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I've recently started adding free base harmaline to my vape juice to create a proper tobacco substitute... I found that nicotine alone didn't provide the relaxation that I would get from smoking tobacco. After a fair amount of research I discovered that it was that lack of harmala compounds.
One of my projects is a dreaming machine which combines eeg, sounds, and lights to aid in recognition of dream states. The eeg data is used to generate ambient soundscapes that change theme based on the level of sleep (awake/rem/light/deep) and during rem sleep it triggers a set of leds mounted inside of my sleep mask. It works fairly well and is totally passive/non-invasive.
Very much this! Additionally when discussing ketmaine it's method of action (NMDA receptor antagonist) specifically could be disrupted by the effects of another anesthetic compound.
You're comparing apples and oranges ... Y2K was a know problem, with known trigger conditions, and prescribed remediation steps. The salt water intrusion is a moving target whose remediation steps aren't clear cut.
The most recent estimate has pushed back the timeline for potential water fouling back by over a month and the new estimate put the salt ppm at <250 which is below the EPA's public safety floor.
> I haven't seen any exaggerated coverage. [...]
That might be because you're not from the area and haven't seen the empty shelves of bottled water and the run on water filtering equipment
From a post on /r/neworleans: "In the last event sales of bottled water skyrocketed before the event. Once the salt wedge arrived, sales went down and everyone stopped buying water. Data suggested public didn't view the situation as sufficiently threatening enough to continue buying water."
So it doesn't seem to be the 'emergency' that media is trying to make it out as... Seems like the larger issues are increased heavy metal contamination from the salt and silt relocation affecting the health of the delta and related ecosystems...
The current plan is to ship in fresh water, which is what was done last time, and also there is talk about building a fresh water pipeline in the next 30 days that would extend ~12 miles up river. [2]
[1] current estimate is that current the situation will last ~3 months
[2] https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/saltwater-intrusion...
The "reality" that we experience is a predictive model of what we believe is about to happen. This is required because it takes a quite some time[1] for stimulus to be received and processed by our bodies! If we didn't have this predictive mechanism the universe would seem very strange indeed.
But but because we hallucinate our reality we get the illusion that what we experience is instantaneous in respect to the cause!
[1] depending on the circuit it can take >100 msec for a nerve signal to reach the brain, and that's not accounting for the subsequent processing
Many years ago I was writing a bunch of modular audio applications that were all interconnected using JACK. So of course I needed some convenient way of storing/restoring the graphs that connected the various components that were always in flux -- each audio experiment had it's own graph, but there were often re-occurring sub-graphs.
So, I started to build a small cli utility that could save the current graph and restore it later... of course because of the common sub-graphs it needed to be able to refer to other labeled graphs so i could easily reference and re-use them... and of course to (save myself time) it also needed to have arithmetic composability so that I could add/subtract existing graphs to create new ones... and of course it would be helpful if I could also annotate the graphs so that they could launch the associated programs...
So in the end I had a generic DSL that had recursive graph parsing, reification (labels), graph composability, arithmetic composability, and could associate arbitrary labels with executable code.
I eventually looked up from my adderal fueled hack-a-thon and realized I had created a half-baked LISP and decided it was time for to go to bed! :)
I'd like to see how it performs on a novel object that is similar to one in the training set, but not included in the training data.
> Also, cement is not very sustainable because of CO2 emissions.
Agreed that cement is a CO2 issue, but I think the overall environmental savings of not having to refine and transport lithium far outweighs the cost of the cement
Also the cement batteries are *very* simple to construct; it only takes a 4th grade education and can be made from locally sourced materials
Otherwise I fully expect every government in the world to simply ignore the patent and allow public/private use -- effectively invalidating the patent.
There is existing precedent for this type of action: the US government seizing wireless patents during WW1 or the Indian government invalidating international patents on medication for the purpose of federal manufacturing.
The Termux App [https://termux.dev/en/] provides a full linux terminal with zsh, emacs, and apt based package manager. I've been using it in lieu of creating full apks for personal projects -- much easier to spin up a database and local webserver via ssh on my phone than to build a proper app package.
