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02:15 < nmz787_> .tell chris_99 nice progress! looks like I definitely see either digitization noise or maybe compression... does it look better in RAW BMP mode?
02:15 < yoleaux> nmz787_: I'll pass your message to chris_99.
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02:46 < nmz787_> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Masashi_Aono/publication/236137195_Amoeba-Inspired_Nanoarchitectonic_Computing_Solving_Intractable_Computational_Problems_Using_Nanoscale_Photoexcitation_Transfer_Dynamics/links/00b7d5171efa34219c000000.pdf
02:47 < nmz787_> https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/10224/Khan_Asif.pdf
02:47 < nmz787_> Towards Microfluidic Design Automation - 2016
02:48 < nmz787_> "We propose a design methodology and tool to design microfluidic chips based on SMT solvers. The design of these chips is expressed using the language of partial differential equations (PDEs) and non-linear multi-variate polynomials over the reals. We convert such designs into SMT2 format through appropriate approximations, and invoke Z3 and dReal solver on them. Through our experiments we show that using SMT solvers is a not only a viable ...
02:48 < nmz787_> ... strategy to address the microfluidics design problem, but likely will be key component of any future development environment."
02:48 < nmz787_> well that's encouraging
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02:50 < nmz787_> https://wiki.hh.se/wg211/images/f/fb/M13Rayside.pdf
02:50 < nmz787_> "Synthesis of Microfluidics Chips using SMT Solvers"
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03:24 < chris_99> heh what the hell, was just gonna order some leds from thorlabs, but the shipping is $92.37 eek
03:24 < yoleaux> 06:52Z <nmz787_> chris_99: I worked on this a while years ago: https://github.com/nmz787/open-spectrometer/blob/master/desktop-software/openSpectrometer.py
03:24 < yoleaux> 09:15Z <nmz787_> chris_99: nice progress! looks like I definitely see either digitization noise or maybe compression... does it look better in RAW BMP mode?
03:24 < chris_99> nmz787_, that's just the jpeg, yeah at full res raw it looks pretty good, i can play with the iso / shutter speed etc too
03:25 < chris_99> i knocked up something last night to generate the spectral graph
03:28 < chris_99> i'll have a looky at your code now though, i need to get some IR leds
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08:28 < chris_99> thought this was a really clever idea:
08:28 < chris_99> .title https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/4z6lup/i_built_a_circuit_that_calculates_pi_with_a/
08:28 < yoleaux> Too Many Requests
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10:13 < kanzure> "A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19106.html
10:14 < maaku> yay the actual article finally
10:20 < maaku> https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01136
10:20 < maaku> .title
10:20 < yoleaux> [1503.01136] Combining high-dispersion spectroscopy (HDS) with high contrast imaging (HCI): Probing rocky planets around our nearest neighbors
10:21 < maaku> possible spectroscopy technique for this planet
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12:35 < superkuh> An electrostatic solar sail implementation could get a microwave interferometer out to the solar gravitational focal line aligned with Proxima B in under 20 years and give ~80 km resolution of water clouds (should they exist) at 22 GHz.
12:36 < superkuh> This lecture on electrostatic sails was given yesterday, "Bruce Wiegmann, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System "HERTS"" http://livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2016/videos/133764483
12:36 < superkuh> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvKVe5H8pc - This talk explains the problems and solutions for using the sun as a gravitational lens.
12:37 < superkuh> This book has far more detail: http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Space/Spacecraft/Deep%20Space%20Flight%20and%20Communications_%20Exploiting%20the%20Sun%20as%20a%20Gravitational%20Lens_%20Claudio%20Maccone_%202009.pdf
12:38 < Urchin> interesting
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13:21 < kanzure> various comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353441
13:22 < kanzure> "Incessant obsolesence" http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1066
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13:29 < Urchin> that's one very minimal colony ship
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15:34 < fenn> guillem escude says 20 years to _go_ to proxima B with a laser propelled solar sail
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15:39 < superkuh> We're going to need something at the solar gravitational focus if we want any kind of data rate to probes eventually sent.
15:42 < superkuh> And e-sail tech is at least TRL4/5 already. Laser sail stuff is a pipe dream currently. TRL1.
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16:28 < maaku> A much better strategy : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12327125
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18:50 < kanzure> bloop
18:50 < kanzure> caught a veekun.
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20:46 < kanzure> "many-core parallel processor" http://parallel.princeton.edu/openpiton/
20:46 < kanzure> er, http://parallel.princeton.edu/piton/
20:47 < kanzure> http://parallel.princeton.edu/papers/openpiton-asplos16.pdf
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20:55 < kanzure> dunno how much non-icestorm fpga dev kits are supposed to be priced at these days.. http://store.digilentinc.com/nexys-4-ddr-artix-7-fpga-trainer-board-recommended-for-ece-curriculum/
21:17 < xentrac> hey, so you know this topology optimization stuff?  And MEMS?  there's this "new" (2013) book out called "Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms" about flexure design
21:18 < xentrac> you might remember Merkle's buckling-spring gates, which fall within this category
21:19 < xentrac> the book has a chapter on topology optimization, but nothing about mechanical digital logic as far as I can tell
21:21 < kanzure> vlsi mechanical logic is a thing that exists by now, surely
21:21 < xentrac> it turns out that flexures have advantages of up to several orders of magnitude over sliding-contact mechanisms in efficiency, fabrication cost, wear lifetime, operational frequency, and precision
21:22 < xentrac> although they have major disadvantages as well
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21:24 < xentrac> in one of the first sections of the book, it says, "Compliant mechanisms will likely be central to the creation of nanoscale machines."
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21:50 < xentrac> the topopt chapter is a bit weak though
21:51 < xentrac> like, the climactic flexible pliers design at the end of the chapter is actually by Ole Sigmund, the topopt dude
21:51 < xentrac> rather than by the chapter's author
21:52 < xentrac> and it's 2D, and they didn't actually build it
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21:58 < xentrac> the second half of the book is a library of known mechanisms but even they kind of suck
21:58 < xentrac> but hey it's a start
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22:25 < xentrac> hmm actually there are some interesting things in here
22:47 < kanzure> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/busting-the-billion-dollar-myth-how-to-slash-the-cost-of-drug-development/
22:47 < kanzure> didn't actually look closely, but was there a suggestion in there of pairing rare neglected disease medications together? just mix things together until the finance works out? heh
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23:18 < fenn> maaku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_30K
23:19 < superkuh> I actually had to buy that one in Hardcopy. It's nowhere online except in Portuguese. It is not a very good book. The concept is fun but it's hard to ignore how forced everything is. It's like a prototype for his excellent later books set on neutron stars.
23:19 < fenn> yep he's a terrible author
23:20 < fenn> i bought every robert forward book with the intent of scanning them
23:21 < superkuh> I bought Camelot 30K this winter with every intent of forwarding it to http://1dollarscan.com/pricing.php . But it was bad. So I didn't.
23:21 < fenn> aww
23:21 < fenn> the ideas are what is important
23:21 < fenn> where else are you going to learn about x-ray mirrors
23:21 < superkuh> Usually I'd agree.
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