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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Curious that Luis Alvarez (yes, that Luis Albarez) and his team did not find it in their 1970 exploration using a similar approach[1]. 1. http://lappweb.in2p3.fr/~chefdevi/Work_LAPP/Arche/alvarez_70... Edit:
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Yes. Someone needs to maintain and operate the weather stations, RADAR hardware, weather buoys, and weather balloons.
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
TouchID works fine if the gloves are thin enough. Nitrile lab gloves cause no issues at all.
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
I prefer physical buttons, or better yet knobs I can remove and soak to clean. My range has capacitive buttons for its oven controls, and every time I wipe it down with a damp sponge every button is triggered along with a cacophony of beeps
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
The Cathedral of Learning is such a beautiful building. I wonder though: did they leave any dirty patches as a small reminder? When they cleaned the ceiling of the great hall of Grand Central Terminal of the tobacco stains and train soot, a
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Consider the humble sardine: rich in protein, omega-3s, and (with bones) calcium. They're much lower in the food chain than tuna, so there's less bioaccumulation of mercury, etc. And they taste good. I like the ones in harissa (pe
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
I'll second the endorsement of Rochester. The quality of life for the cost can't be beat. I have (affordable) gigabit fiber running to my house thanks to a local ISP. Rochester punches above its weight for culture, thanks to the p
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Fortunately we have a tool to help on both fronts: metegenomic sequencing. It's only just starting to be used in clinical settings in a non-retrospective way, but many groups are interested in how the gut microbiome (or changes of) can
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
This exists: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
The unspoken assumption is that it's affordable if you have roommates (or a solid dual-income household). I have a place in Providence, RI and commute to Cambridge, MA by train (38 minutes to South Station via Amtrak, double that via M
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Nice! Similar to a side project of mine that I have sadly had little time to improve: http://artfulmac.com The bandwidth costs have become noticeable for me, so that's something to watch out for.
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
Interestingly, I saw a white "Apple Maps" branded van in my city recently, with four (Velodyne?) LiDAR heads on the roof, one on each corner, along with cameras in the center. Such a system would produce way more LiDAR data than t
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America’s ‘Miracle Machine’ is in desperate need of, well, a miracle(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by tomkinstinch 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomkinstinch 9y ago
The price differences between domestic and international medicines can be truly outrageous. I just got back from a work trip to a hospital in Sierra Leone, where the anthelmintic medicine Albendazole costs the equivalent of $1 USD at a priv
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Whereami – Using WiFi signals and machine learning to predict where you are(github.com)
127 points by tomkinstinch 10y ago|19 comments
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Also cool would be to use this library to turn on lights based on where one's phone is located: https://github.com/kootenpv/whereami/blob/master/README.md
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Dropbox switched from S3 to their own in-house hardware: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
There are viruses with shorter genomes that are more hazardous, for example Lassa is ~10.68Kb (Kilobase), or 21.236Kb (Kilobit): 2.654KB (Kilobyte). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/10875
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
A march of scientists is being organized: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/speaking-of-scie...
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
WolframAlpha can combine nutrition information for a series of items, to generate an aggregate "Nutrition Facts" label. Ex.: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%20slice%20pizza%20%2b... Years ago I applied
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Another place to experience old and strange films in SF is at one of the small "Strange Sinema" screenings at Oddball Films[1,2]. It's not so much a theater as it is a film archive near 18th St with projector room and a few c
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Hobby use would be a pain: LN2 could be used, but it boils off so a dewar would need to be constantly refilled. For sensor applications where cold matters but a Peltier TEC is insufficient, a Stirling/Joule-Thomson/turbo-Brayton&#
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
What about people who wear prescription glasses, but can't wear or dislike contact lenses? Is it possible to replace the lenses with prescription ones?
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Full PDF (not open access): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7537/pdf/nature14... Auxotrophy[1] been exploited for years to select for engineered organisms. Reverse mutation to prototrophi
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Full PDF: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/353/6301/819.full.... This paper is cool because they've optimized the E. coli genome to entirely eliminate certain codons, which would, for exa
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
To those operating in Beijing: is the language a significant barrier? Can you get by as an English speaker? If you've leaned enough Mandarin to be functional, how long did it take you?
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
The notion one " should " spend some fraction must come the real estate industry. The rule should be "spend as little as you can on housing to achieve the quality you want (or can tolerate), but never exceed 30% (or other arb
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
In Boston/Cambridge/Somerville it is depressingly common. I wish it were within my means to live alone, but even on six figures it doesn't make sense (I refuse to spend 40-50% of my net income on housing). Having roommates (w
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Bending isn't required, and the transparency of the jacket doesn't matter if it's thin enough. The term to Google is "evanescent wave coupling."
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
I wish I had a stereo inspection scope... I've seen used boom-mounted dental microscopes on Craigslist or eBay periodically, and can't help but think they would be perfect for PCB assembly. It's amazing how precise our hands

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