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That would make sense. I wonder if, laying on the stomach is actually freeing the phrenic nerve, allowing the diaphragm to work better, and therefore providing more oxygen.


Well if you use a simple convolutional neural network and can get within visual range, hitting the target should be trivial.


Huh? I don't know why you think a convolutional neural network would help but that's not how this stuff works. Due to heating effects and clouds there is no "visual range" for a ballistic missile. Any terminal course corrections will be done with radar.


That's incorrect. There is a visual range. You can either image in the UV spectrum, or simply choose your optics so you can image the carrier from before re-entry.

Once you've got a position there's nothing the carrier can do in those 30 seconds before impact so you won't hit it, so there is not even a necessity for terminal course correction.


Total science fiction. You're not going to see enough from orbit with the type of optical sensor that can fit on the re-entry vehicle.


Actually yes, you can. You can run the numbers if you wish. To see a target that is 300m large from 300km away you need an angular resolution of 1 miliradian which requires a 0.5mm aperture in the visible spectrum. To be able to image it well and tell it apart from something else consistently and obviously you'd have more than you need with a hundred times the resolution which would require a 50mm aperture.

In other words, absolutely and completely feasible. You could hold a camera with an 1200mm f/20 Cassegrain lens that could take a picture of a carrier from 300km with a fair amount of detail in your hands, let alone fit it into a 3 ton reentry vehicle.


That's idealized theoretical optics. Not something that works through a real world atmosphere. A total joke.


I assure you this is actually how it works. Im not talking theoretical either, you can go out and take a picture of the International Space Station throught the atmosphere using equipment that can be held with a single hand.

You'll be able to see the solar panels and various other little details.

Now that's a 100 meter target 400-600 km away. An aircraft carrier is even easier.

See for example https://www.amateurastrophotography.com/how-to-photography-t...

It turns out the atmosphere is not that big of an issue for such a large target. The ISS is much worse because the atmosphere is at the beginning of the light path so diffraction is minimised, in reality a picture of an aircraft carrier from orbit with the same lens would be much sharper.

Also, in real life these kinds of optics are really close to the theoretical limit, just fyi. The theoretical limits become more difficult to reach for larger apertures and higher focal ranges, but that's a few orders of magnitude away from what's needed here.


Massage under the mastoid process of the temporal bone. This will release pressure on your Limbic System in general, improving your emotional connection to the world, and in particular will let your Amygdala to settle reducing your sense of fear, in turn making you a more joyful and open person. Long term you want to find a way to strengthen and balance your Deep Neck Flexors and Deep Neck Extensors, however how to do that effectively is a very open question.


Whoa, just fiddling up there with my thumbs has me feeling different. Are there any resources on self-massage you would recommend? You seem knowledgeable about it.


Actually I had to devise most of this myself as I've had a physical & mental, disability that was getting worse and worse with no cure or useful treatment. I'm writing things up at the moment, basically an explanation of how muscular imbalances lead to brain and nerve dysfunction causing (possibly explaining, depression, anxiety and a whole lot of other things) and what to do about it.

I should be able to share in a few weeks, if you're interested can you send me a message twitter.com/shardinator and I'll send you an early copy. Else I'll post something here when it's a little more fleshed out.


If you're gonna post it here I'll just keep tabs on your profile since I don't use Twitter. Looking forward to the post!


Sure thing. I think I should be able to post it here by the beginning of Dec.


How do you find the temporal bone? Would you have a reference video so that I could try it out? Temporal bone massage returned some vague results.


You should look up [mastoid process]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mastoid+process&atb=v279-1__&iax=i...

The temporal bones are big plates of the skull your ears attach to, and a "process" in anatomy is a sticking-out part of a larger bone.


I might be able to help with the car accident injury. I had a rear-end car accident 11 years ago. I know the pain/suffering. It's like nothing you can imagine till you have it and then it never goes away, worst of all no professional knows what to do about it.

The last two years I've read pretty much everything and contacted every researcher/research group working on this. They have some good material, but eventually I had to adapt their work into my own techniques. I'm now about 80-90% fixed and in a few months I think I'll be all good.

I've developed an exercise program along with an elastic head sling that supports and strengthens the neck. If you're interested DM me on twitter https://bit.ly/2LTVMMl and I'll send you some info about how I did it, you might have to modify some things but I think the basic ideas will apply.


Exactly


The government should make a one-off large payment and buy the rights. Of course the details could be complex, but it’s a starting point.


I would expect that the for same government that destroyed indigenous families and culture to buy the rights to an indigenous symbol doesn't sit right with indigenous people.


We laugh, but that's pretty much how the Mongol empire was created :)


I thought so too, I’m working on this. If anyone wants to collaborate please let me know how I can get in touch email, Twitter.


I'm not sure what the cost would be to have ES/Solr hosted (is there a free option?).

I'm too poor/cheap to do so, if it were up to me I'd set this up with a static js page that uses something similar in the browser (eg. lunr js) and allows you to download that dataset on the spot.


I have a few apps that I host with a cloud provider (scalingo.com) and initially I can cover the costs. If there’s a lot of traffic because it proves to be helpful there are a few groups I could ask to help with some funding.

For now I’m building a custom index with mongoDB - if anyone is familiar with building ES queries, would be keen to chat about how that might be better.

I'll post a link here later today.


A lucene based solution would probably scale better and would allow you to implement more complex behavior. You get analyzers, stopword filters, synonyms etc. out of the box, and you can express things like "virus within 5 words of lung" or "covid or virus but covid is way more important". I believe given the rather small dataset and the fact that you won't even expose more complex queries on your interface, the main benefits are the analyzers and various filters you can use.

If you are already doing stemming, stopword filtering and maybe synonyms you're probably fine.

(My email is in my profile if you want to discuss this in further detail)


Lucene does sound good, but I don't have any experience with it so I can't get anything happening quickly. But very happy to have help if you can?



CEO at Scalingo here. Scalingo may help you cover the cost cf our latest announcement https://twitter.com/ScalingoHQ/status/1240282733659774979 Contact the support for more details!


Thanks Yann, much appreciated!


Hey I went to post a job and got an error: could not find post-job/index.html in your content namespace

Also, I realise this is an MVP, so no issue. Hope it does well.


Thanks for the report! I will temporary cut the listing price in half to make up for the trouble.

I believe it may be a cache issue from our original build and you having visited previously. If you could, please hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) or visit the job portal directly: https://portal.remote.io/

I'll work on a quick temporary fix as well.

If your issue persists, please contact us with the address of the page that you were on previously when you clicked to post so we can investigate further.


Added a redirect and cut listing prices in half.


Thanks, will check it out.


10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.


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