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Luc

12,777 karmajoined vor 18 Jahren
A French in Kuala Lumpur. Financial services software, retired.

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Attention is all we have: A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

davidbessis.substack.com
4 points·by Luc·vor 13 Tagen·0 comments

Disintegration Fingerprinting: Tool to Identify Falsified Solid-Dosage Medicines

medrxiv.org
2 points·by Luc·vor 23 Tagen·0 comments

About ASCII art and Jgs font (2023)

velvetyne.fr
35 points·by Luc·vor 25 Tagen·6 comments

The end of progress against extreme poverty?

ourworldindata.org
9 points·by Luc·vor 29 Tagen·1 comments

Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026

pfandrade.me
1 points·by Luc·letzten Monat·0 comments

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

arxiv.org
3 points·by Luc·letzten Monat·0 comments

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

asimov.press
3 points·by Luc·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

arxiv.org
10 points·by Luc·vor 2 Monaten·3 comments

How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions?

construction-physics.com
3 points·by Luc·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

Turning a Gaussian Splat into a Videogame

blog.playcanvas.com
5 points·by Luc·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Strait of Hormuz: A Citrini Field Trip

citriniresearch.com
9 points·by Luc·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

How Claude Code Works

mintlify.com
1 points·by Luc·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Has Something Changed in the Near-Earth Meteoroid Environment?

amsmeteors.org
2 points·by Luc·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Disintegration Fingerprinting: A Low-Cost Tool to Identify Falsified Medicines

medrxiv.org
13 points·by Luc·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

One Hundred Years in the U.S. Stock Markets

papers.ssrn.com
1 points·by Luc·vor 4 Monaten·1 comments

Never Trust the Science - On the need to identify bias & interpret data yourself

adam.rochussen.xyz
27 points·by Luc·vor 4 Monaten·20 comments

Virtue Metascience – What good is science anyway?

macroscience.org
1 points·by Luc·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

PCB Tracer

pcbtracer.com
66 points·by Luc·vor 5 Monaten·48 comments

Do Claude Code and Codex P-Hack? Sycophancy and Statistical Analysis in LLMs

github.com
1 points·by Luc·vor 5 Monaten·1 comments

Voith Schneider Propeller

en.wikipedia.org
140 points·by Luc·vor 5 Monaten·42 comments

comments

Luc
·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
It's a damn shame that the EU's plan to reduce our already low emissions (<6% globally) to zero by 2050, at great cost to our collective wealth, will result in a reduction in global warming of less than 0.02 C (1). That is if industry doesn't just move to India, China, Indonesia, etc.

(1) Based on the IPCC rule of thumb of 0.45 C increase per 1000 GtCO2 emissions, see e.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-change-2021-the...
Luc
·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
“This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions”
Luc
·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
This style of bookmark is rare so it follows it wasn't _necessary_. But with dense text it might be faster and perhaps less error prone than locating the right place in the text?

Scribe would change the margin size and line spacing, and the parchment would be a different size than the source, so the page breaks would end up in different locations in the text.
Luc
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to the stopping point and the circle turned to the number of the column he had been writing in when he stopped.

It would make a lot more sense that the bookmark was placed in the source book rather than in the copy. I.e. the wheel would be turned to the source column they had been reading from.
Luc
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core).

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/cpu/...
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
Yup, this is so much better!
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
Maybe you want to take another look? It’s not subtle.
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
Something else. Rigging is the ropes holding the masts and controlling the sails. There's a bunch of weirdness going on with that. Someone with an interest in sail boats will spot it easily.
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
The rigging on the surrounding ships is nonsensical. AI generated.

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/HMS_Psyc...
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
https://github.com/tripplyons/pokeemerald-wasm/
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
Pangram.com rates it fully AI generated with high confidence.
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
But he then writes: "I want to be really clear that this is the schematic maximally cynical approach, is not what SpaceX is doing, and is not actually possible."
Luc
·letzten Monat·discuss
"Danish pension company Akademikir Pension has announced it will divest from Tesla due to ongoing concerns about labour rights, corporate governance, and Tesla CEO and co-founder, Elon Musk's behaviour."

https://www.europeanpensions.net/ep/Denmarks-Akademiker-Pens...
Luc
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
There appears to be a rope-like device on the emergency equipment training board (8th picture), with some bicone shapes.

Anyone know what that is?

Perhaps an escape rope for the pilots?

EDIT: Yup, here it is in action: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7389569
Luc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
In the file https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music/blob/main/ocean_as...

> DSP

> not entirely sure what this one is... another variation of "Define Space" ? check back for the correct definition of this

It's probably 'displacement'. This worked together with ORG ('origin'). ORG specifies where in memory the code will run. DSP then moves the code the specified amount further along in memory, with the understanding that it will be moved back to the ORG address when it needs to run.

> DFC

> not entirely sure what this one is... define characters?

Same as DFM, but generates PETSCII instead of ASCII.
Luc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Small and low energy enough that tiny migratory birds can wear them for months. Externally worn of course (e.g. attached to the ear, for a wolf).

You could adjust the firmware of a wildlife tag to start transmitting location every 10 minutes when the animal leaves a geo-fence.
Luc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Michael Abrash and Fabien Sanglard have excellent books on Quake.
Luc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
It’s indeed vacuum deposited metal on natural quartz crystal.
Luc
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
"While the cross-stock mean buy-and-hold return is over 30,000%, the median is -6.9%. Shareholders' wealth was enhanced by $91 trillion over the century, but long-term investors in nearly 60% of stocks incurred wealth reductions"
Luc
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Better article with pictures (2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526