Bee Eater

@try2underit If someone really cared, we could probably genetically engineer a pathogen to kill ticks.

How do we fight back on these ticks? Do we need to raise money and come up with our own defense? Do we need 1000’s of guinea fowls running the country side?

@sweatystartup How do you stop the sodium and potassium from catching fire, exploding, and cracking the glass?

My 6 yr old son has had behavior problems. A week ago I started: 2.5 mg of creatine 150 mg of magnesium glycinate 200 mg theanine 500 mg sodium 200 mg potassium I mix it all into 6 oz water with the electrolyte stick for flavor (salt of the earth) in the morning. It has been a massive success. Behavior way better.

@SebAaltonen What color space makes the most sense for this? LAB, HSV, RGB?

Has anybody tested texture block/brick compression with 3 color palette? Interpolation between 3 colors is identical to barycentric interpolation on a triangle. You store A+B and calculate C=1-A-B. Seems nicer than the usual 2 color interpolation (BC/ASTC).

@VictorTaelin @lucaszozo_ Sadly, we can't test for taste. (Yet)

@lucaszozo_ dezenas de milhares de linhas de testes e provas formais acontece que o projeto é ainda maior que isso

aand as expected after harder testing we found several bugs and crashes in the AI generated part of the project, most critically in the GPU back-end... which is the hardest part of it can I still honestly claim I'm further than where I'd be if I had written it manually, no AI?

@mitchellh @yacineMTB Tests don't test for taste. I read every line of code produced by AI, and I often restart the entire process several times as I realize there are boneheaded ways to do things that I hadn't considered.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

@yacineMTB Combined with optical flow, you can pick out subpixel differences that are contiguous over time. I saw an art video on youtube that did this for pastoral videos. Flying bugs were very visible, and it was just an artsy frame differencing video; my eye was doing the picking.

@thingcreator They're going to need to be really high resolution

What's the best way to detect a mosquito in 3d space?

@yacineMTB Well, if you want to go cheap, the cheapest I could think of would be 4 microphones in a tetrahedron, provided the mozzie is the kind that makes a noise, and the background noise isn't too bad. Better results: 2 cameras where you delta frames. Almost as good as an event camera.

@thingcreator They're so fucking expensive man

@ProjectVirginia I think the Ds have gone from an 80% chance of a win to maybe 65%? Would be nice to be wrong. Not looking forward to repeated impeachment trials and buffoonery.

In the space of a month we’ve gone from “GOP is doomed in the midterms” to “Dems have almost no viable path to winning the House of Representatives”.

@physicsgeek This is gold

@designcoursecom There's a parallel product here for bars. I don't know what it is, but maybe something you can do that's more than just pool. Single person trainer. Trickshot trainer/competition (fun & serious modes). Pool bowls. Pool darts. Something. Ad sponsorship projected between games.

I've dedicated months to a project that might be entirely a wasted venture. The pool projection thing is a very big ask for each customer. - They need a pool table. - They need a suitable projector mounted above it - They need a suitable camera mounted above it - They need a PC with a GPU - They need to train a model on their balls in their environment Even if it goes no where, it's alive in my studio and it's by far the coolest thing I've ever built, and it's going to turn me into a monster pool player.

@EcdoPrep We can hope...

The below paleomagnetism chart is from a study near Beijing. I have spent a lot of time thinking about it. It shows the declination and inclination of the magnetic field over the past 16k years as seen from that area. Think of this as a 3D arrow from Beijing pointing toward magnetic north. Declination is near 0, and inclination near 50. Makes sense for a city near 40 degrees north latitude. During the 14ka excursion, declination spiked to ~120 and inclination went negative. This indicates a north magnetic pole south and west of Beijing, probably around @EthicalSkeptic 's Np'. But the 5ka "Noah" event showed only a change in inclination. This indicates the north magnetic pole was in the same meridian plane as Beijing. That would include the center of the current South Atlantic Anomaly. This is closer to the pole position argued by @SunWeatherMan The monument alignment plus this study convince me the Np' pole was the true pole 14ka ago, and likely for most oscillations. But I do wonder if the Noah event is an exception. One final curiosity: our North Magnetic pole has moved about 20 degrees of arc over the past two centuries. From an observer near Beijing, its inclination has changed 20 degrees (64 to 43), but its declination has been essentially constant (8.5 to 7.5 E). It is far too early to say we are entering another episode of True Polar Wander, but the early stages of this excursion (if it is one) may line up more cleanly with the 5k year one.

@DJSnM Would love to see a video from you detailing the finesse and improvements over time.

