Nikos stroubos

Output includes screenshots and a JSON manifest linking random seeds to variants for reproducibility.

github.com/isotropo/hero_… this is a little pet project I mostly vibe coded, partially for self-education. Does something like this already exist? I’m curious about how Shopify’s new A/B testing tools can be leveraged. Synopsis below (or in repo readme)

TL;DR: Develop a Node.js-based tool to generate random hero banner variants with varied button and text styles/positions, render them as responsive HTML pages, and capture desktop/mobile screenshots using Playwright.

@lauriewired Are there any effective solutions for “predictively” handling this on the camera side with custom software, or putting the SD card into an adapter that tracks that info and then otherwise just acts as pass-through to the camera?

There’s zero technical reason you can’t have a nice little warning popup saying "card at 85% life, consider replacing." But the SD association doesn’t require transfer of said health information…so almost no manufacturers do it voluntarily. Often, you are getting the cheapest possible TLC flash they can get away with…with some nice branding…that will slowly degrade with no warning …until it’s a major problem.

The way SD cards fail is…gross. Anyone that does heavy photography or video work knows they’ll gradually get slow; often without outright failing. I blame the SD association. The storage controller isn't required to report *any* health information to the host!

@tobi It’s pretty good!

Shop app 🚀

@nearcyan @lauriewired That’s a neat thought, you can intentionally shunt certain amounts of people to different alt niches you want to allocate conversational capacity to

i often describe the vibe changes like: 1) talking to a wall (0-1k) 2) chatting with some friends (1-5k) 3) speaking in front of a group of acquaintances (5-15k) 4) standup up on a stage and saying things (15-100k) i generally don't enjoy 4) (despite some of my tweets being kinda loud), so if i want 1+2 i have to use alts people seem to also 'project' the numbers too hard, i.e. assuming if you have 10k followers surely you talk to 100 of them daily and are too busy to even see a DM (this is generally always false, but if they have a super busy job maybe less so); most seem quite miscalibrated on this

@antimatter15 Found out about Leon Chua's daughter from this post

Fun lore: Amy Chua's father is Leon Chua, the inventor of the missing fourth fundamental electrical component besides the resistor, capacitor, and inductor— the memristor. Also, she was the Yale professor who convinced JD Vance to write Hillbilly Elegy.

Do yourself a favour: turn the sound ON and enjoy this beautiful #MixedReality experience at the intersection between puzzle and interactive music. This is Cues and a reminder of how sometimes less is more, and we needto approach design and development for this medium with fresh new eyes.

Looking for a #creative weekend diversion? This is "Outside The Blocks" a free demo available on Steam that I loved for 3 reasons: 1- They took some very "brave" #UI choices and moved away from standard paradigms of tools like Blender or Maya in favor of simplicity and accessibility 2- The visual polish is off the chart! From lighting to environmental effects, everything looks sooooo good! 3- After getting used to the basics, I started thinking about a story this little diorama could tell: what if there is an underwater chest? What about a sandy path along the water? Try it out and let me know what you think

I have experienced the #Future of #Healthcare with #XR+#AI. Simtryx was without a doubt one of the best conversations and interactions I experienced in XR with an AI. - The conversation made sense and felt real - Voice was not just for chatting but also used to instruct the patient on how to behave (like turning while lying down) - Being in mixed reality greatly contributed to grounding the experience and the whole UX with hand interaction just worked. Looking forward to chatting with Hector Mondragon and ask how his team managed to pull this help also with the help of ShapesXR 😉.

/1 Calling all Creators! Get hyped! 🚀 MMC25 is coming soon! Metaverse Maker Competition 📅 Feb 1 - Mar 1, 2025 🎮 Free entry & open to ALL! Over $14,000 donated (and growing!) thanks to our amazing sponsors! Want to make the prize pool even bigger? #mmc25 #Resonite

@GillVerd If there were to be some Assassin’s Creed style game involving quantum simulation, what would its plot and “teachings” be?

@GillVerd Does quantum sensing have medical applications?

@GillVerd What are some resources to learn about the manufacturing of the current state of the art hardware and what process is needed to advance the quality of the hardware?

@iamabsinthe @bigotecapital I’m curious about Bali for the health and jewelry scene, I’ve ordered from a Balinese gem cutter I met on TikTok strangely enough Also intrigued by how well I heard they did during Covid, apparently due to the rituals and hygenic practices/culture

@bigotecapital yes, for health bali was amazing! great gyms, easy access to healthy food and unlimited coconuts

I disliked living in Bali. Every crypto person who lives there larps as a crypto millionaire, but lives in a shared house with 6 other people paying $400/month. No one really does anything, they rug you for $100 and absolutely provide no value. Traffic and infrastructure is horrendous, you can't walk anywhere without being run over by scooters, and the general calibre of people who come in and out of Bali are extremely low.

