We solved the Ein Stein Problem. And when I say we I mean people way smarter than me and when i say ein stein i actually mean ein Stein as in german for one stone. It's a shape that can tile the plane infinitely without producing a repeating pattern.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
50 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
1452 readers
100 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
…are you a tiler?
^/s
Thanks for that great great rabbit hole read (and some YT videos watch)
I saw this in the news a while ago, what makes this so revolutionary?
In maths, we are excited about new things even if they seem to have absolutely no practical value or application. Sometimes, things become important later on, like prime numbers, which have been studied just for fun for centuries, and are now the backbone of encrypted communication.
So the only reason why this exciting is because nobody did it before.
I love that attitude
I don’t want to keep harping on about AI, but seriously. AI. I work in the creative sphere, and Adobe are (finally) earning their subscriptions. Lightroom’s new denoise DNG tool is massively impressive and not all that resource heavy. Photoshops generative fill solves so many problems with photo manipulation, my team is saving hours a week. On the video production side, crumplePop’s suite of audio correction tools is a game changer, and davinci resolves 18.5 beta has so much that we haven’t explored but I’m excited by.
Also, 32-bit float. Holy shit. It’s like recording audio in RAW. I no longer need to consider resourcing for audio production on smaller jobs.
Interesting about 32-bit float, is this just a recent thing? I've been using it for 15 years in Ardour. What difference does it make for you?
consumer-grade field recorders can now capture in 32-bit float (I used Zoom F2s and have a Zoom F6), which reduces/removes our need to set levels beforehand or during. It effectively just has a ridiculous dynamic range.
I guess the technology has just recently made its way onto the scene for these sorts of products.
Nice! Yeah I guess the industry moves slower than what is actually available
I am watching some amazing things happen with social media decentralization that doesn't so much effect my work but my personal studies. Seeing this happening and wanting to be able to contribute to it, has encouraged me to try to learn web development again. This time I am going to go about it the smart way with thanks to The Odin Project. I am also keeping a keen eye on the burgeoning offerings of SD-WAN to the consumer market. Some really neat stuff is being contributed back to the community by Slack through their Nebula project.
It's an exciting time to study and experiment in FOSS right now. The internet is taking a dramatic shift back towards its decentralized roots. It's fun to be able to participate in ad-free discussions and without being shown content we largely do not want to see because an algorithm is steering us towards it to boost ad revenue.
I work in audio engineering, and while this is more of a slow burn, I think we're about to see a new generation of digitally enabled audio equipment hit the market. Audio-over-IP has been in use for a while now, but has been quite expensive, and adoption has been somewhat spotty. We're heading out of the chip shortage and shipping crisis, and that excites me.
This is very cool to me, I'm a hobbyist recording musician so I'm excited to see what new equipment this brings!
What's your favourite piece of kit you have?
My mixer for sure! An Allen & Heath SQ5, with two dx168 stageboxes. It runs a proprietary AoIP protocol, but it's SO easy to connect! The flexibility in routing is huge.
This mixer isn't new, but it seems indicative of what might be to come. It's a little expensive, (for what it is or honestly isn't though) but I truly believe we're overdue for a mixer with these capabilities for less. Or one for the same that does more. In price vs performance the X32 outperforms this, and nothing has touched that spot since its release, but that can't last forever.
The school i attend has some more cutting edge stuff that's more indicative of the future: stageboxes and monitor mixes run on the same network as the rest of the building, so I can connect them at any Ethernet plug in the building and get the same signal, it's so cool!
That's sounds incredibly cool, I'd love to know how it avoids dropouts from other things using the network
Ever heard of binaural recording? I think that is great. Listen to "virtual barber shop" on Youtube and you know what I mean
AI.
As an AI language model I cannot have feelings, but I am very thankful.
I'm in the data centre industry, so the latest arms race for us is obviously AI/ML. Although it doesn't really directly impact what we do in the physical data centre space, the speed and scale of what we're expected to deliver definitely does.
I'm really interested in seeing what new and wonderful things people do with AI/ML. I don't really GAF about kids using it to cheat on their university assignments - I'm more excited to see how it gets used for some really cool shit that could benefit humanity. Medical science, and things like that.
Oh hey, I design substations and my major client is a data center powerhouse company. Nothing to say other than that.very cool about the AI thing though.
Food & Bev:
Kylie Jenner has a new tequila brand. The blanco is gross but the añejo is oddly tasty.
Oh, and the state is mandating that we get (discretionary) paid time off, but nobody's sure how that's going to work in an industry where most compensation doesn't come from base wages.
What could try are you in? Don't you have any paid time off at all at the moment?
The US, in Illinois. Currently we only have sick pay, and it's at the base rate of pay, which is sub-minimum.
Companies caring about sustainability actually getting paid for that, other companies employing sustainability staff to fix their shit