To put it another way, Starship & Superheavy have always had brute force in spades. Now with the V3 stack we’re seeing some real finesse in the hardware.

LE CIMETIÈRE INVISIBLE Milton Friedman a dit une phrase qui devrait hanter chaque législateur européen pour le restant de sa vie. Sur la FDA, il a dit ceci : il y a énormément de preuves qu'ils ont causé plus de morts par les approbations tardives qu'ils n'en ont sauvé par les approbations précoces. Lisez-la deux fois. Plus de morts par excès de prudence que de vies sauvées par la prudence. Et personne ne le voit. C'est ça, le génie noir de la bureaucratie. Bastiat avait théorisé le principe il y a 175 ans. "Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas." L'économiste, disait-il, ne se distingue pas du mauvais économiste par la capacité à voir l'effet immédiat d'une décision. Tout le monde voit ça. Il s'en distingue par la capacité à voir les effets invisibles, différés, diffusés sur la population entière. La voiture autonome est l'exemple parfait. Et il est en train de se jouer sous nos yeux. Tesla publie les chiffres. Un accident tous les 7 millions de miles en Autopilot. Un accident tous les 700 000 miles en moyenne humaine américaine. L'Autopilot est, à ce stade, dix fois plus sûr qu'un humain. Et ça ne fait que s'améliorer, à chaque release. Maintenant la France. 3 200 morts sur les routes en 2024. 91% impliquent une faute humaine. Vitesse, alcool, fatigue, distraction. Si on déployait demain une voiture autonome dix fois plus sûre, on diviserait par dix le carnage. On parle de 2 800 vies par an. Sur dix ans, 28 000 personnes. L'équivalent d'une ville moyenne française qui disparaît, parce que personne n'a appuyé sur le bon bouton à Bruxelles. Vous ne les verrez jamais. Aucun journal ne titrera : "Aujourd'hui, 8 personnes sont mortes parce que la voiture autonome est interdite en Europe." Aucune commission parlementaire n'enquêtera. Aucun bureaucrate ne sera limogé. Ces morts iront dans la case "fatalité de la route". On fera des campagnes émouvantes avec leurs photos sur des panneaux 4x3. On dira que c'est triste, que c'est la vie. Pendant ce temps, le premier accident d'une voiture autonome sera la une de tous les journaux pendant trois semaines. Le régulateur convoquera les constructeurs. Les ONG appelleront à l'interdiction préventive. Les députés écriront des tribunes. Le ministre décrétera un moratoire. Cinq morts visibles vaudront, dans la balance médiatique et politique, plus que cinq mille morts invisibles. C'est la loi d'airain de la bureaucratie. Le bureaucrate qui autorise quelque chose qui tourne mal perd sa carrière. Le bureaucrate qui interdit quelque chose qui aurait sauvé des milliers de vies n'est jamais inquiété. Personne ne lui demande de comptes pour les morts qu'il aurait pu empêcher. Ils n'existent pas dans ses statistiques. Ils n'existent pas dans son procès. Friedman avait identifié la mécanique exacte : quand un régulateur se trompe par excès de laxisme, ses victimes ont des noms, des visages, des familles, des avocats. Quand il se trompe par excès de prudence, ses victimes sont anonymes, dispersées, statistiques, fantômes. La structure des incitations rend la sur-régulation rationnellement inévitable. Et le cimetière invisible grandit, génération après génération. L'Europe va sit out 10 ans sur la voiture autonome, comme elle a sit out sur l'IA, comme elle a sit out sur le génie génétique, comme elle a sit out sur le nucléaire de quatrième génération. À chaque fois, le même playbook. Précaution, moratoire, comité d'éthique, livre blanc, directive, transposition. Et à chaque fois, derrière le rideau de mots, des morts qui n'apparaissent dans aucune statistique officielle. Ce sont des morts. Pas des coûts d'opportunité. Pas des "manques à gagner économiques". Des êtres humains qui étaient vivants et qui sont morts parce qu'une innovation qui aurait pu les sauver a été retardée par des gens dont c'est, littéralement, le métier. Voilà ce qu'il faut construire, et c'est probablement le projet politique le plus important du siècle qui s'ouvre. Un système de comptabilité des morts invisibles. Un cadastre du cimetière que personne ne voit. Pour chaque réglementation, chaque moratoire, chaque interdiction préventive, on devrait pouvoir produire une estimation chiffrée, signée, datée, du coût en vies humaines de la décision. Pas des effets directs. Des effets différés, indirects, statistiques. Combien de morts par an causés par l'interdiction d'une technologie qui marche ailleurs. Imaginez. Sur le bureau du commissaire européen qui s'apprête à signer un moratoire sur la voiture autonome, un document : "Estimation centrale, 2 800 morts par an pendant la durée du moratoire. Fourchette haute, 4 100. Fourchette basse, 1 900. Source : analyse comparative Tesla Autopilot vs moyenne humaine, données NHTSA et ONISR, méthode publique et auditée." Sur le bureau du député européen qui votera l'AI Act : "Estimation centrale, 38 milliards d'euros de PIB perdu, 240 000 emplois non créés, X morts par an dus aux retards de diagnostic médical IA, Y morts par an dus aux retards de déploiement de drones autonomes pour livraison médicale en zone rurale." Aujourd'hui, on signe à l'aveugle. On signe sans coût. On signe avec la conscience tranquille parce que les morts qu'on cause sont anonymes et que les vies qu'on protège ont des visages. C'est ça qu'il faut casser. Une bureaucratie est une institution qui fonctionne sans rendre de comptes pour les conséquences invisibles de ses décisions. Tant que les morts invisibles ne sont pas comptés, la bureaucratie est mécaniquement, structurellement, inévitablement, une machine à produire des morts qu'elle ne verra jamais. L'Europe ne perd pas une bataille technologique. Elle remplit un cimetière. Année après année. Et personne ne porte le deuil. Personne ne dépose de fleurs. Personne ne sait qu'ils sont là. Friedman les a vus avant tout le monde. Bastiat avant lui. Williams après lui. Et chacun a posé la même question, qui résonne comme une accusation à travers les siècles : qui pleure les morts qu'on n'a pas vus mourir ? C'est le travail qui nous attend. Rendre visible le cimetière invisible. Comptabiliser. Auditer. Publier. Confronter chaque bureaucrate, chaque jour, à la liste exacte des vies que sa signature emporte avec elle. Avant que la liste ne soit la nôtre.

