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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if you asked about fuel prices it'd be the same...

Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've the faintest interest in astronomy or astrophysics, you might want to totally ruin your life by setting this website as a home page in your browser: science.nasa.gov/apod/random-...

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Random APOD Generator - NASA Science

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They want you to believe the only way to change a tire is to do it in a qualified shop? Also of course, you must buy all four new tires, they must match all 4 with an electron microscope, and it needs to be on a mystery machine by a qualified mechanic. Then there's this: youtu.be/MFxxtfcjsFM?...

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Monter un pneu sur jante sans abimer la peinture

YouTube video by Jerome Francois

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3 documented facts. 1. the so-called AI (which it is not, just LLMs at the moment) create a massive sink in energy and water systems. 2. Datacenters emit infrasound noise, creating medical issues. 3. LLMs shortterm increase your efficiencly, longterm make you "stupid" - less capable and creative.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine what it'll be in 15y. It's highly probable that computer users then will see a CPU and use the creativist 'argument from personal incredulity' (to quote @rdawkins.bsky.social ), saying "this must've been created by a GOD because we surely couldn't do it". They'll be right, too.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you're a dev, and wondering what miracles AI does for you, look no more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZU3...

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I'm done coding with AI

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Btw, one has to appreciate South America mysteriously lurking in the shadows in that photo, all with night lights on. Great shot.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's single-phase Tuesday again! (First one, actually). Here's some grid turbulence loosely inspired by the paper of Usama et al. (doi.org/10.1016/j.co...) calculated in Basilisk (basilisk.fr). You see volume magnitude iso-surfaces with structure shedding. Visu in Paraview.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Not Tarkovsky's. "Solaris" was written by Stanislaw Lem in 1961. (Lem actually disliked Tarkovsky's adaptation). Bet let us not detract from the fact American sci-fi was extremely limited compared to Lem's visions, which he was fully aware of and made fun of all his life.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@esa.int isnn't marketing itself enough. All the world praises only NASA for the Artemis mission, even though the European Service Module (which is like half of the ship, good luck flying w/o it) is visible in almost all mission shots... (that circular thing to the left of the Moon here). Humanity.

The ESM visible during the Artemis 2 mission.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

How unlucky, that an article on how to depart from proprietary software be hidden behind a proprietary paywall.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As I'm sure nobody has any idea about: 15y ago I have designed the cover of the ERCOFTAC (#ERCOFTAC) bulletin. (The graphic, seen below, has the color-manipulated foaming waters of the Polish Oder river.) As I have just been asked to redesign it, here's a goodbye look. New one premieres soon!

Cover image of the ERCOFTAC bulleting (with a fictional issue number coming from 2029). The image shows a color-manipulated turbulent flow.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Second stage of the Chinese rocket ZQ-3 R/B is scheduled for an uncontrolled reentry today. Latest trajectory estimates touch Denmark and Poland. To add weight to the situation: it comes in at 11 tons, bus sized, and can hit land... www.eusst.eu/newsroom/new... newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uncontr...

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EU SST closely monitors upcoming re-entry of space object ZQ-3 R/B

Due to its inclination of approximately 56.94 degrees, the object can re-enter within a latitude band of ±57 degrees, covering a vast area of the Earth's surface, although most of it is ocean or uninh...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A policing action, and by the way, a small diversion from the Epstein files. Whatever works.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

AFAIK Congress needed to also to accept the Venezuela gig first?

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Denmark should demand EU (optionally +Canadian) forces deployed to Greenland. Just as a gesture.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

On an unrelated note, here's water coating a perforated solid at Re=46. There's a high-Re air coflow too, eventually a film is established though. Such processes take place e.g. in cooling towers's heat exchangers. Fresh out of the oven, simulated in Basilisk.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Today, I replaced a leaky/cracked adapter in the hot water outlet of a 300l boiler. I wonder what motivated whomever had previously decided to install this part made of... plastic. (Makes for a great non-AMD Threadripper, if you catch my drift). Darn, AI ain't replacing no plumbers I tell you.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Greetings from the fanclub! Yeah this one works for me after necessary modifications :) Keep'em comin' :)

A screenshot from a Linux system with an image made by S.C. in the background.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

By having two nearly identical pieces of document here, one of which has a stamp while the other doesn't, the author really made it harder to understand what the "tip" is about...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Is that a Petri Dish? No, it's viscous liquid in an (unnecessarily violent) rotational flow inside a solid cylinder. Color is vorticity. Simulation in Basilisk (www.basilisk.fr and bview).

