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by bd 7y ago
About that John Hawks's evolutionary argument - "if humans with smaller brains could manage, lesser energy requirements would select for this" : I wonder if maybe having larger brains didn't bring extra survival advanta
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by bd 7y ago
When taking baby Aspirin and having anticipated bleeding (e.g. planned surgery or dental work), hematologist's advice was to start preparing about two weeks in advance: take pill every other day for about a week, then stop for another
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Show HN: Visual scale of money (stacks of $100 bills in realistic size in WebGL)(alteredqualia.com)
7 points by bd 8y ago|0 comments
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by bd 8y ago
His brother - Josef Čapek - was also a writer (and a painter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Čapek He wrote a wonderful illustrated children's book about cat and dog living together: https://www.g
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by bd 8y ago
Here I made one for you, using just the original frames: Video: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.original.mp4 [15MB] Mirror: https://streamable.com/l9x1o ---- Extra: I also attempted t
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by bd 8y ago
Credit should go to landru79, he keeps finding interesting things in Rosetta's raw data. I basically just tried to correct for Twitter's terrible video handling by re-tracing his steps :) Go check landru79's Twitter feed, the
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by bd 8y ago
Unfortunately Twitter butchers video quality. I remade both landru79's videos from scratch using original ESA 2048x2048 image sequence (plus I added a bit of motion interpolation): http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rose
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by bd 9y ago
It's ... complicated: "for every 1000 patients treated for a 5-year period, aspirin therapy would be expected to result in 1 excess hemorrhagic stroke compared with a benefit of ≈14 myocardial infarctions prevented in patients at
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by bd 9y ago
Digging deeper into tables in the paper, I realized there is actually even less data about non-smokers than I thought. Out of those 60 non-smokers with lung cancer apparently just 20 were men (out of 14,208 study participants who were men a
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by bd 9y ago
Amounts of vitamins per supplement seem to vary wildly. Just from checking supplements I have at home: Supplement #1 (all B vitamins): - B6: 4.2mg - B9: 600ug - B12: 7.5ug Supplement #2 (just B6 + B9 + B12): - B6: 75mg - B9: 800ug - B12: 15
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by bd 9y ago
Hard to tell much about B vitamin supplement effects on non-smokers from this study. Researchers themselves excluded never-smokers from more detailed stratified analysis because of their small number. There were only 60 cases of lung cancer
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by bd 9y ago
Here is LIGO live stream: https://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF/live This was LIGO (US) + Virgo (EU) + 70 ground- and space-based observatories collaboration: http://www.ligo.org/ http:/&
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by bd 9y ago
This new method seems to produce nicer results when the input deviates from what would generic model expect (e.g. stronger facial expressions). ----- Here is the same image used as input for 3d face reconstruction using both methods: https
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by bd 9y ago
Had some fun with it yesterday :) http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/facial_expressions.html http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/max_headroom.html It seems to be working pretty well,
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Photorealistic facial texture inference using deep neural networks(creativeai.net)
2 points by bd 10y ago|0 comments
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by bd 10y ago
I'm interested in why the author was unsure whether octrees are suitable for GPUs. See this Twitter thread for discussion exactly about this (with Q-Games developers and original voxel cone tracing author): https://twitter
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by bd 10y ago
Online demo is just 360 photos but real VR application seems to be fully 3D (from the videos). This would make sense as it's based on Google Earth which is 3D. Even WebGL web version of Google Maps is already 3D since some time ago. Se
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by bd 10y ago
Because if you link to jwz's site directly from HN, you'll get redirected to this :) http://imgur.com/32R3qLv
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by bd 10y ago
Schiaparelli lander status update from ESA TV live stream (20:35 CEST): - already two sources confirmed losing signal during landing sequence (GMRT radio telescope in India [1] + Mars Express orbiter [2]) - still more data coming around mid
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by bd 10y ago
It's starting to come (EDM is Schiaparelli lander, TGO is orbiter): -------------------- Latest status for lander: still unknown (next checkpoint after 20:00 CEST) Latest status for orbiter: seems good -------------------- 1) The @ESA
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by bd 10y ago
> one hell of a license that must be... Probably something like when Amazon bought CryEngine license from Crytek and then released it for free as Lumberyard (including releasing source code, though not true open source). The price for
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by bd 10y ago
Really interesting documentary. Thanks for posting this. ----- Some highlights: - these new SynCardia artificial hearts are basically the same as old Jarvik-7 hearts (part that goes inside patient's chest), save for different sizes ava
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by bd 10y ago
See also this reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread from another patient with such device from 2 years ago (2014): https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24a8ln/hello_reddit_i...
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by bd 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Five years is much better but fundamental issue is still there - "there is a deadline after which the utopia ends". Did you consider maybe using fewer participants but possibly much longer time-frames
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by bd 10y ago
I'm afraid with such short duration you'll not be able to observe true effects of basic income on people's behaviors. It will be more something like "sabbatical" in academia - you can devote a time to some side proj
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by bd 10y ago
So now open sourcing of "crown jewels" AI software makes sense. Competitive advantage is protected by custom hardware (and huge proprietary datasets). Everything else can be shared. In fact it is now advantageous to share as much
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by bd 10y ago
Well, the fan-made mockup has such look because that's the only thing you can do with the screenshot. Real mod could do much more, e.g. changing textures or models geometries. It's the whole new cartoony art direction that's
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by bd 10y ago
Let's hope some mods will make the look more palatable. Here is a fan made mockup of how Civilization VI could look with a different art direction: http://i.imgur.com/ZawuP8E.jpg Here is the original look for compariso
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Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed(harvardpublichealthreview.org)
432 points by bd 10y ago|202 comments
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by bd 11y ago
From Twitter of one of the demo creators: "I was using GTX 980, which runs it at 1440 in the editor with perf to spare" https://twitter.com/robertcupisz/status/709789738316726272

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