waiquoo

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by waiquoo 5mo ago
I'm in lab automation, we've come a long way from paper schedules (although those still get plenty of use :) )
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by waiquoo 1y ago
US residency funding has not increased since 1997, and residency spots is the real chokepoint
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by waiquoo 1y ago
Faraday did a whole series of lectures about a single candle, essentially covering a surprising amount of physics and chemistry. Super simple and fascinating: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14474
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by waiquoo 1y ago
Mark Behlke's group at IDT is the force behind a LOT of the development of CRISPR, but they are relatively unknown
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by waiquoo 1y ago
There's a level where institutions are separate from the people that make them move. If your boss can get replaced without destroying your department, then that institutional layer exists.
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by waiquoo 2y ago
What I have been thinking a lot about lately is that the focus should not be on the work. The focus should be on the handoff. If you build something, the goal is to have someone else use it. The work should focus on easing that transition.
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by waiquoo 2y ago
This is awesome! I have some serial devices (RS 232) that I've wished I could make wireless. Are there any similar projects to bluetooth serial comms?
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by waiquoo 2y ago
'Gift' vs 'give' also rustles my jimmies. The phrase 'he gifted it to her' doesn't mean anything different from 'he gave it to her'. As a Calvinite, my stance is that 'verbing weirds languag
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by waiquoo 2y ago
It's like you guys have never even heard of 'body on a chip' https://school.wakehealth.edu/research/institutes-and-center... .
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by waiquoo 2y ago
dropping packets would be a much bigger deal...
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by waiquoo 2y ago
Also Congress caps the number of available residency slots, and that feeds back to med school admissions, etc. ( https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/senators-introduc... )
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by waiquoo 2y ago
It does happen like that, lot's of departments within big companies have R&D focus with time dedicated to development/discovery. The problem is that the output is captured. If it doesn't end up in a product, the general p
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by waiquoo 2y ago
How does your technology compare to Nuclera's chip based system? https://www.nuclera.com/technology/
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by waiquoo 3y ago
I grew up in the Fort Johnson neighborhood in Charleston, so I was surprised to see that it was listed as a martello. The magazine is definitely still there, a little brick building with very thick walls (especially for the size of the buil
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by waiquoo 3y ago
'All light causes evaporation' is not really true. IR heating works because the wavelength resonates with the vibration modes of the intramolecular bonds. Water has low absorption of visible wavelengths, so you would not expect li
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by waiquoo 3y ago
Their setup looks remarkably similar to my PhD work [0][1] (that included a PoC and simulation). We didn't do power generation, but there was significant electrical activity (nanoamps and millivolts per pore). If I remember right, even
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by waiquoo 3y ago
Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination
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by waiquoo 3y ago
Oh wow, this is really cool. I've seen the exact patterns under 'thin film buckling' (Ziebert et al., “Strongly buckled square micromachined membranes,” J MEMS 8 423-432, 1999) when fabricating ~25nm x50umx50um thick, edge-su
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by waiquoo 3y ago
I'm going to drop a link to this blog: https://profmattstrassler.com/about/about-this-site-and-how-... I am not a particle physicist, but the explanations of quantum mechanics and particle physics here have been s
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by waiquoo 4y ago
Having worked at the largest synthetic DNA manufacturer (at least they were, I think they still are)... a lot of his information is just wrong. There is a huge incentive to lowering the cost of producing oligos and synthetic genes. This is
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by waiquoo 5y ago
I don't know your particular situation, so no judgement from me... but I've been out-lifted by a one handed guy and seen a one legged man run a half-marathon. Personally, I would have done more running if I was one-handed, and mor
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by waiquoo 5y ago
The problem is lack of constraint. You can build anything, but where does it fit in the world? That transition from derisked, innovative technology to useful product is particularly difficult and typically involves a handoff between two sep
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by waiquoo 5y ago
OR helium ion microscopy, but that is not as widely available afaik 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_helium_ion_microscope
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by waiquoo 6y ago
XR2206 chips are pretty useful as cheap function generators for analog projects.
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by waiquoo 7y ago
60Hz is the 'flicker fusion rate', meaning if you were changing the frequency of a flashing, stationary LED, ~60Hz would be the frequency where perception transitions from visibly flickering to apparently continuous. It's a l
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by waiquoo 7y ago
Of course. Here are couple interesting papers by NASA leadership from the Apollo era (PDF warning): https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197200... https://www.nasa.gov/pdf&#x2
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by waiquoo 7y ago
It's also really interesting the effect of management to drive timelines and innovation. If you look at the Apollo program, there was a ton of innovation driven by a incredibly fast design/launch cycle. Well managed timelines and
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by waiquoo 7y ago
Generally it's patents on drug delivery systems, like fast dissolve gelcaps on the name brand vs pressed pills in the generic
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by waiquoo 7y ago
You are correct, but the variable of interest is recoverability
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by waiquoo 7y ago
The other aspect is that the shelf life of DNA can be significantly longer than other mediums. I haven't personally done anything with DNA data storage, but the idea is that tape storage is good for 30-50 yrs, but we can recover intact

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