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by joshvm 4y ago
You can use some software for free with limitations eg OSLO https://lambdares.com/oslo-edu-download FRED also has a demo mode https://photonengr.com/fred-software/demo-request/ That might be enoug
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I'm not sure if it will necessarily be cheap, maybe cheaper than an off the shelf mirror of equivalent size. This is what John Dobson (of the Dobsonian) is famous for. However you still need to do stuff like coat the primary mirror onc
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by joshvm 4y ago
Does network latency dominate over speed of sound? Propagation time is about 3ms / metre in open air.
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by joshvm 4y ago
On the thousand steps bit, LTT did a tour of one of Intel's fabs in Israel and it's pretty incredible. Everything is automated with little bins moved via overhead rails to the different stations. https://www.youtube.com
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by joshvm 4y ago
A big benefit would be ZigBee integration. Not particularly unique, but IKEA tend to do a reasonable job in terms of quality and price and their smart home bits are easy to connect to HomeAssistant. They claim it can talk to STARKVIND, so i
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by joshvm 4y ago
I posted in another thread but I'm curious what happens when you throw a large language model into the mix that can "just do this". Suppose you prompt it with "input: <user>, <query>, <mic intensities in l
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by joshvm 4y ago
I think this is a sad way to go. Hardware is super expensive to develop and the key IP here is in the software. There's probably some fancy microphone tech, but ultimately you could (should?) run Mycroft on a Raspberry Pi with an edge
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by joshvm 4y ago
Link should probably be to the announcement post (10th Feb 23) : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-m... TLDR: Mycroft is now out of money (reportedly due to ongoing patent litigation) and
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by joshvm 4y ago
Ditto, you can get an analog Mitutoyo for not too much - I think my 530 series was about 40-50 bucks, +-0.05mm. It's nice because it never runs out of batteries, accuracy is fine for everything I need it for (plus it's traceable),
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by joshvm 4y ago
The whole station runs on jet fuel (AN-8 kerosene) which is hauled inland from the coast. In the past this was done by aircraft, which emptied their tanks, but now it's mostly done using the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPOT). It take
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by joshvm 4y ago
The showers themselves aren't timed, it's an honour system. Taps are free to use, similarly drinking water is not restricted (it'd be a serious dehydration risk otherwise). Toilets do flush, but the urinals are water-free. Th
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by joshvm 4y ago
Yes, it's an honour system. If you really need a shower, for example if you get covered in grease, then you can take one. The rule is there to prevent everyone on station taking long daily showers. Some jobs are unofficially allowed to
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by joshvm 4y ago
It's an honour system. Actually the showers have two mechanisms. One is flow restriction/misting. Though some showers are much better than others. The other is a small valve on the shower head which you can use to pause the flow w
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by joshvm 4y ago
This is relatively unlikely at Pole. While you aren't supposed to take regular showers, you're still expected to maintain general hygiene - hand washing, sponge/cloth baths on other days. If you had a cut that was serious eno
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by joshvm 4y ago
I've used these before from Amphenol/Telaire: https://www.amphenol-sensors.com/en/telaire/co2/525-co2-sens... I think they're around 60 bucks (e.g. the T6793) so they aren't the cheapest a
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by joshvm 4y ago
They're pretty common in the 3D print industry. Also check out IGUS, who also do a lot of custom rails/rods. They're probably most well known for their plastic Drylin bearings. The prices are also reasonable for what you can
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by joshvm 4y ago
Accu are fantastic. They also have European sites and maybe more? Always my goto if we need weird screws and they will also make to order if you need something special. Edit : I would guess McMaster fills this role in the US, so it's n
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by joshvm 4y ago
We do have Kiwix at the South Pole. Mostly relies on people remembering to bring down the latest dumps. I tried building a StackOverflow zimfile from source there, because I only had the raw files, but I could never get it to work.
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by joshvm 4y ago
I believe the first C-17 landings at McMurdo are for winfly (which I guess counts as winter). Flights stop in ~November due to the deteriorating runway conditions.
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by joshvm 4y ago
For reference, see another post in my history. The cheapest imported chicken breast you can buy from a typical supermarket is around 10-15 CHF/kg. The high-end organic is around 50-60 CHF/kg which is high welfare from Switzerland.
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by joshvm 4y ago
In the post I mentioned organic from Farmy. But even Naturaplan chicken breasts from the Coop are close to 60CHF/kg: https://www.coop.ch/en/food/meat-fish/packaged-fresh-meat/po... If you go for Pri
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The notice period might be longer than 60 days, which is pretty generous for the US. In Switzerland, 3 months from either party is not uncommon.
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by joshvm 4y ago
I'm not sure if you'd call it a pivot, but Google Brain was initially an X project that was started well before the deep learning craze took off. They hired Geoff Hinton in 2013. Investment in AI has been going on for a long time
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A friend and I did a (literal) blind taste test with impossible/USDA organic beef/beyond. I was excited to do this as we don't get Impossible in Europe. We baked our own buns etc, cooked to temp with a probe, got some nice ch
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by joshvm 4y ago
I assume you mean located very close to the rotation axis rather than at some other latitude? I think it's convenience, because you can certainly do this at other points close to the pole, but it would involve more slewing I guess and
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The South Pole is also over bedrock, around 3 miles down. See "glaciology" here: https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/research/ Scientific implications would be IceCube would no longer work, because the prem
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by joshvm 4y ago
See Phi-Sat 1 and to a lesser extent EO-1 as someone else mentioned. Phi-Sat 2 is going up at some point. I'm on a team of researchers working on this. We looked at flood detection as a case study, but as you say, almost all the demons
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by joshvm 4y ago
Net 30 is how a lot of Switzerland operates. You can buy all kinds of things - as a consumer - on a "pay later" basis. Flights, groceries, appliances, insurance, you name it. It's a level of trust that's pretty unusual i
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by joshvm 4y ago
I think the most interesting thing about competitive Scrabble is that it's not really about memorising dictionaries. Once you assume that everyone knows every playable word, the real distinction is in the tactics. There's elements
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From experience it can be difficult and it's something that a lot of people come across when they join a company for the first time. Particularly people coming from research into industry, or self-taught programmers (like me!) I think

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