physarum_salad

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by physarum_salad 8mo ago
To be more specific: PCB manufacture anywhere other than China is, given the current economics, so dead. This includes the USA. The only viable alternative is SE asian countries (e.g. Malaysia) but that's not at a comparable scale. The
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by physarum_salad 8mo ago
"This approach is not going to revive electronics in Europe." Revive what exactly? There's ASML, IMEC and many others. Then a host of PCB fabs that are expensive but are present and perfectly useful such as Eurocircuits and m
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
Depends which model. Arduino Mega retails in Europe for around 50 euro.
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
Teensy is the best imo...would love to see that expand into more boards/specific use cases.
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
Ah yes unilad a great repository of rigorous scientific results haha. There's a lot of complexity in fungal physiology and research has barely scratched the surface.
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
Dunning-Kruger is basically a middling party put down at this stage. Similarly this article is not making a whole lot of sense other than as a mild and wildly applied dis?
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
What about the case where publicity is intentionally avoided so as not to have results drowned in a deluge of hyperbole and journalistic hubris?
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
Yes, that's vague. I specifically mean a creative monopoly. Compare the writing and dialogue of a Paul Thomas Anderson or Tarantino movie to Rockstar. Most of their games don't come close. Because it's a game the standard for
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by physarum_salad 10mo ago
I love GTA/Red Dead but Rockstar really is just another monopoly (in terms of creativity) at this stage. More mid sized studios, like Rockstar when it started/midway, would be better. Also the narrative and dialogue is ever so sli
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Also I genuinely love your educational progression and kudos for it!
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
My argument: - U.K. universities have pivoted to being a finishing school (e.g. you cannot fail if you pay enough money) and Harry Potter experience for international students. -This affects all levels of prestige. Harms research. - Is a g
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Congratulations on avoiding going to university. The point about the tourism/finishing school aspect of universities in Britain is widely held and has been reported on for years. It was inevitable that it would provide China with lever
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
I don't need to divulge personal information to make a point. See comment below. I think it is pretty apparent to anyone with any interactions with universities in the U.K. and in other countries. The fact that it is now a geopolitical
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Yeah it's just funny that its more akin to a sector in the tourism industry than academic or research. There are obviously pockets of world-class research and brilliant academics but the pressures in the opposite direction are pretty i
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
I disagree. Oxbridge, LSE, Edinburgh, etc appear equally as susceptible. In fact in top London universities it seems to be worse - prestige attracts more international students. I also agree in the sense that there are less prestigious uni
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
The international student Harry Potter experience economy model is not actually working for British universities. If your idea of a university is: outputting high quality research and developing the next cohort of researchers/other tal
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Great point: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/30/toxin-le... This is, morbidly, from crematorium emissions. Now imagine if that was the output of every electronics section of the local re
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Don't understand the implications of this: "And to take care of another utterly bizarre comment: Encylopedias are always, per defintion, also repositories of knowledge." We should just accept wholescale editing and knowledge
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
John Lennon's doorman
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Omission by design or by accident/lack of resources can be found in most pages on wikipedia.
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Device to device variability is not considered? This is a huge problem in analog computing
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
The optical mouse is great example. There are lots pre-90s ofc such as in military applications. One of the reasons for failure to compete is that actually all computers are physical computers. Therefore digital is still tethered to one of
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Love this idea. One use case is actually music synthesis as digital tools like supercollider are not that aurally satisfying while making analog circuits is tedious. Software controlled analog is a nice in-between. BTW I mean use case as in
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
I mean generally working towards changing how peer review works. For example: https://prereview.org/en-us Anecdotally, a lot of researchers will run their paper pdfs through an AI iteration or two during drafting which also
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Are review papers centred on novel research? I get what you mean ofc but most are really mundane overviews. In good review papers the authors offer novel interpretations/directions but even then it involves a lot of grunt work too.
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
Ok I take your point. However, it is possible to generate a middling review paper combining ai generated slop and edits. Maybe we would be tricked by it in certain circumstances. I don't mean to imply these outputs are something I woul
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
It is actually great because it shows how well it works as a system. Screening is really important to keep preprint quality high enough to then implement cool ideas like random peer review/automated reviews etc
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
The review paper is dead... so this is a good development. Like you can generate these things in a couple of iterations with AI and minor edits. Preprint servers could be dealing with 1000s of review/position papers over short periods
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
The fact you think there are none is really hilarious!
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by physarum_salad 11mo ago
If the fungus was dried how do ions move? Where is the memory effect. Hyphae collapse so maybe it is ions shuttling through the dead matrix?

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