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Wow you got you some markov chains, Monte Carlo, Gamma Radiation, what a fun dissertation. I especially liked the bit about how the NaI detector is not a sphere and sensitivity dep…

If you are out in the woods and you come upon a roughly circular area of crushed down grass, that is a deer bed. Try and avoid walking through it, deer beds are full of ticks. The …

Yes. When I plug my phone into the car it used to use google assistant to process voice commands and it was pretty fast. Now for some reason it has switched to Gemini and it takes …

I would like to find a lighter exhaust system for my motorcycle, the stock system weighs like 30 pounds. All the aftermarket exhausts seem to be louder then stock. I want something…

Anyone who has done much hunting gets tired of carrying that heavy-ass rifle through the woods all day. A small reduction in the weight of your gear allows you to cover a lot more …

My understanding is that whole grain flour is not very shelf stable, ie. you have to grind it and use it within a few days or starts to taste bad. White flour lasts years. A small …

I feel like if you are already getting IVF, then genetic selection of the best embryos is a no-brainer. I can't think of a better gift for a child then an extra standard deviation …

Snowmobile accident, rolled over on a hill and it squished him.

I have noticed that men and women tend to use different emoji and ascribe different meaning to them. Ex. I see the skull emoji used to indicate laughter more often used by women an…

One hazard of being a programmer is that sitting alone in a room alone with a computer for 10 years can turn you into a weird dude. Lately I have taken steps to re-learn how to be …

Ukraine's current drone consumption has been quoted at 9,000/day, or 270k/month. A million drones won't last long in a peer conflict. Most of the drone parts come from china. What …

When I was child, our dog got hit by a car. The dog had two broken legs and was bleeding from the nose. My dad said, "Come with me son, I will show you what to do." So we went into…

It used to be cool to be deviant and not to be accepted by society at large. Ravers, skaters, punk rockers, cross-dressers, all subcultures that did not care if they were accepted …

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclea... Kodak had this issue for sure.

When we were kids we used to catch wasps in a plastic cup, put them in the freezer until they were anesthetized, and then tie a little leash on them with sewing thread. Then you ch…

Hey, it worked when JFK did it!

This is an interesting approach, do you have a website for this "bio-emulative scaffolding" thing?

I feel like half the time issues are caused by adding some stupid feature that nobody really wants, but makes it in anyways because the incentive is to add features, not make good …

Bugs like to crawl into little holes like on the charging plug/car and can increase resistance enough to cause this issue. When I built a robot that had to plug/unplug things 1000s…

An example of this effect can be already be found in motorcycles. I currently own a BMW motorcycle and a honda truck. The honda has all the modern driver aids, automatic braking ra…

I love the idea of Arbitrus.ai, but they want $2500 a go to test it. I wish they had a demo version to play with.

Yes, and you also get feedback from your butt as the machine tips and wobbles, particularly on smaller machines. Hearing the engine straining helps also. Often you can not clearly …

The outdoor environment has lots of UV rays from the sun, so this selection pressure has existed for a long time.

If you want simple get a motorcycle. Most do not even have a radio. I got an almost new BMW 310GS for $5k. Even at that price it has antilock brakes, slipper clutch, throttle-by-wi…

If you are Serious about DIY solar I made a whole site about how I did mine with a calculator and graphs, etc. https://www.pvh2o.com/