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by amayne 7y ago
This concept is like someone in the 1800s suggesting that transatlantic travel would be best accomplished by building floating railroad tracks across the ocean...instead of aircraft.
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by amayne 7y ago
My special was “Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver” where I built a suit to fool great white senses. Not shown in the special was the work we did trying to understand how sharks process visual data differently than humans. One interesting note is th
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by amayne 7y ago
Understood. This is an area of image research I have an interest and some experience in (image segmentation, background inpainting, etc., through machine learning.) I think your results are wonderful. I was just pointing out that from my ba
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by amayne 7y ago
Cool. But that’s not what we call the Ken Burns Effect in the industry. This is 2.5 D parallax shift as seen in the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ken Burns Effect is panning and zooming to highlight features in a photo then fadi
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by amayne 7y ago
One difference is that in the US and other Western countries is that these metrics don’t only come from one state-authorized authority. Investment firms, news outlets, economists routinely check these metrics and offer their own. In China,
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by amayne 7y ago
Hah!
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by amayne 7y ago
I believe that was the Fifth Element...
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by amayne 7y ago
A 10% reduction would mean you’d get approximately 5 more tons to the Moon (not 300.) The Saturn V was capable of delivering 50 tons to lunar insertion. Reducing the fuel requirement improves the payload amount by that percentage. It’s no
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by amayne 7y ago
In the iOS version of the Audible app, Apple would get approximately 30% of the purchase price if it was bought in-app. For digital content like audiobooks where Audible earns approximately 30% per title (they pay the publisher 70% of retai
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by amayne 7y ago
The key difference is velocity. Exos/Armadillo have never launched an orbital class vehicle, which comes down a lot faster and hotter. I love Carmack and rooted for Armadillo. But ballutes are 50 year old tech (Gemini’s escape system
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by amayne 7y ago
I watched the whole presentation. I was expecting Beck would go into the specifics about the problems and how they specifically are planning to solve them, kind of like Musk does. I’m sure we’ll get more details. I was just curious.
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by amayne 7y ago
This is great. I was hoping for a little more information in the presentation on the specifics, but still wonderful news. Best part was reading a Reddit forum before the announcement where someone was making a passionate argument that the p
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by amayne 7y ago
I got to know Marvin a little. I used to use magic to teach critical thinking in classrooms and talk to him about this. Marvin loved the idea of kids learning how to fool adults so they’d not be afraid to question authority.
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by amayne 7y ago
I believe it's called lower prices – at least in theory. (My apologies for coming across as pedantic.) Physical stores use them to remain competitive in pricing. The lower price is your incentive for doing it yourself (again in theory.
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by amayne 7y ago
This. People forget how new touch was to a generation coming from the mouse, windows and scroll wheels.
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by amayne 7y ago
-> www.boringcompany.com
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by amayne 7y ago
I've done a few Periscope streams on my Twitter feed about this. You can check them out at @AndrewMayne.
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by amayne 7y ago
First I write a couple sentence mission statement about what the book is about, the character’s journey, the resolution, etc. This is my way of keeping track if the book is on course or not. Does every chapter serve that mission? I then sta
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by amayne 7y ago
I spend anywhere from a few days to a few weeks working on an outline. This is while doing other things.
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by amayne 7y ago
“On Writing” is a wonderful book. If you’re Stephen King, plot and structure run through your veins. If you’re a mortal like the rest of us and “seat of the pants” isn’t working...then outline. Outlining also saves you from having to random
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by amayne 7y ago
I’m a working novelist (I put out about two books a year, I’m a WSJ best-seller, Edgar nominee, blah blah blah) and the number one mistake I made in the past is the same as when I would sit down in front of a code editor or Photoshop and no
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by amayne 7y ago
I’ve seen this in the US in rural parts of Georgia.
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by amayne 7y ago
Doggerland is one of my favorite historical subjects. It's really worth a deep dive if you're unfamiliar with it. The TL:DR is that eight thousand years ago the UK and continental Europe were connected by land (now under the North
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by amayne 7y ago
I think this article is very short-sighted. Furthering space technology involves developing and investing in better solar, more efficient closed-loop environmental systems, waste management, low-impact food production and a zillion other th
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by amayne 7y ago
Very cool.
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by amayne 7y ago
If I'd never heard of Steve Jobs and NeXT, NeXTSTEP or how much it influenced everything from Berners-Lee's ideas about the WWW, object-oriented programming or a dozen other things, um, still no. I learned to program on an Apple I
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by amayne 8y ago
Saw the headline and thought this might be about Rick Adams and UUNET (i.e. NUNET before a filing mistake.)
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by amayne 8y ago
I’m at Kennedy Space Center on the causeway across from the launch pad. Just watched it from approximately 5 miles away. Insane.
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by amayne 8y ago
Yes...until we reached the end of the driveway and the electrical cords unplugged.
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by amayne 8y ago
I write novels, had a magic prank show on A&E and I just starred in a special for Discovery Channel involving great whites sharks. So it kind of worked out.

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