A scientist treated her own cancer, then published the findings. 🧵1/12

Super excited to share what we've been up to for the past 7 months!

This toroidal field is created by the spiralling motion of blood as it moves through the heart's chambers, creating a vortex-like structure. This vortex generates both electrical and magnetic fields, which interact with every cell in the body. Dr. Gary Schwartz's research at the University of Arizona has shown that the heart's electromagnetic field carries information that affects our perceptions, emotions, and health. This field is not just a byproduct of the heart's mechanical function but appears to be a key component in the body's information processing system. The heart's energetic vortex could even be understood as a macroscopic quantum object capable of maintaining quantum coherence. Quantum coherence refers to the ability for quantum systems to maintain a fixed phase relationship between different states over time. This coherence allows for non-local interactions, meaning that information can be transferred instantaneously across any distance. Recent work by Dr. @StuartHameroff and Sir Roger @penrose on the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory of consciousness suggests that quantum coherence in microtubules within neurons is key to consciousness. However, we can extend this concept to include the heart's electromagnetic field as a larger-scale quantum coherent system. The heart's field, being much stronger and more extensive than the brain's, it could act as a master organiser for the body's overall quantum coherence. This would allow for non-local communication between all cells in the body, and potentially beyond the body's physical boundaries. Microtubules, which are the structural components of cells, are now the primary candidate for facilitating quantum coherence even at body temperature. Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay's research at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan has demonstrated that microtubules can act as quantum resonators, capable of storing and processing quantum information. The heart's electromagnetic field could potentially entrain these microtubular quantum processes throughout the body, creating a unified quantum field encompassing all cells. This field would allow for instantaneous communication and coordination across the entire organism. Another concept worthy of being introduced here is that of the biofield, a complex organising energy field engaged in the generation, maintenance, and regulation of biological homeodynamics, which is now gaining traction in scientific circles. Dr. Beverly Rubik's work suggests that the biofield may be the missing link in our understanding of health and healing. The heart's energetic vortex could be seen as a primary generator and organiser of the biofield. Traditional practices like acupuncture, which work on the principle of manipulating subtle energy fields in the body, might be understood as methods of interacting with and influencing this heart-generated field. The @HeartMathInst research has shown that the heart seems to receive and process information about future events before they occur, often before the brain is aware of them. This "intuitive intelligence" could be understood as the heart's quantum field interacting with the quantum field of the environment, including future potentialities. The heart's field could be acting as a quantum antenna, receiving and decoding information from the broader field of consciousness that pervades the universe. SUMMARY: - The heart generates a powerful electromagnetic vortex that encompasses and interpenetrates every cell in the body. - This vortex might maintain quantum coherence throughout the body, allowing for instantaneous communication and coordination. - Microtubules in cells act as quantum resonators, processing and storing quantum information. - The brain's neural networks, rather than being the sole seat of consciousness, act more like a transceiver - both receiving information from and transmitting instructions to the body-wide quantum field. - The entire system is in constant non-local communication with the broader field of consciousness that pervades the universe. - Practices like meditation, breath-work, and certain forms of movement (e.g., qigong, yoga) may work by optimising the coherence of this body-wide quantum field.

This Man Proved Time Is An Illusion. In 1972 he entered a cave chamber 440 feet below the ground, alone and isolated from any natural light & clocks. For six months he removed from all time references which led to his discovery of a human time warp and slowing down time. He found that without time cues, several people including himself adjusted to a 48-hour rather than a 24-hour cycle. In 1962, a French scientist named Michel Siffre lived alone in a cave for two months, with no clock, calendar, or sunlight. He only slept and ate when he felt like it, to see how living without time would affect the body's natural rhythms. Over the next ten years, he set up more than twelve similar experiments. In 1972, he went back into a cave in Texas for six months. His work helped start the study of human biological clocks. A thread to slow your body time🧵

LUDVIG: Learning-free Uplifting of 2D Visual features to Gaussian Splatting scenes Abstract: We address the task of uplifting visual features or semantic masks from 2D vision models to 3D scenes represented by Gaussian Splatting. Whereas common approaches rely on iterative optimization-based procedures, we show that a simple yet effective aggregation technique yields excellent results. Applied to semantic masks from Segment Anything (SAM), our uplifting approach leads to segmentation quality comparable to the state of the art. We then extend this method to generic DINOv2 features, integrating 3D scene geometry through graph diffusion, and achieve competitive segmentation results despite DINOv2 not being trained on millions of annotated masks like SAM.