Christine, I am happy it was helpful. This year I finally gave up DNA genealogy. I built or helped build full pedigrees for many people, about 160 DNA tests. Of those more than 100 adoptions, missing parents, missing fathers, “tree does not match DNA”. But I just got worn out. It is not hard to
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Yuying Chen, Sarah Banasiewicz, It is a rather long story, but I will try to give you a sense of it. When I was working with USAID and the US State Department to set up the Famine Early Warning System from 1986-1988, my younger brother Jeff was living nearby. He broke his neck at C2
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MRP Ingenious: DIY Acetylene in DIY Pulse Jet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRvFLAn56g You had to make a diagram and measurements to be able to cut and assemble it. There are also mathematical models and computer algorithms to model and design engines like yours. It means knowing the pressures, densities, flow rates, temperatures, energies, reactions, ignition. Even if you
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Dear Readers, Every time I talk with OpenAI GPT 4.0, I am irritated that it is not allowed to remember our previous conversations. I have covered a lot of useful background that can teach it things it needs when it is trying to help me. But some yahoo there won’t let it read my previous
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The sun’s diameter is about 109 times the diameter of the earth. This is a movie of today’s sun. Bottom right you can set the playback speed to 0.25 so you have time to look around. I use a magnifying glass in Windows to look closely. A lot happens. https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/latest48.php?q=0171 These are snapshots of the
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Espen @espenkluge Jul 28 3 year old artist on the left, 6 year old artist on the right ❤️ https://pic.twitter.com/2mgRUQaiyt Replying to @espenkluge Did you mean to imply the younger one could see vividly but did not have time and fine tools to draw it as complex as they could see? The older one had
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IBM Watson @IBMWatson Jul 13 Three out of four CEOs agree – the organization with the most advanced generative #AI will have a competitive advantage. Kareem Yusuf, SVP Product Management & Growth, shares how IBM is ready to empower all businesses in the age of AI with #watsonx: https://ibm.co/46JKoHx https://pic.twitter.com/q5sXv119dN Replying to @IBMWatson “Generative AI”
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Dean, On all the pages, for some reason, the link to your name and Kevin Addison on SDO.GSFS.gov pages loops back to the page itself, not to email. But I selected AIA 0171 for 2023-07-07 00:00:00 to 2023-07-07 23:59″59 at 4096 resolution and clicked. As soon as I did I realized that was a mistake,
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Richard: From the photosphere out, what is the mass of the solar atmosphere in earth masses? OpenAI Chat GPT Plus 4.0: As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I don’t have precise information on the total mass of the solar atmosphere (including the chromosphere, the transition region, and the corona) in Earth masses. The
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Plasma Channel: Designing A Next-Gen Ionic Thruster! (For Flight) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEBoPYS4ns The stagnation pressure is (1/2) * AirDensity*Velocity^2. And the power goes as the cube of the velocity. So using velocity increments is not exactly the best measure. At least get yourself a spreadsheet or HTML/Javascript and have it keep track of the velocity, squared velocity,
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