Recent content by Algr

That sounds like a personal theory to me. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/11/1084926/human-brain-cells-chip-organoid-speech-recognition/ https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-fuse-human-brain-cells-electronic-circuits-and-make-it-think Meanwhile, the closest thing we've...

True. Living in a cave in Antarctica would be far safer and more comfortable than living on a generation ship.

Carl Sagan's Cosmos shows this guy as basically making life, back in the late 1970s. "These nucleic acids can even make identical copies of themselves. " That seems like a definition of life to me. In addition to the hypothesis of more advanced life eating any new startups, he also mentions...

This isn't country music, or AI, but it is something I like. I also lived Kate Bush before she was on Stranger Things.

This can only be a fantasy book though. The premise really doesn't make any sense. Slowing a planet to tidally locked would take obscene amounts of energy, and what would that accomplish? It would be cheaper and faster to build a counter rotating shell enclosing the entire Earth and held up...

Another strange thing: Basically nothing has improved about ink jet printers in the last 20 years. Print quality, ease of use, flexibility, nothing. They seem to clog more than they used to, and finding certain things like print-on-cd is now very rare. Wireless printing from phones is about...

Personally, I like music that does unexpected things and surprises me. So I usually find country rather dull. It's just people complaining and not doing much. There are exceptions of course. Is this song really "County". I'm not good with music terms, but it sounds more like Gospel to me...

In the end, God undid the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was consuming all the waters. And God said, “Turn out the light.” and there was no light.

Nobody wants a digital god. How do you monetize it? It would control you rather than the other way around.

Ink can be as high as $80 for a full set. I guess it boils down to how much ink is in a starter pack. And how much you are willing to pay to hurt Epson. But it terms of reliability, having an extra printer wrapped up that you never use might actually help. I've had a few disasters where I...

Was chronic clogs your problem? I bought a head cleaning kit that involved injecting liquid with a syringe. I had to apply it twice, but months later it is still nice and clean. $10.99 on Amazon. I use 3rd party ink. Epson stole my last printer from me. Perfectly good scanner and fax...

I agree that if "two" isn't a word in binary, then "ten" would not be a word in English. I don't like the idea that the "correct" way of speaking one base would be to convert it to another. So the options to speak 102 are: - Ten - Two - One oh. - Beep Bip. I think context matters. If you...

If you story needs big infrastructure on Earth, then I don't think you are going to find anything less "magic" than a space elevator. Since this is an established idea in both fiction and real science, you'll be able to avoid getting into too much detail about how it works. This is a very good...

Well if you did, you wouldn't be here talking about it. Now I've got 120/240 volts in mind. This is actually more complex than it sounds. You can't just add an extra pin and connector, because universal devices would have to connect to both, adding complexity. Do 240v devices get damaged...

At what point does it stop being a camera and become a telescope?