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by cing 11y ago
A great open-source spectrometer built the same way is available from PublicLab here: http://store.publiclab.org/products/desktop-spectrometry-kit... (or you can just build it yourself using their designs on the Wiki).
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by cing 11y ago
g2.8xlarge is 4 GPUs and costs 0.6945/hr on spot instance. You could contribute 120 GPUs for 2 weeks, which would be pretty insignificant: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2
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by cing 11y ago
There are some practical examples of home experiments that can be conducted with a spectrometer on the PublicLab wikipage here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometry-activities I particularly like the idea of being ab
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by cing 11y ago
Great, I got the dependencies installed on OSX and I'm already monsterifying a head shot for LinkedIn. Now, to find a way to get this working in real time with a webcam...
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by cing 11y ago
Taken to the extreme, does anyone know the engineering limitations on how large you could make a functioning CPU?
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by cing 11y ago
That being said, there are good uses of presentation software outside the norm, as in these motion graphics: http://www.lindadong.com/blog/keynotemotiongraphic
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by cing 11y ago
As linked in the last figure caption, there's a Google Photos gallery with high-resolution downloadable versions: https://goo.gl/photos/fFcivHZ2CDhqCkZdA
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David Beazley's PyCon 2015 Talk – Python Concurrency from the Ground Up: Live(youtube.com)
3 points by cing 11y ago|0 comments
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Author response to “HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it” objections(dursi.ca)
37 points by cing 11y ago|4 comments
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by cing 11y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9235912
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Trainable hardware for dynamical computing through physical media(nature.com)
3 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
It could be much cheaper. In the case of the antibiotic violacein, synthesis costs $300000/g ( http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/v9389 ) whereas Acetaminophen costs something like $0.42&#x2
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“You need venture capitalists to invest in music.”(gq.com)
1 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
Agreed. Here's the short attention span version though, http://images-of-math.tumblr.com/archive
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by cing 12y ago
These results indicate that you can eat anything, not just foods enriched with bacteria like probiotic yogurt (which has questionable benefits in itself http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6180/do-probioti.
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Machine vision-guided robot automates harvesting of chicken fillets(munchies.vice.com)
1 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
Easier said than done. If the amount of humidity at the wall is not ideal, you have to visit and water the moss regularly. If the conditions aren't right you often just end up growing mold graffiti ( https://vimeo.com/44
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Analysis of arxiv.org reveals patterns of text reuse(pnas.org)
2 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
I thought this was interesting: "Both Betzig and Moerner made their original pioneering discoveries in industry - Moerner when he was working at IBM in San Jose and Betzig when he was working in his own private company" - http:&
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Pharma company Merck KGaA to acquire Sigma-Aldrich for $17B(businessinsider.com)
1 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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Hardware Initiative at Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
6 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
This is certainly the bottleneck in my research. I ran thousands of core years of computer simulation in the first year of my PhD. I have all the data I need to write a PhD thesis but I'm still years from graduating due to the aforemen
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by cing 12y ago
In other words... a meatspace debugger? Cool idea, but I don't quite buy the comparison to "spaces laden with sensors and visualizations" like the NASA control center, Large Hadron Collider, etc.. All of those spaces revolve
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by cing 12y ago
This statement is a response to articles like this [1] that have been floating around lately. [1] - http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/05/31/mars_build...
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Health Data Startup SolveBio Raises $2M(techcrunch.com)
5 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
Full-text is behind a paywall, but there's a preprint version available here that looks roughly the same: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1095
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Anova Precision Cooker – Cook sous vide with your iPhone(kickstarter.com)
2 points by cing 12y ago|0 comments
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by cing 12y ago
"We also used the Adobe Photoshop CS5 to manipulate the images in order to extract further information." Can't believe they admitted to tampering with their scientific results in an image editing program ;)
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by cing 12y ago
A drone to catch taggers is pretty trivial compared to a drone that paints.
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The Random Number Grand Challenge(kaggle.com)
47 points by cing 13y ago|17 comments

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