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It brought up a question that I'm hoping someone in this field could answer: Does it make sense to speed up cancer cell replication while providing chemo drugs?
It seems like this would result in greater discrimination between fast-replicating cells (cancer) and normal cells. In turn, this would allow faster chemo treatments, or less collateral damage.
In the old days, you were small groups exploring the uncharted. You were in the minority because you were part of a group of pioneers, and I think there was a sense of optimism and excitement around that. I think a lot of the magic is gone precisely because tech is now ubiquitous and mainstream.
I can't help but wonder if it's my nostalgia as well, but I feel like 1995 - 2005 was the golden decade. It was at the point that technology was actually good enough to enable a lot of stuff (broadband, large storage media, etc), but it was still enough in its embryonic state that the novelty was still there.
In fact, the Postal Service had to contract an alternative supplier to reverse engineer and manufacture the chassis frame to keep the LLV operational. As a result, the average annual maintenance cost exceeds $5,000, with 7% of LLVs exceeding $10,000 annually. Additionally, they are less fuel-efficient and unsuitable for future delivery needs given projected changes in market demand, mail mix, and increasing delivery points.
The LLVs also lack modern safety features such as airbags, anti-lock brakes, air conditioning, back-up cameras, blind-spot warning systems, daytime running lights, and seatbelt reminders." https://uspsngdveis.com/documents/USPS+NGDV+FEIS_Dec+2021.pd...
Sort of a Ship of Theseus vehicle. Yes, some have lasted over 40 years, but that's with potentially multiple drivetrain replacements, at an annual maintenance cost of $5,000 - $10,000. That feels high, given how simple those vehicles are.
It feels a little like "Follow these instructions exactly" without requiring understanding in a lot of cases. For example, the music IC doesn't have any of it's terminals labelled.
The same with the transistor; it doesn't seem to explain exactly why you'd need to use it, why you'd need a resistor on the base, etc. On that note, It's also possible to potentially damage stuff if you just try to experiment without understanding.
I feel like they could have made some of the parts a bit more flexible -- have current limiting resistors built into the LED & transistor units for example, provide point-to-point wires rather than rigid 1/2/3 unit connectors, etc etc.
and try to plot a path between them without crossing an undersea cable:
What I'm more interested in are laws against "changing the experience". You force a mandatory update that significantly changes the product in a way that I don't like (removing features or cramming ads into a device I paid for), I should have the option to revert to the original as-bought configuration, or get a complete refund.
To what level would the "source code" have to be published? Chip-level? Should I expect HDL code that allows me to reproduce the microcontroller? If not, expect a bunch of gadget companies to pay cypress or whoever to make "custom" chips with their firmware burned in. After all, what's the difference at that point between HDL and firmware?
If yes, expect most companies to simply refuse, and not authorize their chips for sale in the US. International IP / licensing agreement would make it literally impossible for them to comply without being sued into oblivion by the Taiwanese company they licensed the IP from.
I think stuff like design files and source code should be held in escrow by the government. If you continue to provide replacement parts to customers, the information remains protected. Once you stop providing reasonably priced replacements ("reasonably priced" = less than the cost of the product), the information gets published so others can reproduce it.
I think it sounds like they were remarkably accommodating. I doubt you'd find many companies these days that would grant the same sort of deal.
I can completely understand why no HVAC company would want to touch such a project. It's entirely experimental, would take a skilled technician, and has a high chance of not working perfectly. They would much rather slap together 2-3 installs in the time it would take to plan and assemble your science project. Remember that most of their techs are literally just installers, and there's a huge incentive to "rip out and replace" rather than "diagnose and repair".
If you could find a retired HVAC tech, you might be able to convince them to help.
Seems like things like making sure floor transitions are mild, adequate drainage, textured floors would be more effective. (polished stone and concrete are a nightmare with some shoes that I own in wet weather).
That USB dongle was bodged on to the USB port D+/D- pins going to the tablet's SOC. If you then connect a PC to that port, you have two hosts (SOC & PC), and one peripheral on the same pair of data lines. No bueno.
I can't believe the bodge job inside that tablet. It looks like the prototype became the final product.
Just through personal anecdote, I can think of maybe 5 examples of people I directly know 'retaining' stuff like outlook email PSTs, training documents, etc. And I'm sure there are many more people in my immediate circle who have done similar stuff.
The espionage situation is perhaps more rare, but still prevalent. It's a common situation for people to hang around outside the Foxconn campus soliciting data for the latest iphone / what-have-you. Lots of money to be made have a 2-3 month jumpstart on your competitors when you design a 3rd-party case, for example.
Not very useful to find once you've crushed up half the existing tiling.
Breaking up the 50 year old concrete pad near my house, I found old 1970s crushed beer cans buried under the concrete (the kind that predate the attached pull-tab). Kind of a neat link through time, imagining them sweating in the same sort of heat that I was.
