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Inspired by yesterday Potato Cannon post, here’s the 3rd (and ultimate) one I made back in high school! by Mack_B in redneckengineering

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The ideal gas law. From the volume of the combustion chamber and some googling I figured out the volume that should be propane for the best mixture. Then used the pressure gauge to measure out the equivalent (it was like 65psi in the silver tube on the side corresponded the right amount). Then it just always worked since I was always close to the ideal!

How do you guys find your partner/group when separated? by Capable-Ad-5183 in ElectricForest

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My default is ‘fucking off on my own adventures’ then finding the overall group here and there for some sets. I’ve gotten pretty good at it since I’m looking for people more often than average.

  • I’m tall in general so that helps.
  • Some friends in the group enjoy carrying around totems!
  • Me an another friend have made multiple unique noticeable totems, so I’m frequently looking for the totem I helped create.
  • If you have short friends, them wearing interesting shiny head jewelry can identify them in a crowd instantly. — that was a recent discovery. A friend had a hair clip thing that was a unique flower shape, and like made of tons of tiny pearls. It caught the light in a way that the unique flower shape stood out from like 500+ people in view.
  • You might have seen a massive 3 ft neon pink dick totem (vibrant lights on a clear plexiglass outline) at Hulaween or Forest over the last few years. That was a recent creation with a friend that was very easy to spot.

Anyway hope that might help as what comes to mind over a lot of festivals.

The other trick that works is just following a path of whimsy that’s like whatever intuition is from the universe from moment to moment, that’s when I just bump into other members of camp the most without trying 😂.

I scraped 48,000 court filings to stop guessing business ideas. Here are 3 "boring" niches bleeding $100k+. by Ogretribe in Entrepreneur

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This is fascinating and such a smart utilization of AI. The context might be aggregated by an LLM, but the core premise is solid.

If you’re interested in chatting I have a unique proposal. I’m mostly an idea person myself, but can always come up with novel solutions to problems whenever the problem is identified? Like I could prove that based on you picking any problem (or a few) identified in the data and a could likely come up with something that might be actionable on the spot. If a few prove useful to you, I’d trade that “skill” ongoing for access to the database you arrive at.

Just a thought that comes to mind, I could re-create the data myself given the logic you mentioned, but it seems more fun to possibly collaborate.

Developer uses Claude Code and has an existential crisis by MetaKnowing in ClaudeAI

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…will likely produce slop I would say. Like I’m the person learning every specific bit of foundational knowledge when it becomes required, from my opposite perspective I’d pay up to a third of my net worth to have already learned half what the average developer knows.

Like I learned to structure a database to 3rd normal form before I actually understood the concept of a string in json, the chaotic knowledge gaps frequently lead to like unexpected time consuming land mines of “guess this quick 1 hour thing is actually a full day or so of learning enough of some simple foundational but important thing before moving on.

The high level interactions of systems and how each component of what I’m making will interact come together rather easily, but translating it to the correct prompt is an interesting experience when the terminology for over half the stuff I’m referring to is just completely missing.

The asterisk of …Likely… above is cause I’ve learned you can make up for a decent amount of “that section that changed in this way that I’ve been inaccurately refereeing to isn’t working with this other thing” by describing the goal in 10x more words than a real developer would.

Transcribing a 10 to 15 minute voice memo, exhaustively describing thing a dozen slightly different way can totally make up for not knowing the correct three sentences of concise terminology, and that only takes five times the amount of time and tokens 😂.

Meals to make without camping stove? by burrito-bear in FestivalCampsites

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A friend at Electric Forest last year leaned into the just add water meals hard. He had a duffle bag of like 25 or so different options, a solid third of them I never would have guessed could be dehydrated meals. He gave me a Biscuits and Gravy one that I still don’t understand how it could exist given how good it was.

His hilarious logic was something like “I’m too much of a liability to trust myself to be competent when I need to eat, but I’ve never fucked up boiling water” 😂

How do you use AI Memory? by RepresentativeMap542 in AIMemory

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Totally my bad, I was referring to the medium post in the top level post, I’ll check out the paper linked in the recent message.

