JabavuAdams

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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Not sure why this is getting down-voted. One of the greatest stories of courage and principled behaviour I have heard of is of the US helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. who intervened in the My Lai massacre, saving children and civilians.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Yeah, me too. I guess investors get this, although there's usually spin.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Same here. The crackpot side of me is trying to create intelligent tools to augment my own intelligence, so that I can get smart/fast/wise enough to understand / predict / control enough biology so I don't die of so
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
"If we just do better, they'll come around". Nah. Sometimes we're just starting too far apart, or frankly the person is not smart enough or has some mental difference that makes the requisite study too hard. We should tr
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These Journalists got the Iraq war right (Knight-Ridder)(ctvnews.ca)
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
The point of press/courts/rule of law is that at least you have a chance. Without those, no chance. That matters. The US is not some monolithic entity. It's almost weirdly schizophrenic. Yes, the government will e.g. use some
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Agreed.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I sense that we may me talking past one another. You seem to be focusing on my word choice and and justifying that we should spend resources studying COVID-19. My post does not dispute this at all. What I'm saying is that to conclude t
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
That's not as bad as you might think, depending on your specific concern. We're basically worms with extra doodads glommed on. Cake hole connected to poop hole, with gonads. Also, sometimes brains, but mostly gonads. Sorry, I don&
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Yes, this. COVID-19 is topical now, so we're looking hard, here. Is this something we've looked for with other diseases/conditions, in the past? If we go looking now, do we find that other insults that we thought we understoo
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I mean, or we could not catastrophize and slippery-slope this. Given the eye-rolls and push-back just on evidence here, I don't think this idea has legs. I wonder how much of this is generational. Like "how freaking entitled are t
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Yes! The fact that someone would write a doc like this for their own introspection and growth - great! The fact that you would publish it or supply it as a prelude to interaction - weeeird. But again, I've made similar gaffes. Will pro
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
This is neat, but it puts a certain spin on your personality that might give others pause, even if they would be totally okay with working with someone who just behaved as outlined in the doc. There's a whiff of being overly prescripti
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics. One co
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Ukraine: Why so many African and Indian students were in the country(bbc.com)
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
One thing to remember in all of these assessments is that Russia has the GDP of Canada, with almost 5x the population. Okay, they have lots of nukes, but maintaining and securing those are very expensive. Russia in 2022 is not the USSR of t
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Just taking notes, for now. Might try to incorporate what I learn into a simulation/game/work of fiction. Looking forward to having the sci-fi auto-surgeon.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Thanks, I did have the sense that it would be impossible to formalize all the variations. So, perhaps I should not have written "exhaustive". I just would like something more complete than my initial searches revealed. I think tha
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I'm in Canada, but this is quite helpful, nonetheless. Thanks!
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: Is there an exhaustive list of surgical procedures?
20 points by JabavuAdams 5y ago|22 comments
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Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Airborne Contaminants [pdf](nasa.gov)
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Ask HN: How to build a piano that sounds good after decades of low maintenance?
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
> Have you never shopped for textiles for your house or apartment? 45 years old, and no. Why would I do that? All my furniture and drapes are pretty much IKEA. I have some interest in clothing, but aside from the occasional Hallowe'
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
One of these is not like the others.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Bridson also wrote a book - Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics https://www.routledge.com/Fluid-Simulation-for-Computer-Grap... The first edition was really good on the nitty gritty implementation details.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I should say that this work is not simulating things at this detail. Instead, it's more like a biophysical model of a bunch of chemical reactions with rate information. It probably boils down to a big system of coupled differential equ
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
For instance, the cartoon version of DNA that is presented to even lower-year biology undergraduates is of linearized strands. But of course, it's really all spooled and tangled and crunched up into the nucleus of cells. Note that the
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
It's generally not possible to see where everything is in an actual cell, in realtime, due to the sizes of the components. So most of molecular biology relies on very clever lab techniques to indirectly infer what cells are making and
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Even one atom of a heavier element cannot be simulated in the real, depending on what level of detail you want. Multi-atom simulations usually treat them as little non-quantum balls moving around in a force-field that may have been approxim

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