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CandyCodes: Simple universally unique edible IDs for fighting fake drugs(nature.com)
2 points by wgrover 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 5y ago
Based on the title, I was expecting something quite different...
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by wgrover 5y ago
I suspect you're right, so we can assume that it was never all in one piece or we would have known about it!
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by wgrover 5y ago
For a sense of scale, 93 kg of uranium would occupy a space a little smaller than one soccer ball: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+93+kg+of+ura...
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A pneumatic random-access memory for controlling soft robots(journals.plos.org)
2 points by wgrover 5y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 6y ago
Ah, good point. I was imagining office waste like paper, but if you're putting in kitchen scraps and dirty diapers, ignore my suggestion...
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by wgrover 6y ago
One request - after you toss in the garbage and the lid closes, make it "chew" for a couple seconds by rapidly opening/closing the lid over a small distance!
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by wgrover 6y ago
This isn't a chip for implanting inside the body; this is a microfluidic chip that replicates some body systems in the laboratory.
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How stereo phonograph records work(groverlab.org)
1 points by wgrover 7y ago|0 comments
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How stereo phonograph records work(groverlab.org)
2 points by wgrover 7y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 7y ago
Here's a (pre-repair) photo of those energy dissipator blocks at the bottom of the spillway, including people for scale: http://media.fishreports.com/reports/img-20170303-78a7bb40.j... Hard to comprehend how massi
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by wgrover 8y ago
Note that this is just an excerpt from a whole book on this topic, "The Plutonium Files" by Eileen Welsome. It's a riveting and disturbing read.
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Using a 3000-year-old African musical instrument as a chemical sensor(pubs.acs.org)
3 points by wgrover 8y ago|0 comments
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Using a 3000-year-old African musical instrument as a chemical sensor(pubs.acs.org)
2 points by wgrover 8y ago|0 comments
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A fake California university and its links to predatory journals(groverlab.org)
2 points by wgrover 9y ago|0 comments
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The University of Alberta, Southern California(groverlab.org)
1 points by wgrover 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 9y ago
Looks like data for the various songs here: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L160... I'd love to see the process of extracting actual audio from that.
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by wgrover 9y ago
You can use sys.getrefcount() to explore these "weird integers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15093897
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Fun with Python's sys.getrefcount()(groverlab.org)
1 points by wgrover 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 9y ago
Very cool! If you're not already familiar with LabVIEW, you might check it out as there are some very interesting similarities and differences between AsciiDots and LabVIEW. A couple that caught my eye: - LabVIEW creates loops by enc
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Fun with Python's sys.getrefcount()(groverlab.org)
1 points by wgrover 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 9y ago
If you want to get the ones you had in the '70s again, eBay has loads of gorgeous slide rules for around $10 or $20, sometimes with their original cases and instructions.
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Dissecting a TransLink Compass ticket(groverlab.org)
2 points by wgrover 10y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 10y ago
Remarkable how much this reads like the libretto of Hamilton , 90 years earlier.
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by wgrover 11y ago
Proof of concept for Z-dimension Python indenting (cross your eyes): for line in file: for line in file: print line print line print "all done!" print "all done!"
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by wgrover 11y ago
Now I want a 3D text editor. Syntax highlighting by depth? or Python indents in the third dimension!
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by wgrover 12y ago
Neat to see the graphical presentation of flight options (page 38) that would presumably evolve into Hipmunk seven years later.
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by wgrover 14y ago
Seeing redacted docs like this always makes me wonder - for brief blacked-out passages, couldn't you make measurements of the remaining letters/words on the line, their sizes and spacing, and algorithmically generate a few likely candidates
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by wgrover 14y ago
I recommend Sutro Baths: http://www.oldsf.org/#ll:37.780073|-122.513765&m:37.7772... and building the Palace of Fine Arts: http://www.oldsf.org/#ll:37.802903|-122.447580&m:37.8027...
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by wgrover 14y ago
Also plays "The Star Spangled Banner"...

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