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by david_ar 2y ago
For what it's worth, the simulation does account (in a crude manner) for the heat causing increased water vapour uptake from the ocean and accelerated plant growth (which in turn increases the rate of carbon sequestration). I admit tha
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Realistic liquid animation in 1KB of WebGL(davidar.io)
2 points by david_ar 5y ago|0 comments
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Business Card Fluid Simulator(davidar.io)
1 points by david_ar 5y ago|0 comments
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Fluid simulation in one tweet: 270 bytes of code(davidar.io)
2 points by david_ar 5y ago|0 comments
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by david_ar 5y ago
Thanks. Perhaps, feel free to send me some more details about it
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by david_ar 5y ago
Heh, I'm not sure how to answer that question. As much of a god as in a god game, I suppose, SimEarth was a big source of inspiration for me. I occasionally get a vague urge to create new life and worlds, which led to this project at a
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by david_ar 5y ago
Yeah, I took a bit of artistic license with the timescales, in reality the systems evolve at such different rates that's it difficult to visualise them all simultaneously. Towards the end of the video some of the geological simulations
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by david_ar 5y ago
Author here. This was definitely something I struggled with when creating this simulation. Reasonably fast simulations of tectonics and erosion have already been done before: some parts were tricky to translate to the constraints of a shade
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by david_ar 7y ago
My point is that people have been making the same complaint for a very long time, even back when people paid for news printed on sheets of paper. "This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the
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by david_ar 7y ago
I'm curious as to when this mythical age of widespread access to "real news" existed. George Orwell dated it to at least 80 years ago ("History stopped in 1936")...
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by david_ar 7y ago
It's not a coincidence: http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/research-behind-the-di...
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Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)(learnthesewordsfirst.com)
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by david_ar 7y ago
Also Sketch (for ps/pdf rather than svg): http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/
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by david_ar 7y ago
They kind of did do that with Offline Gmail, though.
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by david_ar 7y ago
> Do normal humans publish "waking hours"? Not typically. It would kind of be great if they did though, it's not necessarily the same for everyone in the same geographic location.
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by david_ar 7y ago
I think Lingotopia was supposed to be something like this (though not VR). https://www.lingoludo.com/lingotopia/
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by david_ar 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad > A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental
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by david_ar 7y ago
dict uses something similar: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dictzip
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by david_ar 8y ago
> There's also an open question as to whether evolution necessarily leads to intelligent species. Especially when, in this context, we're talking about a rather peculiar type of intelligence, ie. the propensity to construct spa
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by david_ar 8y ago
> but it is neat to see it actually work. Your brain does this all the time - the resolution of your eyes is actually quite poor compared to what you perceive (as much as a 25x difference). It's quite easy to demonstrate: > For t
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by david_ar 8y ago
... revoked in Australia after the right wing party spent years demonising the "great big new tax." The government had used the income from it to compensate consumers for price increases passed onto them, so the majority of voters
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by david_ar 8y ago
I found Wikipedia to be more informative than this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness_behavior
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by david_ar 8y ago
Uh, Australia is the West.
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by david_ar 8y ago
The fight-or-flight response has a physiological effect on cognition: > we suggest that stress shifts higher cognitive processing in a way that facilitates both engagement with and/or avoidance of the current stressor (i.e., fight o
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by david_ar 8y ago
And again in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778958 (128 comments)
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by david_ar 8y ago
In some sense you could say the vast majority of people hear voices, it's just that we conceptualise this as the "inner voice". It seems somewhat plausible that people could conceptualise this differently if there were a suff
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by david_ar 8y ago
Dreamtime stories go back even further, with some thought to have originated soon after the last ice age: https://theconversation.com/ancient-aboriginal-stories-prese...
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by david_ar 8y ago
Chrome is a platform for client-side Google services. As the article says, the web browser is the most obvious component, but it also includes Google Cloud Print [0], Google Talk/Hangouts [1], Google Earth [2], Google Music [3], Gmail
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by david_ar 8y ago
An option to download the archive would be great, just because it's always good to have an offline copy. Any chance you could also add the ability to upload new MIDIs to the collection?
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by david_ar 8y ago
Based on those links, it doesn't look like Google is trying to get rid of URLs. It looks more like they're trying to make sure that URLs can still be used to locate content and ensure it hasn't been tampered with, but removin

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