Month: October 2020

I wonder, if you attach a microphone to a pipe, can you train a neural network to determine the flow rate by sound?

Happy 15th Birthday to our Masha!

Started reading #GoT. Pleased with:

— Have you drawn any watches this past week, Will?

George Martin writes so beautifully in general.

Does anyone know how to fix the bug on Facebook where an incoming call keeps ringing on two computers even after you’ve picked up the phone?

When the Font Matters

A bit of beauty for your feed

Venezuelan “el currucha” by L’Arpeggiata. Very amusing

I’m listening to the second lecture (very much like stand-up) by philosopher Andrey Makarov. His style greatly resembles Gerasichev. He is at the same time very intelligent and unpleasant in interacting with the audience. But the latter fits very organically into the topics he discusses. Probably, in a bore competition, he would take the grand prize. Students are freaking out, but I’m sure they sit and listen with their mouths open. By the way, he reminds me of Mironov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PAc3FXMV4E

I went to the supermarket for bread and while there, still holding the bread, I got vaccinated against the flu. The peculiarity of this quadrivalent Flublok vaccine (Protein Sciences) is that it is the only U.S. approved flu vaccine that uses moth cell cultivation and recombinant DNA technology, instead of cultivating the inactivated influenza virus in chicken eggs, as has been done for many years. Generally, I don’t care, but it should matter to those with egg allergies. It’s also convenient for the government since the vaccine production time was reduced from seven months to two. It is claimed that this new vaccine reduces the likelihood of contracting the flu by more than 40% compared to previous generations (study with 9000 individuals aged 50+, influenza A H3N2). Its trials were completed in 2017, and now it is used nationwide (along with dozens of others). The Fall Armyworm, in whose genetically modified cells this new vaccine is cultivated, is depicted in the attached picture.

Get vaccinated, the season is coming. In Russia, it seems there are no foreign vaccines available at all until mid-November. Approved are “Vaxigrip” by French Sanofi Pasteur and “Influvac” by Dutch Abbott, as well as Russian vaccines from Petrovax and Nasimbio.

A good and intelligent interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPXXyUyx6Q

I wonder why there aren’t places where there is one of every product with an open box and, if necessary, set up/ready for testing? From these places, you could order these products for delivery. It’s important that you could compare them on-site with similar products, hold them in your hands. On a laptop, listen to the sound quality and the brightness of the colors. Test different headphones. And online stores would pay these centers a pittance for customers. Why isn’t there such a thing?