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“iris-tracking model is able to determine the metric distance of a subject to the camera with less than 10% error, without requiring any specialized hardware. This is done by relying on the fact that the horizontal iris diameter of the human eye remains
Link.
Russia’s Trump assistance: “The director of national intelligence was asked to modify the assessment — he did not — and not long afterward, Mr. Trump declared the director was out”
Link. Russia’s attack on America is the most successful military action in the history of warfare.
“I made decisions out of political expediency, or hubris, or naivete”
Link. Welcome friend, we need you.
“locker rooms designed like first-class luxury airliner cabins now look like protruding, tumorous distortions, worthy of recoil and disgust.”
Link. The best guides to America are our college sports and our prisons.
“next six months could make what we have experienced so far seem like just a warm-up to a greater catastrophe”
Link. Yep.
“flat earthers’ claim Einstein said you cannot distinguish upward acceleration from downward gravity. That’s the equivalence principle, supposedly. So, you see, Einstein said it and therefore the earth is flat.”
Link. Jesters are playing with vulnerable minds. It’s cruel.
“fundamental slogan of this area of mathematics (originally stated by Theodore Motzkin): “Complete disorder is impossible.”
Link. Infinity is problematic.
Seattle CHOP: “Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Link. Police are necessary
“If the neutrinos cannot emerge fast enough to heat an explosion, the supernova is likely to fizzle and the newly-birthed neutron star will collapse into a black hole”
Link. Otherwise neutron star.
Reflections on the end of the American era.
Link. COVID-19 was our Berlin wall fall. There will be a New World Order – for reals.
That Kodak Deal: “no doubt a weird coincidence that a former manager of Southeastern Management (Ted Suhl) recently had his sentence for bribery and fraud commuted by President Trump”
Link. Russia 2.0.
“The quantum-resistant algorithms will be standardized far in advance of any practical quantum computer,”
Link. Thank you!
Serverless: A simple overview
Link. Helped me.
Chronicles of Charnia: the discovery of precambrian life.
Link. Good story well told.
MSP Paddlesports Map
Link. Minneapolis and St Paul
Rad Power Bike story
Link. $1000 eBike
1/3 of infectious people have no symptoms at all.
Link. Why we need universal precautions
“According to officials, God was killed this morning on the moon by a highly trained team of seven astronauts”
Link. Already done. Suck it Trumpo.
UA SPORTSMASK (Under Armor) $30
Link. Not better mask we need, but at least interesting. Available 9/4. Better pre-order. Supply constrained.
Catalina 10.15.6 is prone to kernel panics from a memory leak.
Link. I’ll migrate from Mojave in spring 2021.
“paper goes on to show delivery of an antisense oligonucleotide to the Tau protein gene, and demonstrates that after such dosing that Tau mRNA does indeed go down in the brain tissue”
Link. That is interesting.
Resurrecting the cyclic universe.
Link. No more multiverse
Regeneron’s Monoclonal Antibody Rx looks good
Link. Human trials next
Hybrid Fish: “For those fish to breed is more like if a human came out of a platypus egg,”
Link. Redefining the impossible.
MarsEdit 4.4: Micro.blog and Performance Improvements
Link. Hope one day it’s worthwhile to restore Blogger support.
“there’s no competitive pressure on Apple at all for anything other than phones”
Link. This is a weird world.
“Canon is either really, really unlucky, or really, really bad at cybersecurity, or both.”
Link. WTF. Is every corporation incompetent?
“When asked about gun control measures, it is in fact the oldest Americans who now most often express support”
Link. The iron law of politics: never rely on the young.
“new birders have taken popular binocular models out of stock”
Link. Kayaks, tents, freeze-dried food. Bikes of course. Inline skates. Barbells. Everything I do.
Trump Assesses John Lewis’s Legacy: ‘He Didn’t Come to My Inauguration’
Link. What a great headline
Immunology 101: COVID edition.
Link. I’m a physician and I don’t want more than this. Immunology is awful.
Alice Walker has left the rational world.
Link. Dementia almost certainly contributing.
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Link. Most detailed review i have seen.
Immunology of effective and ineffective COVID immune response.
Link. Astounding clinical research velocity. Type 2/3 response injury while Type 1 response ineffective.
Beirut Explosion: ‘I Was Bloodied and Dazed. Beirut Strangers Treated Me Like a Friend.’ – The New York Times
Link. NYT foreign journalists are a bot extreme.
Beirut Explosion: ‘I Was Bloodied and Dazed. Beirut Strangers Treated Me Like a Friend.’ – The New York Times
Link. NYT foreign journalists are a bot extreme.
Catalina: More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Link. I hope to skip it.
Kanye West is played by GOP sleazeballs.
Link. Exploiting his mania.
Sci-Hub – Wikipedia
Link. Shades of gray.
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
Link. “Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, InfoWars: free!” Paid for by our enemies.
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
Link. “Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, InfoWars: free!” Paid for by our enemies.
“preferences have an overriding hierarchy, and what may have been happening is that the preference you tried to set was already being overridden by a Property List with a higher priority”
Link. Undocumented basically. macOS is too complex now.
Apple Remote-Kills Long-time Developer’s Apps
Link. Customers stranded. Apple should be broken up.
“whatever is causing this drop in cognition, the decline started becoming apparent by the time baby boomers were still middle-aged”
Link. Wonder if Europe too. Might explain GOP
“EtreCheckPro 6.3 is a free download for OS X 10.9 and up.”
Link. Upgrade $15. I need to try it.
“whatever is causing this drop in cognition, the decline started becoming apparent by the time baby boomers were still middle-aged”
Link. Wonder if Europe too. Might explain GOP
“whatever is causing this drop in cognition, the decline started becoming apparent by the time baby boomers were still middle-aged”
Link. Wonder if Europe too. Might explain GOP
Now for outdoor masks?
Link. More of a cultural norm, simplifies use. No evidence for direct non-trivial effect on disease.
Israel COVID school outbreak: “the government exempted everyone from wearing masks for four days, and schools shut the windows.”
Link. Air conditioning is the enemy. Same rule in government offices Trump is forcing open.