Ich mein, die Beine sid eh ne GrΓΆΓenordnung zu dΓΌnn. Aber mit den Windlasten wirds auch spaΓig. π€
04.08.2025 12:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@fischblog.bsky.social
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Ich mein, die Beine sid eh ne GrΓΆΓenordnung zu dΓΌnn. Aber mit den Windlasten wirds auch spaΓig. π€
04.08.2025 12:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I like the way you think!
03.08.2025 09:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π€
So if we can simplify a problem by treating its components as spherical and in a vacuum...
...why is astrophysics so complicated?
*trying to find a supplier of Actinium hydroxide*
03.08.2025 06:51 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Photo of instructions for an egg cooker. In the first panel, you are instructed to pour 30ml of β4% AcOHβ and 30ml of an unspecified liquid (assumed to be water) into the device.
Our new Philips egg cooker came with no textual instructions, only pictorial ones. How many people without a chemistry degree are likely to figure out what β4% AcOHβ means?
(Spoiler: it means βvinegarβ)
The remarkable thing here is, from a german point of view, how similar many statements sound to interviews with 'ordinary germans' post-1945.
They never really did anything, and whatever they did was for noble reasons and honestly, they are the real victims here.
Nur konsequent! π
02.08.2025 19:16 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Vibe nuclear engineering!
02.08.2025 19:14 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ooooh, ich freu mich schon auf vibe chemistry.
02.08.2025 19:09 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Most people will react to criticism with doubling down and ranting.
Maybe we already created human-like intelligence. We just dont want to face the fact that it just repeats what it once read, understands nothing and instead tries to always tell you what you want to hear.
Fair point. Happens all the time. π
02.08.2025 16:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That this happens is not really surprising, since both texts will likely match the query well and the minor problem that they are about different things will not habe much impact.
So this is actual real information, but mislabeled to match your query. Most people will likely fall for it.
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To give an example:
I recently searched articles about marine dinoflagellate blooms (known as red tides). I don't use the AI summary, but I noticed that the AI preferentially went for blue-green algae blooms in pools and lakes and sourced the summary from that.
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If you use the AI summaries of search results, be aware that they have an insidious problem:
LLMs apparently cannot distinguish between similar texts about different topics. This means it may not answer your question, but a different one that is superficially similar, but more common.
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Silica-Aerogel? Cool! π
02.08.2025 07:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Die wΓΌrden kollabieren, sorry.
01.08.2025 12:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π€£
01.08.2025 12:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ja, aber welche HΓ€lfte?
01.08.2025 12:13 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Extra fΓΌr dich: Magnesiumaluminiumchrommanganeisenkobaltnickelkupferstrontiumyttriumindiumoxid π
01.08.2025 12:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So, ihr sagt jetzt alle drei mal schnell hintereinander
"Yttriumtitanlanthancerneodymsamariumgadoliniumdysprosiumeuropiumhafniumoxid"
und dann lest ihr den Artikel.
Biddedanke.
Cats like to sputter out in a comfortable place after they wrecked something, so that's not wrong.
01.08.2025 10:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Variations of plus/minus a few decades or centuries are completely normal for the intervals between recurring earthquakes. So no surprise there.
01.08.2025 10:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Back in the days a friend of mine had a very old and battered car, and the motor tended to sputter out when the car had to stop. So at every traffic light he had to re-start the engine.
That's what my brain currently feels like.
So a pretty large earthquake could be imminent on a faultline presumed dormant.
It's worth remembering, though, that in geosciences "imminent" may well mean within the next few centuries or even longer.
Nee, stopp, nur 65000-fach. Aber trotzdem.
31.07.2025 19:56 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Das Hauptbeben war 130000-fach stΓ€rker als das stΓ€rkste in der Liste.
31.07.2025 19:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Neee. π
31.07.2025 19:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Das sind alles schwache Nachbeben. :-)
31.07.2025 13:46 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Es kΓΆnnte Einzelsocken erklΓ€ren.
31.07.2025 09:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you extrapolate this trend far into the future, eventually even ants will evolve into anteaters. Or crabs.
31.07.2025 08:09 β π 48 π 7 π¬ 5 π 1