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argimenes··on Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants
Fascinating! Where is this data stored? I love the idea of a Tree DB queried via TreeSQL.
argimenes··on Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
Probably the last truly great classical improviser on piano was Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894). His Fantaisie in E minor, Op. 77 is probably the pinnacle of his skill in (notated) improvisation.

After that, the great classical improvisers were probably organists in the 20th century, like Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) and Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984). Cochereau created vast, highly personal, symphonic forms with dazzling orchestral registration.

argimenes··on Is Jurassic Park the only film that product-places its own making-of book?
Have you seen Spaceballs? Halfway through the movie they stop the story to fast-forward through the VHS of the movie itself.
argimenes··on Is human writing obsolete in the age of LLMs?
Only if you take no pleasure in good writing.
argimenes··on Forth
The stack is really a convenience that makes pipeline-driven programming possible in the language.
argimenes··on Victor Marx wins Colorado's three-way Republican primary for governor
Another victory for Marxism.
argimenes··on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban
I suspect there is a high correlation between those who oppose mandatory bike helmet laws and antivaxxers.
argimenes··on Miracle on Everest: Guide believed dead spotted crawling down ice
"... dead spotted crawling down ice ... " :-o
argimenes··on A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft
The world's elites have factored in global warming already. It's a cost they are happy to shift onto their descendants.
argimenes··on Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
Makes me think of Quatermass ...
argimenes··on At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
I love that it embraces standoff properties for rich text markup.
argimenes··on Covid-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment
I fondly remember that time I got the flu shot in my childhood and never had to get a flu shot again.

Thank goodness viruses never mutate!

argimenes··on Ask HN: What happened to MMORPGs and internet cafes?
Mobile data.
argimenes··on OpenAI pleads it can't make money with o using copyrighted material for free
"Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today's citizens."

They need a new market. This is precisely the kind of AI system I'd love to use.

argimenes··on What we should do about the mentally ill homeless
Alternative title: "What we should do about the mentally ill homeless".
argimenes··on What if everything is conscious?
"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re conscious. But if you’re just made of non-conscious matter, why and how exactly could consciousness arise from that?"

Another way of phrasing it which highlights the fallacy is:

"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re alive. But if you’re just made of non-alive matter, why and how exactly could life arise from that?"

Just because we don't know exactly how life arose from non-biotic matter doesn't mean that non-biotic matter is alive. And just because we don't know how consciousness arose, exactly, doesn't mean that all matter is conscious.

argimenes··on Name My Tarantula
Tarantella

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella

argimenes··on If you could, would you want to know when you will die?
As soon as you have kids that depend on you the answer is "yes".
argimenes··on Reactivity Without Virtual DOM
You may be interested in Solid JS which also offers reactivity without a virtual DOM ..
argimenes··on Overlapping markup
For interest, here is WYSIWYG standoff property text editor in JS. It allows changes to the text stream and management of annotations (called here "standoff properties").

https://github.com/argimenes/standoff-properties-editor

argimenes··on Caravaggio Was the Other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
Except that Caravaggio wasn't a Renaissance artist as he worked in the Baroque period.
argimenes··on Caravaggio Was the Other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
Absolutely right.

Unlike Michelangelo he wasn't: - a sculptor - an architect - a poet - or a military engineer

argimenes··on Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses
What aesthetic criteria will they appeal to to justify that?

When you spend decades erasing the definition of art you can't act surprised when someone finds ways to exploit it ...

argimenes··on Afghans who worked with Australian forces wait for death at hands of the Taliban
...... Or they could be offered an Australian visa and repatriated for their service.
argimenes··on Ask HN: Are there any Public Knowledge Databases?
Wikipedia.
argimenes··on Helix-editor/helix: A post-modern modal text editor
In what ways is it post-modern? Does it provide a Derridean deconstruction of language?
argimenes··on Ask HN: What programming languages are startups using these days?
C#; JavaScript ES6; Cypher
argimenes··on Ask HN: Is Web Scraping Illegal?
Scraping data shouldn't be any more illegal than reading; but publishing that data without consent may or may not be legal.
argimenes··on Ask HN: Which non-technical book had the biggest impact on your career in tech?
"The Art and Craft of Drawing" by Vernon Blake because of the model he offers for cognition.
argimenes··on Ask HN: What's something not possible in HTML/Web-Dev that you'd like to see?
Intersecting markup.
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