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benfarahmand
·tahun lalu·discuss
three's 2 feet of snow on the ground. there's no grass. what do i do? can we get an update to touch snow?
benfarahmand
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I made a music visualizer.

Background: Over the past several years my friends and I would get together for music nights where we share albums and songs we've been listening to. We also have a projector in case we want to showcase music videos.

Eventually, I made us a music visualizer that analyzes real-time microphone input and draws various geometries on to the screen, giving us something to engage our eyes. I built it using the Processing library for Java.

Here's a few demos of it:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNIBagttRU

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJ192bQt1k
benfarahmand
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I had to track my physical inputs and outputs for a week for medical reasons and I used a google form. I placed a shortcut on my phone and it immediately opened the form for simple and easy tracking. Everything was then saved to a spreadsheet, which I could analyze once my week was done.
benfarahmand
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I can't think of physical processes that could go from macro -> micro. The examples I can think of stem from Yuval Harari's human fictions affecting the world. For example, a nation state or a corporation or a story could set the stage for the macro affecting the micro. If we look at a story, it communicates an idea that changes the behaviors of humans, which in turn causes those humans to interact with the micro and the macro.

As I'm writing this out and thinking about it, where would fictional objects fit on the micro <--> macro axis?
benfarahmand
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
But can it DM a DnD game?
benfarahmand
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Could these ground based lasers be used for deflecting asteroids?
benfarahmand
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The linked paper summary says "...we describe a bio-photovoltaic energy harvester system using photosynthetic microorganisms on an aluminium anode..."

How do they prevent the aluminum from oxidizing? Oxidized aluminum is an insulator, which should be a problem for a long lived battery?

I don't have access to the whole paper since it's behind a paywall.
benfarahmand
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Why?
benfarahmand
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
To have more time to experience more of the world, learn new skills, spend time with friends and family, start (and finish!) more side projects, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how 'more time' would be accomplished. It could be living longer, not requiring sleep, not needing a salary to pay for basic needs (which would free up existing time).
benfarahmand
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Reading your comment made me wonder why we have even numbers of limbs for different body plans. I realized it's due to bilateral symmetry for most organisms must some how be advantageous to asymmetric body plans, but I'm unsure how symmetry is advantageous. What are the evolutionary pressures selecting against asymmetric body plans?