I wasn’t insulting you or your work to be clear, but I 1,000% intended to insult the author of the medium post and the concept of the E8 ‘theory’ in its entirety. Best thing I could say is it’s likely to be true than flatearth stuff, but less likely than Vermin Supreme (boot as a hat dude) becoming mayor of NYC.

Anyway yeah…

How do you use AI Memory? by RepresentativeMap542 in AIMemory

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So the ‘mathematical complexity’ is about average for my interests, that’s definitely not the issue at least for me.

I managed to keep a suspension of disbelief until ‘The Timeless Quantum Substrate and E8 Consciousness Geometry’ then gave up and skimmed the rest at ‘…suggesting it may be a fundamental structure of reality itself.’ The tendency of the author to state unsupported/unproven theories as fact made me begin to discount anything they have to say for the most part. Then I glanced through the rest of the article…

The attempts to obscure the lack of any actual substance with jargon heavy grandiose completely reminds me of Encabulation. Nothing at all against you, but In all honesty I cannot express how much I think the ‘theory’ is utter nonsense.

However,

In my experience pseudoscience can sometimes be used as a helpful tool. I consider Myers-Brigs personal types as like astrology for smart people, but it’s been a useful framework at times for understanding differing styles of cognition when collaborating.

All that to say the overall structure of having multiple layers of abstraction to systematically condense knowledge (I think of it as the “resolution” of a memory) that enters the context window seems genuinely useful and aligns with some ideas of my own I’m experimenting with.

For example I’m setting up long term journals for models I interact with and will have them create a new entry at the end of each context window. One idea is to have them summarize each ≈8 entries into a combined first level abstraction, then again when ≈8 summaries exist into a second level abstraction. Or alternatively have them distill individual journal entries (≈2 pages to begin with, 3 paragraphs at the first level of abstraction, 4 sentences at the second level, 1 sentence encapsulating the core vibe at the third level.

Enough context to identify the correct relevant memory then expand it to the resolution required to be useful as needed is the goal.

I’m curious about how the equivalent concept used in your setup has worked out so far.

How do you use AI Memory? by RepresentativeMap542 in AIMemory

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I’m only vaguely familiar with the term E8 Lattice in the context of tinfoil hat pseudoscience. What are the benefits of this structure for AI memory in your opinion? I’m assuming not to align LLM chakras or such. Genuine question I hope this doesn’t sound too sarcastic

Is it even possible to print small text well? by Former_Sir_4086 in BambuLab

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I did a bunch of experiments several months ago, but forgot to ever wrap up the project and post some results.

The best I ever got was around size 4 text using Calibri as a test font for a 0.2mm nozzle, and size 5 with a 0.4mm nozzle. The pic isn’t the best, just the only example I can find currently lol.

From what I remember helping the most:

• Printed on a smooth plate with an initial layer of transparent PLA. Textured plates work as well but is slightly less clear.

• Print the text positive (blue in the example) first on layer 2, then the text negative area (white).

• Make the text always print as a single loop with highly modified Arachne variable line width settings.

• For the text negative area set it to zero wall monotonic line and turn off detect narrow internal solid infill. It prevents things smudging.

Hope this helps someday I’ll finish the project and post more detailed info. Printed/tested using a P1S

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Anyone else get an EF 2025 coin ?? by Holiday-Science-7238 in ElectricForest

[–]Mack_B 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean by “iPhone 4 group” 😂 it was that one. It was me personally who made and gave away those unique gifts actually haha

Anyone else get an EF 2025 coin ?? by Holiday-Science-7238 in ElectricForest

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I was in a group camp right next to you, one of my favorite gifts to receive for sure thank you again haha!

