ahhh got it. Thank you!

Can someone explain this a bit better? I’m not exactly getting what these are. So they are nanogenerators, which coulkd be used as a component of all electricity-generating technologies? The article specifically talks about them converting kinetic energy into electrical, but i’m confused by the solar cell comparison. Wouldn’t these be implemented into new solar panels to increase their efficiency? It seems like these still need a “fuel”, like all energy-generation methods?

I read the post rules and didn’t see any other announcements of the Neopets TTRPG lmao. Remove if I broke the rules!

only one of the five mods has used Lemmy in the past year. I think you could post just about anything here and it would be safe. lol

Thanks for sharing!

true, but MDMA is a different drug

this has been known among users of these drugs for quite a while now. They bond to the same receptors, so they interfere with each other. You can mitigate this a bit by going 24 hours without your SSRI/SNRI (ie skipping the dose that would precede the trip), and increasing dose of the psilocybin by ~1.5x. Or so I hear

thanks for pulling out the key part. It’s funny, there have been so many articles over the past few weeks about how AI/neural networks have been overblown, but it’s clear that there are some cases where AI can be transformative. This is one really amazing example.

love to get science confirming things that we mostly already suspect. like genuinely, it’s nice to have evidence to back up things that we want to believe.

On an unrelated note, the VR device they created to test this is kind of fascinating. Like…

The rat is harnessed in the VR system, designed by Shinsuke Tanaka, a postdoc in the Lee Lab. As the rat walks on a spherical treadmill, its movements are translated on the 360-degree screen. The rat is rewarded when it navigates to its goal…In the second task, the “Jedi” task—a nod to Star Wars—the rat moves an object to a location by thoughts alone. The rat is fixed in a virtual place but “moves” an object to a goal in the VR space by controlling its hippocampal activity, like how a person sitting in their office might imagine taking a cup next to the coffee machine and filling it with coffee.

They made an interface that allows a rat to control a virtual avatar with brain activity alone? I did not expect that to be how this test worked.

This is an old concept, isn’t it?

I don’t think they were implying that DIM is unsafe, but rather saying that they hope people don’t try to handle the dangerous reagent in their backyard.

big if true

Nah I was kind of joking. I do feel like understanding Excel really well has helped me stay ahead of my coworkers, but obviously people who can’t figure out Excel won’t be figuring out python anytime soon.

goddamn now i gotta learn python to stay ahead in my office job? shit…

it’s interesting, if u asked me to be honest about it, i would say that’s pretty close to how i actually perceive songs in my head when i have something stuck in there. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think i can imagine all of the instruments of a song at once while replaying a song in my head. There’s like the words (if I know them), and maybe like the broad melody and the accents from other instruments, but that’s about it.