mhalle

7 ms·

31.
by mhalle 2y ago
Some important points that this article glosses over. The FAA Academy where all flight controllers are trained is way over-subscribed. Recruiting policies aside, I can find no evidence that the FAA wasn't training as many controllers a
32.
by mhalle 2y ago
XML would require a schema to express the concepts in Preserves, or JSON for that matter. The reason JSON is lower friction than XML for data representation is that you get basic data representations (numbers, strings, arrays, maps) for fre
33.
by mhalle 2y ago
Note that the Supreme Court decided the argument based on national security grounds, not content manipulation grounds. Justice Gorsuch in his concurrence specifically commended the court for doing so, believing that a content manipulation
34.
by mhalle 2y ago
I completely agree that communication skills are critical in extracting useful work or insight from LLMs. The analogy for communicating with people is not far-fetched. Communicating successfully with a specific person requires an understand
35.
by mhalle 2y ago
Unfortunately, that's a big challenge for a volumetric display, particularly a spinning one. There's a mass problem (heavier spinny things are more difficult than lightweight spinny things). There's also a wire problem if the
36.
by mhalle 2y ago
Sure, it's possible to approximate occlusion for a fixed viewer. At that point, though, the display is competing with displays like looking glass (lenticular, parallax barrier, or stereograms) that are higher resolution, cheaper, and h
37.
by mhalle 2y ago
"non-isotropic radiation profiles" is probably better expressed as the ability to produce light that can be modulated differently in different directions. That's what's required to show proper view dependent shading on a
38.
by mhalle 2y ago
This device is a volumetric display, similar in product placement (if not exactly the same illumination technology) to the volumetric dome display from Actuality Systems about 20 years ago. Volumetric displays have their place, but they can
39.
PydanticAI(github.com)
1 points by mhalle 2y ago|0 comments
40.
by mhalle 2y ago
Lippmann photographs are like holograms, specifically reflection holograms. The image is exposed using self-interference, which works in what we would typically consider incoherent light due to a very short distance between the light and it
41.
by mhalle 2y ago
The use of {} for strings without substitutions and effectively for scope are actually interrelated, remarkably. Scopes are special syntactic forms that delegate variable substitution to the associated procedures. For example, a "for&q
42.
by mhalle 2y ago
NFA == National Firearms Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
43.
by mhalle 2y ago
Nice work. From another comment I see that you chose this project in part to learn three.js, but you might also consider using deck.gl or kepler.gl. They provide higher level visualization primitives and are optimized for performance with l
44.
by mhalle 2y ago
When I had my wallet stolen in London about a decade ago, Amex was far faster, easier, and friendlier replacing my credit card than was Citibank. Did it at an in-person Amex office.
45.
by mhalle 2y ago
Michael Crichton's book Airframe provides a fictional but well-researched look at many of the more hidden issues involving aircraft safety and maintenance, as well as the relationship between carriers, manufacturers, and the FAA.
46.
by mhalle 3y ago
Anyone who gets a transplant needs to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life (except some older patients with liver transplants many years post transplant). In general for many patients, immunosuppressants have relatively little
47.
by mhalle 3y ago
I think the true future of anatomy atlases is to address the kinds of applications you're describing. Open source anatomy atlases can become toolboxes of visual anatomical knowledge. Subsets of atlases can be used for patient education
48.
by mhalle 3y ago
The title is not correct, it should be: The first open source 3D atlas of human anatomy in Blender . There have been a variety of open source human anatomy atlases, though few of the entire human body. Not to take away from the great work
49.
by mhalle 3y ago
Beyond the risk of medical bankruptcy in the US, lack of health insurance can prevent you from getting some lifesaving treatments. If you are uninsured, for instance, you stand almost no chance of getting an organ transplant. There are not
50.
Benford's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mhalle 3y ago|0 comments
51.
by mhalle 3y ago
I believe that the 737NG is not the problem aircraft. The new engines and the problematic MCAS are on the 737 MAX, a different model.
52.
by mhalle 3y ago
This American Life had an episode that challenges the premise of this book: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/806/transcript
53.
3D printing your own triboelectric generators(hackaday.com)
2 points by mhalle 3y ago|0 comments
54.
by mhalle 3y ago
A related story is that the Walgreens CFO admitted during a recent earnings call that the company may have overstated "shrinkage" of inventory and that it had spent too much on "largely ineffective" private security to c
55.
by mhalle 3y ago
Kids who go to summer camp where they (thankfully) aren't allowed to use phones are a great market for mosquito itch reduction devices.
56.
by mhalle 3y ago
The non-USB Beurer BR60 works very well, doesn't require a phone, and is about half the price. We have used them and found them very effective.
57.
Bambu Lab A1 3D Printer(bambulab.com)
3 points by mhalle 3y ago|0 comments
58.
by mhalle 3y ago
I think your statement "adding to existing fulltext functionality" is subtly important: embeddings provide semantic search that complements traditional search algorithms. Specifically, many applications are heavily dependent on na
59.
by mhalle 3y ago
I was recently very pleased to find pre-cut "LED light dimming stickers" on Amazon. My family enjoyed a half hour early evening "search and stick" mission to attenuate our home's luminous loudmouths.
60.
by mhalle 3y ago
Also note that the Amazon padded packaging says to remove paper labels before recycling, but it practically impossible to remove the Amazon paper labels (at least in my experience).

More ›