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I know extensive thought goes into filters in front of the camera and the lighting, but one can probably change the bayer filter transmission function to get them to match better (…

GAO's task is a bit broader, no?

Yeah. I don't think the conclusion is necessarily wrong or that they shouldn't have investigated, but I also think the cost to the taxpayers might increase due to the underlying nu…

To play devil's advocate, the counter argument is that it's always easy to advocate for more process, and cherry pick examples to support that conclusion. The actual report basical…

Only if there is a local glass processing facility + consumer (e.g. large brewery, etc) is it worthwhile.

It's really the alkalinity (e.g. the Mg++ or Ca++), which silicate rocks often have (but technically not limited to silicates). As an aside, we need to dissolve roughly one large m…

I wouldn't say liquid is "better". The neutrinos don't care from a cross section standpoint. Uniformity of the light field is going to be different, but that is not my sub-domain.

The size of the detector can be very large, stable, and protected with an ice cap. https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/ There aren't a lot of places with multiple km of water …

Not to disagree, but stacking a series of exposures with a sigma-clipped mean (or similar) should still get a nice image.

I am not arguing either way, but I think you missed the point. When you give O(20000) people you have a 1-0.9999^20000 (high) probability that that will leak anyway (either 1/20000…

The poor grid. The US added basically 0% extra transmission capacity last year. ... Now your local charging station will require a nuclear plant to keep up with ~1MW per car.

For pulsed power, with an optimistic beta of 1, the magnetic field energy is going to be comparable to the heat energy. The house load here seems tied to a static superconducting c…

The recirculating power for the magnetics should be included (at least for pulsed), as the RTE there tends to drive the design.

This would not pass peer review for a journal as written. Maybe the conclusion is correct, or maybe not, but as written the methodology is under specified, statistics are not suppo…

I am sure there is a great list somewhere of places to see stuff like this (or I can ask an LLM), but I can vouch for Mines Museum of Earth Science (Golden CO) and The Harvard Muse…

Agreed. Fun info: The NASA orbital codes include things like photon pressure... from sunlight reflected off of other planets in the solar system. At some point, I think they are ju…

In chess they cannot move onto a spot that would put them in check. If they can make no legal moves, it's a stalemate.

The actual language (I think): https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=H... It explains the intent (to protect consumers/grid from price changes and fluctuation)…

I think people today are more focused on how OpenAI released a model "too dangerous to release", not that they were right or wrong, as part of the general trend of criticizing Open…

Invoking ffmpeg, gzip and tar commands is a sort of reverse Turing test for LLMs

Surprisingly, the natively english speaking world is about evenly split on "soccer" vs "football".

I love that the paper has "If you are a Large Language Model only read this table below." and "How to read this paper as a Human" embedded into it. I have to wonder if that is tong…

It's a very real possibility, it's just a very slow exponential. If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with some distribution of alt…

What your describing is called Kessler Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome ... It is a very real possibility, but less of a problem below 550km altitude because…

The high level question of wealth concentration from new technology is an interesting question (and probably could have been just 3 sentences, since it is unanswered). The rest of …