Of course, it might also explain some of the other 'questionable' issues in the construction that I keep finding...
The PC is the lone outlier in the locked-down, walled-garden world of consoles, cell phones, tablets, smart TVs, EVs, etc. I think there's a concerted effort to change that.
3 hours of travel time, plus 20 minutes for hotel check-in, plus 15 minutes for checkout, plus 15 minutes for waiting for the shuttle x 2, plus 10 minutes of walking to the bus stop, and that's 4:15 before you even hit the pillow.
That would put you at 5:15 AM, 45 minutes before the plane departs. Delta recommends you be at the airport at least 2 hours before the plane departs. So by their own recommendations, there is no way this could work, even assuming you didn't even head up to the room.
Additionally, many (citation needed) Youtube videos have people talking in them; this method wouldn't help with that.
Isolating vocals in general is significantly more difficult than just relying on frequency range. Any instrument I can think of can generate notes that are squarely in the common range of a human (see: https://www.dbamfordmusic.com/frequency-range-of-instruments...)
The reason is that WiFi has a DTIM which basically means that requires periodic wakeups to keep associated with the AP. This burns power.
45x18=810 vs 33x10=330, great. But If you're adding another 5mm z-height for a connector, the volume is now kind of significant.
Just think of the stack-up at this point: Motherboard + female socket (1.6mm + 5mm?) + daughterboard (1.6mm) + pins (5mm?) + vertical USB (5mm?). You're looking at something that's +/-18mm tall. Given that this whole design is basically just a way of attaching a 1mm tall IC to a design, that starts to feel a bit extreme if you care about size.
If you really care about a tiny board, and don't need the DIP compatibility (or removability), I feel like a castellated design that can be soldered down is more useful. Designs like the Piksey Atto (20x13 = 260, but also something like 5mm tall)
For me, the killer feature of not having the microcontroller soldered down is that you can flash something on a dev PC, and then insert it into the device.
But in that case, I like something like the tinyduino, which eschews .1 headers and uses a B2B connector. More of a pain to deal with, but you get the benefit of tiny size + low z-height + removable: https://tinycircuits.com/products/tinyduino-processor-board
Regardless, more options are always better. But it's also useful to really think about what your requirements really are.
I wonder if you could assign a citation tree score to each first-level citation.
For example, I cite papers A,B,C,D. Paper A cites papers 1,2,3,4. Paper 1 cites a retracted paper, plus 3 good ones.
We could say "Paper 1" was 0.75, or 75% 'truthy'. "Paper A" would be 3x good + 1x 075% = 3.75/4 = 93.7% truthy, and so on.
Basically, the deeper in the tree that the retracted paper is, the less impact it propagates forth.
Maybe you could multiply each citation by it's impact factor at the top level paper.
At the top level, you'd see:
Paper A = 93.7% truthy, impact factor 100 -> 93.7 / 100 pts
Paper B = 100% truthy, IPF 10 -> 10/10 pts
Paper C = 3/4 pts
Paper D = 1/1 pts
Total = 107 / 115 pts = 93% truthy citation list
If a paper has an outsized impact factor, it gets weighted more heavily, since presumably the community has put more stock in it.
Suspiciously absent from the list of takedowns is anything on Reddit. Given the amount of obviously-chatGPT puppets on there, I'm somewhat 'surprised'.
Also a good reminder that if you're using ChatGPT for anything, they can and will examine the traffic and contents of your messages / replies.
I wonder if in the future they may offer a "service" to content providers. Say you're a reddit / forum / etc. You get supplied an API that you can run queries through that match any content that may have been generated through their service. You can then tag those accounts as bots. Of course, such an API will have costs associated with it...
Truly a bit of a wtf.
For instance, imagine a 10x attenuator / amplifier. Maybe the input has a DC offset. Being able to plot the two against each other to look for (e.g) distortion, is invaluable. This is committing the two cardinal sins (judging from some comments here) of not starting at zero and different scales, and yet it's not misleading at all.
I can believe dual axis charts allow misleading results, but that doesn't mean they don't have completely legitimate uses.
Starting at zero, that range (17K) is now only 5% of the graph, assuming we start at zero. Or in other words, if your chart is 10cm tall, the entirety of the useful range is compressed into a space that is 5mm tall.
I also wonder if the smoothness of the container has an effect. A rough surface might encourage lots of seed sites.
"Can't" is a strong word. I'm curious how an AI model could access data, but Slack, Inc itself couldn't. I suspect they mean "doesn't" instead of "can't", unless I'm missing something.
I like tools that do one thing well. The Kindle has hit that spot for a long time. There were incremental improvements (faster processor, 3G/4G, front light, higher DPI / contrast, etc), but it's surprising how similar a 2010 kindle is to a 2024 one.