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Heat pumps and better insulation. It's magic how heat pumps pull heat out of thin air. I honestly think part of the reason they are not adopted as much is people can't understand them and don't trust them because of their ignorance. Insulation seems pretty boring until you start to realize how much energy can be saved by modern insulation.
The way we treat allergies today, with Zyrtec and Claritin, is medieval medicine. It doesn't solve the underlying problem; it just tries to cover it up.
Allergy immunotherapy is the future. Most people don't realize that allergies are now a curable disease. In the future, taking Claritin for allergies is going to seem like taking Tylenol for an ear infection. Why would you treat the symptoms when you could just cure the disease?
I started Wyndly (https://www.wyndly.com) to bring immunotherapy for pollen, pets, and dust across the USA. But we'll expand into food allergies soon, too.
Muon-Catalyzed Fusion [1]. Briefly it's a genuine, and scientifically uncontroversial, form of 'cold' fusion enabled by muons — a more massive relative of the electron that was in the news recently thanks to the potentially interesting results coming out of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab [2]. Like conventional 'hot' plasma fusion, in all experiments to date the energy input needed to sustain the process has exce…
https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/24852.ht...
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Can you explain what you mean by shielded ledgers?
The fact that wallet IDs are visible in the blockchain breaks it completely for me. I do NOT want an immortal record of every penny I spent and to whom I gave it. Fuuuuuuuck that. Today I have a choice, but with many cryptocurrencices (ETH, BTC) that is a "feature" not a "bug". Monero and Ravencoin have transparent and shielded entries. I believe the node is encrypted with an ECDH shared secret, so the payer and the…
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I hear what you are saying, and that is a good point, and I do agree with the: "Why isn't there an open ISA?" I think the key difference with an OS like Linux and an ISA like RISC-V is that Linux helped literally millions of smart, curious kids get exposed to Unix and tinkering in a OS that wasn't a locked down behemoth: Windows. It changed lives. I don't think it is an exaggeration to overstate the democrization Lin…
You raise good points. Linus is a one in a million person... At the same time I do think kids, hobbiests, small startups, and people who can’t afford expensive computers will make use of RISCV on commoditized programmable logic chips like FPGAs. Look at projects like MiSTer, simply not something that was available for hobbiests and free culture advocates 20 years ago. I can see a similar development happening in the…
However, I taught programming in an afterschool program in the mid-80's and the Apple //e had an amazing graphical program that stepped through an assembly program, showing the data moving through the busses from register to memory, etc. And it was instrumental to kids learning. There's a few more wires in a 32-bit RISC compared to an 8-bit 6502, but someone will benefit!
Advances in computational chemistry and computational materials science. Specially using ML to speed up computation. Computational chemistry is already patchwork of different heuristic approaches. Graph neural networks and even some language models seem very promising addition. If we could simulate and observe what happens with complex chemistry accurately, it would completely change the biology, medicine and materia…
That's probably far less true than you imagine. See Derek Lowe's take on it: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/19/ai...
The rate-limiting steps in drug discovery is in figuring out a) what you need to muck up to improve health or b) how to muck it up without mucking up other things badly enough to kill you. Computational chemistry has generally focused more on solving problems c) how to muck up this target more effectively or d) how to make the mucker-upper in the first place, which, while not useless, is not going to be a revolutionary change by any stretch of the imagination.
1. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn't solve everything). https://gnunet.org/en/gns.html 2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification,…
In case the nushell link doesn't work for anyone else, consider prefixing it with www: https://www.nushell.sh/ Admittedly, i have no idea why we even need to do that nowadays, but that seemed to work.
$ curl -v --head https://nushell.sh/
* Trying 162.255.119.254...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connection failed
* connect to 162.255.119.254 port 443 failed: Connection refused
$ curl -v --head https://www.nushell.sh/
* Trying 185.199.108.153...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to www.nushell.sh (185.199.108.153) port 443 (#0)
Heat pumps and better insulation. It's magic how heat pumps pull heat out of thin air. I honestly think part of the reason they are not adopted as much is people can't understand them and don't trust them because of their ignorance. Insulation seems pretty boring until you start to realize how much energy can be saved by modern insulation.
But not in very cold environments. I have one and when there is more than two degrees of frost it struggles.
So for a lot of continental areas they are almost useless since they do not function when you really need them.
For temperate climates and coastal regions they are wonderful.