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Yeah, thinking about incidental chemistry occurring due to many collisions at or near the speed of sound while packed into a fluid solution or compressed gas, definitely puts things in perspective, in terms of how specifically matched and optimized everything needs to be, in order to be fortuitous as an otherwise unplanned event.

It's like stumbling into elevator after elevator, while running the hundred yard dash at top speed, everywhere you go, only to encounter the perfect dance partner to fall in love with at first sight.


Well, first, you have to believe that the EEG's predictor model is accurate and trustworthy.

You have to trust those prescribing it, which, if you don't trust the advice of a doctor with a needle, would you trust them with a brain scan that labels your child defective, before they can even talk?

Some people (those who might consider skipping vaccinations) might avoid such an exam entirely, and choose to wait until their child is age 10 or 15, to decide whether they have some sort of problem with their social skills, or worse.


Geeze, I though you needed a clean room to do this kind of work. I guess, being a hobby, with less concern for effort, loss of product, or cost versus profit, one might summon the will to try, try again, when confronted with botched fabrication runs.

Even with millimeter-scale components, I'd still think dust and debris could be a real problem. Is it just that 12 hour runs are short enough to just accept an imperfect production output, since it's a personal project, or is dust not as big a deal at this scale as I'd imagine?


You do not need a cleanroom, just some laminar airflow to prevent dust contamination. That is easy to achieve with a bunch of fans and lab clothing.

Static electricity damage is prevented by grounding everything. (Important during lithography.)

The hard part is getting a reliable plasma oven and the requisite chemicals plus running the process to reliability.


The smaller you go the more worried you should be about dust, and particles. Also the more layers to your process. Also no mention of yield.


Fun fact: according to unsubstantiated UNIX lore, "rm" is NOT short-hand for "remove" but rather, it stands for the initials of the developer that wrote the original implementation, Robert Morris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)

I have no proof of this, but through oral tradition, such a tale has been relayed to me. Believe whatever you will.


Considering the naming scheme of other basic unix utilities, I'll chalk this one up to "fun coincidence" rather than actual truth.

Alternatively, we could make "Robert"/"Bob" a euphemism for nuking files ;) "Yeah I Bob'd the whole build directory" "Bombed?", "No, Bob'd. Like deleted... never mind"


Obligatory Bobby Tables reference [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/327/


Some people in computing have definitely gotten their initials into wide distribution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz

("PK" is not only the beginning of ZIP files but also of, among other things, ODT, DOCX, and JAR files, which are all in turn implemented as ZIP files.)


I was curious if this was true, and asked. The answer I got was http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2018-April/013510.html and it appears that this isn't true.

Specifically the original man page (http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1/rm....), dated November, 1971, shows Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson as the original authors.


In this cycle, we see a war of complex resources (produced by logistical wealth) emerge. Those with the most of everything, to produce the greatest fighting flexibility, eventually win. Perhaps pyrrhicly.


That would be awfully nice if it were true. In reality, the opposition to this kind of tech just makes lots and lots of cheap missiles, while your interceptors cost millions each, and drive you bankrupt.


This is happening in Gaza. Hamas cuts down telephone poles and fills them with homemade solid rocket fuel and a 50 KG warhead, which are then called Katyushkas because they superficially resemble the 1940's Grad missiles. These are then intercepted by $100,000 Tamir interceptors.

The worst part is that misfiring telephone poles have killed about as many Gazans as Israelis.


Why, do you particularly enjoy deer brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen, tonsils and lymph nodes?


I fear improper cleaning and food preparation.


I just use bullet points (unordered list) at the top, for popular buzzwords, to serve as an ad-hoc table of contents.

  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Machine Learning
  - Neural Networks
  - Blockchain
Then just expound and brainstorm freely, in a stream of consciousness, for ~60 minutes, and it practically writes itself.


Only if you consider being kept alive on life support a sufficient implementation to back the main interface of "alive.h"?


I mean, this is still a good thing, since it charts a map of decidedly grey areas, where information may always be ambiguous, and useful information needs to be sussed out carefully.

It's better than presumptively assuming that "Science" is an infallible always black-and-white.


So, this might be a long shot, but I might hazard a guess that in hot, humid weather, with stagnant air, the dynamics of where exhaled exhaust goes, changes.

In the cold, dry air of winter your breath vents upward, but getting near sunny 90 degree weather, during summer time, it might descend and pool at the feet of gatherings of people at barbecues.

Carbon dioxide in ambient, matched temperature mixtures tends to be dense, and sinks toward the floor in many conditions (similarly true for carbon monoxide), but local conditions obviously vary, and odor travels differently than entire air masses. If mosquitos are already out, they probably travel along the odor gradient, toward the most concentrated area of scent.


You assume waaayyyy too much stability for a body of air. The air around you is moving constantly. Every bit of movement and every tiny heat source causes movement.

The problem is people don't see "air", but there are ways to visualize it (e.g. Schlieren photography). Or just watch smoke.


The mosquitos love my feet, even when I'm laid. Your theory does not match my anecdotal data.


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