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by abrie 7mo ago
TinyJet[1] is a game I've been working on. Left and right arrows control thrust. Pick up cargo and carry it to the terminal at the other end. It's very difficult. Almost entirely AI generated. About 1100 prompts so far with a grow
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by abrie 5y ago
This article reminded me of a story I heard second hand. In the Karoo of South Africa, sheep farmers provided lambs with feed containing the ground up stomaches of older sheep who lived in the area. If this was not done, then the lambs woul
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by abrie 6y ago
I've been polishing my story/book about travelling by bus from Seattle to Atlanta: https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing2
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Show HN: I went by bus from Seattle to Atlanta(goeiebook.ca)
1 points by abrie 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Infection Control PWA(abrie.github.io)
2 points by abrie 7y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 7y ago
"Intervals", "Scales", and "Chords" are good terms to search for. They are elementary concepts present in a lot of music. Ten Steps use six notes of the C Major Scale, all of which belong to either the I or IV
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Show HN: Ten Steps to an Algorithmic Song(abrie.github.io)
6 points by abrie 7y ago|3 comments
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by abrie 7y ago
Diamond anvil cells are amazing tools. If you find this stuff interesting, check out Emma McBride's public SLAC lecture[1], "New Materials at the Pressures of Earth's Core" [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by abrie 7y ago
Video is highly engaging, and moving images are very useful. I wanted to include videos in an electronic book, but it turned out that auto-playing videos are too interesting and they ruin the flow. Instead, I ended up playing the videos fra
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Show HN: An Electronic Travel Story(goeiebook.ca)
2 points by abrie 7y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 7y ago
Location: Atlanta Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML/CSS/ES6+, Go, Python, C#, Rails, Devops Resume/CV: Please contact. Or visit github.com/abrie Email: hiring@abrie.fastmail.com Adaptable, motivated,
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by abrie 9y ago
In other words, you need to write more than just words. This has certainly been my experience over the last decade or more of chasing the thing. At this point I've written some fairly solid web code and a decent narrative, but as for
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Kerckhoffs's Principle(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by abrie 9y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 10y ago
In Len Beadell's book "Blast the Bush", he describes a solution (pun?) developed while building the Woomera Rocket Range. Apparently the groundwater had a terrible taste; so they built a distillation facility. But the distill
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by abrie 10y ago
The Issus genus of jumping insects (planthoppers)[0] have a gear mechanism connecting their rear legs. The gear synchronizes the motion of the two back legs; thereby reducing 'yaw rotation' when jumping[1]. The gear communicates m
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by abrie 10y ago
There was also a converse experiment: a population of dogs was un-domesticated by breeding for a strong wild response. I don't have the exact reference, but recollect that the process also took a remarkably low number of generations. I
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by abrie 10y ago
The posted article lacks substance, but I read "Over the Top" because of your comment. It is excellent. Thank you. I found my copy on archive.org[0]. I read it alongside "The Arms of Krupp"[1], and found the combination
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by abrie 10y ago
This comment is a personal anecdote. People respond to text in different ways. But they respond to visual motion more predictably. That has been my observation over the course of a year while experimenting with writing an electronic book. T
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Life at Low Reynolds Number (1976) [pdf](biotec.tu-dresden.de)
62 points by abrie 11y ago|11 comments
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Hardstoft – Britain’s First Oilfield(blog.geolsoc.org.uk)
1 points by abrie 11y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 11y ago
Hello, I've developed a custom toolchain while writing an electronic book[0]. The toolchain automates the conversion of markdown and media into a scrollable "app-novel". Initially I'd hoped to earn income from the book i
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A 42 m/sec wind will break any tree(journals.aps.org)
2 points by abrie 11y ago|0 comments
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#icanhazpdf(eprints.rclis.org)
6 points by abrie 11y ago|0 comments
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Monty Hall Russian Roulette(datagenetics.com)
8 points by abrie 11y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 11y ago
My knowledge about this topic comes from a single source[0], but your argument also seems to apply to Venice. It found its beginnings as Rome was being sacked, when people fled the invaders and found safety on the islands. With political kn
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Fred Turner: Anti-Fascist Art and the “Historical Problem” of Facebook(medium.com)
1 points by abrie 11y ago|0 comments
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by abrie 11y ago
The majority of this thread's comments relate personal experiences, so I might as well contribute mine as well. Nearly a decade ago I started work on a project. For eight years progress consisted of taking notes and daydreaming. I was
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by abrie 11y ago
For those interested in learning more about the energetics of possible proto-biological systems, see the paper by Deamer and Weber [0]. 0: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828274/
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by abrie 11y ago
Interesting to learn that programming is being taught to writers. Perhaps it's a poor analogy, but the term Singer/Songwriter comes to mind when I imagine such a hybrid. Either one of the two component skills could earn a living;
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by abrie 11y ago
Paper is nice, but electronics are nicer. I've been working on a book which began on paper, but has evolved into a digital format. It is not 'digital literature' or particularly interactive; but it cannot be replicated with p

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