By having two nearly identical pieces of document here, one of which has a stamp while the other doesn't, the author really made it harder to understand what the "tip" is about...

J'ai trouvé dans la forêt près de Vernon (27) une tonne de betteraves sucrières déversées là par des chasseurs afin de nourrir les sangliers, les chevreuils et autres animaux. Je suppose que ce genre de phénomène se produit dans tout le pays. Je vous laisse en tirer vos propres conclusions.

A great Polish sci-fi writer, S. Lem, said once that even if the Moon was literally covered with diamonds, it still wouldn't pay off to excavate them. The Apollo program was expensive and happened principally for political reasons, which then expired. Once pragmatism requires it, we may return.

Well, yeah. That's an example of how the users mix LLMs into they work with poor results. It's nowadays just a tip of the iceberg. Students in the universities (some of them) go as far or further, pff, even the researchers do, e.g. for writing code snippets, thereby un-learning the language used.

7.003 is great. There's also (search bandcamp) the pre-environments-8 ep that I don't have but is highly regarded. Never been a huge fan of post-Isness Amorphous (btw. Trip Maps is a bit like them), still, haven't heard of that sneakpeak!

I don't know, things like Trip Maps 3 have Gary written all over them (fsol.bandcamp.com/album/trip-m...), and on Environments 7.003 they're both credited. Gaz leaving never crossed my mind...

The thing I'd like more is if him or Gary (or the two as FSOL) were finally on bluesky...

I find it actually touching that 70y ago they took a column in a physical newspaper to write this sort of a thing. You can imagine a guy reading it at a cafe, nodding in wonder... I doubt if, in today's media world, we would stop our 'rat race conditioned brains' for a moment for a column like that.

It might do "much more", but it does NOT allow you to tune into a FM/AM station *on its own*. This Sinclair and the Phillips watches did. Apple Watch is a sensor-equipped front-end to the iPhone, not much more. These old devices were standalone, hence in a way much more ambitious.

He just signed a major deal with Palantir (P. Thiel's AI corporation literally named after Tolkien's evil artifact) he might've just as well sign all defense to Skynet, at this point I think noone cares anyway...

By the way: If anyone reading this has some serious sources on the stats for the probability of thermal runaway in li-ion (aka spontaneous combustion), I'm a taker.

Very impressive. It's almost a shame it's an engineered E. Coli strain, so hard to assess how 'industrially realistic' this process will be. We will see. (Also trauma warning for non-biologists: do not open the 45p. PDF appendix)

Went into the rabbit hole a bit, this interesting paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... mentions how crows judge numerosities (i.e. the Weber-Fechner law) but between the lines, they say their judgements are very strong up to the number of 30. I'd probably do worse than that myself.

AFAIK crows can count (up to 7). The experiment that showed this had a group of N people show up next to a feeding point, except the feeder was behind an obstacle. So the bird waited in the safe distance, counting people who had left and only visiting then. As long as N<7, it was never wrong.

You just created the shortest-lived share price spike for the Red Bull GMBH - I was climbing aboard after your first post and jumping ship after the second...

Nice catch, took me some time to get the sense of scale in this photo. BTW if you're sure its Jugorum, maybe you can consider freeing the photo and uploading it to the wiki, as they're begging for it even in the Italian one: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesubia...

This is highly imprecise. There ever were only 2 helicopters (Russian Ka-50 and Ka-52) which use rocket ejection system. Not sure if this vid comes from them though as they have double rotors (2x3 blades)?