@lampwright4 @Pro__Trading Please call it "Election fraud". 99% of the time, the voters are the victims, not the perpetrators, and using the wrong name makes it easier for them to deflect and cheat. It's usually "election official fraud", if anything.

@Pro__Trading Virginia has a serious voter fraud problem. Has for years. Nit sure we have ever been anything but red.

Virginia is a purple state. Trump lost the state by around 4 points. Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate who would govern for "all Virginians." Then she gets in office immediately veers left and tries to ram through the most shameful and partisan gerrymander we've ever seen. And in the process completely disenfranchised and spit in the face of nearly half the residents of the state of Virginia. And then the Supreme Court strikes down the map. They gained absolutely nothing. And now she and the Democrat party have turned all the moderates in the state against them. I believe Virginia will flip red in 2028.

@ThomasG19367769 @HashZappa @EcdoPrep I think in many cases it's a record of S2 -> S1, which is a much more gentle and survivable process, happening in multiple stages over decades.

@thingcreator @HashZappa @EcdoPrep What bugs me still is knowing north african tribes have records of that flood. They also talk lots about the mother spider (magnetic shield) which means they survived last flood. Still I agree with you north American seems like a certain death.

Maybe I am getting close on the ECDO sim...

@physicsgeek 3 judges still found a reason to say it was okay despite multiple black letter violations of the constitution. That's abominable.

I am happy that SCOVA decided to follow the law. I was completely wrong about how it would turn out and I'm glad to have been proven wrong.

@theGAnerds_Real @objectextinct @DNIGabbard @FBIDirectorKash Isn't election fraud a human rights violation, too?

@objectextinct The SoS is too busy running for Governor and is behind it AG always looks the other way and is too busy running for Governor The governor is too busy being Dooley’s campaign mgr @DNIGabbard @FBIDirectorKash ???

Fact: there are way MORE Dem insertions (fake votes) than Rep insertions per the SoS files. It very well could be to throw a Rep seat, but not like you think. "Gabe"'s new tool is a psyop. Here is part of the screenshot that he recently posted: That screenshot "tells you" the Dem turnout is huge! Bet it's not. This is how in turn the GAGOP "blames" Republican voters that 1 - you didn't vote hard enough and 2 - not enough of you showed up to vote. They are lying to you. It's impossible for a Dem Absentee to vote Rep in a lawful primary, but if a crook was in charge and it is a digital insertion..... I would buckle up. My prediction is not good based on the files.......

@theGAnerds_Real Call me weird, but I think that cheating in a state election should be a federal offense too. Ugh.