The movie set is " a series of subliminal whispers to thematic elements" in the movie
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/podcasts/the-daily/fisk-killers-of-the-flower-moon.html
Monday, October 30, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Diarization - identifying individual speakers in audio recordings
"Identifying speakers in audio recordings When applying the Speaker Diarization model, the transcription not only contains the text but also includes speaker labels..."
Contact Sports as a Risk Factor for ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
"Our review suggests that increased susceptibility to ALS is significantly and independently associated with 2 factors: professional sports and sports prone to repetitive concussive head and cervical spinal trauma. Their combination resulted in an additive effect, further increasing this association to ALS."
Wells turbine bidirectional generates power either direction
0:44 symmetric blade cross-section deflects air behind trailing edge with flow coming from either direction
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Sap Dripping From Trees: How Do I Stop It?
"What most homeowners will be surprised to learn is that this sticky liquid from trees isn't sap at all. The sticky liquid oozing from the trees is Honeydew, and despite the name it has no relation to the fruit. Honeydew is the excrement of plant-sucking insects such as aphids, lace bugs, cicadas, and certain types of scale. Deciduous trees do not drip sap from their leaves. If you have "sap" dripping from your deciduous tree it is honeydew and is a telltale sign of an insect infestation.
Trees That Drip Sap:
Insect infestations that lead to honeydew are frequently found on rose, ash, oak, elm, maple, willow, and fruit trees."
Friday, October 27, 2023
Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?
2:22 adding red seaweed to cow feed can reduce methane emission by 90%
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Dede Allen - pioneering film editor who invented "pre-lapping"
"She was the first editor to receive a solo title card in the opening credits to a film, for Bonnie and Clyde (1967)..."
"Dede was the first to obtain "points" for the film editor in profit distribution..."
"She pioneered the "L cut," also known as pre-lapping, which is when the dialog of the incoming scene begins before the picture transitions into that scene."
How birds achieve lift.
Here are some cool videos about how a bird achieves lift. My favorite is the owl flying through helium bubbles.
Effective altruism
This certainly sounded commendable at first blush, but a deeper dive exposes just how difficult a problem this is.
Effective altruism has its pitfalls, since it's hard to define what you're optimizing for in creating the "greatest good." That is, if you optimize for preventing malaria, you don't help starvation, and vice versa.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23564571/effective-altruism-sam-bankman-fried-holden-karnofsky-ai
Perhaps "voluntary associations" are better.
For instance, "Choice Humanitarian" aims to find and train good local leaders first, who are free from corruption, and then implement projects that improve quality of life. They "assess the context of the situation, identify the resources needed, execute the work, and monitor and evaluate progress."
Lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of electric vs ICE vehicle
- It takes a typical EV about one year in operation to achieve "carbon parity" with an ICE vehicle.
- If the EV draws electricity from a coal/fired grid, however, the catchup period stretches to more than five years.
- If the grid is powered by carbon/free hydroelectricity, the catchup period is about six months.
Lifetime emissions have to factor in the source of electricity used for (both making and running) the electric vehicle; if coal-fired plants are used, it takes longer for the electric vehicle to reach parity with internal combustion vehicles. But eventually, the high environmental cost of producing electric vehicles is outweighed by the lower environmental cost of running the vehicle.
A big contributor to the energy needs in lithium battery production is reducing the humidity to <1% because lithium is so very reactive with water.
Graphics and quotation from https://www.cotes.com/blog/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-ev-vs-ice-vehicles
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/comparing-electric-cars-and-petrol-cars/103746132
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
A fair shake for honey bees
This reminds me of spy vs spy - escalating countermeasures. How unusual that you can count mites infecting bees by shaking powdered sugar onto them!
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Nuclear is greener to build
Interesting graphic of materials needed to manage energy generation from various sources.
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