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by hwillis 1y ago
The quenching is done on the boat with presumably purified water. That's a pretty small amount of heat to manage, so its not like you will run out of water.
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by hwillis 1y ago
> Surely the power electronics or even just the control algorithms in a BESS could be slightly modified to consume power, get warm, and not transfer any current to or from the battery cells, effectively taking advantage of the BESS’s hea
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by hwillis 1y ago
> a few years ago, the IRS stopped allowing the $1M to be deducted It was Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which amended IRS code.
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by hwillis 1y ago
Unfortunately no, which is a real shame because herpesviruses like EBV are harmful and practically unavoidable. This research is specific to delivering mRNA to white blood cells. Herpesvirus latency is really complicated, more so than HIV.
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by hwillis 1y ago
You certainly will not live most of your life over the age of 67.
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by hwillis 1y ago
Death statistics are not a good measure in this case. The large majority of prostate cancer is very slow growing and occurs late in life. The goal of treatment is not to cure- just to slow it down. Many of those deaths are nearly at the
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by hwillis 1y ago
For the majority treatment is pretty minor, which is reflected in all-cause mortality. Pill-based chemo is much more common now and patients do not need to relocate and isolate as much. Cancer is still terrifying, and in almost all other
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by hwillis 1y ago
Even with Gleason score 10 (<1% of cases) most patients will survive more than 3 years. Median survival for score 9 (~10% of cases) is ~10 years. Unfortunately your father was an exception. Cancer is an awful, crippling disease and I&
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by hwillis 1y ago
The average age of diagnosis is 67 and 95% of those men live as long as you would expect them to normally. It is certainly not cured, and treatment can be very disruptive and unpleasant, but it's definitely not "extremely deadly&
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by hwillis 1y ago
You sound like a Madoff investor
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by hwillis 1y ago
Helion's device is a toy. They have nothing that would let them scale past designs of the 70s and say a lot of very suspect things, like that they want to use worse fuel mixes and calling one of the oldest and simplest designs "n
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by hwillis 1y ago
A 12 year old achieved fusion with a test reactor he built himself: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922065766/tennessee-teen-beco...
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by hwillis 1y ago
> Standard class 2 restrictions are more stringent. Nope! Special class II is all the general class II requirements plus the special rules: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/overview-device-regulati... Specifica
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by hwillis 1y ago
> All these nuclear physicists dealing with enormous amounts of energy, like the LHC The LHC uses ~86 megawatts, about the same power as a 747's engine at full throttle. It's about the same as a small natural gas powered turb
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by hwillis 1y ago
> A great early use case for fusion will directly use the heat for these industrial processes. There is no chance that early fusion plants will be small enough to justify building them in the same building as a factory. They will star
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by hwillis 1y ago
IMO Helion should not be taken seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw
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by hwillis 1y ago
What is burdensome about the regulations? They are here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/guidance-documents-medic... They allow a summary report. They don't require a clinical human trial. They barely care
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by hwillis 1y ago
The most common heart attack symptoms are the same for men and women. The less common, less diagnostic symptoms are more common in women. Over time the medical opinion has swung back and forth (eg thinking women had less pain, until it wa
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by hwillis 1y ago
This is out of my specific expertise, but the AFE1291 does 8k 24 bit samples per second and uses 495 μW when sampling. That's enough to run full rate for 10 straight days on an apple watch battery (1.189 Wh was the first google result
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by hwillis 1y ago
One day using different techniques. Not these techniques.
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by hwillis 1y ago
Using these techniques, never. The electrode methods can only see a tiny section of processing and are missing all the information elsewhere. fMRI is very low resolution. Because of this they are all very overfitted- they cue off very pa
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by hwillis 1y ago
> Then they train a neural network on the correlations between their brain activity and the known images. Not onto known images, onto latent spaces of existing image networks. The recognition network is getting a very approximate represe
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by hwillis 1y ago
Well GPT-4o just insisted over and over that it was getting 500 errors while refusing to actually check the page. So... not yet.
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by hwillis 1y ago
> This is true, but neither is "tensile strength" really a thing for the same reason. Well, not the same reason. Shear strength is in many ways more important because failure usually propagates from an origin like a rip- b
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by hwillis 1y ago
It's tensile strength, not specific strength. Strength over an area. There also is no such thing as strength per volume.
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by hwillis 1y ago
Kevlar is an appropriate comparison- it has one of the highest tensile strengths known. It is not just lightweight and tough, it is also extremely strong in absolute terms. The strongest kevlar is somewhere between as strong as this mater
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by hwillis 1y ago
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2014.132... > The tensile strength of discrete volumes of limpet tooth material measured using in situ atomic force microscopy was found to range from 3.0 to
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by hwillis 1y ago
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_
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by hwillis 1y ago
It does not. > Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.
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by hwillis 1y ago
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_

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