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Spaceflight Now@SpaceflightNow
SpaceX is developing the Raptor 2 engine, a “mind-boggingly difficult” effort and a “greatly simplified” design from the Raptor 1 engine. The Raptor 2 also provides an increase in thrust from 185 tons to more than 230 tons. spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/10/elo…
2:37 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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That's a much smaller engine, and a lot more thrust! Interesting
Berci Meskó, MD, PhD@Berci
Researchers have shown that patients with macular degeneration fitted with a microchip eye implant are able to integrate what the chip “sees” with objects their natural peripheral vision detects. It's a follow-up study.
#themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth
futurity.org
Eye implant may restore some vision for people with macular degeneration - Futurity
9:23 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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It's a tiny chip that goes on the retina, currently "prosthetic visual acuity is limited to about 20/460", but they already have higher resolution stuff in the works.
Janelle Shane@JanelleCShane
I was astonished to discover that the structure of tempered chocolate is so fine that it can mold to the microscale ridges of a diffraction grating. It’s iridescent because of the ridges, like a CD. Even a shard is astonishing. All 100% chocolate.
4:13 PM · Feb 9, 2022
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So, uh, does it have any music on it?
AK@ak92501
Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2202.05263
project page: waymo.com/research/block…
2:06 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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The previous work I saw was generally built for comparably tiny areas. Multiple city blocks is a big improvement.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Lots of people, including me, underestimated inflation over the last nine months. I wrote a post explaining our mistake, featuring the wisdom of @jasonfurman.
fullstackeconomics.com
Why so many economists underestimated the inflation problem
5:19 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Great article, I liked how it clearly laid out the logic behind what happened. The policy implications are also interesting
John Gruber@gruber
Things can change, just one poll, blah blah blah, but this is interesting (and to me, not surprising — politics is about *new*): economist.com/united-states/…
5:57 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Hmm, good sign right?
Nick Schifrin@nickschifrin
NEW: The US believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, and has communicated that decision to the Russian military, three Western and defense officials tell me.
6:28 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Very not good. Here's a very detailed article on the situation.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Russian currency traders starting to take into account possible western sanctions.
RUB/USD tanking.
11:29 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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The markets seem to think it's serious this time.
