First and foremost for a personal reason: it was the last book my father advised me to read before he passed. And second because it’s a beautiful logical puzzle, as most of Asimov’s work.
I just read The Poppy War after loving Babel and I did not enjoy it. The main character is shallow and brought around but the currents of fate, the revelation comes completely at random, abrupt unjustified gore, a historical reference that is just too thick… little to redeem all of this.
:::spoiler Revelation spoiler
Her being Speerly (forgot the spelling)
:::
It’s the latest one I read of the series. Overall, I think it’s a nice light read. I feel it would become great if both the psychological aspect and/or the political one would be more developed, but the outlook is constantly “I need to survive, no time to think”, that I find a bit flat at times. All things considered m, I am unsure if I will continue reading.
Not the moderator, but post away! I see no advantage to gatekeeping. It would be different if this community had too many posts a day to keep up and the SF was flooded under the fantasy. As is, this is not the case and I welcome any post roughly in the genre
For a plank, it is. For anything else, where you are using more complex shapes and more than one material, no finite firm is known, so FEM all the way (or some other simulation technique)
I find that everything related to meat and fish production produces 13.78% of global emissions excluding transport ([wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_from_agriculture?wprov=sfti1)) or 53% of all agricultural emission, while the whole supply chain is 18% of agricultural emissions, thus 4.6% of total.
So meat production is by far the driver of agricultural emission, even if obviously the whole chain could become cleaner.
Additionally, all freight transport accounts for 30% of transport emissions, so a total of 6% of global emissions. So banning all camions would achieve half of what vegetarianism would achieve.
Amelia Earhart - I find early pilot successes infinitely interesting, adding being a woman in a male dominated environment, wow all the stories she could tell!
I’m having very much the same vibe. Like one has been keeling me up at night a lit lately, and I’d kicking my butt, but life is good - and coffee or tea great!
I, robot by I. Asimov
First and foremost for a personal reason: it was the last book my father advised me to read before he passed. And second because it’s a beautiful logical puzzle, as most of Asimov’s work.
Thanks! (May I encourage you to make this into its own post such that it’s not hidden in s comment section?)
Can I ask you a review post of Katabasis? I really want to know more about it before jumping in!
I just read The Poppy War after loving Babel and I did not enjoy it. The main character is shallow and brought around but the currents of fate, the revelation comes completely at random, abrupt unjustified gore, a historical reference that is just too thick… little to redeem all of this.
:::spoiler Revelation spoiler Her being Speerly (forgot the spelling) :::
Good to know
Explicitly added to the text.
Yes, this whole thing is really putting me off AI use entirely. Even Overleaf has fallen? Well, back to personal latex files shared by email, I guess.
It’s the latest one I read of the series. Overall, I think it’s a nice light read. I feel it would become great if both the psychological aspect and/or the political one would be more developed, but the outlook is constantly “I need to survive, no time to think”, that I find a bit flat at times. All things considered m, I am unsure if I will continue reading.
Not the moderator, but post away! I see no advantage to gatekeeping. It would be different if this community had too many posts a day to keep up and the SF was flooded under the fantasy. As is, this is not the case and I welcome any post roughly in the genre
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For a plank, it is. For anything else, where you are using more complex shapes and more than one material, no finite firm is known, so FEM all the way (or some other simulation technique)
They write “with a great deal of help”, so I am usure where the boundary between the two lies and where they would find themselves.
A reference with a reasonable overview: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02859
Uhm? The one proven in the 90s?
Yeah, I had read earlier today. But even the author said that his own draft was LLM-based.
But on the previous comment you were explicitly talking about diesel fuel.
Unfortunately, that’s not true. LLMs have proven new results in mathematics, at extremely high levels, conjectures open since decades.
I am personally very against this use of AI, but let’s be clear on its capacities.
Do you have a source for this?
I find that everything related to meat and fish production produces 13.78% of global emissions excluding transport ([wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_from_agriculture?wprov=sfti1)) or 53% of all agricultural emission, while the whole supply chain is 18% of agricultural emissions, thus 4.6% of total.
So meat production is by far the driver of agricultural emission, even if obviously the whole chain could become cleaner.
Additionally, all freight transport accounts for 30% of transport emissions, so a total of 6% of global emissions. So banning all camions would achieve half of what vegetarianism would achieve.
Thanks for sharing the inspiration too!
Amelia Earhart - I find early pilot successes infinitely interesting, adding being a woman in a male dominated environment, wow all the stories she could tell!
I’m having very much the same vibe. Like one has been keeling me up at night a lit lately, and I’d kicking my butt, but life is good - and coffee or tea great!