I’m also interested to see how these hold up in the long run. I have a 2017 BMW ev and really the only maintenance has been tires and a cabin air filter. One of the main reasons I have avoided buying cars like a Porsche ICE vehicle is that, once you have purchased it, there are large, ongoing maintenance costs and it feels like I’m signing up for a subscription service for my vehicle. If these are fast, cheaper, and also have low ongoing costs I might be in. I’m also mildly concerned about all of the telemetry they gather. I would really rather have a dumb car that I can hook to my smart phone and display Open Street Map or something on it. Then I get to make my software choices to a greater extent.

I think one of the keys is that they have to be able to be constructed relatively cheaply and with off-the-shelf components. If it costs $5000 and you need an engineering degree to build the final product it isn’t really a leveler, more of a toy for wealthy land owners.

Some relevant projects I found:

[1]: GitHub - AutoRoboCulture/Nindamani-the-weed-removal-robot: Nindamani …

[2]: GitHub - BrandonAllan/Weeding_robot: The Weeding Robot Project is a …

[3]: A Development Platform for Autonomous Weeding. - GitHub

[4]: anida16/Autonomous-InterRow-Weed-Removing-Robot - GitHub

[5]: GitHub - rahularepaka/Project-Cyclops: Weed Detection and Laser …

[6]: Agroecology-Lab/Open-Weeding-Delta: Open Weeding Delta - GitHub

[7]: GitHub - brycejohnston/awesome-agriculture: Open source technology for …

[8]: [2405.12596v1] A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

Solidly agree on all points.

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

He’s right, though. The reversal DOES make the situation more uncomfortable…

I generally like this idea, although I think calling it, “mentoring”, might attach an unnecessary connotation. I’m also not sure what else you would call it, so that might just be my own bias talking. I’m interested in working out the logistics of using Shapley Values to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative company and want to work through some messy, real-world examples. If this sounds like fun, let me know and I’ll sign up. Thanks for doing this!

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

I’m going to recommend, in addition to meditation, that you look into IFS Therapy. You can see an actual therapist about it, but you can also just read a book on the subject and do it yourself unless you have really deep trauma or addictions to deal with. The guy who invented it has several books, but I recommend Self Therapy by Jay Earley as it is based around working on your own and is basically like meditation with the purpose of resolving your inner issues. My ADHD brain has improved a ton since I started doing it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. This is my current Hyperfocus, so I’m already way down the rabbit hole on research. 😁

And a very happy Void-Scream to you as well!

That’s nice! Relaxing! I dig it!

One Raga to a Disco Beat, by Glass Beams This is a cover of someone else’s song, but I listened to this and immediately bought both of Glass Beams’ albums.

The ancient power was the equivalent of a futuristic computer virus. The other power that the computer virus attacked and destroyed essentially programmed Pham with the antivirus, but because human are so simple, it overwrote his personality and used him like a computer to destroy the virus entity. Pham was in a fugue state for so much of that last trip because his brain was doing stuff that human brains aren’t really designed for. I forget if this word is actually used in the book, but I have heard the term, “god shattered”, to describe this state. So Pham was programmed with the antivirus and sent off to stop it, which he did, but he was basically destroyed in the process.

Regrettably, most of my mass is in a direction I would have to call, “down”…

(I don’t understand it either, so I’ll be self-deprecating!)

It irritates me so badly! All I want is a sporty hatchback to replace my BMW i3, since BMW has apparently decided that only sedans are valid vehicles and NOBODY is selling anything compelling in the US! My 2017, carbon fiber chassis, orca should not still be the pinnacle of small electric cars 7 years later!

That’s the greatest/worst thing I’ve ever heard! I’m sharing it with everyone I know!

There is nothing honorable here. This code is best avoided. We are not proud of what we have done.

I’m not sure where you are from, but coming from the US I can say that olive oil gets a bad rap because most of the grocery store stuff is rancid and low quality. I’m currently traveling in Spain and high quality olive oil is truly sublime. Also be aware that, like wine or coffee, different types have vastly different flavors, so see if you can find a specialty shop that will let you sample several and see what you like.

Ooh! Tell me about this! I’m wanting to make a rye sourdough, but I’m having a hard time sourcing rye flour locally. Did you make a starter specifically for rye, or use a more normal flour starter? Anything special to your process? Your grain structure looks great!

I had to look up what this was (I’m from the Midwest). It sounds incredible and I felt my arteries hardening up just looking at the picture! I can’t wait to try it!