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An example of an effort that has made no progress for 7 years, is getting worse, people are spreading the invasive further, and the experts say there is now no getting rid of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28&
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That's great and I do see things like that: https://vtinvasives.org/news-events/events/mapping-event-bra... Are they actually effective? The above is local to just one town, if the next town over doesn'
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So it sounds like you're basically saying there is no funding so the policy is just let it rip until it becomes a big enough problem. I wonder if the Met52 fungus which is effective against one kind of tick would be effective against
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The US seems to have no defense against invasive pests, plant, animal or insect, it just lets them spread.
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Making sausage, cheese, beer, and heavy machinery.
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Isn't an LLM essentially a stochastic ontology? Maybe that's why LLM's generalize so well to problems you wouldn't think would be amenable to next word prediction based on text analysis.
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Do some web research on the additives in cigarettes. What I have heard from people who do research into cigarette addiction is that the additives suppress the bad effects of smoking (such as coughing, lungs feeling burnt, not being able to
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A lot of people are saying that using this device would require speaking all kinds of private things out loud in public, but people would likely alter their behavior and use of the device in public. The nature of the questions they ask wou
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It would be nice if Samsung found a way to enable blood pressure readings on their smartwatches in the US. It's been more than two years and they still don't have FDA approval. Maybe they can just enable it with some legal discl
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There is a new product called LymeShield which uses the old Lyme vaccine (which was effective but a commercial failure) to vaccinate mice via food pellets: https://news.uthsc.edu/uthsc-researchers-lyme-disease-interv... ht
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So now that commercial real estate is being underutilized due to work from home does that mean the hackerspaces and artist collectives will return due to cheap real estate prices?
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I've been writing software since the early 1980's and I remember being pushed to get it working and thinking "they'll rewrite this and fix it in the future, this is just to get it working now". It's been terri
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The original Star Trek sets made a lot of use of gobos, patterned metal shadow casters placed in front of lights. You can see some uses of them in pictures here: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/mudds-gobos.276831/
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Eating detection might be one application: https://auracleproject.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bi-ubicom... https://auracle-project.org/
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Aspirin can cause tinnitus, so stopping it, especially if you take a lot or regularly, can make tinnitus disappear. There are a variety of other drugs that can also cause it: https://www.healthline.com/health/medicatio
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I've worked a lot with grad students who have to give many presentations and have seen some of them completely freeze up and be unable to continue. One thing that helped a young Chinese scientist was personal tutoring in a safe settin
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Maybe they will also go after eBay for the sale of high power lasers, pesticides, lasers sold as laser pointers that have much higher output than 5mW, non-CE tested electrical appliances, use of lead metal in products, and lots of other dan
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That could work also, it would be basically turning the power system into a bunch of interconnected microgrids. In Vermont power loss happens often, usually due to snow and ice bringing tree branches and trees down on power lines. If ever
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How does matter moving at near light speed exhibit gravity? From the particles frame of reference time is moving much more slowly than for things like planets. So does this mean the gravity is also time dilated?
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All their examples seem to have only one floor in the buildings.
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I wonder how it handles noisy environments, low volume when talking, and TV or music playing in the background. I've tried using pocket recorders while driving and the result can be unintelligible. Would be more useful if it could do
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Not sure if they are still being manufactured but there are still new Ion Snap wearable cameras on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m... Probably lower quality than the Narrative Cli
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https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/3380/ "Virtual Walls: Protecting Digital Privacy in Pervasive Environments"
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I worked with a sociologist on a variety of projects which used sensors and cellphones to do computational social science. In the past, sociology was based on observing people, writing those observations down, and then thinking about them.
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A music synthesizer. It's a pathway to learning electronics, music, and the nature of sound. There are cheap kits, cheap synths, lots of kinds of synths, and there are much more complicated and expensive systems you can grow into. Y
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It is definitely not perfect. It doesn't seen to track distortions of the skin on the face, such as around the mouth on the cheeks. It tracks eye blinks, but does it track pupil dilation? Doesn't seem like it could track forehe
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So this seems to mean that antimatter is not negative matter, it is normal matter with different characteristics. Seems like a huge clue as to what matter actually is made of and what holds it together.
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I like the Dylos laser particle counter: http://dylosproducts.com/dc1100paqmc.html The version I have has an RS-232 output and a graphing program that runs on Windows. Connect it to an old laptop with an FTDI USB to RS-232
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No longer science fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification https://news.mit.edu/2021/inentec-turning-trash-into-valuabl... "The US Navy is employing Plasma Arc Waste Destruc
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There is a version of The Whole Earth Catalog that describes plans to turn an old car into a 10kW generator, enough to power a small off-the-grid town. I think they used the carborator to set the engine speed, so it didn't keep perfec

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