Thanks for the tool! I've been wondering if it's possible to reduce the oversize of a condensing, natural gas, forced air furnace by throttling the gas flow and reducing the fan speed. Internet tends to say "you no touch fire machine." But can it be done?
how have we not been talking about this large of an effect before? lack of infrared light makes animals sicker, fatter, die early, and (measured in this study) makes people's vision 25% worse? this feels like it affects me directly. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
when should you change your values to match your desires?
whoa
i think this might be the only way to explore anything: 1. unknown knowns <- 2. known knowns <- 3. known unknowns <- 4. unknown unknowns. is there a way to skip a step? maybe we can skip the middle two and just do subconscious learning? I'm pretty sure you can't just skip step 3.
Alton Brown just released a video describing a 24-hour simultaneous thaw and brine; with that method there's still time!
The point is, when you look at something big and complex and think "I want to change that," consider how many intermediate steps might be required. The long path to your goal might begin in a counterintuitive direction.
The path between two states of a complex system can also be non-existent or unidirectional. Sometimes one can't go back. Sometimes one would have had to choose differently in the past. Sometimes one would have had to roll a different number on some metaphorical dice.
Some configurations can seem quite similar but connect only through long chains of intermediate states; a person outside a building might be only a meter away from a person inside the building, but the sequence of actions, locations, etc to get between those states could be fantastically long.
This is because the system has dynamics and its changes are governed by some (possibly statistical) rules. A person must obey inertia, gravity, and their own psychology, for instance. A nation arises according to weather, geology, and the architecture of the human social mind.
In all of these, the number of possible configurations is infinite, especially because the boundaries of a complex system are not often well defined. But the number of possible transitions out of any given state is much smaller than the number of possible states (though possibly still infinite).
Consider a complex system that changes or evolves through time by interactions between internal parts with various states; a person going about their day, a new forest growing, a species evolving, a nation arising.
Wow, I didn't realize quite how non-uniform this was. I just looked it up and it seems like San Francisco alone had a larger homeless population than 29 of these states.
i made this miniature test of an artwork with Python, a 3D printer, and some craft mirrors. the sunset image is a preliminary viewing test using my monitor; due to angles and perspective and stuff it will look better (different?) outdoors when i get the chance. github.com/drewtm/mirrormapper
we say repressing emotions is bad; on the other hand, i can see personal growth as learning to only selectively apply emotions to behaviors. is there a certain time scale that differentiates suppression from repression? asking because i think there must be an informed answer out there.
mostly time glitches out.
mostly it vaporizes, fractally
scattering across a pan.
it gets in my eye;
i blink. it's tomorrow.
the sky blinks slowly, and
the ground slower still.
i fall into it when it's open,
time, though i intend to stay.
that one time, in my house,
is still there, maybe.
but sometimes it swells sideways, blocked up, time does.
thick, arterial sunbeams tingle like
some kind of temporal lidocaine.
i get lost in the dimensionality of
a moment.
fuzz floating in the stratosphere,
gravel swallowed in a glacier:
mismatched scales of time and space,
thought and perception.
time is stretching thin.
i can feel the gaps
in the meat of it, of time.
slits thru the air over the road where
it's drawn tight, the cords of space
brushing away from each other.
the guttural thrum of life rings
tinny,
hollowed.
this random stranger also votes for Galaxy Black
"zero" tells a story about the existence of something interesting that should be counted. "nothing" makes no such promises.
nice! it did not overflow, but turned out nice and flat on top. i think i could have gone even a little heavier on the salt in the swirl. the honey is a nice touch. #bread #flax
@kingarthurbaking.bsky.social's organic bread flour, 95% hydration, with a big flax+honey+salt ripple. Misted the top with water and sprinkled salt on top too. I'm excited for this one.
will it overflow?? #bread
i was just reading about new theories about the fall of the neanderthals in Europe being partly because they didn't use projectile weapons like we do.
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more WIP, still wet. I like how this is coming along but trying not to count my chickens yet. The handle needs some more work and some texture, what do I do? #clay #tiki #mug
tiki mug WIP
pure poetry
i bet you make some graven images on occasion too
