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by knolan 5y ago
Sounds very like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease[0] which can result from the bovine equivalent[1]. There was a major outbreak of ‘mad cow disease’ in the UK and elsewhere and was related to cows being fed feedstuff made from offal. [0] https:&#x
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Here in Ireland we have a lot of limestone and new houses must have radon barriers in their foundation. People living in older houses without them are susceptible to lung cancer. Growing up my parents always kept our windows open when possi
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The stack exchange post from the parent used Matlab which is why I replied with more Matlab. Matlab is very popular in engineering. It’s simple enough to get simple things done without needing to know too much CS.
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I’ve always like this example from the Matlab documentation: https://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/biplot.html The use of car data and how it correlates is a good way of showing how PCA treats each variable. For ex
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You can disable it from the Find My settings for iCloud in your phone.
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I got that, I have very little free time and I’m in Ireland so I’ve no idea how time zones would permit this. My response was meant to be humorous.
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The ifixit folks are really good at getting people invested in understanding what’s going on inside our gadgets. A little bit of humour like this is especially fun.
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I would say those AirTags will be with the iPhones of their respective owners. Mine report as “With you” so perhaps they don’t advertise themselves in this state. The phone will be frequently updating its own location to Find My anyway so n
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The speed and efficiency of Blender at creating geometry and timing animation is incredible. Doing mostly the same stuff in the aforementioned CFD tools is incredibly convoluted in comparison. It’s like trying to code in MS Word whereas Ble
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On one hand there is Ansys. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of a software suite for numerical simulation comprising several tools that have been acquired over the years. It’s frightfully expensive and there’s no incentive to make it more usab
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I love this idea. The best way to get academics to buy in would be to have some clear outcome such as a publication or funding opportunity. There are a lot of clunky engineering tools that would benefit greatly from professional software de
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What’s this time you speak of?
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Much appreciated. I’ll be adding to the fluid mechanics notebook this summer. What areas are you interested in?
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Why learn JS? I guess it’s because I think it’ll be a useful skill that will allow me to do more in the future, not just find a better way to embed 3D models in a notebook. It might be useful to build tools for research projects, interactiv
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Thanks, I’ll take a look. I use Jupyter because it’s something that the students are finding used more and more when they go on industrial placement. Matlab is extremely popular in engineering but Python is growing. My notebooks are deliber
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by knolan 5y ago
I’m a lowly mechanical engineering lecturer. I use Jupyter notebooks to teach fluid mechanics[0]. I make videos of fluid flows with Blender and embed them with the notes along with some basic Python code examples so that students are aware
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by knolan 5y ago
My 16” had two speeds. Quiet and cool with about 11 hours of battery life when writing, reading or some simple productivity stuff. Fast but loud and hot when doing anything else with about 3 hours of battery life. Even the Touch Bar (which
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The Laplace pressure is in addition to the static pressure. Working in gauge pressure you can ignore the air pressure and the pressure within the droplet. Don’t confuse gauge and absolute pressure. A 1m column of water is going to be a turb
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The term knacker is used in derogatory sense for Irish Travelers.
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> Also the forces within the column depend on the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules, which will "pull" the column together. Effects at the actual surface will have little overall influence (the term surface tension see
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Surface tension plays a role. Water wants to reduce its surface area because forces between molecules at the surface pull them together. So a droplet of water will want to form a sphere. A column of water will first form into a cylinder and
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by knolan 5y ago
One other suggestion is to use a render border. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/editors/3dview/navig...
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The different pen colours correspond to different readings of the book by the margin characters.
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A fun example of annotation is the novel S by Doug Dorst in collaboration with J.J. Abrams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
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Lots of them have a presence in Ireland too.
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Firstly don’t do something like open it in notepad. 1GB text files are not exactly difficult to work with once you use a proper text editor or parsing tools.
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The web demo was a lot of fun on my iPhone. I’m always frustrated by a lack of good arcade flying games with somewhere realistic pitch, roll and yaw controls. Everything feels like driving a car rather than flying.
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They were told the reason was that Bell Labs is moving to a start up model (whatever that is) and that means closing some sites other than NJ. Then the head of Bell Labs was fired along with the CEO of Nokia. Basically Alcatel-Lucent was br
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I wouldn’t consider them empty headed, just focused on the cargo rather than funding good science. There is too much of a focus on ‘strategic plans’ and theme alignment because the circular reasoning tells them that pumping more money into
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I would suggest the entire science funding apparatus is also a type of cargo cult. Money is allocated to high profile academics who are good at writing compelling proposals in the hope that they will continue to produce the ‘cargo’. Younger

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