I’m not sure if my vast audience has noticed but search these days just plain sucks. if you aren’t presented with 10 pages of ads, you may instead be served up whatever google’s or microsoft’s hallucination engines invent for you. you may have seen my recent post or some of my other ramblings about the glorious future we inhabit, but this article I recently found was pretty eye opening:
so, I think this is enough motivation for me to see about taking matters into my own hands. so, I’ve taken it as a snand project and put up a POC: https://search.dnans.org. It’s likely terrible as it’s just a bare, default install, but hopefully I can spend some time on it to make it part of the snand family of services.
they keep enshittifying, so I’ll keep on rollin’ my own. if it sucks, at least it can suck on my own terms.
finished drywall anyway. protip: when ordering drywall, double check your cart before checking out. I meant to get the light 1/2”, wound up with the 5/8” firecode (about 80# per sheet). oh well, walls do feel solid.
wanted the walls up to judge if we need a window in the room or not. I kinda think I’ll just leave it as is for now, it’s been enough work getting it this far.
now, do I mud and tape or hire it out? meh, who’s posting this, I diy to a fault; of course I’m going to do it (badly).
I, uh, this is not the “Computer” I imagined we’d be interacting with after growing up with Star Trek. first, they should have ripped off Majel Barrett’s voice instead of scarjo. second, can you imagine what these things spit out of the replicator? “tea, earl grey, hot” would probably result in a gently roasted man balanced on a golfing implement.
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yes, this is good advice 🙁mmm, crunchy.I tried this as a kid, didn’t work.uh, I’ll just keep the stone
I don’t need wire EDM at home, but I think I kinda need wire EDM at home. seriously, I can imagine so many projects with the boys; and I do have a broken ender-3 lying around 🧐
about a year ago this video popped up in my youtube feed. I don’t tend to give pseudo-science much attention and this guy was just a nobody with a super long video about visualizing 5 dimensions.
now, multi-dimensional physics has always been one of my favorite brain melting subjects despite having no math background but I’ve been pondering this junk forever. in fact, I still remember back when I worked the help desk at a dial up ISP in my late teens, I would keep open an animated gif of a hypercube rotating through 3 dimensional space while mindlessly dictating modem init strings over the telephone, in a fruitless attempt to learn to visualize higher dimensions. I never got there but to this day I still think I need a hypercube tattoo. but I digress, I’d been avoiding it but finally one day I’d gotten to the end of youtube and so figured, why not, I’ll give it another whirl 25 odd years later.
so I watched the video and holy buckets. this is so much more than just visualizing higher dimensions, this dude is proposing some novel new theories and ideas; maybe even some new physics and possible ways to test it. it’s late and I should be sleeping so I’m not going to go though the video and explain/critique his ideas. no, it’s not the ideas that I love about the video (well, not only), it’s the fact that here’s a regular guy, who’s got a regular job and a regular life who does this for fun. yet, this regular guy made me think about things and frankly understand some of them as well or better than my favorite credentialed science nerds. heck, the folks he cites in the video for inspiration are pretty much all channels I consume as well.
don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying his theory is true and that’s what I now understand. no, it’s the journey he took me on that made me examine things in a new light. for example, it was his cough about entanglement that guaranteed I would watch to the end; no idea if the idea is correct but somehow that thought, that way of visualizing the concept was such a novel idea that I haven’t stopped thinking about it since (obviously, because I’m here talking about it a year later). It’s not the idea, it’s the engaging way he presented it.
I just honestly can’t recommend it enough. I’ve watched several more of his videos, and he’s posted a couple follow-ups that are also worth a watch. I just gave it my third watch just now, as I’m trying to fall asleep. it’s a fun enough video that I stayed up even longer to make this post. hopefully my phantom audience enjoys it as well and I hope he keeps at it because I can’t wait to see the next chapter.
snand has taken to the sky. ok, not really, I just think it’s kinda cool that I’m on an airplane, posting from my phone, to my website, that runs in my basement.
well, pretty much confirms how much of a nerd I am 🤓
update2 – ha, there’s just something that makes me feel good about seeing my phone image backup from midair (I run my own immich instance). simply astonishing what is possible these days.
there goes more of my financial information. I watched a lot of scifi as a kid, I expected more flying cars and less identity theft from the future. oh well, we live in the one we got.
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