouldn't be so hard to use.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11287

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay2631

That said, the point of redescribing things we know very well - like QM and GR - in new ways is ultimately to make testable predictions. So:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtxXkugd5w

It's empirical metamathematics if you attempt this with networks of axioms/theories

https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/empirical-met...

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/09/the-empirical-me...

Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it.

As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?

You and Boris seem to have identified the pain-point and got to a similar place independently

Boris Dalstein first published his work on Vector Graphic Complexes (VGC) at SIGGRAPH in 2014 [1]

Figma introduced Vector Networks in 2016 [2]

[1] https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/vgc/

[2] https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-vector-networks/

Also, the graphics are much prettier there if you like that kind of thing (which I do).

The FSL is interesting because it correctly assumes the existence of parasites, ie 'harmful free-riders'.

There are ofc too many projects doing what is in effect free R&D for larger entities... these free riders having zero interest in the health or longevity of open technical ecosystems, so game theory is the right lens, I think.

I'd be very interested to learn of any other proposed structures along the lines of the FSL: particularly if anyone here has opinions on/ direct experience with them!

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Earlier incarnation/s of this approach are mentioned on the FSL page.

Open Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model BUSL https://mariadb.com/bsl11/ FSL https://fsl.software/

FWIW, the Roland D50 did something similar, and used PCM samples to model the attack/transients... you could then use subtractive synthesis for the body of the sound. I would guess Pianoteq's key/striker modelling is a lot subtler!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_D-50?useskin=vector

I definitely agree with 2,3 that clippy hard transients are cool (clipping is in general a bit underrated as a creative synthesis tool).

From my general experience playing and designing with the 'classical' synth approaches (additive, subtractive, FM/PM) nice results are the cumulative result of many tiny hacks of the kind listed, well-judged micro-aberrations.

The spice makes the dish, that is.

This makes design and testing patches a somewhat infinite, fiddly task. Or endless fun, depending on your point of view.

Obviously, if you want to productise your thing - ie you'd like other people to use it - this you now have a control problem: bake in dozens of parameters such that 'it just works' or make them all available and let the user figure it out themselves.

If you've written further on this subject, I'd like to read it.

This is the countersignaling phase:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Countersignaling

"The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty,[is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundrað, hundrath, or hundred in Germanic languages prior to the 15th century, and is now known as one hundred twenty, or six score."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred

"120 is highly composite, superior highly composite, superabundant,[3] and colossally abundant. With sixteen divisors, 120 is the smallest number to have that many divisors..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_(number)

The project seems to have a slight case of Wolframesque overreach

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901

The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory

https://hectorzenil.medium.com/test-8f0be54817c4

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/16uqqrh/ho...