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Learn something: A place for random knowledge 5
#28392267 - 07/11/23 09:20 AM (6 months, 14 days ago) |
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A thread to post those cool and random things we've seen/read. Videos, papers, and articles on science or history are welcome here. It never gets dull to learn something new, discussion is encouraged! Thread will self destruct when we've learned everthing.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 4
#28392268 - 07/11/23 09:21 AM (6 months, 14 days ago) |
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I'll kick things off with a new series from a channel I found way back when searching for mushroom growing vids. They've done a ton of cool projects. Their latest is learing to grow rat neurons to play doom. Yes.
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Edited by cozmyc (07/11/23 08:21 PM)
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 4
#28409260 - 07/26/23 03:59 PM (5 months, 30 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: sudly] 4
#28509900 - 10/18/23 07:51 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Welp. I guess my front garden is gettin a makeover.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 3
#28393056 - 07/12/23 01:11 AM (6 months, 13 days ago) |
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A few months ago I came across an article about research into building mushroom computers. It's crazy to think about, but it sounds like we could eventually be able to train mushrooms to play Doom!
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 3
#28430534 - 08/12/23 05:13 AM (5 months, 13 days ago) |
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My new favourite thread ATM! Got me on those 'Dots' 'Squonk' and 'Pandoras Box' videos at about 4am... Great stuff, cozmyc. (Side note- I'd thought your username was: COZY-MYC then I read it as 'COSMIC' and got my mind blown apart... I think I really gotta get some sleep lol ) A few (hopefully not too many in one go) varied contributions here:
^ First comes from a channel whos simple eye catching visual style and choice of topics has kept my brain sparked up on the tail end of countless long LSD excursions in the past: Kurzgesagt! This one about intelligence is one of my favourites 
^Next, for the Twin Peaks fans out there- the story on the process of how that most iconic theme was written. "THAT'S IT! That's so beautiful! ANGELO! That's tearing my heart out!" gets me every time
 Rest in peace, Angelo.
^ Now, I'm not sure if this next one is simply a propaganda video from 'Big Biscuit' to keep us subserviant in our consumption, or if it's how Oreos are ACTUALLY unmade, either way it's a fascinating insight for anyone who has ever wondered about the technique behind powerslammers and the extraction methods performed by commercial Wizards.
^ Closing off with some crazy nature stuff, 'Mysteries of the Twilight Zone' by Natural World Facts. He has recently collaborated with the Schmidt Ocean Institute for a dank, 5 part, 4k series (I cannot for the life of me get it to embed without it being 1:54 in....)
Hope there's something in here for all you curious-cats. Enjoy!
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 3
#28464151 - 09/10/23 09:55 AM (4 months, 15 days ago) |
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This is absolutely mind-blowing!
Gives me a couple ideas for cool room lighting
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: the_chosen_one] 3
#28510763 - 10/19/23 04:10 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28399009 - 07/17/23 04:46 PM (6 months, 8 days ago) |
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Love the jorneys Emp lemon takes you on. This one is about how often we're opening pandoras box.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28413049 - 07/29/23 04:34 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Have you ever seen a 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way galaxy? This jaw-dropping zoomable image by ESO contains ~84 million stars and it's unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
The original image has 24.6 gigabytes: https://buff.ly/R1dS5X
This is a tweet, though can't imbed. The image in the tweet zooms out automatically. The image at https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/ you can manually zoom very far in.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1685284037621936128
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28432240 - 08/13/23 11:38 AM (5 months, 12 days ago) |
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Really good stuff, love the twin peaks theme! How it's unmade is great, "powerful fans keep them cool." lol. Reminds me of Huggbees
The original
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28450163 - 08/28/23 04:30 PM (4 months, 28 days ago) |
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How old could the oldest aliens be?
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28469512 - 09/15/23 05:06 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28470227 - 09/15/23 03:49 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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How the hell have I been missing this???
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: the_chosen_one] 2
#28470337 - 09/15/23 05:45 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28472064 - 09/17/23 08:35 AM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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cozmyc said: Some botany for yo faces! Nice.
*Nice.* Good one, I really rate all Crime Pays videos that I've seen.
 Have you seen some of his mushroom excursions with Alan Rockefeller? Outisde of those, my favourite recent was probably this one!
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28485968 - 09/28/23 04:43 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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It's the same with opal, you could find a good single piece, but the seams are often 40ft below potch. The capital needed to invest in a mining claim is 6 figures. You can meet local miners and trade raw material for cheap, still thousands, then refine and polish the pieces and create a large markup.
A high quality $3000 raw piece can be sold for $7000 once polished.
This does take time and attention to detail to accomplish and is a higher value lapidary skill.
I think it highlights how raw jewellery operates as a business. I also am starting to believe that is is a good thing to have as much aware of what making a good business decision involves. To learn how a business operates, what practices they specialise in, and by what means they balance productivity.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28509949 - 10/18/23 08:34 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Dude sounds like David Attenborough  One of my heroes alongside Musashi, Peart, Mr Rogers and Mr Myagi.
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#28526394 - 11/02/23 10:02 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28526962 - 11/02/23 06:38 PM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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I have melted into the chair I sit..
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