Kaijo

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by Kaijo 4mo ago
I’m similar to you, except to upgrade my practical math skills at college I did cultivate a “liking” for math comparable to other technical areas I pursue. Namely, I started reading popular math books and articles, watching math youtubers,
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by Kaijo 4mo ago
Authenticity (as Gidon Kremer once said), above all, is what is genuinely felt, and the inner world of a dedicated listener who has built up a relationship with their music over a lifetime is full of genuine feeling. It _is_ participation,
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by Kaijo 4mo ago
To drain pasta or noodles quickly, I put it in a colander, hold it above my kitchen sink, and swirl it around in quick circles. I realized about a month ago my circles are always counterclockwise, and very efficient, but that I can't k
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by Kaijo 7mo ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I have activated a one-month LinkedIn Premium free trial, hopefully as another layer of protection while I re-establish myself and fortify my profile.
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by Kaijo 7mo ago
I hate LinkedIn but need it for a few things, mostly accessing certain clients and projects as a freelancer. Last October my ISP (Vodafone UK) assigned me a datacenter-classified IPv6 address with 80+ abuse reports on reputation databases,
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by Kaijo 1y ago
Wolfram came to our evolutionary biology department to preach that book about 20 years ago. We all got our heads into cellular automata for a while, but in the end they just don't have the claimed profound explanatory power in real bio
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by Kaijo 1y ago
It depends on the kind of work. If it's routine stuff, past seven hours or so, I can keep going and not feel tired, but I increasingly don't want to, and the feeling that I'd rather be doing something else becomes very distra
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by Kaijo 1y ago
I find it impossible to reconcile Monty's character with the fact Richard Griffiths was only forty years old when he played him. Yes, forty. I'm 46 now but however old I get, Uncle Monty will forever remain the archetypal "ba
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by Kaijo 2y ago
From what I understand, Moses's major contribution was describing color mixing principles for pigment paints independent of the notion of specially nominated primary colors, showing among other things that a mixture of any two paints i
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by Kaijo 2y ago
The third video in the "Featured Introductions" section near the top of the page, called "A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra", is a very good starting point.
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by Kaijo 2y ago
I also have to balance foodie obsessions with being economical and healthy. (Growing up, my extended family had a culture of "living to eat" and they ran several restaurants as a trophy thing, i.e., with negligible profit but accl
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by Kaijo 2y ago
The addon you're referring to is already available: https://github.com/rlguy/Blender-FLIP-Fluids/wiki/Mixbox-Ins... It works as a kind of experimental extension supplied with the paid FLIP Fluids addon.
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by Kaijo 2y ago
This is a technical paper, but it has a quite conversational abstract and introduction that is easy enough to follow if you have some experience with mesh modelling: https://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de/media/papers&#x2F
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by Kaijo 2y ago
>The next step is to automatically add "nodes" to the 3D images where the model can pivot, rotate and whatnot and then boom, you have on-demand animated, interactive content. The next step is to generate models with higher qual
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by Kaijo 2y ago
One thing that at least doubled my modelling efficiency was my acquisition of a multi-button gaming mouse with a twelve-button thumb grid. In Blender I have that mapped mostly to the numpad which enables 3D navigation at the speed of thoug
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by Kaijo 2y ago
This is true with some qualifications. If you're interested in the kind of investment grade diamonds that a major auction house would deal with, then you're looking at heavy weights and/or fancy colors that synthetics can&#x2
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by Kaijo 2y ago
I'm a lifelong collector of a variety of (very) niche things, and have at times sold or tried to sell items from my collections, or whole collections at once. You're right about everything, I would only add that each category of t
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by Kaijo 2y ago
I started making a lot of field recordings on my last few expeditions into remote rainforest. This is the soundscape at dawn from a camp in Maliau Basin, Borneo, featuring gibbons, hornbills, elephants, songbirds, insects... https:/&#
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by Kaijo 2y ago
There are "obviously" new species that do still crop up because undescribed biodiversity is concentrated in little-surveyed tracts of remote tropical rainforest, and the visible spore-producing structures of those fungi might only
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by Kaijo 2y ago
It's an especially acute problem for fungi. Fungi defy easy collection. With most animals and plants one can envisage conservation strategies to preserve lineages in artificial conditions. Breeding programmes, seed banks, tissue cultur
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by Kaijo 2y ago
Yes, there may be a large amount of undescribed fungal species diversity, but most of it doesn't take the form of distinctive, visibly novel macroscopic structures. A lot of new species descriptions are of cryptic species, species only
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by Kaijo 2y ago
The article claims that it does, because of the limestone terrior. But I don't have much confidence in that claim, because the author is obviously at pains to make this mushroom sound as special as possible for the sake of a story, cal
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by Kaijo 2y ago
I got out of bed (here in London) for this one and managed to see the aurora for the first time!
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by Kaijo 3y ago
It isn't just a question of their visual representation in culture. Many major taxonomic works on Lepidoptera only provide illustrations of species in the pinned-out format. This is even more of an issue with moths than butterflies as
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by Kaijo 3y ago
> I wonder if mycorrizhae is extending through the frog's body? Do you mean mycelium? Mycorrhizhae are specialized mycelial structures that interface with plant roots.
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by Kaijo 3y ago
I've seen numba used in a few addons for Blender 3D. Speeding up reaction-diffusion simulations on meshes, things like that. Scientific computing for artistic purposes!
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by Kaijo 3y ago
Maybe they are hampered by "doing the right thing" and only training on Adobe Stock content? Firefly (Adobe's generative AI) works well if you're already stuck in a Photoshop-heavy workflow, for quick successive generati
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by Kaijo 3y ago
What an interesting evolutionary mechanism, hardly a "mystery" as it seems thoroughly elucidated by the recent research. Aside from the mechanism, I find external asymmetry in any species that you'd expect to have determinate
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by Kaijo 3y ago
The mesh topology here would see these rejected as assets for in basically any professional context. A competent modeler could make much higher quality models, more suited to texturing and deformation, in under five minutes. A speed modeler
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by Kaijo 3y ago
There's a rare ascomycete fungus, Nectrioposis violacea, that parasitises Fuligo septica and turns it from yellow to blue in color. There seem to be various color morphs, one I found was a really spectacular deep violet-blue. The ecolo

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