wayfarer1291

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by wayfarer1291 4y ago
There's a silicon-valley based company that's building a combined thermal storage and TPV system: https://www.antoraenergy.com So these ideas may be get to market sooner than a typical university press release. https:
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
This is most likely for someone at UCLA on sabbatical to have an affiliation. Some evidence it might be someone fleeing Ukraine and is being externally funded by a foundation directly as a fellowship. UC policy requires even direct onboardi
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
One of these so-called affiliations was.. serving as an external grant reviewer for some proposal for the Chinese equivalent of the national science foundation (basic/ theoretical science). Which is of course ridiculous.. we scientists
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
Not necessarily. Smallpox was around for a very long time till we vaccinated our way out of it. Same with polio.
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
For earthquake reasons alone this is completely insane, and clearly a blatant attempt at regulatory capture by the concrete association. Just asinine. For most of LA (apart perhaps from certain canyons and hill areas) the risk of fire is no
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
I am sorry to hear this. As a recent father myself, I find the fact that comparatively few fathers here in the US do (or can) take this leave very sad. The act of caring for our newborn is how we form our attachments and love, and it is u
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
The whole presentation felt a lot like visions of the internet from companies like Microsoft (and others) in the mid-90s.. top-down, centralized.
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
Here's the quote from the report written by the Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?" https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/144291
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
Actual words written in a report a highly paid Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?" (I'm going to guess this researcher is not themselves a parent..) Incred
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
Barium sulfate based coatings have been used for decades, maybe a century, as the 'whitest' reflecting standard for optical instruments. I hate to be that guy, but there's nothing that new here. Though Purdue and this prof su
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by wayfarer1291 5y ago
The hypothesis considered at the very end of the article is intriguing. Time is generally viewed as a smooth variable. But fundamental thermodynamic limits on clocks suggest that there are in fact discrete steps occurring which we smooth ov