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by alexose 4y ago
To clarify, my view is that there are billions of people who never engage with the scientific establishment because they lack the means to do so. Among these are many people who might have made tremendous discoveries if they had grown up i
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by alexose 4y ago
You're so right. I strongly dislike the argument put forward by Bezos and others (paraphrased, "imagine how many Einsteins we would have with a much larger world population"). Completely ignoring the billions of human bra
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by alexose 4y ago
I built a big garden on a top of an unused part of my property out here in Southwest Oregon. When I started, it was nothing but rocks and hardpan. At the time, it was important to me that I engineer a solution that didn't involve brin
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by alexose 4y ago
Yeah! This happened to some extent while I was there, but only around the margins. I'd love to see it be a top priority. To be fair, it's a really tough problem to solve. It would be a tough problem even without the help of the
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by alexose 4y ago
It should be possible to isolate each separate keyboard with a microphone array (but yes, signal processing...) Which makes me wonder: With a sensitive enough microphone array, might it be possible to separate out the locations of each ind
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by alexose 4y ago
I think audiences would reject it as seeming too improbable. Even by modern TV show standards...
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by alexose 4y ago
Appropriate more funds, yes, but more importantly: Fix procurement. This is where there real down-in-the-trenches work needs to happen. Fix every single agency's approach to software procurement, one by one, until the entire federal
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by alexose 4y ago
Elegance for me means a program that's lightning fast, efficient to use, and has a minimal learning curve. The first things that come to mind: OurGroceries, a lovely little free app to share grocery lists with your family FooBar2000,
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by alexose 4y ago
There's a group that is advocating for spraying an Iron Salt Aerosol into the atmosphere, which apparently catalyzes the natural decomposition process. I haven't done a deep dive into the subject, but on the surface it seems pret
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by alexose 5y ago
Seems like the next frontier might be for MLB teams to hire actual cryptographers...
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MLB is turning to an electronic pitch-calling system to fight cheating(engadget.com)
2 points by alexose 5y ago|3 comments
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by alexose 5y ago
I would love to see startups adopt a "poison pill" clause that automatically switches their code over to the MIT license the moment a company goes under. The bigger risk however isn't just that a company goes poof, but that
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by alexose 5y ago
My Norwegian grandfather used to tell a lot of these jokes. "What do you call a Swedish golfer with an IQ of 120? A foursome!"
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by alexose 5y ago
Cool! Would love to chat with you :)
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by alexose 5y ago
I’m a software engineer trying to build open-source, DIY friendly carbon capture machines in my spare time. My current project is an electrolyzer that turns a pure CO2 stream + water into other useful molecules. I’d love to collaborate wit
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by alexose 5y ago
This is really well said. As a person who lived through the first dot-com boom, this feels a lot like the 90's. There are way more ideas than there are viable paths forward. But among these ideas, there's at least a handful of
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by alexose 5y ago
This is fantastic! I'd never considered this pathway for CCUS, but it sounds promising. Biology has evolved some pretty interesting solutions for low-energy CO2 utilization :) I have tons of questions, but my first is: How do you me
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by alexose 5y ago
Hey wslack! Hope you're well. Glad to hear you're still fighting the good fight.
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by alexose 5y ago
I spent a couple of years with the USDS ( https://usds.gov/ ). USDS, along with 18F, are largely responsible for login.gov, as well as a lot of other really great projects. Overall fantastic experience if you're open t
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by alexose 5y ago
I see. So calling it "unstable" isn't really fair. It's more that it just flies differently enough that it would feel unfamiliar to typical 737-trained pilots.
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by alexose 5y ago
As a surface-level-understanding layman myself, what about this is wrong? The 737 MAX is unstable, no?
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by alexose 5y ago
The specific satellite referred to in the article is Sentinel 5P, and has a website here: https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentin... . Technically the methane product is a combination of
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by alexose 5y ago
I've been following these guys for a while. Really cool tech... basically a solid state CO2 absorbing cell using organic compounds and electricity. I think this is the most promising avenue for economical land-based DAC. Relevant pap
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Verdox Captures $80M to Develop Novel Electric Carbon Removal Technology(businesswire.com)
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by alexose 5y ago
I'm working with the OpenAir collective ( https://openaircollective.cc ) on open source DIY-friendly carbon capture machines. We've made some strides lately, but we need more hacker types to advance our research initiat
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by alexose 5y ago
Also a neat write up of a DIY near-IR spec here: https://caoyuan.scripts.mit.edu/ir_spec.html I'm still holding out hope someone will make an open source FT-IR design. I actually need one for a project I'm workin
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by alexose 5y ago
I wish it were this simple... but given that there's ~5250 O2 molecules for each CO2 molecule in the air, this will result in the production of 5250x additional CO2 molecules. Our CO2 capture process would then have to be 99.9999% ef
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by alexose 5y ago
Cool to see this research continued. I've spoken to the authors of a very similar paper, also based in Australia: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.202105... One thing I learned is
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by alexose 5y ago
The question I always come back to is, “what do I expect to be true”? If I believe that the earth is a spheroid, then I expect that satellites rely on orbital mechanics. If I learn about orbital mechanics, I expect to find math that descr
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by alexose 5y ago
Possibly the most underrated web series of all time

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