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Luc

12,777 karmajoined 18 лет назад
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·12 дней назад·0 comments

Disintegration Fingerprinting: Tool to Identify Falsified Solid-Dosage Medicines

medrxiv.org
2 points·by Luc·22 дня назад·0 comments

About ASCII art and Jgs font (2023)

velvetyne.fr
35 points·by Luc·25 дней назад·6 comments

The end of progress against extreme poverty?

ourworldindata.org
9 points·by Luc·29 дней назад·1 comments

Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026

pfandrade.me
1 points·by Luc·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

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

arxiv.org
3 points·by Luc·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

asimov.press
3 points·by Luc·2 месяца назад·0 comments

The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

arxiv.org
10 points·by Luc·2 месяца назад·3 comments

How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions?

construction-physics.com
3 points·by Luc·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Turning a Gaussian Splat into a Videogame

blog.playcanvas.com
5 points·by Luc·3 месяца назад·0 comments

Strait of Hormuz: A Citrini Field Trip

citriniresearch.com
9 points·by Luc·3 месяца назад·0 comments

How Claude Code Works

mintlify.com
1 points·by Luc·3 месяца назад·0 comments

Has Something Changed in the Near-Earth Meteoroid Environment?

amsmeteors.org
2 points·by Luc·3 месяца назад·0 comments

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

medrxiv.org
13 points·by Luc·4 месяца назад·0 comments

One Hundred Years in the U.S. Stock Markets

papers.ssrn.com
1 points·by Luc·4 месяца назад·1 comments

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

adam.rochussen.xyz
27 points·by Luc·4 месяца назад·20 comments

Virtue Metascience – What good is science anyway?

macroscience.org
1 points·by Luc·4 месяца назад·0 comments

PCB Tracer

pcbtracer.com
66 points·by Luc·5 месяцев назад·48 comments

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

github.com
1 points·by Luc·5 месяцев назад·1 comments

Voith Schneider Propeller

en.wikipedia.org
140 points·by Luc·5 месяцев назад·42 comments

comments

Luc
·6 дней назад·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
·12 дней назад·discuss
“This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions”
Luc
·19 дней назад·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
·20 дней назад·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
·23 дня назад·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Yup, this is so much better!
Luc
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Maybe you want to take another look? It’s not subtle.
Luc
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
https://github.com/tripplyons/pokeemerald-wasm/
Luc
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Pangram.com rates it fully AI generated with high confidence.
Luc
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·2 месяца назад·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
·3 месяца назад·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
·3 месяца назад·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
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Michael Abrash and Fabien Sanglard have excellent books on Quake.
Luc
·3 месяца назад·discuss
It’s indeed vacuum deposited metal on natural quartz crystal.
Luc
·4 месяца назад·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
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Better article with pictures (2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526