Isoprenoid

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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.

If you don't like or don't get a work of art, it is entirely reasonable to shit on it.

The emperor has no clothes.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

I wanted to give people a chance at remembering the reference before seeing the answer. The URL gives the answer.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I was confused for a moment.

Click to see the reason why Notre Dame had much higher pollution for brief period of time in 2019.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Her friend that made the comment was a woman. See the edit.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not all knowledge is inherently useful; some knowledge may lack practical application, relevance, or purpose, especially within certain contexts or timeframes.

Not all knowledge has application, the human mind has bandwidth limitations (ignoring capacity), knowledge is contextually sensitive, and some knowledge is actively harmful (e.g. misinformation, distraction).

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

More like: I crave useless knowledge.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wait, is it the boat that ignores the spherical attribute or the entity that commands the boat?

Can an elf sail to the undying lands commanding a human built vessel?

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject

You can't a better formed opinion on a subject by reading trash.

GIGO

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago

It's not that it was a satisfying theory, it's that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Israeli military used AI from Microsoft to carry out warfare.

The Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft and OpenAI artificial intelligence spiked last March [2024] to nearly 200 times higher than before the week leading up to the Oct. 7 attack, the AP found in reviewing internal company information. The amount of data it stored on Microsoft servers doubled between that time and July 2024 to more than 13.6 petabytes — roughly 350 times the digital memory needed to store every book in the Library of Congress. Usage of Microsoft’s huge banks of computer servers by the military also rose by almost two-thirds in the first two months of the war alone.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-technology-737bc17af7b03e98c29cec4e15d0f108

 

I want to build / design an RF amplifier that can boost the signal from an AMT-MW207 kit.

Design goals:

  • Boost the signal a couple of watts
  • AM signal
  • 525 - 1605 kHz baseband range

I've been searching for RF amplifier designs but many of them are too big (10's of Watts), or are hard to implement. It's been difficult trying to find something that can instruct me clearly. I'll have to take into account things like impedances and the like.

I have an electronics background, so if you can only point me towards a book or other resource, even that would be helpful.

I'm going to be checking out 'Experimental Methods in RF Design', hopefully it can point me in the right direction.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Isoprenoid@programming.dev to c/books@lemmy.world
 

I just finished listening to Iron War by Matt Fitzgerald. I loved the descriptions of the history of the event, the history of each of the racers, and their future after the race. It helped me feel amped for my own exercise sessions. Are there other books like this?

Excluding Matt Fitzgerald's other books, of course.

 

Maria Nattestad just dropped a new introduction to the field of bioinformatics.

Foundation skills for bioinformatics:

  • Python
  • Use the Command Line (e.g. Bash, scripts)
  • Statistics - p-values, multiple hypothesis tests
 

I've used Rosalind in the past to learn about bioinformatics. I solved about 17 of the problems, which is about 6% of the problems on the site.

I think it gave a decent mix of guided learning and letting you figure things out on your own. I would say having some background knowledge in biology and coding would be necessary. It doesn't do a lot of hand holding, but there is some.

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