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I don’t think the previous system was using space heaters though, the PTAC they had before presumably had a heat pump in it if it was generating condensation.

Yeah AVP/passthrough would make you very sick if you tried to wear it in a jet pulling high G maneuvers.

The temperatures we’re talking about (1000C) would be incredibly dangerous in residential applications, plus a small installation would lose too much energy to the environment due …

Apparently I’m the only one here who doesn’t know this but: What is RAG?

Also radiosity for offline rendering got largely replaced by sampling based techniques, first things like photon mapping and more recently by path tracing. Sampling approaches are …

FYI this post was actually written by Maya the intern (Matt only writes the weekday posts).

Yeah it’s the trials that are really expensive, not the basic research. The government gets to spread its dollars around to lots of individual researchers but if they were instead …

I guess I would have assumed the opposite? A virus that just jumped from bats to humans is expected to evolve pretty quickly in the binding domain as it “learns” to better target h…

Yeah broadcast TV content has long consisted in large part of reruns, syndication, and older (cheap to license) movies, think of what was showing during non prime time hours when y…

You need to clean the filters regularly so they don’t become a fire hazard due to oil buildup; the better ones should have some kind of reminder system and will have filters that a…

Sometimes there are other regularities in the data that an ML algorithm can exploit; for example, if it can detect feet strike events in the IMU stream, it can compute an estimate …

The oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine and occasionally reverts to an actually infectious strain. This isn’t a major concern in countries where people are widely vaccinated but w…

I am not an expert, but there has been a lot of hope recently that because we have much better understanding of protein structure (e.g. https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines…

Propublica has been covering this, the FDA has been throwing up barriers to rapid tests while Europe has been embracing them. One of the barriers is that "users are supposed to be …

I also feel like the way Tesla drives is really aggressive, I basically can't use is adaptive cruise control in slow/stop-and-go traffic because it ZOOMs right up the the car in fr…

In this formulation I believe the last bit would also be repeated 3 times, and you’d have to read those three bits to detect corruption.

While this is possible, longer credits mean more filmstock to be duplicated and fewer showings per theater screen, so there is an economic incentive to keep them as short as possib…

Structured light cameras like Project Tango or Occipital's Structure sensor that project a textured pattern would work well here. Stereo algorithms like the one you linked that use…

Auto-vectorization is impossible for a lot of real-world code because it requires changing how data is laid out in memory. Notice that the AVX version of the raytracer actually inv…

Space carving is a similar idea [Kutulakos and Seitz, 2000]: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/pubs/00.ijcv.carve.pdf

Also food price increases look to me like they're basically within historical norms? The posted graph makes it look like there's a big spike because it starts with the 2008-2009 ti…

Why assume that anyone who isn't deeply expert in the technical details of a product isn't a full-time employee of the company? Many companies hire sales/marketing people of both g…

Okay, so these papers are phrased a little confusingly, but what they're really doing is solving a specific but very useful type of linear equation Ax = b where A is a diagonally-d…

It's a refundable credit, meaning that the government will reimburse the company for VFX work above and beyond its tax liabilities. How is this "tax jurisdictions competing" and no…