Engineer of stuff that is alive or computes. Follow us all to that blue place.

Joined January 2021
Medieval scientists clearly understood DNA structure, but apparently had difficulty in determining the correct chirality.
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Architects of the National Academy of Science building clearly understood the scientific importance of crabs, and this is reflected in their wrought iron work door at the main entrance.
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Japanese spider crab -- largest known crab (and arthropod) -- 3.5m claw-span. Seen at Intermediatheque in Kitte, South Maronouchi exit, Tokyo Station.
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My was partly inspired by the idea of making precision semiconductors with biochemistry. See this 1996 slide from a study I did for DARPA: ultra-fast computers as a potential result. Moore’s law is dead, predictable even then that it would end about 2016 or so, which it did. 2/
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Replying to @FinitePhysicist
You just get out your K&E Planimeter.
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Replying to @Der_Baldur
Of course, Chaosnet used 75 ohm cable and UHF connectors:
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Replying to @Der_Baldur
Doesn't everyone have a few hundred of these around?
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You seem to like front panels, here is the AI PDP-6 front panel:
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When I was in college I interned at the American Museum of Natural History and would stroll these halls after ours peeking in random drawers there is nothing nothing like the smell of a pile of embalmed parrots
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I will point out that these are not wood. #woodgang youtu.be/z-ZxzDp6xaU
Many people will see these pumpkins and think they are big pumpkins but I see them and ask how could they be bigger still that is what makes me a visionary
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