jonmrodriguez

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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
I'm not innguest, but I'm curious, why is this downvoted so much? I get that the idea is somewhat impractical, but at least it's original and creative, surely the kind of idea we want to encourage.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Yep, a good search term is "galvanic vestibular stimulation". Here's a good how-to: http://jap.physiology.org/content/96/6/2301
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Factory equipment investing as an alternative to real-estate investing? [ask HN]
1 points by jonmrodriguez 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
I'd guess it's a remake just based on the fact that the filename has "reformat" in it, and common sense
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Turned the side projects into a company.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Application-wise :) Mostly I'm thinking that with cheap 3D-scanning sensors and GPUs, it's finally the beginning of the era for domestic and consumer robots to be viable.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Awesome! Do you have a picture of the fully-built Mario?
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
There is a lot of low-hanging fruit in genetic engineering and robotics!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
You can start making money once you can get a customer's payload into low earth orbit. You want to achieve this initial revenue as soon as possible, by making the simplest orbit-capable rocket you possibly can, which would be a 2-stag
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Out of curiosity, which companies do you define as being in the "first", "second", and "third" rounds of space startups?
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Gene overlap is extremely rare actually! When phiX174 was first discovered, some researchers wondered if such a complexly intertwined system could even have evolved naturally, or if it might suggest that the virus was hand-engineered: ht
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Did their naive decompression make the genome longer? If so, it probably didn't fit in the capsid. In our version, we had to provide one of the genes (gene F) in a plasmid in the host cell, in order to reduce the length of the decomp
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Hehe funny that you mention phiX174 in the context of programming, that virus is amazing... Part of the reason phiX174 is so small is that it is "compressed" by having overlapping genes; in one area, three genes overlap in the sa
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
That is not true; please be careful to do research before posting so you don't spread misinformation. If a light source is diffuse/omnidirectional, then it will be blurrier the farther it is from the distance your eye is focusing
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Are you sure that action is always the application of knowledge? When a star gets old and goes supernova, I don't think it's really fair to say that it's because of knowledge or intelligence on the part of the star. Or when
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Awesome, thank you!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Is it possible to create a "negative differential gear" that puts more torque into the wheel that is stuck? (in the hopes of forcing it unstuck)
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
That's badass!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
You can use a Thunderbolt computer (which are rare) with a DisplayPort display, but you cannot use a DisplayPort computer with a Thunderbolt display!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Direct link to the paper: http://crayfis.ps.uci.edu/paper.pdf
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
video demo of Autopilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quu551ehc0&t=40
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Tesla Autopilot demo [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jonmrodriguez 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropianism
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
In the past 20-30 years, automotive engineers have invented a lot of ways to make cars much safer (e.g. crumple zones). It sounds like you're saying the designers of self-driving cars will throw all of that expertise out the window --
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
One similar thing I really want is a smartwatch that will call 911 if my heart stops. Nowadays with hypothermia-assisted CPR [1], a person can be resuscitated up to 15 minutes after their heart stops! [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Sony has had their version working since 2008. http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080523/152287...
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Medtronic's vision: sensor implants as affordable healthcare in developing world(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by jonmrodriguez 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Good point about the tool-making being labor intensive, I guess I really mean the tool design should happen in the USA so we learn that knowledge. Ideally a corporate campus could straddle the USA/Mex border and have some buildings
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
You're definitely right - why not both? I'd like us to succeed in all areas. To use a very cliché word, there's a big "synergy" if we have both creativity and manufacturing in this country. For example, the produ
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Yes! Although the term Maquiladora may have a connotation of low-tech work, e.g. textiles rather than high-tech electronics.

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