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Yes this definitely happens to an extent. I mostly solved it by grinding away the outside. I used 2x the amount of silver that I ultimately needed, knowing I’d have to remove some.

I’m figuring it out as I go, but it doesn’t seem to be a major issue.

I am in the process of doing this as well, but I’m trying to stay on a tight budget.

After 10 failures and different trials, this is my rough process: - Melt fine silver with a butane torch

- Pour it into a circle mold with a metal rod in the middle (makeshift ring mold). I tried sand casting with a wax mold but couldn’t keep the metal hot enough to fill the chamber.

- Hammer the ring on metal ring mandrel to shape and increase the size. This took probably 5,000 light hits with a metal hammer, periodically annealing.

- Use a dremel and grinding stone to further shape it

- Sand and polish by hand

Since I shaped it with a metal hammer, it has a really nice and natural hammer finish that I plan to keep.

I’m considering trying to electroplate it in palladium since the fine silver will tarnish and scratch over time, but it’ll be harder to fix inevitable mistakes.

Fantastic quote from the article:

“Is Amazon cutting out the author middle man and using A.I. and user data to generate books on its own? What generative models are being used? What kinds of prompts are generating these texts?

I don’t know. I’m not a virgin. As I said, I have a child.”

It’s the intersection of science, culture, and history with an interesting criminal story. Seems perfect in some ways.

Lack of employees is almost never the limiting factor at these firms.

It’s always the amount of work available

The author writes, “not a single controlled study has shown a long-term improvement in the quality of work as a result of any reward system.”

Does anybody know where I can find some of these studies that look at incentive efficacy?