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by blevin 8y ago
Sounds fascinating. What coordinate systems are used for treatment planning? Given how much bodies can change over time, and the difficulty of re-achieving a specific pose, I'm curious if there are interesting ways to correlate measu
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by blevin 8y ago
Due to the designed complexity of our tax code the IRS cannot compute it both correctly and efficiently across the taxpayer base. Instead, they put the burden on the taxpayers, with stochastic validation and penalties (aka audits). For my
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by blevin 8y ago
As self driving cars become more common I'm curious if we will see an opportunity to shift to more globally efficient cooperative behavior, or if the need to interop with human-driven cars means the same incentives and behavior pattern
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by blevin 8y ago
Very much agree on these points. In my experience the pragmatic path for larger projects has been a hybrid of keeping visual programming graphs self-contained -- roughly within the "asset" boundary -- and then using a hierarchica
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by blevin 8y ago
Knew someone who worked at PG&E. Her department's task was to support calculation of whether it was financially optimal to obey the law or risk paying fines, across PG&E's service footprint.
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by blevin 8y ago
JB Straubel's Redwood Materials is another interesting piece of that picture.
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by blevin 8y ago
Some do, including penicillin: “Antibiotics that cross the BBB tend to have certain physical characteristics including: small molecular size, being lipophilic, binding to fatty molecules on cell membranes, low plasma protein binding and oth
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by blevin 8y ago
Same with sugar in cigarettes, even. Sugar is a major ingredient, and makes them easier to inhale compared to cigars, which partly accounts for their global popularity.
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by blevin 8y ago
"Humans are designed not to be happy, but to pursue happiness -- including wealth and status. Unfortunately, such a pursuit partly promotes unhappiness. Discomfort with our current lot gives us the drive for absolute & relative s
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by blevin 8y ago
Rather than adding fixed channels, many cinemas moved to Dolby Atmos, which has 128 audio streams with spatial placement metadata. Those are rendered to whatever speaker array is available. https://www.dolby.com/us/en&
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by blevin 8y ago
Philosophical Economics has a thoughtful essay on this: https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passive/ I’m going to argue that the trend towards passive management is not only sustainable, but that
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by blevin 8y ago
Sugar is also a major ingredient in cigarettes. In some brands it is the #2 ingredient by weight. http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/27/3/357.1
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by blevin 8y ago
Know any good writing that introduces the game item market to outsiders? I am curious about the thought process of people who spend money in this way, and their perception of value. I imagine a taxonomy of motivations, like the one Larry H
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by blevin 8y ago
Perhaps we will end up with a standardized validation simulation model that autonomous vehicles must pass for licensing. The test suite could grow as more anomalous scenarios are analyzed (ex: acceleration into gore point; white-painted tr
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by blevin 8y ago
A decade ago a fuel-tanker truck crashed on a freeway overpass in Oakland, and the ensuing fire softened enough steel for the overpass to collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30collapse.html T
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by blevin 8y ago
Alternately, it's amazing and inspiring what just happened; other high-end car makers with a century of experience have shipped imperfect brakes for years (1) and only redesigned them on new models in response to complaints. Tesla, by
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by blevin 8y ago
Thanks for this response. My untrained guess is that precessional torque would cause more loss than air friction, assuming the wheel is cleanly symmetric (ex. no bolt heads sticking out). It's fascinating how many paths there are to
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by blevin 8y ago
Are buried flywheels used in practice? Is the flywheel axis aligned with the Earth rotation axis? Do they pull a vacuum around it?
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by blevin 9y ago
Unlike dividends, this channel of return seems distributed according to shareholder's trading savvy. It's often said that a company is overpaying for its shares (1) but the phenomenon minus narrative often seems that the company
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Welcome to a blog I’d like to read: Nerd Safari(peterattiamd.com)
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by blevin 9y ago
You may enjoy reading Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet's book _The Perfect Health Diet_. It includes an approachable survey of results for many supplements, as well as a considered take on why multivitamins seem less crucial than advertise
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by blevin 9y ago
It's not even about a product category. It's about control of the surface area of interfaces people use. Interfaces that aggregate other services often hang poorly, but if you can build one people seek to use, you can build a br
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by blevin 9y ago
The Kitty Cafe concept, where you can pay to have tea and play with cats in person, is sort of an AWS equivalent for the cat ownership experience. It's fascinating that tea is an expected cofactor in this relationship.
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by blevin 9y ago
I work in CG animation, and one thing artists do when procedurally generating geometry is tweak the size distribution of things meant to mimic natural phenomena, such as leaves and rocks. They are typically assembling these as expressions,
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by blevin 9y ago
> It seems like C++ developers either don't give a shit about code quality or they do, and don't make many mistakes anymore. Either way there is little demand for a static analyzer Well, this is like claiming that authors writi
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by blevin 9y ago
Can anyone recommend scraping adapters (businesses or tech) that are robust to this sort of thing? I'm talking about something higher level than, say, Beautiful Soup -- something you can configure to point at an endpoint, essentially
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by blevin 9y ago
> They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective Well, maybe that's the thing: they aren't measurements of relevant skills or perspective. Instead, you might consider it a form of stratified sa
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by blevin 10y ago
Sounds like you might appreciate LFT's Parallelogram fpga demo: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/
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Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD) Open-Sourced(github.com)
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by blevin 10y ago
Anyone needing an idea for a hack project: make a realtime version of this for phone or webcam. Bonus points for swapping in ridiculous sound sets, or keying augmented-reality visual fx overlays.

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