sandwall

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by sandwall 2y ago
Shockley and the transistor... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
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by sandwall 3y ago
Pretty hilarious discussion of the Lockbit gang as a failing "organization"
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Siemens Responds to Lockbit Hack(therecord.media)
2 points by sandwall 3y ago|1 comments
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Varian Medical Systems Hit by Ransomware(hipaajournal.com)
1 points by sandwall 3y ago|0 comments
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Neuromorphic imaging is the future of computer vision(eetimes.com)
2 points by sandwall 4y ago|0 comments
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by sandwall 4y ago
Concur, 5meo typtamines are extremely potent and quite dangerous. Witnessed overdoses and while they weren't lethal, they certainly had the risk. Just because the compound doesn't kill, doesn't mean you can't die from a
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by sandwall 5y ago
It's a red flag. Looks cool on the surface, but if it's what it appears, it should be subjected to a more rigorous review.
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by sandwall 5y ago
NIH funded articles are mandated to be public access, these are often available without journal typesetting: https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research...
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by sandwall 5y ago
Agree with questioning this. They are both brilliant, but that doesn't justify arrogance. IMHO, it detracts from his brilliance and clouds the clarity of his thoughts.
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by sandwall 5y ago
You're on the money with this one. Accurate table translations was an important enabling technology - same with slip-rings for full rotation
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by sandwall 5y ago
Yes, but this was only shown later -- The reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam was published in 1984 by research staff at Ford Motor Company. The Felkamp, Davis, and Kress algorithm was demonstrated as a natural extension of the fan-beam
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by sandwall 5y ago
Later, that was developed in 1984; CT's use collimated fan beams
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by sandwall 5y ago
Oldendorf and Damadian (MRI) are great examples of Nobel blunders -- my money is on Takahashi for his significant contributions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258406/ Steve Webb wrote an excel
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by sandwall 5y ago
Historians are all storytellers. Critical review is important. I really like this paper which starts by paraphrasing Jane Austen, "i think it quite odd history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention" : https:
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by sandwall 5y ago
Story telling is how our society has transferred information since we started to communicate-- understanding the map is not the territory, nor should it be. A beautiful narrative can convey important kernels more efficiently than endless mi
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by sandwall 6y ago
I agree with your comments 100%, I too read and enjoyed the book and found it very complementary to The Idea Factory
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by sandwall 6y ago
Morphogenesis is an interesting area of study, this is a beautiful example
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by sandwall 6y ago
https://bloom.bg/3q5IJXE
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by sandwall 6y ago
Agree, I believe it's because of the comments... also, tried resubmitting the correct link and it broke too, had to use a shortener: https://bloom.bg/3q5IJXE
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Broken link(bnnbloomberg.ca)
7 points by sandwall 6y ago|7 comments
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by sandwall 6y ago
I agree, diversifying energy sources seems to be the best policy. We've been sending radioactive materials into space for a long time (pu-batteries), albeit quite small amounts. -- Perhaps we should be "smurfing" fuel to the
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NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon(cnbc.com)
6 points by sandwall 6y ago|3 comments
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by sandwall 6y ago
The book is OK, his concept is sound. He mixed weak faith based analogies in too much for my taste but it doesn't overly detract from the science. My criticism is not due to an atheistist tilt; the analogies felt forced and contrived,
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Engineer Posts Images of Abandoned 300 MPH Hovertrains(interestingengineering.com)
3 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments
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Ransomware Attack Has Struck Universal Health Services(wired.com)
2 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments
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by sandwall 6y ago
Interesting, can you add some depth to that statement? I enjoyed the book, and found it useful in illustrating many cognitive biases. I've gone on to read more of his work and agree the data is from, "WEIRD societies: Western, edu
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Snowflake nets $3.4B in record-breaking software IPO(markets.businessinsider.com)
3 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments
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How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company(wsj.com)
2 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments
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Neuralink: Brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says(thenextweb.com)
1 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments
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Intel hides the unannounced Iris Xe Max GPU brand in a promo video(pcworld.com)
2 points by sandwall 6y ago|0 comments

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