I find it fits most of my linux on the go needs; for example I can pull up a node REPL and quickly test code on my phone, or curl a API endpoint
Not sure given the other responses if this number is acurate?
Take the members of the C++ object and create a struct to hold the data then create a 'constructor' function for populating that data. Afterwards you just call the member functions of the original class, as simple C functions, and pass the struct as the first argument.
This in fact is what the actually happens at the assembly level when using a C++ compiler! The idea of an 'object' is purely an abstraction!
MIDI 2.0 fixes a number of issues that OSC was intended to fix, but imposes vendor limitations which lead to standardized adoption.
I still use OSC for music production, and it's my goto protocol for writing code that needs networking as it's a super simple message passing protocol that lets me quickly connect various devices and services :)
I will give you far too much benefit of the doubt and assume that you are speaking from a privileged position of ignorance vs being willfully ignorant, or arguing in bad faith. I do not have the time, nor is it my responsibility to educate you on these matters, but here is a very easy place to start.
Not to diminish the work, it's an excellent lab experiment, but this has practically zero real-world application.
People have bought into the 'self-defense' mythology of gun ownership and it is just that -- a mythology.
The sad fact is that in the United States, the number one use of guns is for suicide (54%), followed by killing/being killed by someone you know. The whole self-defense/good-guy-with-a-gun scenario is rare, which is why it makes the news when it happens.
I grew up in a somewhat violent area, gunshots were a regular occurrence, and I still maintain that I would rather live my life free of fear than go to bed every night with last thing in my mind being the idea of taking someones life
Binary is impossible to 'invent' as it is just an application of established arithmetic rules to a base 2 number system.
If i declared an arbitrary base of 73 you wouldn't say I just 'invented' septuaginta-tresinary??
People have been using base 2 for thousands of years prior to Thomas Harriot, see egyptian multiplication, and to assume that these early mathematicians didn't understand the concept of base is naive!
/get off my lawn
When I want to cook something new I'll grab several recipes and compare the ingredients and relative measures to get a meta-concept of what constitutes the fundamental essence of that dish. I use that as a base reference but actually cook by intuition/taste.
For me a recipe is mainly a list of ingredients, with the execution being a matter of personal preference.
Also, The fact that a service which in theory would have a high demand, offers 0 explanation or justification for their technique is highly suspect.
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The only way a watermark would be even remotely effective as a deterrent would be if everyone agreed on a fixed mark; this mark could be automatically detected (this a silly way of doing things), or if it was incorporated into the model would create a bubble of locality due to feature alignment (poising the well)
Neither of these are practical or reasonable solutions like: robots.txt, EXIF metadata, and digital signing - combined with regulations allowing for legal recourse
TL;DR - DRM of publicly available data is not a "winnable" fight
People used to own 'vehicles' that were capable of automatic obstacle avoidance and fully autonomous navigation to predefined locations. These vehicles were even capable of refueling themselves, self-repairing minor damage, and even self-assembling new units!!
Occasionally the they would glitch and cause unexpected behaviors, and given the technology of the time, the waste products from the 'fuel cell' would cause problems, but they worked pretty well...
Eventually they were replaced by the non-intelligent automobiles, but they are still the preferred method of ground transport in rocky/uneven terrain, and can occasionally be seen in urban environments during parades, or being used for crowd control.
We called them horses ;)
Section 5(a)(3)(c)
(a) Priority Information And Communications Technology Areas.—In carrying out sections 3 and 4, the Secretary shall prioritize evaluation of—
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(3) any software, hardware, or any other product or service integral to data hosting or computing service that uses, processes, or retains, or is expected to use, process, or retain, sensitive personal data with respect to greater than 1,000,000 persons in the United States at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered transaction is referred to the Secretary for review or the Secretary initiates review of the covered transaction, including—
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(C) machine learning, predictive analytics, and data science products and services, *including those involving the provision of services to assist a party utilize, manage, or maintain open-source software;*
As for the substance of the article... I'm speechless
Also, see if your school district participates in the National Academic Games tournaments. https://www.agloa.org/