ahaefner

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by ahaefner 10y ago
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | Berkeley, CA | Scientific Engineering Associate We use computer vision and machine learning to improve gamma-ray radiation detection and mapping. For example, we have used these techniques to map contaminati
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Neutron Drones(nnsa.energy.gov)
1 points by ahaefner 10y ago|0 comments
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What's the third most common element?(medium.com)
206 points by ahaefner 11y ago|65 comments
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by ahaefner 12y ago
it might be an ode to boings skunkworks witch designed a lot of their specialized planes, like the SR-71 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
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by ahaefner 12y ago
This is similar to nuclear gamma-ray imaging, such as in medical application, where the number of counts is inherently low because the high energy photons are more penetrating and thus escape the camera.
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by ahaefner 12y ago
It was said that "Trane was the father, Pharoah was the son and I am the Holy Ghost" by Albert ayler, referring to three different saxophone players. I suppose this completes the religious metaphor
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by ahaefner 12y ago
Commercial power reactors are very expensive initially (multiple billions). This is a huge barrier to entry for most power plants. So the thinking is if the size can be reduced so can the cost. The military is interesting because they alrea
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by ahaefner 12y ago
It's interesting that a lot of these instruments are electronic recreations of pre-existing instruments. As a saxophone player who has played an EWI, the electronic versions take time to learn and often end up feeling not as expressive
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by ahaefner 12y ago
Also their interface for tracking plays has gotten significantly worse. And you have to pay extra to get most of the same information you get for free from youtube.
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AMA Nuclear: UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Profs(reddit.com)
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by ahaefner 13y ago
Directions are routed away from the bridge while it's closed, so maybe they removed it for this reason.
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by ahaefner 13y ago
To everyone bashing Intellectual Ventures, the key here is that TerraPower is a spinoff. They are becoming independent of IV precisely because they don't want to be a patent troll. Also one LOL of having Bill Gates fund your nuclear co
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by ahaefner 14y ago
I saw a presentation about Blaze at PyData. The CEO of Continuum was the author of Numpy and said they are doing everything he would have done differently in Blaze. Also, Blaze is attempting to abstract the concept of having huge arrays dis