Posts by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
(DIR) Post #AcYY4sDZQVksQOGj4K by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2023-12-07T05:24:31Z
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@penguin42 Darn. I set up an alert for 'David Attenborough' and it gives me loads of rubbish too.
(DIR) Post #Aih00fjZdM2ynMw9E8 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-06-07T12:04:03Z
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Woohoo! 🙂 "Wallace and Gromit will face their arch-enemy, the evil penguin Feathers McGraw, when they return in a new full-length feature film this Christmas, the BBC has confirmed.The 70-minute adventure, titled Vengeance Most Fowl, will see the iconic duo face off against their nemesis who was last seen in the 1993 Oscar-winning short film The Wrong Trousers."https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11kj0d97jo#Animation #WallaceAndGromit #Aardman
(DIR) Post #Aim1uL2uoGiOartIm0 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-06-09T22:25:34Z
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Woah. Cool."I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and cranks and moving parts. But it seems that Lego is shifting the focus of the Technic series away from functional models, so I had to take matters into my own hands. I think an orrery is the perfect project to build out of Lego Technic parts as it makes for a cool display set and is functional at the same time."https://marian42.de/article/orrery/#LEGO #Orrery #Engineering
(DIR) Post #Ak3sSrLsDPOjKFDVDM by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-07-18T12:55:19Z
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@danmccullough Maybe I'm wrong, but that looks like two mating moths, back to back.
(DIR) Post #AlFduOkv0WL786dhnE by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-08-22T12:28:28Z
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"With the advent of new technologies, such as micro computed tomography (CT) scanning, we can now reconstruct the volume and surface topography of brains without having to depend entirely on rare natural endocasts, greatly expanding the number of species available to study."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-dinosaurs-see-smell-hear-and-move/#Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Behaviour #Research
(DIR) Post #AmiZmFBiZM96REePDs by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-10-05T14:26:41Z
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This is awesome. An actual working Turing Machine made out of LEGO.https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7#LEGO #LEGOIdeas #Computing #AlanTuring #TuringMachines #Programs #Hardware #Software #Programming #ComputerHistory
(DIR) Post #AmvlQ5RDifTQ8OuKWm by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-10-12T11:41:50Z
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"Terry Pratchett's entire bibliography conveniently stored within your device, a delightful treasure trove of whimsical adventures that fits snugly in your pocket! Each book is available in the universally friendly EPUB format, making it seamlessly accessible on Kindle, eReaders, iPhones, iPads, laptops, and beyond."https://thrillerandhorror.com/products/complete-works-of-terry-pratchett#Books #SFF #TerryPratchett #EPUB #Ebooks @libreture
(DIR) Post #AoOxmD3GFgN47l2vAm by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-11-25T12:32:23Z
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"A research team headed up at Seoul National University has pioneered an innovative metasurface-based folded lens system, paving the way for a new generation of slimline cameras for use in smartphones and augmented/virtual reality devices."http://physicsworld.com/a/lens-breakthrough-paves-the-way-for-ultrathin-cameras#Physics #Optics #Cameras #Metamaterials #Materials
(DIR) Post #ApPJBU6wg6rqt5emy8 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2024-12-25T10:03:56Z
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Article adapted from the book, “Vox ex Machina”. Link to PDF of the book in the article."The synthesized voice became “his” through his body’s intimate interactions with and through it. Although the voice itself, as an electronic technology, lacked most of the expressive capabilities of a body’s, Hawking was known to use its affordances and constraints as expressions of his personality."https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stephen-hawkings-eternal-voice/#StephenHawking #Voice #Synthesis #Technology
(DIR) Post #AqJ970w96HH6ZKyBv6 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-01-21T12:58:08Z
