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About that John Hawks's evolutionary argument - "if humans with smaller brains could manage, lesser energy requirements would select for this" : I wonder if maybe having larger bra…

When taking baby Aspirin and having anticipated bleeding (e.g. planned surgery or dental work), hematologist's advice was to start preparing about two weeks in advance: take pill e…

His brother - Josef Čapek - was also a writer (and a painter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Čapek He wrote a wonderful illustrated children's book about cat and dog living t…

Here I made one for you, using just the original frames: Video: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.original.mp4 [15MB] Mirror: https://streamable.com/l9x1o ---- Extra: I …

Credit should go to landru79, he keeps finding interesting things in Rosetta's raw data. I basically just tried to correct for Twitter's terrible video handling by re-tracing his s…

Unfortunately Twitter butchers video quality. I remade both landru79's videos from scratch using original ESA 2048x2048 image sequence (plus I added a bit of motion interpolation):…

It's ... complicated: "for every 1000 patients treated for a 5-year period, aspirin therapy would be expected to result in 1 excess hemorrhagic stroke compared with a benefit of ≈1…

Digging deeper into tables in the paper, I realized there is actually even less data about non-smokers than I thought. Out of those 60 non-smokers with lung cancer apparently just …

Amounts of vitamins per supplement seem to vary wildly. Just from checking supplements I have at home: Supplement #1 (all B vitamins): - B6: 4.2mg - B9: 600ug - B12: 7.5ug Suppleme…

Hard to tell much about B vitamin supplement effects on non-smokers from this study. Researchers themselves excluded never-smokers from more detailed stratified analysis because of…

Here is LIGO live stream: https://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF/live This was LIGO (US) + Virgo (EU) + 70 ground- and space-based observatories collaboration: http://www.ligo.or…

This new method seems to produce nicer results when the input deviates from what would generic model expect (e.g. stronger facial expressions). ----- Here is the same image used as…

Had some fun with it yesterday :) http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/facial_expressions.html http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/max_headroom.html It seems to be working pretty …

I'm interested in why the author was unsure whether octrees are suitable for GPUs. See this Twitter thread for discussion exactly about this (with Q-Games developers and original v…

Online demo is just 360 photos but real VR application seems to be fully 3D (from the videos). This would make sense as it's based on Google Earth which is 3D. Even WebGL web versi…

Because if you link to jwz's site directly from HN, you'll get redirected to this :) http://imgur.com/32R3qLv

Schiaparelli lander status update from ESA TV live stream (20:35 CEST): - already two sources confirmed losing signal during landing sequence (GMRT radio telescope in India [1] + M…

It's starting to come (EDM is Schiaparelli lander, TGO is orbiter): -------------------- Latest status for lander: still unknown (next checkpoint after 20:00 CEST) Latest status fo…

> one hell of a license that must be... Probably something like when Amazon bought CryEngine license from Crytek and then released it for free as Lumberyard (including releasing so…

Really interesting documentary. Thanks for posting this. ----- Some highlights: - these new SynCardia artificial hearts are basically the same as old Jarvik-7 hearts (part that goe…

See also this reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread from another patient with such device from 2 years ago (2014): https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24a8ln/hello_reddit_i...