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Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. Sadly I didn’t have the focus/grit to finish writing a paper (sorry Dr. Singh). Side note, this was in 2007 and the folks in our optics lab would check the location of beams by grabbing from the stacks of ancient punchcards lying around and waving them next to the apparatus.

This paper has a pretty similar setup, but adds a spatial light modulator (like a DLP projector that can control phase as well as brightness).

What is wild to me is that the researchers here are able to create a beam where the angular moment changes as you move away.

Plus the really cool spiral patterns.


Might be rough on battery life, but perhaps pulsing an SOS with the flashlight?


It is rough, but I like it if it's "toggled" when needed.

If the person doesn't respond to an "Are you conscious?" alert, maybe allow responders to "toggle" certain actions like the flashlight you mentioned.

A meshnet for communicating back-and-forth between devices. Permissions might be tricky though.


An approach we've done is to use Postgres' "create database foo2 template foo1" syntax to essentially snapshot the db under test at various points and use those to rollback as needed.


Am I reading the bill text wrong or is it really so general it would also apply to devices assembled in China that can perform AI operations?

Seems like there'd be pushback from Apple, MS, etc on that one.


Ah, nevermind, just saxophones:

> ... tenor processing unit...


Yeah, I’ve been waiting for bidding to open on https://hibid.com/lot/214229120/comino-gando-rm-long-fully-l... just see what it gets up to. (5955wx + 4x RTX 4090’s)


What about a fluorescent dye with one (or few) UV LEDs on the edge facing inward to illuminate it?

Maybe not “better” than OP’s design, but could be interesting in its own way.


If your table setup process starts to get slow like ours, checkout psql TEMPLATE (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...). Do the setup once to a db with known name, then use it as the template when creating the db for each test.


I snagged one of those keyboards at an auction. Haven't been able to get it to work with a modern PC. Hard to find much info on this line of computers.


Are there any writeups of the pinout or hopefully the protocol?

I made a converter once for a Sun keyboard before https://www.pjrc.com/sun-type-s-keyboard-retrofit/ / https://github.com/jareklupinski/sun2usb


> Don't get me started on grown-azz men wearing bead or string bracelets.

Unless it was made by their young daughter/granddaughter, it which case it is the mightiest of talismans.


That is very true. :)


It's only around 6000 students, but Missouri S&T (a mostly engineering and mining school) is still like 75% male.


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