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

BTW, fixed a car radio. Off the bat I hear some rattling in it, and inside I discover ...4 euro coins (see? fixing stuff *does* pay off!), turns out prev owner's kids used the CD slit "as a vending machine"... A coin stuck in the CD changer's magnet, others were randomly shorting the circuit. Nice.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

J'ai trouvé dans la forêt près de Vernon (27) une tonne de betteraves sucrières déversées là par des chasseurs afin de nourrir les sangliers, les chevreuils et autres animaux. Je suppose que ce genre de phénomène se produit dans tout le pays. Je vous laisse en tirer vos propres conclusions.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A great Polish sci-fi writer, S. Lem, said once that even if the Moon was literally covered with diamonds, it still wouldn't pay off to excavate them. The Apollo program was expensive and happened principally for political reasons, which then expired. Once pragmatism requires it, we may return.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Well, yeah. That's an example of how the users mix LLMs into they work with poor results. It's nowadays just a tip of the iceberg. Students in the universities (some of them) go as far or further, pff, even the researchers do, e.g. for writing code snippets, thereby un-learning the language used.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

7.003 is great. There's also (search bandcamp) the pre-environments-8 ep that I don't have but is highly regarded. Never been a huge fan of post-Isness Amorphous (btw. Trip Maps is a bit like them), still, haven't heard of that sneakpeak!

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I don't know, things like Trip Maps 3 have Gary written all over them (fsol.bandcamp.com/album/trip-m...), and on Environments 7.003 they're both credited. Gaz leaving never crossed my mind...

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TRIP MAPS 3, by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON

19 track album

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The thing I'd like more is if him or Gary (or the two as FSOL) were finally on bluesky...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Note to self: using LLMs (colloquially known as "AI") as ChatGPT for creative tasks such as writing *does*, after all, decrease your brain activity (colloquially "make you stupid"). Take it from the MIT: www.media.mit.edu/publications... (The link has both an arXiv paper and YT vid.)

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Made this cabinet, on and off over the last 7 mo. As usual, *all* wood is palette/garbage/dumpster_finds. So its cost was 0 (but the man-hours would take you back some 4k€ easily). Some tech infos in the image alt-texts. Had tons of fun - and that's why it was made. #DIY #woodworking

The newly made cabinet (on the left). This is the painted furniture with four visible drawers, placed below a tabletop. Portions of the image are blurred.

Three shots of the wooden cabinet. (Left) the pine crate with four drawers (no side walls), some of them partially drawn. The center image has the side walls (palette wood pine/spruce) and drawers inserted. The third image (on the right) has the cabinet w/o drawers, with a fresh coat of paint (parts of the interior have transparent varnish).

A montage showing one of the four drawers I made for the project. I started with two large drawers found in a dump. Each of them was cut in half, resulting in four new drawers; these needed reconstructed walls as shown here, same goes for the wallnut fronts. Also, keyholes had to be made/remade and new locks bought. An old keyhole is visible above in the insert. While this one was re-filled and cemented, I made 4 of new such lock-nests in different locations...

Four images showing: the dovetail joint used in the crate (Upper-left), the assembled crate with two inner walls (upper-right), the crate while fitting drawer rails (lower-left), the cabinet design in Blender (lower-right).

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Mainstream media takes stories like: dx.doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2023-0594, and runs FAR with them ("meat is good for you!"). Risky. A talented statistician can use NHANES data even to prove the existence of Atlantis. Oh, and the work is sponsored by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. No kidding!

