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I'd disagree with this tight relationship. I bought an air filter, it has a PM 2.5 meter on it. Everyday I'm discovering and understanding what drives PM2.5 i

I'd disagree with this tight relationship. I bought an air filter, it has a PM 2.5 meter on it. Everyday I'm discovering and understanding what drives PM2.5 in my house. It's not really an engineering breakthrough, you could loophole it to PM2.5 meters are getting cheaper. But really to me, it's the measurement, just better data. I could have bought a PM 2.5 meter years ago but culture held me back. I personally don't believe in working from home, but if you did, once again the tech has existed for a while there's no real breakthrough happening. Get the tools to the people. Why is there no free easy to use OCR (Tesseract = PITA), I don't think a breakthrough or discovery is needed there.

papandada 5y ago
This has me desiring a PM2.5 meter now. Any unexpected results or significant improvements you've found?
- aaron695 5y ago
  Cooking without burning things could really spike it. No behaviour change yet. With the fireplace I will behave in a way that creates less spikes now, just more effort to be less smokey. And to light a fire well is a cool skill you can nerd on. I do want to get a better fireplace. Somedays it just spikes, I don't know why. Perhaps pollen, I'll work it out one day perhaps. I bought a Ultrasonic Incense, because I'm a nerd that's kinda techy and fun. Undecided if I like it. And I always run the filter, wattage is less than a led light, and cost a little (Filters aren't real cheap) but way less than my 'longevity' drugs. It could be dumb, but I have more info every day. If you're a hacker who follows through you can make one, mines un-assembled in the cupboard, discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20640114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20640114
cycomanic 5y ago
I fail to understand how this is related to the topic of scientific discoveries and the technology underlying it. Yes your personal discoveries might be based on purchasing a PM2.5 meter, but personal discoveries and understanding are not generally related to scientific discoveries or understanding. If you study e.g. quantum mechanics it will not generally advance our (as society) understanding of quantum mechanics. Maybe you will become a great quantum researcher and make discoveries but it will be your discoveries then that advance understanding
- aaron695 5y ago
  If you want to jump back the the main article around the philosophy of science then yes not relevant. I haven't read the book but I'm not talking temporal consciousness, phenomenologists and philosophy and things. > it will be your discoveries then that advance understanding This in practical reality doesn't really happen. The philosophy fails here. I'm just talking analytically around what happens when people get a device that can measure 1/10 finer or how Excel has pushed science, not related to philosophy or theoretical ideas around purer sciences. More specifically citizen science like this not for profit air quality map - https://waqi.info/ https://waqi.info/ Tools to the people.

papandada 5y ago

This has me desiring a PM2.5 meter now. Any unexpected results or significant improvements you've found?

aaron695 5y ago
Cooking without burning things could really spike it. No behaviour change yet. With the fireplace I will behave in a way that creates less spikes now, just more effort to be less smokey. And to light a fire well is a cool skill you can nerd on. I do want to get a better fireplace. Somedays it just spikes, I don't know why. Perhaps pollen, I'll work it out one day perhaps. I bought a Ultrasonic Incense, because I'm a nerd that's kinda techy and fun. Undecided if I like it. And I always run the filter, wattage is less than a led light, and cost a little (Filters aren't real cheap) but way less than my 'longevity' drugs. It could be dumb, but I have more info every day. If you're a hacker who follows through you can make one, mines un-assembled in the cupboard, discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20640114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20640114

cycomanic 5y ago

I fail to understand how this is related to the topic of scientific discoveries and the technology underlying it. Yes your personal discoveries might be based on purchasing a PM2.5 meter, but personal discoveries and understanding are not generally related to scientific discoveries or understanding. If you study e.g. quantum mechanics it will not generally advance our (as society) understanding of quantum mechanics. Maybe you will become a great quantum researcher and make discoveries but it will be your discoveries then that advance understanding

aaron695 5y ago
If you want to jump back the the main article around the philosophy of science then yes not relevant. I haven't read the book but I'm not talking temporal consciousness, phenomenologists and philosophy and things. > it will be your discoveries then that advance understanding This in practical reality doesn't really happen. The philosophy fails here. I'm just talking analytically around what happens when people get a device that can measure 1/10 finer or how Excel has pushed science, not related to philosophy or theoretical ideas around purer sciences. More specifically citizen science like this not for profit air quality map - https://waqi.info/ https://waqi.info/ Tools to the people.