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by Qworg 13y ago
As is relabelling of honey from countries where the US has banned honey imports (like China), due to health and dumping concerns. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/07/173737521/nation...
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by Qworg 13y ago
Resources? That's hard to say - I'm not sure others address keeping bees like I do. I can offer a few examples. Varrora Destructor is a mite that afflicts colonies - it is voracious and a pain to get rid of. One of the best non-
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by Qworg 13y ago
CCD has impacted me - less than others as I only have a few hives. The numbers are astounding - 50-75% dead hives over winters are not uncommon. It puts an incredible amount of strain on the entire beekeeping system. I believe that CCD ha
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by Qworg 13y ago
This is very true. You'll never make that much as a hobby beekeeper. The real money is in pollination. That said, the hours worked calculation for me last year was $650 / 10-15 hours or so.
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by Qworg 13y ago
Botulism is very real and very scary. I wouldn't risk it on pasteurization. I would also not recommend pasteurized honey - it destroys a lot of what makes honey good when you heat it so high.
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by Qworg 13y ago
Actually, honey keeps as long as you don't get extra water into it. Almost nothing else does. The container is key for storing it in terrible conditions.
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by Qworg 13y ago
Bees really are "magic" as per the article. I've been beekeeping for 3 years now and I love it. Working with such programmable insects is almost like watching automata at work. Via simple inputs, complex behavior. I recommend
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by Qworg 13y ago
This does seem pretty steep, at least at first blush. A camera, two lasers, and a turntable. Add software - mostly front end work. That said, you are definitely paying for the MakerBot name - compare the price/capabilities of their Ma
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by Qworg 13y ago
The "Fukushima 50" walked back into the plant after being ordered to evacuate. Not ritual suicide, but close: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
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by Qworg 13y ago
You wouldn't see this in an XBox game though - the XBox SDK doesn't support it.
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by Qworg 13y ago
The Leap won't be a "real input device" until you can get your hands out of the flat orientation. At this point, it is a toy. I think the article is good coverage of the state of the device.
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by Qworg 13y ago
Having worked with the IHMC in the past, I recommend them highly. =)
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by Qworg 13y ago
Invisalign braces and Vivera retainers are already 3D printed (using UV photopolymer and a laser). They just do it at a factory, because the 3D printer that can produce that level of detail/strength is terribly expensive.
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by Qworg 13y ago
I'm not sure that regulation for drones is "hackable". The FAA will most likely rule towards the prevailing use of drones - which will be for government organizations, not individual, untrained users. Also, this particular ru
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by Qworg 13y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote / Cleveland Roboticist and sensor specialist available for system level projects. I love combining hardware, electronics and code into commercial products. Some example projects: http://www.mind-melt.co
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GM Wheat found in Oregon 10 years after abandoned by Monsanto(cbc.ca)
48 points by Qworg 13y ago|51 comments
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by Qworg 13y ago
The company was Canesta. ToF sensors were their thing. [1] Microsoft bought them in 2010, and it seems like they finally got their tech integrated (and cut Primesense out in the process). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canesta
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by Qworg 13y ago
The new Kinect has been reported to have all of the processing it needs internally - and a 2 GB/s data link to push it all down. I'm really excited to see what price point this comes in at.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Except K4W SDK is still closed source. This is simply the example code showing how the SDK works... You still need to have a K4W sensor head to use the Kinect for any commercial activity (rather than the Kinect for XBox).
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by Qworg 14y ago
Pittsburgh, PA - Deeplocal Fulltime iOS, Android and Web Developers Deeplocal is an experience company - tenuously hooked into the advertising and marketing world. We're looking for great "T-shaped" people who want to do amazing work. We s
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by Qworg 14y ago
From the description the BBC gave, it seems they're behind the curve: "A series of optical beacons on the roadside can detect the positions of pedestrians and obstacles, and relay information to the prototype about whether a traffic light i
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by Qworg 14y ago
Vote manipulation? Yes. Just what we need? Definitely. I cannot think of a scenario where having more people in a representative sample would be worse than having less.
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by Qworg 14y ago
That's different - special effects in movies make the impossible possible. A better actor couldn't conjure up the Grid. A better musician COULD sing on tune. It is well within human capability. Autotuning is a quick hack to make up for n
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Meet the robots that will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by Qworg 14y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 14y ago
I did career day at my daughter's school, when she was in 4th grade (ages 9-11). It was interesting that the kids were far more interested in computers than in robotics. They were even more interested in gaming, which I kind of expected (
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by Qworg 14y ago
As the majority of robotics research in the US is paid for by the military, I think there's more of a market for "fast computation on board" than you'd think. Communication and networking is expensive and hard. As a practicing roboticist,
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by Qworg 14y ago
The camera resolution is fixed by the hardware. I think they'd have to wait until a better Kinect is built. That said, you COULD go the way of several hacks I've seen - marry a high resolution external camera to the Kinect rig, do the corr
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by Qworg 14y ago
Finally. OpenKinect has had these features for quite a long time. =) I'm happy that Microsoft is officially supporting these features - and I'm looking forward to seeing what gets built.
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by Qworg 14y ago
No, sorry, it can't. It comes down to sensor systems. The Google Car uses a Velodyne - and it is terrible in heavy rain, snow, or fog. It has radar, but that isn't accurate enough to allow driving. The human eye is an amazing sensor, one
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by Qworg 14y ago
Until they can solve the sensor issues, they won't be. Heavy rain, snow and fog are still damnably difficult for them to deal with in a reasonable fashion.

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