Category: For profit groups using the Internet

Innovation goes faster where you do not put too strict bounds, and work with all knowledge.

Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn The paradox of technological innovation – great practical technology develops when people don’t explicitly focus on developing great practical technology. https://pic.twitter.com/9R0vdMIkDS Replying to @curiouswavefn You have it slightly wrong. Innovation goes faster where you do not put too strict bounds on what it will cost, who will use it and how it
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Feedback to CERN domain at their Atlas page, “Higgs Boson”, “The Standard Model”, untraceable fragments

Your message has been sent at Friday, 20 January 2023 – 07:38. Thank you for your feedback. The Feedback form is locked but not marked as such:  I got an email immediately – “atlas-public-web-feedback@cern.ch  Your message can’t be delivered because delivery to this address is restricted.” They did not send back my message.  Courteous, world
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Review of Dewalt Laser Tripod with Tilting Head (DW0881T)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RX1Z2S1 I wanted a light weight, sturdy, brand name tripod with ability for pointing anything mounted on it. But it is cheaply made. The parts are good, but the integration is not. The people assembling it, probably never had to use it themselves. I have a telescope that ought to fit nicely. It did, but
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Comment on a product on Amazon

Digital Voice Recorder; Modea Portable Digital, USB Disk Audio Voice Recorder https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CHNBJQR I wanted a low cost way to record while the recorder is plugged in. I hate batteries, and charging and guessing when the battery will fail. So I specifically looked for one that said “will record while charging”. Someone complained bitterly there are
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Comment on “Floating under a levitating liquid” and related issues

Floating under a levitating liquid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bodsuTucSxQ and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2643-8 (for pay, just for reference) This is not science and sharing, but what I have come to call “eye candy”. Pretty pictures and people playing with phenomena, but not showing the context and background. You start with showing the whole of the apparatus, explain the parts,
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Spinal cord injury – global coordination and support system needed

ShahinaJoly, I read these and I am very sorry that this has happened to someone in your family. My younger brother broke his neck at C1-C2 many years ago and was quadriplegic, on a respirator, constantly sick with pneumonia, until he died a year and a half after his accident. It was one of the
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Particle Clicker Game at CERN

Hello, I was looking at all groups working on games on GitHub and came across this particle clicker game. http://particle-clicker.web.cern.ch and https://github.com/particle-clicker/particle-clicker “An addictive incremental game that teaches players the history of high energy particle physics” So you click, it pulls up a random diagram of a scattering event, with no associated data.  Shows it
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Comments on PubFacts.com – is it for real? What and who is it for?

I came across PubFacts.com while searching for “parallel sequential” “fluorescence in situ hybridization”.  There is no location or identification information. No team.  It looks like someone copied material from PubMed and MedLine then put really basic queries and listings.  I wrote to ask them who they are, where they are, and what their goals might
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