danielkhent 1 year ago

Two-in-one solar-wind turbine in prototype stage “ Early computer simulations found that the turbine mounted solar panels would cause blinding beams of light to shoot out across the surrounding area.” Weird. #solarpunk #renewableenergy

Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building | Green design & innovation for a better world

Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Wind Turbine for Ultimate Energy Generation

A team from the University of Liverpool are developing a solar powered wind turbine called The Heat Waver.

danielkhent 1 year ago

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model “What language, if any, is it using ‘in its head’?” #AI #LLM

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

danielkhent 1 year ago

LLMs Can Now Reason Beyond Language “Human reasoning naturally operates through abstract, non-verbal concepts rather than strictly relying on discrete linguistic tokens.” #AI #LLM https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/05/27/llms-can-now-reason-beyond-language-researchers-introduce-soft-thinking-to-replace-discrete-tokens-with-continuous-concept-embeddings/

danielkhent 1 year ago

“The English bowler hat soon made its way across the pond and became the most popular style in the American West” I always wondered about bowlers in westerns… #hats

Conner Hats

Men's Bowler Hat Styles

Step up your style with a bowler hat from Conner Hats. Crafted for durability and elegance, ideal for the modern, eco-conscious gentleman.

danielkhent 1 year ago

What Makes a Noir Novel? #writing #noir

G. Connor Salter

What Makes a Noir Novel? Considering Nightmare Alley

When I helped lead a presentation for Inkling Folk Fellowship on William Lindsay Gresham’s novel Nightmare Alley, there were some sub-topics ...

danielkhent 1 year ago

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin “Even before I had the money, even if I never had the money,” Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, “I was free.” #entheogens

WIRED

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made mi...

danielkhent 1 year ago

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting… #AI #LLM

Psychology Today

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

An LLM isn’t a mirror—it’s more like a hologram, one that reconstructs meaning from language.

danielkhent 1 year ago

Major Lithium Deposit found in deposit running southeastern Oregon to north Nevada #renewableenergy

UNILAD

Scientists discover $1,500,000,000,000 lithium deposit in US state

Mining is already underway in one state, but another is debating whether or not to begin drilling - with an endangered species inhabiting it

danielkhent 1 year ago

“Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming” Pretty cool. But no one thought of wood before? #renewableenergy

The Cool Down

Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming: 'It's not difficult to envision'

A Swedish company has turned to wood for a more sustainable construction material for wind turbines.

danielkhent 1 year ago

Photovoltaic spheres called “Sphelar by Kyosemi” that capture light from all angles Not sure if this is real. A sphere with ~20% efficiency? #renewableenergy #solarpunk https://unionrayo.com/en/japan-unveils-photovoltaic-spheres/

Sphelar Power Corporation

Development story - Technology - Sphelar Power Corporation

danielkhent 1 year ago

"...breakthrough 3D holograms can be touched, grabbed and poked." #technology

Live Science

In a first, breakthrough 3D holograms can be touched, grabbed and poked

Futuristic holograms you can manipulate have become a reality sooner than we thought, thanks to breakthrough display.

danielkhent 1 year ago

"David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing" He's right about usage dictionaries #writing https://nofilmschool.com/david-foster-wallace-great-writing