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Show HN: API for Flight Prices(ignav.com)
3 points by gusgordon 6mo ago|1 comments
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by gusgordon 2y ago
I was doing some analysis of a solar-electric plane that can fly indefinitely: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite Seems feasible, never went past the analysis phase though :)
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by gusgordon 2y ago
This is awesome, nice work! In case it's useful, I made a Python package for calculating solar irradiance at altitude: https://github.com/gusgordon/airmass Takes into account lots of stuff (e.g. attenuation from a
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by gusgordon 3y ago
Totally - right now it's using the USDA food nutrient database [1] which has all nutrients, so all the nutrients on the back-end are there. Calories is the most important thing to the majority of people (in my experience), so there&#x2
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Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information(spe.lt)
39 points by gusgordon 3y ago|40 comments
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Segmented Displays [video](youtube.com)
3 points by gusgordon 3y ago|0 comments
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by gusgordon 3y ago
Stopping by to say this is super cool! I've been pretty obsessed with this idea for a while — here's an analysis I did a few years back: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite I got a minimum wing
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by gusgordon 4y ago
Given that there have been multiple mass extinction events in Earth’s history, it seems reasonable to spend a small fraction of GDP on colonizing another planet. How about something roughly equivalent to the amount we spend on chapstick?
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by gusgordon 4y ago
Yeah, that’s basically what I do, but I often find I need to play around with intermediary data within functions.
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by gusgordon 4y ago
What’s your recommendation in terms of tooling for cases where it’s not just prototype -> production, but an iterative process? I love notebooks for prototyping, but I find it’s a lot of work to make sure notebook code and prod code are
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Segmented Displays [video](youtube.com)
1 points by gusgordon 4y ago|0 comments
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The Intuition Behind Bernoulli's Principle (2021) [video](youtube.com)
27 points by gusgordon 4y ago|3 comments
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Lego Reaction Wheel Inverted Pendulum(youtube.com)
3 points by gusgordon 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Simple Alternative to AirTags(safelyreturn.com)
1 points by gusgordon 5y ago|1 comments
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How did the Enigma Machine work?(youtube.com)
2 points by gusgordon 5y ago|0 comments
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by gusgordon 5y ago
Good question. One requirement for the aircraft in this optimization is that they must have more energy in the battery than they did 24 hours prior. If the aircraft started at full energy, they wouldn't ever be able to satisfy this req
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by gusgordon 5y ago
Yes it's a lot easier at lower altitudes since you can get more lift, but you might run into some extra regulatory issues with that :)
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by gusgordon 5y ago
For those curious about the physics of these aircraft, here's an analysis I did of the same concept. The goal is to determine the smallest aircraft configuration that can indefinitely sustain flight: https://github.com/
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Show HN: I built a newsletter that sends you cheap weekend trips from your city(briskvoyage.com)
2 points by gusgordon 5y ago|1 comments
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The Intuition Behind Bernoulli's Principle(youtube.com)
1 points by gusgordon 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Email alerts for cheap weekend trips from your city(briskvoyage.com)
1 points by gusgordon 5y ago|0 comments
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Supersonic electric VTOL jet analysis in Python(github.com)
1 points by gusgordon 5y ago|0 comments
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Supersonic VTOL electric jet analysis in Python(github.com)
1 points by gusgordon 6y ago|0 comments
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Python analysis of electric supersonic/VTOL aircraft(github.com)
4 points by gusgordon 6y ago|0 comments
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by gusgordon 6y ago
Here's a fairly in-depth analysis of supersonic electric VTOL aircraft: https://github.com/gusgordon/electric_jet tldr; they become "practical" with a battery specific energy of around 1500 Wh/kg. H
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by gusgordon 6y ago
The primary goal of RCV in the US is to address the hostile partisan divide. Making more parties viable is secondary. When you have a ranked choice system (even if it's only in a fraction of states), it incentivizes the candidates to n
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by gusgordon 6y ago
It’s expensive to get access to a GDS API and, from what I’ve heard, the data they provide is quite difficult to work with. There’s a reason Google bought ITA for $700m, right? If this project ever grows, it could make sense to pull from a
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How we scrape 300k prices per day from Google Flights(medium.com)
47 points by gusgordon 6y ago|67 comments
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The eyeballing game(woodgears.ca)
6 points by gusgordon 6y ago|2 comments
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Endless flying in a solar-electric drone(github.com)
3 points by gusgordon 6y ago|0 comments

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