ruaraidh

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by ruaraidh 3mo ago
Ah, that's extremely cool! I'm enjoying hacking around with ESP32s etc at the moment (maybe it's just nice to do something physical that an AI can't) and it's amazing how mature the hardware ecosystem around them is
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by ruaraidh 4mo ago
Oh, that's such a good idea! I suppose the challenge is knowing where there are installable surfaces are (or at least making defensible guesses). I'm going to have a go at this...
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by ruaraidh 4mo ago
Good idea. I want to add specific options for different mounting locations (sheds etc) as well.
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by ruaraidh 4mo ago
Absolutely! I have some other datasets that might be useful too (e.g. air quality). Drop me a line: ruaraidh[at]southlondonscientific.com :)
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by ruaraidh 4mo ago
Thanks - I didn't know about Inspire Index, I'll check it out. I tend to agree about false precision. My first instinct was to use the synthetic horizon for addresses in that group, but I think that's over positive. A range m
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by ruaraidh 4mo ago
Thanks! Should be doable, I just got excited by the new shiny thing first.
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Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain(helios.southlondonscientific.com)
126 points by ruaraidh 4mo ago|44 comments
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by ruaraidh 6mo ago
Opus keeps pointing out (in a fashion that could be construed as exasperated) that what it's working on is "obviously not malware" several times in a Cowork response, so I suspect the system prompt could use some tuning...
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Show HN: Aeolus – a library for unified access to air quality sensor networks(github.com)
3 points by ruaraidh 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ruaraidh 6mo ago
Aeolus, a Python library to provide a unified interface for air quality data from sources around the world: https://github.com/southlondonscientific/aeolus Air quality data is now very widely available, but managing ac
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Indiana's legislature almost defined pi as 3.2(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ruaraidh 4y ago|0 comments
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by ruaraidh 4y ago
"high-risk, high-reward" science sounds great, until you suddenly have a replication crisis on your hands. Big, exciting results already attract more attention than good, careful, journeyman science, despite generally being, well,
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by ruaraidh 4y ago
thanks - do you think there's anything obvious I might be missing coming from an academic background in terms of getting attention? I don't know how useful side projects really are, for instance (particularly vs things I've d
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by ruaraidh 4y ago
I'm in a similar place to the OP - I have a PhD in health science with R and Python experience (and a little hobby experience with TensorFlow and some AWS stuff). Is it worth doing kaggle competitions? I've heard mixed things - so
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First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion(firstlightfusion.com)
181 points by ruaraidh 4y ago|136 comments
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by ruaraidh 5y ago
Oh no, a trend! I bet it carries on forever no matter what!!
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by ruaraidh 5y ago
How could Merck stall those studies? Ivermectin is widely available, you don't need to get Merck's permission to use it in a study.
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Spaceflight Before 1951(en.wikipedia.org)
63 points by ruaraidh 5y ago|31 comments
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If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
275 points by ruaraidh 5y ago|228 comments
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What happens to humans if photons suddenly acquire mass? (1990)(aapt.scitation.org)
1 points by ruaraidh 5y ago|0 comments
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Type III Errors(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ruaraidh 5y ago|0 comments
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Letting go: my battle to help my parents die a good death(theguardian.com)
7 points by ruaraidh 5y ago|2 comments
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by ruaraidh 6y ago
This isn't quite true - Scotland's income tax rates are slightly different from the rest of the UK's, so residence inside or outside Scotland is relevant.
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We need to think more critically about long Covid(statnews.com)
3 points by ruaraidh 6y ago|0 comments
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Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed(eu.usatoday.com)
1167 points by ruaraidh 6y ago|985 comments
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by ruaraidh 9y ago
That looks interesting, thank you. I'm an inveterate tinkerer too...
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by ruaraidh 9y ago
Thanks - Andrew Huang sounds like a fascinating guy, I'll check this out.
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Ask HN: What books and blogs are best to learn about hardware manufacturing?
10 points by ruaraidh 9y ago|6 comments