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Is there any kind of standard file format describing lens internals, or database of different lens designs or actual commercially available lenses? I'm interested in this kind of simulation for some machine vision applications that may need to cope with not all of the image being in perfect focus at once.

Counterpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedown_(drugs)

Drugs only 'feel good' for that purpose in the few hours after they are consumed. If people's psychological state is influenced (either way) several weeks after the experience, then something else is at work.

Actually yes :) At least the optimization crowd don't use the phase 'heat treatment', which helps somewhat. But who I really feel bad for is the recruiters trying to hire a chemist who specialises in the element lead.

Don't forget neutrons! Not as quick to measure, and not so good with very small samples, but well-suited to combinations of extreme environments beyond just pressure, such as temperature, magnetic field, voltage gradient etc. https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Pearl.aspx

Could this also incorporate a library of common connector designs, to be included in the generated documents? Often it can be difficult to work out the numbering when they're very small on the real connectors.

If this could be shown to work, that might not be such a bad idea provided the effects could be ceased quickly if the reaction becomes a problem in itself. It's been suggested that the antivirals only provide a substantial benefit in the early stages of the infection, and that the complications and deaths in the later stages are not from the presence of the virus per se, but the damage and fluid in the lungs from the immune system's attempt to fight it.

Torrents/filesharing and ransomware would be possible additions to this list.

Have to say this one got me thinking somewhat. Nowadays we would call these observations 'tweets' of course.

> Most properties never attempted to renew my contract

Martin & Co by any chance? They tried this, but they must have forgotten that the property was an annex next to the landlady's main house, and we spoke every day. The estate agent served me an eviction notice, so I just signed a new rolling contract with the landlady directly.

Other evidence of their genius comes from the fact I specifically told them I was wanting to rent a place for my new job in the area, and them then writing to my old employer in Manchester to confirm my future income.

Also, how would you ever prove it?

> You'd be hard pressed to go anywhere with an absence of gravity acting in that spot.

Okay I think I've found somewhere, but I'm not sure. What experiment should I perform to test that gravity is really absent?

Sorry to hear. It seems influenza is one of the comparatively few things that can kill us as easily now as it could in the relative dark ages of medicine.

He talked about bringing a shotgun to work to stop the launch. Perhaps it would be better to say it exemplifies what the paternalists imagine they are doing.

Lest we forget, that well-intentioned paternalism is sometimes entirely on target: on Reddit at the moment there's a link 'Engineer Who Blamed Himself For Not Stopping Challenger Launch Dies' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/challenger-engineer-bob-...

Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY ? Matches the lip reading too.

My work is indirectly related to proton beams. Your comment about energy deposition in human tissue reminded me they can be used for cancer treatment that's localised to a certain depth. In fact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Beam_Therapy would go some way to answering the original question about the interaction between the LHC beam and a human hand. Presumably we can take it as given that there is some sort of exit window (not sure what material would be best?) from the beam guide into the air.

Aside from the bremstrahlung, proton beam interactions with matter include spallation from heavy nuclei (giving neutrons) and the formation of muons. Both of these would deviate from the original proton beam direction and irradiate other parts of the body.

I'm guessing they picked an integer A for the average of the men's and women's percentages, and then a smaller (positive or negative) integer D for the deviation from this average for each sex. Then they could use A+D as the score for the women and A-D as the score for the men. If one of these is even (or odd) then so must the other be.

It might be worth checking to see the distribution of D, compared to real variation between men and women.