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by daoboy 2y ago
At $35, it is much less expensive than I anticipated. Still interested in seeing third party reviews. A couple years ago I got a phone camera lens kit in hopes of augmenting my cellphone photography and it was less than stellar.
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by daoboy 2y ago
This post made me feel defensive. Which is a good time to stop and reflect. Thanks for sharing the thoughtful advice
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by daoboy 2y ago
I have not read Peter Hamilton, but always looking for new good books. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by daoboy 2y ago
The Bobiverse Series by Dennis Taylor. These books aren't anything that will change your life, but they're well written and a lot of fun.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Very fun to play around with. Thank you!
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Scientist Shamans(isegoria.net)
2 points by daoboy 3y ago|0 comments
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Artificial Gravity Induced by Centrifugation on the International Space Station(xcdsystem.com)
2 points by daoboy 3y ago|1 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
They conducted an experiment to mitigate the serious problem of physical atrophy in zero g conditions. It looks like centrifugal artificial gravity as low as .33 g may be sufficient to prevent many of the issues (in mice).
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Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated(phys.org)
3 points by daoboy 3y ago|0 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
That is a very cool gift. While not exactly the same, I got my wife a framed print of the stars over our wedding day as an anniversary gift a few years after we were married. It may be a little niche, but I think there is a market for that
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by daoboy 3y ago
Looks like they are close to implementimg the ideas the ideas from this 2021 paper: Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs&
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UC Santa Cruz researchers build AI to prevent drownings(siliconvalley.com)
3 points by daoboy 3y ago|1 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
Between this and Michael Levin's work the future looks bright for a revolutionary leap forward in medical care. I was surprised to see that the newt doesn't repair tendons with the same material. It uses a 'tendon-like collag
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by daoboy 3y ago
I did, but it was a surprisingly close thing! My friend and I were recruited for a counterintelligence spot that paid a $35,000 re-enlistment bonus at the time. I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger and stay in. My friend st
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by daoboy 3y ago
Absolutely all of that. About a year of my enlistment in the Marine Corps was under a platoon sergeant who was one of the worst people I have ever met. Petty, cruel, and genuinely sadistic. He had authority over virtually every aspect of o
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by daoboy 3y ago
"The Department of Correction :currently charges 12 cents per minute, and most county sheriffs charge 14 cents per minute — forcing cash-strapped prisoners, or their families, to spend $2.40 and $2.80 for a 20-minute call in addition t
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Do You Still Have the Right to a Jury Trial?(reason.com)
42 points by daoboy 3y ago|45 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
That distinction seems really obvious now that you said it. Thank you.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Anything you can do with a calculator is obviously trivial. Is there a clear point of departure when AI can no longer handle mathematical reasoning?
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by daoboy 3y ago
It is interesting to see how a handful of writers (especially Phillip K Dick!) really dominated the genre. Also a few forgotten gems I am going to have to reread now.
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by daoboy 3y ago
That is absolutely absurd. I initially read this as 1,2,3 steps (for a total of 3), so the scale of the ridiculousness was doubly surprising.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Seconded! It is a wonderful book. Also an easy read and not very long.
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by daoboy 3y ago
The phenomenon is certainly nothing new (see Sayre's Law). People are petty, awful, wonderful, magnificent creatures...and everything in between. The new thing is the tools that enable massive groups to mob together and fulfill their w
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by daoboy 3y ago
It seems remiss to leave out the publish or perish dynamic that requires anyone pursuing a career in academia to churn out publications with little to no regard for their quality. Especially in light of the evidence in recent years that pee
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by daoboy 3y ago
Different things are different. Related, the same thing is different to different people, and can even be different to the same person at different times. Also related, everything is more than one thing depending on the context in which it
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by daoboy 3y ago
Congratulations! Getting all the way to the end of a project like this is a huge accomplishment and you should take pride in that.
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by daoboy 3y ago
I live in a Sears house! This is very cool, I did not realize how common they are.
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by daoboy 3y ago
I was driving home from a friend's house one night down an empty suburban side street. I stopped at an intersection to mess with my phone for a second, although there was no stop sign there. A car full of teenagers blew past down the c
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by daoboy 3y ago
"I just attended a talk on the mathematics of diffusion image generation models and it blew me away. Takeaways: 1. The math is very “simple” 2. In fact, it’s so simple that this method shouldn’t really work 3. The fact it does says s
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The math of diffusion image generation tell us something fundamental(nitter.net)
2 points by daoboy 3y ago|1 comments

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