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by aatish 12y ago
Thanks!
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by aatish 12y ago
Hi. The needles are wax structures that protrude from the leaf, they aren't part of the leaf. So the added surface area doesn't absorb any air, and I doubt it helps in evaporative cooling either.
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by aatish 12y ago
Hey, I know an A. Manfredi. Are you Anthony from Swat?
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by aatish 12y ago
Hey - I'm the author of this piece. Thanks for voting it up to the front page. I love finding cool science in ordinary/everyday places, and am curious to hear people's responses to the piece. Cheers.
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The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window(wired.com)
350 points by aatish 12y ago|62 comments
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A Frog That Can Survive Being Frozen Alive(wired.com)
1 points by aatish 12y ago|0 comments
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To Save Drowning People, Ask Yourself “What Would Light Do?”(nautil.us)
14 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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Using Microsoft Kinect to Make Your Own Dance Video(wired.com)
1 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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How to Toughen Glass by Cracking It: A Lesson From Teeth and Shells(wired.com)
1 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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The Questions That Computers Can Never Answer(wired.com)
2 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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by aatish 13y ago
Hi. Author of the piece here. Thought this might be of interest to the Hacker News audience. I'm interested in hearing people's feedback and reactions to the piece.
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The experiment that forever changed how we think about reality(wired.com)
4 points by aatish 13y ago|1 comments
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The Fluid Dynamics Of Archerfish Hunting by Spitting(wired.com)
3 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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A New Kind of Food Science: How IBM is Using Big Data to Invent Creative Recipes(wired.com)
2 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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by aatish 13y ago
In the article I described the discrete fourier transform, but there is a continuous version, where a signal is represented by an infinite sum (really an integral) of component frequencies. This is the version that is more generally useful.
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by aatish 13y ago
This is actually really valuable feedback and one of the things I like about the HN audience. I struggle to strike a balance between precision and simplicity, and your comments raised many interesting subtleties that I had overlooked. So th
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by aatish 13y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Sure, any digital signal is by definition finite in its resolution (the sample rate or bits). I was trying to address the distinction between wave files of the type stored on audio CDs, and MP3s - both digital sign
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by aatish 13y ago
Hi Hacker News - I'm the author of the piece, also on twitter @aatishb. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. I encourage you to share your thoughts and insights with other readers by leaving a comment on the post, particularly if you
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Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face(nautil.us)
356 points by aatish 13y ago|100 comments
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by aatish 13y ago
I see your monster truck madness website, and I raise you the Space Jam website, unchanged since 1996 http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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The physics of human sperm vs. the physics of the sperm whale(ed.ted.com)
1 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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The physics of why a swarm of caterpillars is faster than a single caterpillar(empiricalzeal.com)
5 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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The science of levitating chains, explained using video analysis and physics(empiricalzeal.com)
4 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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The physics of magnets can model how Supreme Court judges vote(empiricalzeal.com)
2 points by aatish 13y ago|0 comments
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by aatish 13y ago
I have one: press shift and alt while changing volume or brightness and you can change it in fine-grained steps. Not super useful, but kind of neat.
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by aatish 13y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post (on twitter at @aatishb). I'd be happy to get your feedback and constructive criticism on this analysis. My take is that, given the many assumptions, I'm pretty darn surprised that it gave
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Video analysis of the eruption at Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano(empiricalzeal.com)
12 points by aatish 13y ago|1 comments
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Universal laws behind growth patterns, from Tetris to coffee stains(empiricalzeal.com)
56 points by aatish 14y ago|12 comments
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by aatish 14y ago
Thanks, that's a nice, concrete suggestion and I see your point.
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by aatish 14y ago
Thank you. What I liked about the metaphor is that it fairly accurate. But you may be right about the overuse - it's hard for me to work out the right balance when explaining physics, and I perhaps err on over-explaining. Then again, no on

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