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Pedestrian airbags have been designed before, but don't seem to have caught on widely [1]. A more bizarre solution Google patented always stuck with me: A sticky car hood beneath a…

Perhaps it is an example of Cunningham's Law?

Well, the issue is that if you accept that brain state will always be different then there isn't much predictive power in the measure. The conceit was always that you could measure…

I think degree of sensitivity, discrimination, or directionality can warrant counting a 'new sense'. I would consider my sense of thermoreception to be different from that of a sna…

It looks like it may be an antiquated term? From the National Accelerator Laboratory Groundbreaking press release: "Groundbreaking will be held Sunday, December 1, 1968, near here …

This idea really resonates with me, and is a notion I've been working through without really having words that express it. Could you share the untranslated phrase if I wanted to re…

The insecurity comes from the fact that once a call is in the network, it is mostly passed off without validation or verification. You only need to find someone willing to carry yo…

Having spent a bit of time working on projects that touch the phone network, I think it is a 'major nightmare' in the Lovecraftian sense--I for one am forever changed by what I saw…

I notice this on occasion when people are speaking a language I do understand, but I miss a syllable or two when they begin speaking. The rest of their speech might as well be anot…

Neat article covering a lot of topics, but I'm fairly surprised by these results. At one point I was looking at building a navigation module for a car using a similar setup to smoo…

Very interesting--thanks for the reply. I sometimes forget there are problems out there that for all our analytic tools are 'too hard' to give an good (read: short) answer. I'll ha…

Do you have any links with more analysis on the problem today? Kessler syndrome is something I always see discussed, but I don't really have any idea how large/proximal the issue i…

That is the issue though, someone has to decide whether to "throw the book at you" or not. As long as someone is left to decide that, then you risk things like "being offensive" wo…

Further, we don't know the value. Thought seems cheap to us, but it is clearly valuable to the companies that use it. How do we know it is a fair deal without knowing our thoughts'…

It is always easiest to blame 'the people' for making bad decisions and enabling systems we disagree with, but you are right that this is a mistake. More important is addressing th…

This is an interesting idea for understanding how different worldviews form. Possibly also how sentiments like "facts have a liberal bias" or "liberals live in a fantasy" come abou…

This is what I wondered, is network topology carefully arranged to avoid triangular connections, or 'loops' where a generator could interfere (indirectly) with itself?

My confusion always comes when I try to think of it as a propagating wave. If instead of a tandem bicycle, it is a very long rope that someone is moving up and down, then when I tr…

Looks like a welcoming project with lot of good information for new contributors on the Github. Unfortunately all the project's Slack links I can find (including this one) seem to …