backwardsmoo

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by backwardsmoo 7mo ago
Aah! I made something similar to this near the end of my PhD! Rather than having an aperture in front of the imaging plane, I elected to place a controllable aperture at the imaging plane. Then, by selectively placing an aperture or patte
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by backwardsmoo 1y ago
The example that I saw was of a patient whose prostate had swollen closing up the urethra. HIFU was applied to ablate the urethra which “opened it back up” so that fluids could pass through again un-impeded. As a consequence the patient cou
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by backwardsmoo 1y ago
I had the absolute pleasure during my engineering undergraduate (Oxford) to take a biomedical module. One of my 'labs' was on nonlinear acoustics, specifically ultrasound applied for therapeutic uses. It was very captivating seein
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by backwardsmoo 1y ago
It's quite rare that art grabs me, but this did. I love the idea of bending photographic truth in real-time, especially with an optical device. I find the Fulgurator a bit subversive and also unsettling, how much in a photo is manipula
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by backwardsmoo 2y ago
How can I reach you?
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by backwardsmoo 2y ago
Outside of finance, I generally find UK software and hardware comp to be abysmal. Especially when contrasted to the US, and even Germany. For reference, I hold a doctorate in Engineering and a Class 1 MEng both at Oxford. I was offered £40k
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by backwardsmoo 2y ago
That's not necessarily true. I think this speaks to how American Exceptionalism (often observed in US defaultism on the web) is a problem.
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by backwardsmoo 2y ago
I was always led to believe that the primary source of radiation we need to worry about for space travel was Cosmic Radiation [1]. The shielding requirements for CR relative to solar radiation requires much more material, to protect from ra
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by backwardsmoo 3y ago
What? The chunnel cost £26 billion in (2023 equivalent), and is 31 miles long. That's nearly a billion a mile. This is by no means cheap (yes yes cheap is a comparative term), tunnelling is absurdly expensive and not realistic. It&#x27
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by backwardsmoo 3y ago
Luckily enough I have just finished my PhD on optical wireless receivers. While it is truly fascinating, I think it's fundamentally over-hyped as a technology and I doubt it'll ever replace conventional RF communications. I have i
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by backwardsmoo 3y ago
Exceptional read.