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by peter303 7y ago
I saw a six color channel video system at SIGGRAPH some years ago in their emerging technology exhibition. I believe the developer may have been Sony, but could not find an online reference. The additional colors were approximately midway t
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by peter303 7y ago
Its interesting that service animals like dogs or monkeys can sometimes be trained to anticipate seizures. And in many of these cases its not clear what the signal is- a change in activity, odor etc.
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You are unlikely to get a high enough credit to cover student loan debt if it is high. Else everyone would be doing it. Personal loans and HELOCs are even cheaper and hard to get with bad credit.
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There are now several dozen multiplanet exo-solar systems that exhibit various kinds of resonances. They are a real time laboratory for testing dynamics mathematics.
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Is PReP specific to HIV? Or would it work on many retrovirus? Probably most variants of HIV.
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Most of the rest of the developed world has the national tax agency compute the tax filing for you based your family ages, employer-filed work income and financial institution income. Then its merely a choice to accept or modify, taking as
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by peter303 7y ago
The rise has been 3 mm a year (1/8 inch) since 1990 or about 4 inches. http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ This has been averaging millions of measurements of satellite altimeter over oceans. That is considered more accurate
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by peter303 7y ago
Comcast gives me terabyte of downloads a month. I use 5% to 10% of that, but on what I dont know.
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A reusable space plane has always been popular with the military. There were several secret military space shuttle missions. At times the military talked of owning one of the shuttles. They keep this dream alive with unmanned space planes.
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Tech revolutions are often ushered in by people in their early 20s one pop economist noted. That is when they have some education, lots of energy and few family responsibilities. The PC revolution was by people born in the mid 1950s, dot.co
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by peter303 7y ago
Dont have to worry about AI approaches used by Google in their products. Their so-called AI has zero understanding and zero creativity.
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You could miss forms like AMT and NET with FFF. Until recent tax reform I was borderline most years, so defer to tax software to determine if I had these taxes. ACA penalty a mess too.
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IRS has your W2s and 1099s by February. It could compute and suggest your takes based on your previous year age & family profile. It already does this verify your filing.
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gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.
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SOL can altered retroactively as in pedophile cases where they have been abolished.
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by peter303 7y ago
I wonder how much of a factor the pace car drawing the optimal path on the street with a laser was. In races you might wobble a bit on the road and add extra steps to your run. In a pack side-pathing is inevitable. Not everyone can be the o
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by peter303 7y ago
Most scientists are not software engineers so would not know about comprehensive testing. This was an eye opener to me when I moved from academia to a scientific software company. The situation is improving somewhat as many grad students op
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I will see Greta in Denver Friday afternoon at a climate rally. She is young and a voice of her generation. Many future possibilities for her and repairing the climate crisis. I respect the Nobels decision to award the prize to this peace b
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They are so dang cheap now crucial cameras could be redundant.
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Then they would have missed the Eocene hyperthermal 55.2 million years ago a rapid 5 to 8 C warmup due to a huge influx of carbon into the atmosphere (8 to 20 times all human activity). Its not known where all this carbon came from yet.
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Note CRTs where a luxury item in the early 1970s. A 5x7x64 character generator requires 2240 bits uncompressed. Perhaps get closer to 1K if you had some run length compression. In my 1975 MIT digital lab the 1K memory chips where kept locke
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by peter303 7y ago
Progress is fairly recent idea. When you didnt see much difference between your life and your grandparents, then progress is not obvious. Plus some histories and myths have humans degenerating from a golden age- Eden, Atlantis, etc. Other h
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Its 23 pounds of CO2 per 7 pound gallon of gasoline. Simple chemistry. A (CH2)x unit in gasoline combusts to CO2. Thats an increase from 14 atomic units to 44 atomic units by replacing H by O. Since the average internal combustion vehicle u
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Doubt it. China has yet to invent a new class of technology not copied/stolen from Europe or US. There are very good ar perfecting technologies developed elsewhere.
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My lab purchased a digital color frame buffer in 1980 for 30K. That would be around 150K in current prices. It had a screen buffer of 512 by 512 of one byte, i.e. quarter megabyte memory. It was dual port- write to memory, read onto display
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One gallon of carbon petroleum fuel weighing 7 pounds becomes 22 pounds of carbon dioxide. Essentially in burning fuel you replace carbon plus two hydrogen atoms- atomic weight 14- with a carbon plus two oxygen atoms- atomic weight 44. That
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Yes, there are space probes/satellites that continuously observe solar activity. Then is one at a gravitationally stable orbital point about a million miles closer to the Sun. It would give a few seconds warmings for energy traveling a
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The US has something like a supply of 2% replacements for normal repairs. Something much larger than that could mean the end of the US power grid for years. Plus the suply chain to manufacture replacements could be terminally destroyed.
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Solar superstorms can create enhanced atmospheric isotopes of carbon 14, beryllium 10 and chlorine 39. High resolution lake sediments and ice cores can discover earlier extreme solar events. Many studies point to 774 AD as the largest know
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by peter303 7y ago
Pagers several cell tower power failures, e.g. long term disasters like hurricanes. However they can fail in satellite failures, e.g. rare solar coronal mass ejections.

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