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by rotexo 7y ago
Sounds to me like the parent isn't anti-nuclear, just that there is some agenda downplaying the role of nuclear in fighting climate change.
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by rotexo 7y ago
There is also the Bela cape for the beaglebone which, along with a special os for the beaglebone, gives you a very low-latency platform for synthesis, programmable with Supercollider or puredata, and lots of analog and digital io.
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by rotexo 7y ago
nice. already giving me some ideas for my silly little python-and-bird-video experiments ( https://www.instagram.com/reductionist_earth_catalog/?hl=en ). I was using the built-in compositing in pillow (PIL fork), but may
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by rotexo 7y ago
Very niche, but good: Eli Fieldsteel’s YouTube channel for learning Supercollider, the programming language attached to a powerful audio synthesis engine. He also goes into building custom interfaces for experimental music with arduino.
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by rotexo 7y ago
I think the parent was talking about all of the ecosystem services we take for granted on Earth that we still don’t know that we can reproduce artificially. The fires in California this past fall? That represented a lot going wrong, but you
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by rotexo 7y ago
According to him at a bookstore appearance he did a few months ago, he did a lot of research. I believe he had substantial discussions with Chinese friends (mostly academics). He also said he did a reading at an event with Liu Cixin.
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by rotexo 7y ago
Whenever I’m looking at an iPhone screenshot someone posted on social media on my iPhone, I try to navigate using the buttons in the image. There ought to be a long German word for that experience.
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by rotexo 7y ago
Fair enough, this stuff is weird and there are no good explanations available. Until something happens that truly forces me to update my informal priors, though, I still think your middle paragraph is more likely than "a country has ac
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by rotexo 7y ago
For that matter, what privileges "other countries' aerospace R&D assets being used in an intelligence-gathering capacity" (when those R&D assets at the very least bend what is possible in aviation) or "aliens&quo
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by rotexo 7y ago
Isn't that a little tautological? You rightly observe that there are uses for LEO and GEO, but you are responding to a question asking "what can we do on the moon?" with "well, we can put propellant in cislunar space so
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by rotexo 8y ago
As some of the commenters on this reddit thread mentioned, any electronic musician who has a Eurorack rig containing, for instance, a Make Noise Maths, technically uses an analog computer regularly at work.
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by rotexo 8y ago
Borges gets extra points for having infinitely long books in his magical libraries. If you ever flip from a page, you will effectively never see that page again.
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by rotexo 8y ago
It is not necessarily clear to me that monkey patching (edit: or bit twiddling) is appropriate either. You can insert an expression cassette for a transgene into a plant, predicting that the gene will be expressed. You can then test that pr
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by rotexo 8y ago
As a biologist, I think it is worth being skeptical of analogies that treat biological entities as equivalent to computers.
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by rotexo 8y ago
It is difficult to imagine that as a possibility. The spacing of three mRNA nucleotides is pretty important structurally in the process of translation from mRNA to protein via the ribosome. It is difficult for me to imagine a ribosome that
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by rotexo 8y ago
I guess I should ask a different question then. Have we detected any earth-sized planets? I can only remember hearing about super-earths and gas giants, and I generally read the exoplanet discovery announcements when I see them.
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by rotexo 8y ago
“...at least a quarter of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy have a planet like Earth, with surface conditions that are very similar to Earth, and the chemistry of life as we know it could develop.” I was rather surprised by this claim. Isn’
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by rotexo 8y ago
Is anyone surprised by the notion that ratcheting is critical for consolidating gains made from chance events? I thought that was a trivial observation (maybe my biologist bias is showing here).
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by rotexo 8y ago
Nowhere in your analysis is the fact that the raw materials for these cars have to be mined and refined in a way that currently requires the burning of fossil fuels. It is not just the disposal of the materials themselves that is an issue.
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by rotexo 8y ago
AND I could see electric assist leading to cyclists making full stops at stop signs (since the need for momentum hacking is not so great). Based on what I've read here, that would go a long way towards drivers and cyclists getting alon
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by rotexo 8y ago
I visited Sacramento from the Bay Area recently, and the Jump bikes were a revelation. It seems to me that electric-assist bikes are an easier sell safety-wise than scooters (bike lanes often already exist). I’m from Austin Tx and I really
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by rotexo 8y ago
Yep, adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors seem very promising. Depending on the type of vector used, you can target the eye, joints, liver, lungs, etc. [1]. Relatively recently, the FDA approved the first AAV-based therapy for a rare retina
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by rotexo 8y ago
Why tunnel when there are already lava tubes?
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by rotexo 8y ago
Interested in this—are there any tutorials on the subject you can point me to? Seems like it would be a great use for a pi, and I have one collecting dust at home. (Edit: spelling)
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by rotexo 8y ago
It has been a while since I read Structure, but I don't quite see how his examination of Phlogiston theory vs. the contemporary understanding of oxidation fits in with your dismissal. It seems to me that Phlogiston theory isn't re
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by rotexo 8y ago
It is also worth noting that TALENs were implemented for genome editing [0] before CRISPR/Cas9 [1]. And that there are ongoing trials in human subjects that use TALENs for editing instead of Cas9 [2]. Though I agree with a sibling comm
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by rotexo 8y ago
Gene therapy has had some recent successes [0], but it is worth noting that many of the ongoing and recent clinical gene therapy trials don’t necessarily involve genome editing: go to clinicaltrials.gov, search ‘gene therapy’ and get 3741 r
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by rotexo 8y ago
My experience was the opposite. The people in my PhD program (at an upper-tier state institution) were far better thinkers in my field (biology) than the people in my major at an upper-tier liberal arts college (who, granted, were largely p
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by rotexo 8y ago
"why use DNA over any other 4 distinct chemical structures that can be added to chains or lattices of molecules?" I think others were getting at this, but I felt it could be made more explicit: base pairing. There is a way to copy
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by rotexo 8y ago
Bingo. I've told this story a few times on here, and I feel the need to tell it again whenever the notion "uncensorable internet==unqualified good" comes up: Once I got doxxed by bloggers from one end of the political spectru

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