MaxTheFox / is on Nostr

Beginner hard sf writer and science enthusiast.

My identity and beliefs: female/cis/bi/furry. Non-specific Progressive Protestant Christian. Market technosocialist. Anti-crypto/NFTs. Neutral on AI.

Discord: @maxythefoxy

------I wrote 3 sci-fi novels, check them out!
Stardust: Origins https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73240/stardust
Stardust: Marathon https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/74149/stardust-marathon
Stardust: Labyrinth https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85822/stardust-labyrinth

Last Notes

2024-06-27 00:52:37

A specialized scientific AI (not the LLM kind, fyi) designed a working rocket engine with no human guidance. And it looks more like some kind of alien tech than anything humanmade. And yet it works!
"The engine performed as expected. It achieved steady-state, which means it can essentially be operated as long as needed. The burn time was only limited by the fuel supply at the test site."
https://leap71.com/2024/06/18/leap-71-hot-fires-3d-printed-liquid-fuel-rocket-engine-designed-through-noyron-computational-model/
#engineering #science
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2024-06-18 10:08:27

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Yep.
The robot servants must come only *after* capitalism falls. The other way around would be hell.

2024-06-18 00:48:45

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I hope that after this snake-oil bullcrap with them trying to fully replace humans blows over (and it will blow over sooner or later, like all tech bubbles it's not sustainable), I hope this kinda application stays. At least we got something with a lasting impact out of it unlike the previous tech bubble (NFTs)...

2024-06-18 00:44:02

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In materials science, my field, we use AI models for figuring out properties of various new materials, *but* they're specialized ones. And generally we validate them after. But it does free up a lot of grunt work of working out *potential* promising materials manually, when a computer can give us a few dozen decent ones and then we test through them.
This kinda thing is where science benefits the most from AI, that and proteins.

2024-05-28 01:00:05

Literally TIL this existed, I used Fedi for what, almost a year now and I just found this out. -_-
And I wondered why I couldn't get any publicity for my books. (It's off by default which is probably a good move but if you're a creative you should turn it on.)
#Mastodon
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2024-05-26 10:31:10

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Honestly if you want pure water, you'd do better with either somehow getting a hold of distilled water, or just making distilled water yourself: set a water container to boil, then collect the steam somehow and let it cool down.
(Note for anyone who doesn't know reading this: distilled water isn't any healthier than normal water because some of the "impurities" like calcium are actually healthy!)