#Frugal & #useful to make for yourself, family & friends. Making #WaterproofMatches for outdoor adventures & emergency purposes. You can learn to make them:
I #repurpose airtight used prescription bottles to store them after making them. I remove labels from bottles & paint them, for gifting to friends. Very frugal & useful gifts that my friends appreciate getting 😊
@NotThe@alexlac51 I use some for storing some arts/crafts supplies too. They are great for beads & other small supplies. I try to repurpose a lot of things - don't like waste, if something can be reused again, for different purposes or upcycled for different purposes.
#newpaper on "Learning heterogeneous delays of spiking neurons for motion detection"
We build a #SpikingNeuralNetworks with heterogeneous delays, that is with the capacity integrating a spatiotemporally structured spiking history...
Results show excellent accuracy, and especially the capacity of performing this computation much more economically, up to 500 less ! Another step for more #frugal computations and hopefully a better understanding of neural computations.
👉 Grimaldi, A., Perrinet, L.U. Learning heterogeneous delays in a layer of spiking neurons for fast motion detection.Biological Cybernetics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-023-00975-8 (paywall)
What are your frugal tips that others might not know or use?
Some of mine: dealnews.com for online deals, do your own oil changes and use really good oil and filter, and use youtube for diy help on almost anything.
Almost every library has a program that lets them borrow books or media from other libraries so if you're looking for a book they don't have, they can put in a request to another branch or library system to borrow it on your behalf, all without extra cost to you. In my city, they're known as "Inter-library loans" but might be called something else and it's definitely worth looking into if you use the library a lot.
When I bought my last #smartphone in 2019, I got a case for it, not realizing it already came with one.
I simply decided to use the "official" case with it and keep the extra as a backup "just in case".
Last year I finally got fed up with how the first case had yellowed and just didn't look nice anymore. Got my second case on it and I have had that "new phone" feel for months now without spending or buying a new one. I might use that trick for the next phone, too.