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Animal and plant protein usual intakes are not adversely associated with all-cause, cardiovascular disease–, or cancer-related mortality risk: an NHANES III analysis

We used data from NHANES 1988–1994 to examine associations between animal and plant protein usual intakes and IGF-1 concentration with mortality from all causes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CV...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I find it actually touching that 70y ago they took a column in a physical newspaper to write this sort of a thing. You can imagine a guy reading it at a cafe, nodding in wonder... I doubt if, in today's media world, we would stop our 'rat race conditioned brains' for a moment for a column like that.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It might do "much more", but it does NOT allow you to tune into a FM/AM station *on its own*. This Sinclair and the Phillips watches did. Apple Watch is a sensor-equipped front-end to the iPhone, not much more. These old devices were standalone, hence in a way much more ambitious.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

He just signed a major deal with Palantir (P. Thiel's AI corporation literally named after Tolkien's evil artifact) he might've just as well sign all defense to Skynet, at this point I think noone cares anyway...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

By the way: If anyone reading this has some serious sources on the stats for the probability of thermal runaway in li-ion (aka spontaneous combustion), I'm a taker.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Witnessed a skirmish with an anti-nuclear activist about what the lack of river/sea water means for a plant (coal vs nuclear). He says: "obviously, the coal plants do NOT use water for anything, while the nuclear do". Humanity is lost

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Very impressive. It's almost a shame it's an engineered E. Coli strain, so hard to assess how 'industrially realistic' this process will be. We will see. (Also trauma warning for non-biologists: do not open the 45p. PDF appendix)

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Went into the rabbit hole a bit, this interesting paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... mentions how crows judge numerosities (i.e. the Weber-Fechner law) but between the lines, they say their judgements are very strong up to the number of 30. I'd probably do worse than that myself.

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Numerosity representations in crows obey the Weber–Fechner law

The ability to estimate number is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. Based on the relative close phylogenetic relationship (and thus equivalent brain structures), non-verbal numerical represent...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The 1926 silent movie "The Johnstown Flood" showcased hundreds of early proofs of why fluid mechanics breaks your SFX. E.g. in this composite (~100y ago!) shot,we see a miniature flood,matchsticks pretending to be tree logs, people (rotoscoped in) and ...droplets with d=15cm. Good luck with that!

A still frame from the 1926 movie "The Johnstown Flood". This image shows a composite of miniatures, people (near the bottom-left, superposed over the miniature footage). The special effect is "broken" by the fact that the omnipresent water doesn't "behave" to scale, we get e.g. a huge, applie-sized droplets circled in the image. In Earth gravity, water won't create such forms, thus breaking the illusion.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

AFAIK crows can count (up to 7). The experiment that showed this had a group of N people show up next to a feeding point, except the feeder was behind an obstacle. So the bird waited in the safe distance, counting people who had left and only visiting then. As long as N<7, it was never wrong.

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You just created the shortest-lived share price spike for the Red Bull GMBH - I was climbing aboard after your first post and jumping ship after the second...

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Nice catch, took me some time to get the sense of scale in this photo. BTW if you're sure its Jugorum, maybe you can consider freeing the photo and uploading it to the wiki, as they're begging for it even in the Italian one: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesubia...

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Vesubia (genere) - Wikipedia

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is highly imprecise. There ever were only 2 helicopters (Russian Ka-50 and Ka-52) which use rocket ejection system. Not sure if this vid comes from them though as they have double rotors (2x3 blades)?

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Some 9mo ago I made a desk cabinet (I twitted about it here: x.com/echo_dancers... ). Now, I'm preparing it's left-hand-side brother, which due to a higher degree of complication, needs come prototyping in 3D...

a 3D rendering (in Blender) of a cabinet made of wood (the so-called "exploded view")

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Wojciech (Vôitek) Aniszewski @aniszewski.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

And, as any caring mother would, she first grabbed the smartphone, snapped a photo, sold it to Newsweek and the passed Harrison some paper towels.

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