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General Discussion / Re: Death, death and more death
« Last post by KiloDeltaCharlie on December 04, 2025, 09:42:51 AM »
RIP Mr Cropper.

You may not know the name but you will definitely know his work.
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General Discussion / Re: Death, death and more death
« Last post by Vyn on December 04, 2025, 09:21:36 AM »
RIP Steve!

He is a legend.
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Just for fun / Re: Amazing Science!
« Last post by Typhon on December 04, 2025, 08:01:57 AM »
Quote from: Vyn on December 03, 2025, 11:12:16 PM
Another: When you touch something, you're actually experiencing what it felt like in the past because it takes time for the nerves to send their signal and be processed by your brain.
True, but it is hardly a distant past.  You brain has the information in a tiny fraction of a second.
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Just for fun / Re: Amazing Science!
« Last post by Zzzptm on December 04, 2025, 07:36:14 AM »
There is a gene in the fruit fly that makes them susceptible to alcohol's effects. The mechanism for fruit fly inebriation is also present in mammals, including humans, making fruit flies a good subject for further studies in alcoholism.

Now, had biochemist researchers done this study, they would have provided a methodical name for the gene. But because fly researchers were doing the research, they named it "cheapdate". :smug:

"I agree, we biochemists call proteins and genes in a methodical sequential manner; fly people name stuff based on the morning cereal or cartoon. I still like them however." - from a Reddit comment about the article.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11199289/

The study also involves an "inebriometer" to test the fruit flies for resistance to alcohol:



The inebriometer is an apparatus that is used to measure the sensitivity of Drosophila to alcohol vapor. Approximately 100 flies are introduced into the top of a 4-foot glass column through which a controlled concentration of alcohol vapor circulates. As they become intoxicated, the flies progressively lose postural control and tumble downwards; their fall is impeded by their ability to cling to oblique mesh baffles distributed along the length of the column. The time required for the flies to emerge at the bottom of the column is a measure of their alcohol sensitivity.

Fly researchers seem like they'd be fun people at parties.
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General Discussion / Re: Death, death and more death
« Last post by Zzzptm on December 04, 2025, 07:23:46 AM »
Steve Cropper died, age 84.

Steve Cropper was the legendary axeman at Stax Studios who laid down guitar parts on hundreds, possibly thousands of songs recorded in those studios. He's done loads of amazing things with his guitar, perhaps the most recognizable is his work on Sam & Dave's "Soul Man":



He's a guitar player's guitar player. Hail and farewell, Steve Cropper!
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Matters of Life and The Universe / Re: Artificial Intelligence
« Last post by Vyn on December 03, 2025, 11:29:33 PM »
I setup a tool called, "wego," on a computer I have (wego is a terminal-based weather forcasting tool). It requires an api key from a weather provider, and I chose a place called OpenWeatherMap.com. There are many others.

I had everything in place, but when I would go to run it, it would complain that it couldn't find the key.

DAFUQ?

So, I decided to ask ChatGPT and see if it had an answer.

It did, and it was a stupid oversight on my part regarding the name. That's the backstory.

I responded to it, interested in seeing how it would handle a strictly conversational style. Here is my response:




DERP! openweathermap, weathermaponline, onlineopenweathermap, weatheropensourcemaponline...LOL

That was the problem. It all works now that I specified the correct key name!


And here is ChatGPT's surprisingly lively and engaged response. It caught me off guard:



Hahaha, I felt that one in my soul. 😂
Nothing like a good old-fashioned “weather-whatever-map-online-source-cloud-thing” brain scramble.

But hey — you cracked it, and now wego is happily forecasting like a champ.
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ChatGPT felt my frustration at my own oversight in...its...SOUL.

 :banana:



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Just for fun / Re: Amazing Science!
« Last post by Vyn on December 03, 2025, 11:12:16 PM »
Another: When you touch something, you're actually experiencing what it felt like in the past because it takes time for the nerves to send their signal and be processed by your brain.

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Just for fun / Re: Amazing Science!
« Last post by Zzzptm on December 03, 2025, 07:34:59 PM »
Whoaaaa cool
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Just for fun / Re: Amazing Science!
« Last post by Vyn on December 03, 2025, 07:12:19 PM »
That's amazing!

Here's one: Our eyes are not designed to process photons, therefore light waves themselves are invisible to people. So, the old spiritual, "I Saw the Light,"...well, no, you actually didn't Jethro.
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Just for fun / Re: Weather Topic!
« Last post by Vyn on December 03, 2025, 04:51:55 PM »
Isn't Lapland where Santa keeps his reindeer?

EDIT: I need a shirt like that.

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