I don’t think the previous system was using space heaters though, the PTAC they had before presumably had a heat pump in it if it was generating condensation.
The temperatures we’re talking about (1000C) would be incredibly dangerous in residential applications, plus a small installation would lose too much energy to the environment due to the ratio of surface area to volume. More practical IMO is to use a daily cycle like what Harvest Thermal is doing: store energy in your water heater tank during the daytime and release it at night.
Also radiosity for offline rendering got largely replaced by sampling based techniques, first things like photon mapping and more recently by path tracing. Sampling approaches are easier to parallelize and generalize better to other types of materials.
Yeah it’s the trials that are really expensive, not the basic research. The government gets to spread its dollars around to lots of individual researchers but if they were instead using that money to fund phase III trials (1) we’d have a lot a lot less money for basic research (2) we’d fund a lot fewer phase III trials so (3) we’d see much less drug development overall. Also I’d worry about a potential conflict of interest if the same government is conducting and evaluating the results of drug trials.
Yeah broadcast TV content has long consisted in large part of reruns, syndication, and older (cheap to license) movies, think of what was showing during non prime time hours when you were growing up. If anything there’s much more new content now thanks to the streaming wars.
You need to clean the filters regularly so they don’t become a fire hazard due to oil buildup; the better ones should have some kind of reminder system and will have filters that are dishwasher safe.
Sometimes there are other regularities in the data that an ML algorithm can exploit; for example, if it can detect feet strike events in the IMU stream, it can compute an estimate of how fast someone is walking that is independent of integrating accelerations.
The oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine and occasionally reverts to an actually infectious strain. This isn’t a major concern in countries where people are widely vaccinated but would be an issue if we considered it eliminated and stopped vaccinating segments of the population. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
Propublica has been covering this, the FDA has been throwing up barriers to rapid tests while Europe has been embracing them. One of the barriers is that "users are supposed to be able to execute the test without training " which I suspect is what's leading to the inclusion of optical sensors etc. https://www.propublica.org/article/this-scientist-created-a-...
I also feel like the way Tesla drives is really aggressive, I basically can't use is adaptive cruise control in slow/stop-and-go traffic because it ZOOMs right up the the car in front and then slams on the brakes, rather than just going along at a reasonable pace. Similarly, in this scenario with this visibility I might choose not to drive 10mph over the speed limit.
While this is possible, longer credits mean more filmstock to be duplicated and fewer showings per theater screen, so there is an economic incentive to keep them as short as possible. I know when I worked in the VFX industry an artist had to clock a certain number of hours on a given show to be given credit for the work.
Structured light cameras like Project Tango or Occipital's Structure sensor that project a textured pattern would work well here. Stereo algorithms like the one you linked that use the regular phone camera are likely to struggle here, because flat, blank walls are a worst-case scenario for them (yes, they're using the accelerometer to assist, but the reconstruction still needs texture).
Auto-vectorization is impossible for a lot of real-world code because it requires changing how data is laid out in memory. Notice that the AVX version of the raytracer actually involves packing blocks of x components into a single 256-bit-wide variable. Realistically, a compiler is not going to be smart enough to figure that out.
Also food price increases look to me like they're basically within historical norms? The posted graph makes it look like there's a big spike because it starts with the 2008-2009 time period when inflation was actually negative.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=hxh