New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness
For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on classical physics, while a minority have argued that consciousness must be quantum in nature, and that its brain basis is a collective quantum vibration […]
Phrase Matching in Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search now properly supports phrase matching. This not only permits a more robust implementation of quoted search queries, but also helps promote results where the search terms occur in the document exactly in the same order as they do in the query. This is a write-up about implementing this change. This is going to […]
Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording
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Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
AirPods are on, playing a song on Mac and tried to Shazam. What did you notice? The sound went and came back at much lower quality, right? This app is here to solve it AirPods are great, but if you have a recent MacBook it means you probably have studio-quality microphones at your disposal(recent Macbook […]
Agentic patters from scratch using Groq
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A guide to working remote and not paying rent
Here I am, sitting at my favourite pub in Melbourne drinking an expensive pint of craft beer and not really caring that much about the cost that much because so far this month because I’ve spent a grand total of $0 on rent. I’m half a pint into authoring this blog post, and, for the […]
UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
PA Media Mark Poynting Climate and environment researcher Esme Stallard Climate and science reporter 1 hour ago Comments The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal – ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. The country’s last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967. […]
FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs
FFmpeg 7.1 has been released today: a major release with numerous features that nevertheless maintains API compatibility with 7.0.It has a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, it finishes the IAMF decoder and it also adds Vulkan hardware encoding, VVC encoding, ARM64 and RISC-V optimizations […]
John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, splashing in the bathtub in Youngstown, Ohio, he looked up at his mother and asked, “What happens when you get to the end of things?” The question would haunt him for the rest of his life. What happens when you get to the bottom of space? What happens when […]
A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect
Initially the AST had this for primitive terms: ConBool :: Bool -> Term g Bool ConString :: String -> Term g String Which is fine if you want to enumerate every single type of value you want to be able to work with. I didn’t want to do that. There’s a way to make that […]