On the way to Philadelphia, I enjoyed the lecture by Zhenya Timakova “Where Does Society Begin,” which presented a plethora of interesting examples based on the behaviors of ants, termites, and monkeys. https://youtu.be/OUI2DXdY9Bw
On the way back – a course by the linguist Elena Shmeleva “What can swear words, jargon, and filler words tell us about language?” (available only by subscription in the “Radio Arzamas” app).
It would be cool to develop an iPad app where you could create a cartoon or comic with your voice. Something like “The bear jumps out of the bushes and says ‘Boo!'”. On the other hand, this app would have freelance developers and designers who would teach the characters various actions. Such actions could be purchased through something like an app store, which would provide bread and butter for the designers and developers, and joy for the children (and sadness for the parents, but that’s beside the point). The final video could be uploaded to YouTube in just a couple of clicks. It could start with 2D (although it would be 3D under the hood), though implementing the render on the tablet in 3D is not very complicated. For simplicity, at the start, the number of “characters” would be limited (like Masha and the Bear), as would the environment options (furniture, etc.). The basic set would include interaction of all characters with the entire environment and the ability to recognize intent from the speech of the person “programming” the cartoon. This is the trickiest part because the interaction needs to be quite complex. Moreover, you can approach a table or a chair from different sides. This can be said in various ways. The trick is that the user will speak what should happen. To combat this complexity, a community is needed. As soon as something doesn’t work as intended, immediately there appears a cheap package that makes it work. The user connects it – and voila. The developing company periodically buys packages and includes them in the free set. To prevent the local app store from overflowing with junk, quality standards and quality control by other designers and developers, recognized by the company as fair, are introduced. If, in parallel, another cartoon is launched on TV on the same theme or an already popular one is used (like Masha and the Bear, but in this case royalties would be huge), would it be successful? Konstantin Kharitonov ?
Friends, does anyone of you host your own podcast? Could you please drop me a message for a couple of questions? )
Preparing for a small project in the world of microbiology, I browse thematic websites, listen to lectures about antibodies, and am astounded by the prices of reagents that laboratories primarily purchase for research. First, a typical catalog consists of tens of thousands of items, and each costs hundreds of dollars. Among them are particularly expensive ones, like twenty drops of Anti-BRAF costing almost $10,000. There are so many trading antibodies online… hmm.. antibody trade. Sounds, though… seriously, it’s a very interesting field. If a child has not yet decided where to go to study, then bioengineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, cytology, immunology are wildly promising.
Very useful (yet another) presentation from Mary Meeker on internet trends, now for 2019
First they printed the advertisement, then they perforated it along the entire length of the fence
Made a device for cleaning the keyboard (it’s been with me for eight years and it’s full of crumbs and other food inside). Regular canisters don’t do the job. Here comes the vacuum cleaner. But it can’t just be used directly – it would swallow the keys. Dyson is quite powerful. The little tube works great. If you can’t fix something with tape, it means you haven’t used enough tape.
60km, to Washington and back
Are there any professional cyclists around? Question – if you were to place a pressure recorder between the foot and the pedal, and do so on different bikes, and then process this on a computer along with data from speed sensors, cadence, inclination to the horizon, and the rider’s weight, would it reveal anything about the characteristics of the bike and the rider?)
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