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by marze 9y ago
Cladding would degrade. But a large diameter glass rod would be fine. There are a lot of options, including a scanning the light source combined with a non imaging sensor. Or you could put a scintillating detector in a lead ball with a hole
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by marze 9y ago
I still don't see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots. A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They'd need to b
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by marze 9y ago
Look at two numbers: Square km of non-desert wilderness vs human agriculture. Mass of all domestic animals vs mass of wild animals. Gives a sense of the problem. Or, the complete disruption of ocean ecosystems by over fishing, killing of to
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by marze 9y ago
A question for those who've used TensorFlow on NVIDIA GPUs: What range of GPU performance do you see? As in, if the card does 10 TFLOPS peak, does TensorFlow manage to reach that peak, or is it at 5% or 20% or some other percent of pe
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by marze 9y ago
You assume some factor results in obesity, which the causes strokes. There is no evidence for this. More likely, a common combination of factors causes both obesity and strokes.
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by marze 9y ago
True. But there are a number of business models that don't require that. If it were me, I'd position it as an AI startup. I think Jacques might overestimate how awesome existing solutions are for sorting. Customer provides belt
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by marze 9y ago
On speeding up your feed, how about adding another belt prior to the main belt, with a variable speed? You drop parts onto the variable speed belt from enough sources to get a good feed rate, and constantly vary the speed of that belt with
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by marze 9y ago
If someone wants to give you 100k euros and develop some interesting technology, it seems like it would make the project more fun. What does anyone else think? Should Jacques open it up for investment?
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by marze 9y ago
Why not go big? Write up a business plan that involves buying 100 tons of lego, making a bigger machine with 200 bins off the belt, or whatever, and making a new brickowl / bricklink site of your own. I'm sure you could find inv
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by marze 9y ago
No question this is embarrassing for the military. These ships are supposed to be able to detect and shoot down missiles arriving at mach 3. But they didn't detect a 40000 ton cargo ship traveling at 15 mph? A cargo ship that was br
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by marze 9y ago
The heat from the trains etc. heats the surrounding clay over a period of years. You can add less heat, or you can remove heat from the surrounding clay, or both. Removing: Run ventilation on high during winter and keep temps quite low in
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by marze 9y ago
It is inevitable. Why? Because the paid "influencers" such as PR firms will be attracted to any popular and/or influential discussion forum to promote the "point of view" they are paid to promote, or viewpoints th
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by marze 9y ago
If the effect was detectable in the small sample, in a 8x larger sample it should show up clearly. If it is a statistical artifact, of course it won't.
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by marze 9y ago
This study should be replicated with n > 200.
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by marze 9y ago
They were the only one left because the two remaining competitors merged to form ... ULA. ULA used all of their political connections to keep SpaceX out of the government launch as long as they could, to maintain their monopoly pricing.
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by marze 9y ago
iOS is designed from the ground up to use RAM extremely efficiently. So Apple gets the performance equivalent to a competing product with less RAM. So they'd never want to brag about how much RAM is in an iPad, since it is generally
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by marze 9y ago
If they can find customers for the recovered stages at 80% of normal price, it will be like printing money. Wow.
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by marze 9y ago
Money down the toilet. It will never be finished. In ten years, ubiquitous communication and virtual presence will seriously impact business travel demand.
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by marze 9y ago
Certainly not just India, the switch is nearly universal. Some countries are getting a faster start ditching big polluting coal plants than others. Three closed yesterday in the US, for instance.
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by marze 9y ago
There are lots of options to buy stocks without big fees, in small dollar amounts. Lack of good investment options really has little to do with poverty. Complex causes, complex remedies.
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by marze 9y ago
The free market works well generally, why not here? To try to reverse generations of social tradition where only "lower" people are involved with waste, the govt. should really pay high rates for waste, which would work to reverse
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by marze 9y ago
I hope the government at least partially reaches its goals. There are obviously infinite possible approaches to the problem. This is how I'd solve it if I were the government: Set up collecting points and pay a generous sum per gallon
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by marze 9y ago
Safe to say that almost all wildly successful, frighteningly ambitious startups now and going forward will be enabled by machine learning/AI.
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by marze 9y ago
What a poor design. Pilots should have a hard "manual control" switch that turns control completely to the pilots. A friend of mine from childhood became a top expert in formal verification, and got a contract many years back to h
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by marze 9y ago
Organs and watches were the "computers" of Bach's time.
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by marze 9y ago
To me, the most interesting question is: will Apple build a second copy of this building?
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by marze 9y ago
The article mentioned in-floor heating/cooling hydronic loops.
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by marze 9y ago
Maybe someone can track down a reference to the study that proved the drinks aren't "killing you", as the headline says. The study in question was well designed, with a large population. Study participants, randomly assigned
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by marze 9y ago
Or you could call it being cautious.
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by marze 9y ago
The interest deduction benefits higher income people with more expensive houses. Like you say, it has no benefit to those paying -10k in interest.

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