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throwwit

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Had to be said. Being openly cynical is optimistic right? Since it might effect positive change?
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throwwit··on The Possible Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in Covid-19
‘Suppressing’ might be a loaded term, as is implies cytokine storms are not simply a complication of an unregulated immune system (Vitamin D deficit) to begin with. Cause and effect need to be worded with baseline scenarios.
throwwit··on Tesla Ventilator [video]
This. I’m surprised 3D printing hasn’t been employed more aggressively to cut down the complexity of production & sourcing. I’d imagine MM3D being used to create electro active polymer pumps acting in series to create the displacements (~.5L), and parts like pressure sensors designed in a simple albeit more mechanical fashion.

Props to Elon tho for taking on the task!

throwwit··on Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000
The window problem reminded me of this https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a19049/airplane-wind...
throwwit··on The Dark Silicon Problem and What It Means for CPU Designers (2013)
I think a dimpled fabrication would be best... with whatever amounts to heat sinks on both sides.
throwwit··on Traveling to the Sun: Why Won't Parker Solar Probe Melt?
It’d be neat to see a divergent lens made of carbon metamaterial at the aft of the craft. (... or convergent depending on the shape of the craft)
throwwit··on Make a Pseudoscope (2005)
Might be popular with flat-earthers ;-) ... the psychological phenomenon might even be related
throwwit··on Nvidia creates super slow-motion video smoother than a 300K fps camera
Eulerian magnification should show artifacts of the slow down.
throwwit··on Pornography and the Butterfly Effect
My take so far (with limited research) is that Peterson is trying to evoke debate on the issues in a centrist fashion reminiscent of Plato and his cave. The ‘shapes’ of traditional societal structures are being bound to new normals on the ‘wall’ of the human condition; solving this jig-saw of a problem necessitates open debate & negotiation.
throwwit··on New DNA structure inside human cells known as the “i-motif” has been identified
Seems more like a ~pantry~ for DNA synthesis than anything functional, especially given its four strands make for difficult reaction kinetics.
throwwit··on Lytro is winding down
It’d be interesting to see an implementation with time-of-flight, the precision of surface mapping could only go up. Even combining an SLR improves resolution [ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/192f/708e0470744667f8fc5f41... ]
throwwit··on China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
Caste systems will never go away until the asymmetric advantage they endow to a majority is honestly weighed against the hidden costs of society manifesting self-fulfilling prophecies in the minority. Which way should the slippery slope slide? Should an individual’s means to succeed be the rule or an exception. That’s freedom, thats’s bravery in my eyes.
throwwit··on Indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons ruled unconstitutional
Read as: open-concept planning gains momentum to save money in cash-strapped overcrowded prison system.
throwwit··on Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
Barrel of monkeys for physics math.
throwwit··on Ethereum founder threatens to leave if the crypto community doesn't grow up
There’s been good progress in foodbank tech despite it being a fork. http://m.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hunger... Good luck Vitalik
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Apologies if I’m cargo-culting math... just positing.
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Well what I meant was shrinking the n body system to a point then extending that to a field. But it’s beyond me how the math works to invert those same force vectors to an impulse.
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Just the inverse n-vectors applied (regardless of space and field strength or possibly just instantaneous field strength). Always good to be called out tho.
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
I think bitcoin’s fixed-limit and deterministic transactions makes it a uniquely closed & conserved system (regardless of deflation and lost wallets). The discrepancies in valuation among exchanges & localities seem to show a relativistic (to borrow a physics term) quality. [I’m however not really into bitcoin or an economist though]
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Ha... I guess I can be a bit terse. Just think of the “turbulence” in navier-stokes as valuation fluctuations. Without the realworld dampening effects of regulation, slow tranactions, and managed markets — volatility along the lines of the infinite incongruities posed in the article are possible. ( note: Im not referring to a pendactic ‘infinite’ wrt a blockchain).
throwwit··on Bitcoin price is crashing
All the more reason to do your christmas shopping early. Lol. I take the total crypto market cap more seriously though.
throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Isn’t Navier-Stokes smoothness just a reframing of the three-body problem? Karl Sundman solved that one in 1909, and n-body was generalized in 1990 by Qiudong Wang.

Edit- to answer my own question: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/N-body_simulations_(grav...

throwwit··on Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Financial forecasting and risk-elimination in a system like a blockchain would be my guess — and in that respect it’s probably the most important problem out there IMO.
throwwit··on Dyslexia
...maybe check if it's "convergence insufficiency".
throwwit··on 1.9M Bell customer email addresses stolen by 'anonymous hacker'
Kinda funny the 'relevant ads' program was worse in my opinion. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/bell-faces-750m-lawsui...
throwwit··on FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees
It goes further than arrests. It's contact, and associations. At least up in Canada [1] https://www.thestar.com/topic.presumed_guilty.html
throwwit··on FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees
It all boils down to money. Departments got a revenue stream from the churn of job applicant pool background checks. Now they're going with the SAAS model. It's a pretty bad ethical conflict of interest; that unfortunately someone without a job will never be able to afford to bring before the courts.
throwwit··on Theranos reportedly laying off 41% of its workforce
It sucks that the company probably has some decent IP that can change the world, but is (by my outside opinion) so top heavy business-wise that it'll just eventually end up locked away by competitors via some forced sale.

If I had to pivot a miniature lab that fails because of small sample size; I'd think of just making it invivo.

throwwit··on President Obama Should Shut Down the NSA’s Mass Spying Before It’s Too Late
The word might be hypocracy... Hypocracy of power mongering.
throwwit··on Canada’s federal court rules intelligence service bulk data collection illegal
There's precedent in pushing the envelope in law enforcement since Sir Robert Peel (if you read up on it). It's not surprising an analogous methodology has been promulgated. Hopefully a more appropriate solution is worked out.
throwwit··on Show HN: Alienslike.us – Vote on what an alien society might be like
Maybe by considering pi a fractal instead of a fraction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80...

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