Thursday, July 31, 2025

Can fish remember a predator attack?

Can fish can remember that a predator attacked a nearby fish and avoid that location?

This wiki describes many kinds of fish intelligence that surprised me, although they only describe fish remembering harm to self, not others.
"Individual carp captured by anglers have been shown to become less catchable thereafter. This suggests that fish use their memory of negative experiences to associate capture with stress and therefore become less easy to catch. This type of associative learning has also been shown in paradise fish which avoid places where they have experienced a single attack by a predator and continue to avoid for many months." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_intelligence 

The rest of the wiki is very interesting. 

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Ground motion visualizations after Kamchatka earthquake

https://youtube.com/shorts/rRaWL9BLLW8?si=i7MFlPXy5LHoPsr9&utm_source=MTQxZ


Sunday, July 27, 2025

Skip the line at T-Mobile Park at the new Walk-Off Market

Skip the line at T-Mobile Park at the new Walk-Off Market

Walk-Off Market at T-Mobile Park uses Amazon One's palm scanning technology to automatically charge fans for whatever they take. Meaning no lines and no cashiers.

https://www.king5.com/article/sports/mlb/mariners/seattle-mariners-t-mobile-park-walk-off-market-amazon-one/281-805a348a-e30d-4185-85f6-4ff38d030841

Friday, July 25, 2025

Challenges of sending power over distance

These numbers surprised me - efficiency of only 20%. I thought they were already able to send power to satellites by laser. 

DARPA...new record in transmitting energy over distance...over 800 watts of power delivered for about 30 seconds with a laser beam crossing 8.6 kilometers...laser is much more focusable—you can create a narrow beam [almost] without any spreading [in ideal conditions]," he says...estimated receiver efficiency, says POWER team leader Paul Jaffe, is around 20 percent...the receiver reflects the infrared radiation from a conical mirror onto the photovoltaic cells—which, in turn, turns that beam into usable electricity...the goal...was not efficiency, but speed. "There's a number of design decisions that were made in the interest of building something quickly, not efficiently,"...timeline of three months between planning and execution.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-optical-wireless-power

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Using data to create fluid art displays - REFIK ANADOL

https://youtu.be/I-EIVlHvHRM?si=EUcPFTAIWmjym5DP

Damping sway in tall buildings

Tuned mass dampers - huge blocks moved by hydraulics
Dramatic movement during an earthquake:

Other techniques to reduce sway - holes and twists

With water passed through a constricted opening: 
Damper in Shanghai's takes building during a typhoon.
https://youtu.be/M1-J75_wvRE?is=nb6OB1k7jUkGnj6a 
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1D5eKp9kTW/

Eliciting info from strangers

https://youtu.be/JJQrjOYBcwI?si=OoNQ7Qar_8MjkmBv

Statements rather than questions - statements that urge others to respond based on deep human needs. 
4:45 Elicitation leverages people's innate need to correct, to appear competent, to be helpful, and to feel appreciated, heard , and involved. 

3:44 Start your statement with "So" and then a recap: "So you've been working on this for 3 years." Or with "I bet," as in "I bet you overcame a lot of challenges to get to this point." 
  1. Make a deliberate false statement to elicit a correction: I heard you guys make $60K
  2. Bracket a figure to elixir a more accurate answer: I bet homes in this area are between 1 and 3 million. 
  3. Disbelief: There's no way your company could be bought out by a Chinese conglomerate. 

Robot factories unlit as humans not needed

The world's most populous country, struggling to recruit factory workers, is resorting to almost total robot automation buoyed cheap loans and subsidies, and unfettered by labor regulations and unions. 

Brutal Navy seal training

https://youtu.be/oNyQ8_T15Xw?si=6YKDtgHvYZBL4yIG



https://youtu.be/1wUsGbByn94?si=KQ0j1LJpBZYMzyzA

More than 90% attrition amongst these highly selected, motivated, and tough recruits. Throughout their sleepless ordeal, they taunt them with the comforts that await them if they quit. 

Glambot - slow-motion rotating portrait





 

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