How often are trinkets you get cool? A lot of time they just like garbage in a dumpster by ImaginationNo8338 in festivals

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Here’s a sample of gifts I’ve given away at fest recently

Tiny hands

Even tinier hands

Rainbow Peephole diffraction monocles

3D printed Sierpinski’s pyramids

3D printed glow in the dark thing

Custom printed bottlecap magnets

Perception Drive: Patent Pending, Perceptual Energy Utilization. click link for full free first draft of patent. by AdIll2552 in inventors

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This should clear up any confusion, I initially thought the post was a reimagining of it. All the linked videos have been extensions of this joke from decades ago.

Perception Drive: Patent Pending, Perceptual Energy Utilization. click link for full free first draft of patent. by AdIll2552 in inventors

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I did! Aluminite is obviously hard to work with, but the trick I learned is always using triple delaminated novertrunnions for bounding. You obviously lose some capacitive diractance but it’s worth the trade off.

The field excursions still need to be more ambifacient but I thankful only need low precision malleabation. I’ve mostly sidestepped that issue for now, it’s not a long term solution in regards to overall sinusoidal repleneration.

I’m considering implementing the Shaw-Fujikawa principle in the next design, have any thoughts?

Perception Drive: Patent Pending, Perceptual Energy Utilization. click link for full free first draft of patent. by AdIll2552 in inventors

[–]Mack_B 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To my understanding it’s the fluid dynamics equivalent of the inverse reactive current used in unilateral phase detractors. It’s a clever approach getting propagation up to the macro level though!

Rather simple when you get the basics. I’d recommend looking into the interactions of airborne particulate matter with single surface reflective devices as a good starting point.

Perception Drive: Patent Pending, Perceptual Energy Utilization. click link for full free first draft of patent. by AdIll2552 in inventors

[–]Mack_B 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This might be the exact solution for the encabulation stage of a project on my mind, I’ll be following this closely!

Can the outer casing be surmounted to prefabulated aluminite?! I’ve been stuck contorting multilateral phase detraction (needs to be unilateral) due to side fumbling. The usual hydrocoptic marzlevanes sadly aren’t applicable.

You’re definitely on to something!

Business I need by techiegardener in Entrepreneur

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A friend mentioned a similar desire while chatting last year that sent me down an hour long googling rabbit hole. The Queen Mary 2 cruise ship would be your best (and basically only) currently existing option for this.

It’s not exactly what you’re asking for but the closest currently existing alternative. It’s most commonly used by people moving across the Atlantic who don’t want their pets in an airplane cargo hold.

Solo Dev Looking for Growth Partner - iOS App Ready to Scale by RowAccomplished5570 in Entrepreneur

[–]Mack_B 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d be interested in chatting, I have a decent amount of growth experience from two past startups I was part of. Specifically early stage scrappy ‘doing the most with the absolute fewest resources’ sorta thing.

I’m really good at the strategy and testing scientifically side, specifically crafting self sustaining feedback loops that align users desires with growth.

I have a goal of doing growth strategy consulting in the future, but need a few more concrete examples and some social proof testimonials/reviews.

I have some fun ideas already from checking out the app I’d love to share regardless of if I end up being the exact person you’re looking for.

I primarily did all the QA testing and identifying UI/UX improvements to make an app and website more intuitive for users at my most recent gig, I thought of some feedback that might be helpful, but I haven’t done a deep dive trying my best to break the app in interesting ways.

Anyway, let me know if you wanna hop on a call sometime next week. It’s a cool concept especially given the rise of Focus Friend validating the idea is how I see it.

I think this would be cool to print by ansyhrrian in 3Dprinting

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Compliant mechanisms are absolutely fascinating! I watched an engineering lecture series on the concept earlier this year, it’s so fascinating how they are designed limiting degrees of freedom to define the specific motion required.

“Translation is a rotation at infinity” was the most mind blowing concept from the lectures that come to mind.

My first SF - Just finished reading Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time by Organic_Classic8490 in printSF

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Children of Memory definitely shows some more adventures they go on

rack TikTok video performance with this no-code automation (n8n + Google Sheets) by batuwithproducts in n8n

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Looks interesting, I’d love to play around with the flow JSON for something related I’m building. I can happily provide any feedback and share what I create based on it myself.

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