IrritableOcelot
@IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 6 days ago:
This gives strong “Lovecraft describing things he doesn’t understand as noneuclidian” vibes.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
🎶 Saturday night and we in the spot, don’t believe me just watch 🎶
- Comment on What is this shit? 2 weeks ago:
While I agree that publishers charging high open access fees is a bad practice, the ACS journals aren’t the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel predatory journals you’re describing. ACS nano in particular is a well respected journal for nanochem, with a generally well-respected editorial board, and any suspicions of editorial misconduct of the type you’re describing would be a three-alarm fire in the community.
I will also note that this article is labelled “free to access” – when the authors have paid an (as you said, exhorbitant) publishing fee to have the paper be open access, the tag used by ACS is “open access”.
Also, the fact that the authors had a little fun with the title doesn’t mean its low-effort slop – this was actually an important critique at the time, because for years people had been adding different modifications to graphene and making a huge deal about how revolutionary their new magic material was.
The point this paper was trying to make is that finding modifications to graphene which make it better for electrocatalysis is not some revolutionary thing, because almost any modification works. It was actually a useful recalibration for expectations, as well as a good laugh.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI 3 weeks ago:
Not somebody who knows a lot about this stuff, as I’m a bit of an AI Luddite, but I know just enough to answer this!
“Tokens” are essentially just a unit of work – instead of interacting directly with the user’s input, the model first “tokenizes” the user’s input, simplifying it down into a unit which the actual ML model can process more efficiently. The model then spits out a token or series of tokens as a response, which are then expanded back into text or whatever the output of the model is.
I think tokens are used because most models use them, and use them in a similar way, so they’re the lowest-level common unit of work where you can compare across devices and models.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 3 weeks ago:
I think its because while its under water it doesn’t have a chance to diffuse into a larger volume of air – normally farts are pretty dilute by the time it makes it to anyone’s nose.
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 3 weeks ago:
My favorite overheard undergrad story:
I was walking past the lecture hall right after an organic chemistry midterm, and there was a cluster of 4-5 students talking about the exam. One asked about question 8b, and another one said “you’re not supposed to mix nitric acid and ethanol, that makes TNT, right?” I had to stifle a chuckle as I walked by.
So close, and yet so far! Nitrated acetone is explosive, and TNT (trinitrotoluene) is also made with nitric acid, but toluene is a much more complex molecule than acetone. If those undergrads could figure out how to turn acetone into TNT efficiently, they’d get a Nobel!
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 1 month ago:
Thats Britain lol, Ireland is on the left edge of the frame.
- Comment on HP to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' • The Register 1 month ago:
I just came across the lines in the OpenSuse 42 .bashrc in to connect to palm pilots today…what a flashback.
- Comment on 0mg 1 month ago:
More like 0mgMg
- Comment on son, happy birthday 2 months ago:
Came here to say this…
- Comment on Steam Brick: A DIY cut-down Steam Deck, sans input and screen 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think the battery thing OP pointed out makes more sense than the power argument. The Z1 extreme used in other handhelds is based on the 8840HS iirc, anf its at least one generation newer than the basis for the steam decks somewhat custom silicon.
The Deck processor is 4 Zen 2 CPU cores and 8 RDNA 2 GPU CUs, while the 8840HS is 8 Zen 4 CPU cores plus 12 RDNA 3 graphics CUs. It’s going to be wildly more powerful. The 8745H actually has the same CPU and iGPU configuration as the 8840HS – not even close to steam deck specs.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 3 months ago:
Yeah, kobo does too. I assumed it was a proprietary flavor which was pretty locked down, is that not the case?
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 3 months ago:
I vaguely remember there being a FOSS OS you can put on Kobos, can you also do that on Boox?
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 months ago:
I mean they do have a point: the framework that the game is targeting is DX11, so if it looks bad it is (broadly) because of an issue in translating DX11 instructions to Vulkan…
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 months ago:
- Comment on YEET 4 months ago:
Hypersonic heating is really weird. We only have data going to about mach 17 (the HTV-2 was the fastest solidly atmospheric vehicle I found) but as we go from subsonic, to supersonic, to hypersonic regimes air becomes pretty much incompressible, and forms a really solid shockwave in front of a fast-moving object. Air is a pretty good thermal insulator, so for very fast, blunt objects they actually heat much slower than you might expect.
Tl;Dr it absolutely vaporized, but it likely lasted longer than you might expect.
- Comment on Heavy Metals 4 months ago:
Doesnt exist. Some metals can form organometallic complexes (with CO, CN, methyl groups), in which case you get for instance “organic mercury” compounds. Iron can also do that, but that’s not what theyre talking about here.
What they mean is “biogenic” iron. The snail precipitates dissolved iron and sulfur in the water to form its shell out of iron sulfide. Its a different physical structure, but chemically similar to iron pyrite (fools gold).
- Comment on Shape of the Heart 4 months ago:
There are two “halves” but they’re nowhere near symmetric. The two parts nested inside one another in (a) are the “halves”.
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 4 months ago:
The SI base unit is actually the kilogram (despite naming), a metric tonne is actually a megagram lol.
Anyhow, if the prefix-less naming matched the base unit, 10 kg would be a “decagram”. As it is, it’s 10,000× the base of the naming system, and theres no prefix on factors of 10 above 1000, so sadly there’s no way to name it neatly.
Edit: actually it looks the like the Greek for 10,000 is “myriad”, so it would be a myrigram. Dope!
- Comment on YEET 4 months ago:
One thing that no one ever talks about with this is the massive air resistance on it going Mach 164 through the atmosphere would incur (albiet for a very brief period)…I bet that would knock 25-50 kmph off it easily.
- Comment on Dying Is a Form of Education - On Elden Ring 4 months ago:
A nice write-up!
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 4 months ago:
Second…trilogy? Do you mean the hobbit movies?
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 4 months ago:
Could it have been the movie version of Eon by Greg Bear? Haven’t seen the movie, but sounds very similar to the book.
Side note: it took me like 6 years and a lot more reading before ran into Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and realized that Eon was…heavily inspired by thay book.
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 4 months ago:
You’re allowed to like gimmicks!
What makes them a gimmick IMO is that they’re sold as “this will change your life and the way you work”, but really it’s just that a subset of the audience for the gimmickless product thinks they’re kinda neat.
- Comment on Call me 5 months ago:
It is how it’s generally taught in schools, which is unfortunate.
- Comment on Call me 5 months ago:
Nope. RNA is chemically different: different sugar in the backbone, and there are wayyyy more than 4 RNA bases (like 12 iirc)
- Comment on Call me 5 months ago:
Something called a “lesion” around a base mismatch, basically a bubble in the strand pairing. It can introduce kinks in the helix, and generally is the result of mutation in one strand.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 5 months ago:
I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 5 months ago:
That is true, but part of improving our environmental impact will be decreasing that transport of raw materials, localizing chemical industries near the sources of their raw materials.
- Comment on "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries 5 months ago:
Sure the threat model is different, I’m just saying it’s still a single point of failure.