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Easy to recite prime numbers. 🙂 "The number 12,345,678,910,987,654,321 is indeed prime. It consists of 20 digits and is really easy to remember: count to 10 and then count backward again until you get to 1. But it has been unclear whether other primes take the palindromic form of starting at 1, ascending to the number n and then descending again."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-prime-numbers-are-so-memorable-that-people-hunt-for-them/#Mathematics #Numbers #PrimeNumbers
(DIR) Post #AqJAy7z5jDJNjEEosK by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-01-21T13:34:22Z
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@EdS "[T]he next time a similar palindromic number becomes prime is when you have 13 zeros, then again when you have 42 zeros, and so on."42 strikes again! Douglas Adams was on to something. 😃
(DIR) Post #As2v5wmP4jdGz4iqh6 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-03-14T12:21:18Z
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"Beatles star John Lennon has been immortalised on a new coin to coincide with the year he would have celebrated his 85th birthday.It has been issued by The Royal Mint to honour Lennon's life and record-breaking career."https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr2dq9yjw5o#UK #Coins #RoyalMint #JohnLennon #Music
(DIR) Post #As3ASoeGyIF5jrHY6S by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-03-14T12:20:05Z
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A work in progress, but I'm keeping an eye on this."An online book-in-progress by Charles Petzold wherein is explored the utility, history, and ubiquity of that marvelous invention, logarithms including what the hell they are; with some demonstrations of their primary historical application in plane and spherical trigonometry."https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/#Mathematics #History #Logarithms
(DIR) Post #AsBBdDaakgCRCmlPqy by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-03-18T12:44:54Z
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"Five young volunteers here have been deliberately exposed to the Covid-19 virus in the country’s first human challenge study, paving the way for more of such studies to be conducted here to strengthen Singapore’s disease preparedness and response."https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/five-volunteers-exposed-to-covid-19-virus-in-singapores-first-human-challenge-trial#Health #Diseases #Trials #ChallengeTrials #Singapore #Covid19
(DIR) Post #Aww55ivP3fusTZqpqi by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-08-02T13:36:19Z
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"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/#Computers #Thinkpad #IBM #Lenovo #Keyboards #ComputerHistory
(DIR) Post #AxObgDIcF2sq451w1I by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-08-20T06:12:17Z
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GNU / Linux is great. I needed a way to timestamp output from a program. A search lead me to this solution: > <program> | tsts is a util to timestamp input, usually found in the moreutils package.#Linux #Gnu #Utilities #Timestamp
(DIR) Post #AxrZqeGeGQ9gHEnPI8 by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-09-04T12:58:01Z
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@futurebird @alexwild I'm curious to know how did such a system evolved. And what happened to the males of M. ibericus:"[Q]ueen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) are sexual parasites that rely on the sperm of males of the ant species Messor structor."
(DIR) Post #B0FlniyZRfCN4IIAKm by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-11-14T12:47:55Z
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A new frog species has been discovered in the city of Foshan in southern China’s Guangdong province, highlighting the importance of preserving diverse habitats in urban environments.[...]The researchers named the species Leptobrachella kungfu to pay homage to Foshan’s rich cultural heritage as China’s cradle of kung fu. The city is the ancestral home of martial arts legends such as Wong Feihung, Ip Man, and Bruce Lee. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017847#Frogs #Biodiversity #Nature #China
(DIR) Post #B0LsXX1yKKqaZQXveq by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2025-11-17T23:32:59Z
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@futurebird I discovered how they drill via this Deep Look video. Amazing. https://youtube.com/watch?v=rVYlWiFKXEg@weirdmustard
(DIR) Post #B2LViYXnL4OTOAsdTk by sohkamyung@mstdn.io
2026-01-16T12:34:15Z
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Article by @lwn . Would @davidrevoy be interested in this?"Graphite is an effort to unify illustration, raster editing, desktop publishing, and animation in one browser-based application. [...] Current builds, from September 2025, include vector-illustration tools, a node-based compositor, and early brush tooling, with broader pixel-based- and photo-editing work still in progress."https://lwn.net/Articles/1051242/#Software #OpenSource #Graphics #Illustration