alzymologist

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

How about I want to have my inference process to negate error bound to my priors?

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In object oriented onthology, to know is him is to be him.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's essentially how many gases are made from mixtures, like notrogen or oxygen. Showing this as something new tells a lot about author's uderstanding. Carbon capture is not about making entirely new tech, it's optimization, and that's where startups suck at everything except for getting and then wasting cash.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I wanted to move to Alberta many years ago to join your university and have fun with bitumen. But I'm in Finland now, so winter is ok, and now summers are intense and hot everywhere. I don't know why exactlt anybody would crop grow these grains south of here, where other things thrive. Leave hardy grasses for arctic steppes.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Malting it for base malt is probably not worth the effort indeed (kind of weird that there are a few small-scale enterprises around where I live who try to make small batches of malt - and it's base malt. Of course it's inferior to large scale, sadly, I had sad experience trying to use super-local. Why don't they see the real market potential for weird stuff? Maybe I should take that space when I set the process?), but there are limitless potential specialty varieties you can try. Roast it differently? Skip toasting altogether and use it asap to see what happens? Reproduce some historical process? So much fun (probably).

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But at the same time remember, that scaling (both ways) is the toughest task in chemical technology. Small masher has very different heat and matter exchange properties than large one, just take it into account. Expect efficiency to drop 2x or even more on first try.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have similar situation (but right now I have ~20 kg of oats, there are other stuffs around too, I just happened to take oats), so I'm trying to build some decent malting equipment. Unfortunately, doing it outdoors in winter is sad enterprise, but I'm totally just giving it a try when I can! (Doing it indoors would be either stinky or loud, and I already have too many microbiological stuff going in same space) I do not believe I'll lose much except for conversion rate and sugar content, but might discover some new flavor tones. When I'm done, I'll be posting here and trying to share the product.

So I urge you to do the same!

There is no reason to expect that something will not ferment well just because it was not purebred for brewing. Even random yeasts mostly yield good results. Well, yeast is much more definitive in final profile and you CAN screw up by using some really stinky or low fermenting yeast. Grain, on the other hand, is just yeast food and grain flavour mostly (yes, there are other things to fine tune, but first order approximations is what we should care about in experimentation). Does it smell and taste good? Then go for it!

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Just to be safe you might consider replasing chloride with sulfate.

Sure this is great way to make thermite or anything that does not exactly care about oxidation state, that part I can confirm.

Furthermore, you are close to iron(6) synthesis here using drain cleaner. Yield would be even lower, but fun is worth it. Be careful though, when literature states it blows up, they mean it.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is a mixture of oxides, hydroxides, and nonoxidized iron chunks and who knows what else. Also probably some chlorine gas to breath in.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Surviving through November in Finland is good enough.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure it is not, grain is not fruit after all. I think grain will turn into angry shoggoth if threated with metabisulfite. At least it would be a mess.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Well, it's bad news, all those super-processed products almost always are treated with metabisulfite or something close enough, and only wine and a few other products require it to be listed on the label. It's pretty much treated as part of detergent for washing fruits. Completely unjustified as product is sterilized later in turning it into extract, but it is simpler to keep buying this historically accepted mild bleach and treating all fruits with it anyway. Maybe increases their storage time in shipping pipeline. Something I do not wish to think about in great detail, for my first lab in Finland was in a rented fruit storage bunker and I washed it and dismantled control equipment myself. Could have been WW2 nazi camp facility for what it was worth.

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