hasmanean

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by hasmanean 5y ago
Is it possible to use software to post process those images, apply a deconvolution filter and correct the optics? Might that enable the use of cheaper lenses?
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Then it’ll only be 5,000x slower than optimal.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Engineers, stop misspelling enginers. You’re not making siege engines any more.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
There’s a saying, earthquakes don’t kill people—buildings kill people when they collapse. In the open air on a grassland, covid won’t kill a population. The design of our hermetically sealed buildings is what’s killing us. Back in the 1970s
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Where did he think those new golf clubs upgrades came from, twice?
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by hasmanean 5y ago
If you shared your bandwidth with 8 neighbours, you’d have 8x the peak bandwidth. Instead of 100Mbps you’d have 100MBps.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
There’s more history in Robert Becker’s book “the Body Electric”. He says that the US safe limit was arrived at by exposing hot dogs to radar transmitters and noting the lowest level at which they did not cook. The Soviets did their experim
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Lol no.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
One more thing: some people have no eye for aesthetics. I’ve seen (smart) people defend a piece of code, and when I show them a refactored version, they say “that’s literally the exact same thing I wrote.” No it’s not, and yes it is, in the
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by hasmanean 5y ago
True…I should in most communities you can find people who speak English.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
You said India is the worlds largest producers of oxygen and vaccines, but has a lack of trucks to transport them. Is this the same old pattern of infrastructure in colonial economies where all the transportation links are designed to move
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by hasmanean 5y ago
“Most of them don’t speak English?” That is so not true. English is compulsory in Indian schools and has been since partition. There are 125 million English speakers in India, second only to America. You will never find a shortage of people
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by hasmanean 5y ago
In other words Maxwell’s demon requires an input of energy to reverse entropy locally. In other words Maxwell’s demon is not a free energy machine, but a heat pump. It’s an air conditioner. It can make Hell freeze over, but only if it consu
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by hasmanean 5y ago
10 PRINT “HELLO” OK 20 GOTO 10 OK RUN HELLO HELLO HELLO
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by hasmanean 5y ago
For very tall VAWTs in a grid, could you dampen the resonances by tying the tops of the masts together with guy wires?
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by hasmanean 5y ago
People who don’t close tabs because they unconsciously don’t want to lose their search history. At the end of the day your search history should be fed into a personal search engine which digests the data and figures out which pages were mo
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Is the display fast enough to be used as a laptop? I wonder if using an eink display as a detachable auxiliary display to show static data such as calendars, todo lists, chats and system monitoring would be more useful.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Publishing solves the problem of how to copy information. Blockchain solves how to move information from one owner to another. Mathematically copy is an easier problem to solve than move. Physically, move is easier.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Reminds me of the death of Harry Houdini. He used to boast that his stomach could take a punch to the gut. So one day backstage, a McGill student asked him if they could punch him. He said yes, but they landed 4 punches quickly before he ha
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Well it removes the problem entirely from the software domain. If it’s a single purpose imaging device with a fixed geometry like OP suggested, it’s the natural solution.
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by hasmanean 5y ago
Agreed. Histograms can be added and aggregated. You can always estimate the mean from a histogram. So if you compute a histogram of latency values every minute, you can add them up for successive minutes to get the distribution over larger
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Maybe Bitcoin needs a “proof of proof of work” now. If some entity wanted to brute force an attack on the worlds passwords, the increased electricity and heat would be detectable. But they could hide the activity it inside Bitcoin mining. A
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Can you just tilt the camera sensor to get a transformed image? I remember reading that box cameras allowed you to tilt the film image plane to match a skewed object plane in closeups.
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Yes, even though RT2 had better graphics, it didn’t capture the simplistic feel of the original.
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Notice how the things we are able to speak most concretely about are the things which are most remote from most people’s experience? Memory shares a property with holograms or with lenses/mirrors. If you draw a spot with a marker on on
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Interesting you should mention “whole brain” effects. Could it be that the whole brain is involved in memory formation or are these just ripple effects of ... something else? Open loop systems are simple...the effects of one block can be un
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by hasmanean 6y ago
Perfect. Now that it’s no longer part of the curriculum some kids might actually read it for fun.
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by hasmanean 8y ago
Yes. A spring reacts to force by storing energy in the strain (aka stretching) it experiences. A crystal oscillator has the additional property that when it stretches, it develops an electric field across it--and conversely, when an electri
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by hasmanean 8y ago
Quartz crystals oscillate like a slab of jello vibrates. It’s not moving like a pendulum or anything...rather the bulk material is expanding and contracting and energy is stored in the deformation of the crystal lattice.