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Self-charging, thousand-year battery startup NDB lands first beta customers(techcrunch.com)
6 points by amacbride 6y ago|0 comments
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Turning Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel(anl.gov)
3 points by amacbride 6y ago|0 comments
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by amacbride 6y ago
I really enjoyed the workshops and the talks; I thought the SciML and MLJ talks were particularly good. Everything is available on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP8iPy9hna6Tl2UHTrm4j...
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by amacbride 6y ago
[gestures broadly at everything]
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by amacbride 6y ago
Today I learned about cucurbitacins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitacin
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by amacbride 6y ago
Very cool article. The Hiller Air & Space museum mentioned in the piece is well worth visiting if one happens to be in the Bay Area.
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by amacbride 6y ago
It occurred to me as they were taking down the cantilever (eastern) section of the Bay Bridge that lots of it would have been low-background, based on its construction in the 1930s.
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by amacbride 6y ago
Ultra-low power indeed: I often get 6+ days of use before having to recharge. I’ve been very happy with mine; the sleep tracking seems quite consistent with my subjective experience, and the activity/exercise detection matches closely
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by amacbride 7y ago
This is a piece of art: the most polite and well-researched STFU I have ever seen. A gem: “We also note that any real-time systems requiring sub-millisecond latency inevitably have limited scope because of the constraints of the speed of li
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by amacbride 7y ago
“In an affidavit unsealed Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Robert Plumb said Lieber, who led a Harvard research group focusing on nanoscience, had established a research lab at the Wuhan university — apparently unbeknownst to Harvard.” This is pr
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by amacbride 7y ago
Their work on the Bay Bridge replacement structure was also amazing. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/09/04/c-c-myers-gets-prais...
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by amacbride 7y ago
XDR FTW!
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by amacbride 7y ago
I always think of it as such when crossing it. There’s at least one petition out there to officially name it that, which I think would be awesome.
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by amacbride 7y ago
Do Not Want. (Seriously, I understand the need for companies to broaden product offerings, explore new markets, etc., but it often leads to the original product that made them successful getting neglected, discontinued, or made terrible in
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by amacbride 7y ago
Plus, of course, you’d be in microgravity. I’m sure that adds quite a kick to the visuals (which wouldn’t be present in VR.)
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by amacbride 7y ago
For example, here’s the CAISO report for today (there are other reporting options as well): http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx
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by amacbride 7y ago
One of my Saturday-morning favorites; looking back, it certainly helped inspire me to go into the sciences. I think its environmental messages resonate even more strongly now than they did then.
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by amacbride 7y ago
I’ve written and participated in a number of (successful and unsuccessful) Phase I&II SBIR & STTR grants via the NIH; can anyone who has done both NIH and NSF grants speak to any substantive differences between the two agencies?
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by amacbride 8y ago
They listened as a river of incandescent margarine ignited fuel tanks and burst the tires of abandoned vehicles. This may be the most evocative sentence I've read this year.
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by amacbride 8y ago
I’d pay a similar amount just for folding —- especially with a kid or two and two working parents, it’s our biggest household time-suck.
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by amacbride 8y ago
The show at the Guggenheim was great; I would highly recommend it if you're near Manhattan. I particularly enjoyed her late watercolors.
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by amacbride 8y ago
That’s a feature, not a bug: we keep our snow in Tahoe, where it belongs!
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by amacbride 8y ago
Exactly. With the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Oracle bought themselves a number of huge customers who are disinclined to change ERP systems on anything other than decade-long timelines. It has evolved and is now cloud...ish, so they can
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by amacbride 8y ago
Yes, but now with restrictions on buying property. (It makes it much less of an attractive proposition.)
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by amacbride 8y ago
My BeagleBone Black runs a Debian-based distro (Angstrom), and there are spins based on Debian proper, Ubuntu, etc. So it’s definitely good to know.
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by amacbride 8y ago
I always look them up on CrunchBase or similar sites first. (EDGAR is also good.)
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by amacbride 8y ago
“7.1. Don’t go for homebrew logics D&S is not the only example; in general computer people seem to have a penchant for whipping up homebrew logics. See E.F. Codd’s Relational Calculus [12], an obvious mess.” An interesting perspective,
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by amacbride 8y ago
Oh, that guy. Suing PNAS and the author of a study critical of his work is honestly quite shocking. One would hope the work would stand for itself, or at least the response should’ve been another paper rather than a lawsuit.
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by amacbride 8y ago
Exactly. Not too terribly long ago, estimates for the number of human genes ranged as high (or higher) than 100,000. Instead, we found significantly fewer genes, but with much more complicated regulatory networks and novel mechanisms (such
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by amacbride 8y ago
We had a 3rd-Generation Toyota 4WD that was simply amazing -- I think we sold it with 350K miles on it, and it's probably still running today. I looked at a recent Tacoma, and was shocked at how huge they'd gotten. https:/&#

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