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Comment · 6 days ago
> This is the most repairable foldable we've ever taken apart. But that's not saying much.
Comment · 1 month ago
Bears,Beets
Comment · 1 month ago
But has anyone ever analyzed the aerodynamics of a cow? Yet another point where SCA breaks down.
Comment · 2 months ago
Public bathroom sinks are always way too small. Google Maps should integrate with this service to incentivize larger sinks.
Comment · 2 months ago
> After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball, which is made entirely of force-carrying particles. > ... The discovery of glueballs would provide direct evidence that gluons can interact with themselves, researchers say. This is a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics
Comment · 2 months ago
I can't really imagine that an LLM wrapper will be able to optimize designs well enough for this company to have many customers.

Claude has helped me with brainstorming, but I do all the CAD and optimization.

Would be cool if, in 10 years, the prompt to prototype pipeline was as simple, quick, and effective as this landing page alludes to.

Comment · 2 months ago
> Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported.

This should make it easier to catch cheaters who use Claude, right? Unless everyone runs their artifacts through some watermark and metadata sanitizer?

Comment · 2 months ago
> An unreleased research version of Claude has improved on a longstanding lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the Riemann hypothesis. Drawing on extensive prior research by mathematicians over the past decades, it has increased this bound from 41.6% to 67.2%.
Comment · 4 months ago
I still find Inkscape and svg + pdf_tex to be the easiest pattern.

Looks great for Tikz native though.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
If I recall correctly, at an undistorted scale, the water would be so shallow that surface tension and viscosity would dominate, so the depths are exaggerated to keep the flow realistic.

More specifically, tidal flow obeys Froude similarity, not Reynolds. Matching the model's Froude number to the real Bay's requires enough depth for gravity waves and tides to scale correctly, which the vertical exaggeration provides.

But the distortion makes the flow too efficient, so copper strips are added throughout to achieve the right frictional resistance.

Comment · 5 months ago

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