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by biotinker 4y ago
Exactly. It's the automobile equivalent of the Shepard Tone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
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by biotinker 4y ago
The problem with asking "actual users" in this way, is that it fundamentally ties the user's pre-existing conception of these apps to their responses. If a user had been served the same content on Reels that they were on TikT
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by biotinker 4y ago
That's not true. The concept of free speech, and what is specifically allowed and disallowed by the First Amendment of the USA, are two different things. Not least which is that the latter applies to a small fraction of the world'
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by biotinker 4y ago
Theranos is so huge in some people's minds because it billed itself first as a Silicon Valley style tech company, so people associated with Silicon Valley style tech companies are well aware of it. There have been tons of companies doi
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by biotinker 4y ago
There could very well be worthwhile things spurred or inspired by things the SLS does. If the SLS indeed manages to put people back on the moon in the next 2-3 years, that could inspire a permanent moon presence, and that would be huge for
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by biotinker 4y ago
This is a really quite impressively written article about the very beginning about applying machine learning to circuit design, from the late 90s. Until I found the associated research paper, I at first wasn't sure if I was reading som
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Creatures from Primordial Silicon(folk.idi.ntnu.no)
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by biotinker 4y ago
How would you define "higher lifeforms" such that it does not include birds? Parthenogenesis has also been induced in mammals (mice) in a lab setting, though it has not been observed in the wild yet.
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by biotinker 4y ago
Numerous organisms regularly reproduce via cloning, including most of the oldest and largest organisms, e.g. Pando. Bacteria, many plants, and some simpler animals primarily reproduce via cloning. Parthenogenesis is also a strategy employed
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by biotinker 4y ago
To your first two questions, the Right Of First Refusal[0] has a long history of being a financial instrument for just about anything. I see no reason why this would be something different. The current system, to me, has just as much entitl
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by biotinker 4y ago
I worked as a bioinformatician at a medical device company. We did genetic testing on cancer patients, and had huge amounts of private, personal information on the patients we were testing, because it was necessary to provide the correct cl
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by biotinker 4y ago
> Eg. if the lender is going bankrupt and selling the debt for 30% of it's value, they should offer that purchase price to the debtor? There's really nothing prohibiting them from doing that, I don't see why a law needs to
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by biotinker 4y ago
That's true, but in and of itself, it's less toxic to humans than ethanol is. It degrades in the environment quite readily, as well. If we were looking for a chemical to deploy at scale to clean up PFAS in existing environments, w
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by biotinker 4y ago
> If I can't get stuff done with it it's useless. Actually useless. I think the very article we're commenting on here shows that it is very definitely not actually useless, it may merely have a different true use than is r
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by biotinker 4y ago
> I can really only name a handful of projects that are widely used and of high quality that have not been largely funded by commercial world: OpenSSH, some other BSD stuff, what else? Is this perhaps though a result of most projects all
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by biotinker 4y ago
This unfortunately only works in situations where rich text is available that can hide the UUID, which is not the case for HN. The person you replied to is correct: they cannot share the URL literally in that comment, without using the UUID
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by biotinker 4y ago
There are more practical, everyday application for that fact as well. When I lived next to a train track, I built a seismograph to detect oncoming trains, and had a white noise machine that would ramp up volume as the train approached to pr
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by biotinker 4y ago
That's on the list of things I've been meaning to do but haven't gotten around to :P but now that it's been specifically requested I will put that together this week, and let you know when I do.
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by biotinker 4y ago
Like so many large-scale processes, things change "slowly, then all at once" with the climate. During the slow change, things aren't immediately obvious, but can be reversed easily. Once the rate of change starts speeding up,
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by biotinker 4y ago
I got my current robotics job, in a field I at the time had no experience in, because of this blog post I wrote: https://biotinker.dev/posts/seismograph.html It didn't get a ton of traction when I posted it on HN
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by biotinker 4y ago
Hand in hand with the increased monetary expense is also the increased energy expense that comes with looking harder and drilling deeper. Let's say that you have an oil field that contains a quantity of oil that, when burned, would rel
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by biotinker 4y ago
Like so many others here, I keep a personal blog. https://biotinker.dev/ I like to write up neat projects that I do. The first post on the site actually helped me get my current job. Occasionally I'll also write up oth
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by biotinker 4y ago
Maybe this would be better messaged at @dang, but regarding: > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. Are there more sp
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by biotinker 4y ago
I think you read a lot into what was a very simplified description of what these tests may look like in the future. It will be a handful of years before Stage 1 blood tests are performed on anyone in a non-experimental fashion, and probably
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by biotinker 4y ago
As someone with a bioinformatics degree and who worked in industry doing liquid biopsy for cancer diagnostics for half a decade, much of what they claimed they could do is possible- just, not with the technology of Theranos' day, and
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by biotinker 4y ago
McIntosh apples do not keep well, and it's very rare to find them significantly out of season. This time of year it would be difficult to find anyone with McIntosh available, now or a couple decades ago. They are a very popular apple i
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by biotinker 4y ago
Cider was once the primary fermented alcoholic drink consumed in the US, but the industry was wiped out by prohibition, and afterwards beer took over. This directly led to the situation we have currently, where in the US, "cider"
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by biotinker 4y ago
I have a personal blog that I occasionally update to write up projects I do. https://biotinker.dev/ All it is is just hand-written HTML from a text editor. No fancy features aside from auto-closing tags when I open them. A
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by biotinker 5y ago
I work for Viam[0] and while all of our actual calculations are made using Spatial Vector Algebra[1], inputs can be made in a number of different ways and supporting DH is crucial for allowing pre-existing configurations to be easily brough
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by biotinker 5y ago
Cider-making does have inherently less hygiene standards than beer-making. The apples have been outdoors for their entire lives, and spraying them with water only does so much. The cider itself is acidic enough that it's not a terribly

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