That time is hard, I think. So the network itself has needs, you can't just shift all clocks by 55 ns. So instead, an offset is broadcast that tells you what you need to subtract/add to get to UTC.
Hi! Galmon guy here. This has only once been a problem, someone with a modified firmware, and that produced some exceedingly strange data. In the galmon design, which is quite neat if I say so myself, data is stored per source. If any data is bad, we can throw it out. If someone would really want to mess with us they could of course. But we're probably niche enough that people don't bother.
hmm not seeing it yet - this is very low bandwidth but fixed rate stuff, where the messages being broadcast also change from time to time. But I may not be understanding fountain codes well enough - they sure seem interesting!
Hi! So a phone could well benefit from RTK, but this is a local signal, so you have to pick up something that is relevant for your location. Meanwhile, the High Accuracy Service broadcasts realtime corrections, but it does so on a frequency band that is not supported by phone handsets. Also, the RF conditions in most urban environments are such that I'm not sure such corrections would be received well enough to matter in most cases. Phones are moving to dual frequency chipsets which will also improve accuracy without further help. Hope this helps!
Hi - author here. By all means ask around. I can only tell you that I've received may corroborating anecdotes over the past year. Many telcos even assumed I was writing about them specifically, when I wasn't! I also have a second post that has some more logos and names where I based this article on -> https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
There are complicated handling instructions for the mRNA vaccines. The sunlight remark is in reference to the J&J claim their vaccine survives temperature excursions even after mixing. So I don't specifically mean the sunlight, but more the sensitivity to temperature changes.
So .. it is not easy to get into this field. From the outside we tend to see DNA as some freestanding thing that fascinates us. The biology people intertwine DNA with everything they do. The route to knowing about this stuff therefore goes via learning about biology first. One of my favorite books, Molecular Biology of the Cell, covers DNA thoroughly.. by spending time on it on almost every of its 1300 pages. But it is all in between "the rest of biology". In a way I can understand this of course, but it is very very hard work.
you could get a long way, but it would be extremely dangerous. The real problem is making the vaccine.. and ONLY the vaccine :-) And not inject random bacterial stuff that you used along the way.
I definitely think the computing / information security mindset is relevant and applicable to computational biology. There are sadly structural reasons why the crossover is very hard. I spent 18 months at a university doing this kind of research but it is not a natural fit. Also, I do have to tell you, I spent 10 years studying this stuff before I became useful to the field. So you don't just jump in there :-)
yeah, I'd love to know as well. Both Moderna and BioNTech licensed technology from University of Pennsylvania, but I don't know if that is only the 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl bit. If I find out I'll update the post.