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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonecat soup rule
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    11 hours ago

    Personally, I’d get bored and leave the tub before it even got that hot.

    Though maybe you could do it for real using a Beast Games kinda format. Offer ten thousand dollars to anyone who can stay in a tub for 7 days (so they expect day 1 to be relatively easy), but start the boiling human experiment immediately.

    Then, if everyone leaves before it gets to a boil, repeat the experiment but with slightly more money offered and continue increasing the offer until someone gets boiled alive to determine how much money you need to offer people to become the frog in the metaphor.

    Or maybe if the money is raised too slowly it won’t make a difference and people will keep getting out when they are too uncomfortable.


  • This technology isn’t for generating images but for measuring what frequencies are present in light.

    I’m not 100% sure on the specifics, but it sounds like they are using some mathematical properties of fourier transformations to either broaden the frequency response of sensors or simplify the math required to get the final result.

    Hyperspectral cameras are designed to generate images from a matrix of light sensors.

    This could maybe lead to spectral cameras (as in a camera where each pixel is the spectrum of light in that pixel), which could then generate images of arbitrary spectra, but I suspect that this sensor is still quite a bit larger than the sensors used in digital cameras these days. Even a hyperspectral camera doesn’t really care about what frequencies it measures, it’s just able to detect differences in amplitude at those frequencies and either doesn’t detect outside of that range or has something filtering the light outside of the range before it reaches the sensors.





  • Are you an LLM with only a 10 token context window? Or doing that thing that humans do when their brain blood escapes its brain blood tube and becomes a brain blood pool or has trouble making it to all the brain cells because the brain blood tube is too full of non-brain blood things?

    Either way, thanks for the moment of amusement I got trying to parse the combination of words you used in the order you used them.


  • If your electrolytes are balanced, you shouldn’t get cramps. Cramping is caused by not having enough potassium, which is used by your nerves to signal relaxing muscles. Sodium is used to signal clenching. Too much sodium for the potassium and the signals get unbalanced and you can’t relax that muscle.

    Magnesium and calcium also play a role and deficiencies can result in cramping or tremors (like unsteady hands might just be from being low on Mg, Ca, or K).

    So it seems like you’ve been eating well at least as far as electrolytes are concerned, especially if you can hold your hand out rock steady, regardless of whether your muscles are clenched or relaxed.





    1. Article Writer

    Once upon a time, humans liked to read articles written by other humans. Since these human writers were capable of doing more than just predicting the next token, they were able to maintain a sense of coherency and continuity through their articles and could write lists that referenced other items, especially when they were closely related, instead of each item just following an intro, brief description, conclusion format that gets quite repetitive. But then text predictors got good enough to predict coherent sentences that are often even accurate and can follow a given theme or topic and websites thought no one would care since it was mostly marketing and propaganda by then anyways and dropped the human writers into active volcanoes.


  • I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that as a puzzle before.

    Actually looks like a pretty good (difficult) puzzle, what with how prevalent the blue is. I just did one that has a similar amount of dark purple and it was a nice challenge (paired with a rule against examining pieces and the picture at the same time, as doing that trivialized the puzzle I did before that one).


  • When I played OW, Moira was one of my top characters. It wasn’t rare for me to top both damage and healing charts because of how aggressively I played her.

    See an enemy? Throw and orb, drain them, phase away unpredictably if they turn their attention on me, then throw another orb their way to punish them if they do chase, chasing them back if they don’t (or maybe abandoning the fight if there’s something more strategic to do).

    See a teammate? Throw and orb and heal, aiming the orb to also harass whoever they are fighting, then use the teleport either defensively if they try to kill the healer or if we’re headed into a team fight maybe use it offensively to teleport behind their line and surprise them with an orb and draining their healer. If you were good with orb placement and timing, they might not even notice you’re in the room with them before their team is half dead.

    I wish blizzard didn’t suck so much. I kinda miss that game.








  • Not to mention people being too lazy to want to do even basic maintenance. Also companies that prefer to sell something people need to keep buying over and over might not offer a longer term version.

    Not vaping or even disposable, but my manscaped face trimmer, which is supposedly a higher end one, was the first electric trimmer I’ve gotten that didn’t come with a little bottle of lube and the instructions even said “you don’t need to lube this!” Knowing that they hadn’t changed the laws of physics, I lubed it anyways and I’m convinced that’s the only reason it hasn’t permanently seized up by now because even with the lube and a full charge, there have been times where it didn’t want to start going without a good tap after turning it on.