Todd Hoff

This is not unlike the blog publishing strategies of frequent content updates to get more page views. Well, this is essentially a DDoS attack on the search algorithm. Which may be why Amazon search sucks. - Todd Hoff

What would a political influence map look like? Thank you constitution. - Todd Hoff

Hot spots: the locations which provide the most funding for the Democratic and Republican Parties. - Sean McBride

Bay Area is nice - Todd Hoff

ггг... я всегда был уверен, что наш вашингтончик просирает GDP, а на этой картинке - производит. распечатать и гордиться. - слово с корнем моск

"“The 3D printed Strandbeests continue to evolve and adapt to their environment,” Jansen writes. “The latest generation, Animaris Geneticus Bellus, has grown more elegant and efficient. It features optimized joints and slimmer legs resulting in a smooth walking motion. And thanks to its compact size it thrives in residential environments, walking along tables and flaunting on bookshelves. The mechanism is 3D printed completely assembled, and will work without further assembly right after birth from the printer.”" - Todd Hoff

"The fate of all those apple varieties is not uncommon. "In the last century, nearly 75% of our agricultural crops have disappeared. They're simply gone. Today, farmers primarily grow 12 crops. And of these, we mainly eat potatoes, rice, corn, and wheat."" - Todd Hoff

"Indeed, several experiments will collect data within the next few years to clarify the situation in great detail. We should expect to know fairly soon if there is a gravitational wave signal from the Big Bang, a ringing in the structure of space itself from an ultrafast expansion that lasted for fractions of a second, as if the cosmos was in a hurry to grow up. Whatever the verdict, waves or no waves, the news will be key to our understanding of the early universe." - Todd Hoff

"The Bloom pavilion stands an incredible 9 feet tall, and features a footprint measuring 12 feet by 12 feet. It is built out of 840 separate, customized blocks, which were all 3D printed using an iron oxide-free Portland cement polymer formulation, which Rael himself developed with funding and support from the Siam Research and Innovation Co. Ltd. (SRI), the research and development division of Siam Cement Group (SCG). Additional support and materials were provided by Emerging Objects, a startup company co-founded by Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Entropy Resins, and 3D Systems." - Todd Hoff

"More cargo is being shifted away from congested West Coast trade routes" - Todd Hoff

"In a basement laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, two robotocists have harnessed the sensing, swimming, and swarming abilities of bacteria to power microscopic robots. Even though their work sounds like the prologue to a dark science fiction film, Ph.D. students Elizabeth Beattie and Denise Wong hope these initial experiments with nano bio-robots will provide a platform for future medical and micro-engineering endeavors." - Todd Hoff

"If you’re younger than 30, you’ve never experienced a month in which the average surface temperature of the Earth was below average. Each month, the US National Climatic Data Center calculates Earth’s average surface temperature using temperature measurements that cover the Earth’s surface. Then, another average is calculated for each month of the year for the twentieth century, 1901-2000. For each month, this gives one number representative of the entire century. Subtract this overall 1900s monthly average—which for February is 53.9F (12.1C)—from each individual month’s temperature and you’ve got the anomaly: that is, the difference from the average." - Todd Hoff

"STRATEGY More: Longform Tesla Elon Musk Martin Eberhard The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster DRAKE BAER NOV. 11, 2014, 5:06 PM 6,232 FACEBOOK LINKEDIN TWITTER GOOGLE+ PRINT EMAIL Mike Nudelman/Business Insider Tesla Motors probably shouldn't exist. The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. It's called Ford. Barely a decade old, Tesla is already gigantic and adored. Its market capitalization hovers around $28 billion. Morgan Stanley calls it "the world's most important car company," and a 2014 nationwide survey found that Tesla's Model S was the "Most Loved Vehicle in America." So how has Tesla flourished where others have flopped? Today, everybody thinks Tesla was created by its charismatic CEO, Elon Musk, a PayPal cofounder who is the face of the company. The truth is way crazier than that. Tesla was the brainchild of a tiny band of obsessive Silicon Valley engineers who would go on to collaborate with — and collide with — the young billionaire. This is the tale of that collision." - Todd Hoff

"Keith’s specific program would begin with balloon tests in the lower stratosphere (8 miles up) releasing just 100 grams of sulfuric acid—about the amount of particles in a few minutes of normal jet contrail. “If those studies confirm safety and effectiveness,” Keith said, “then we could begin gradual deployment as early as 02020 with three business jets re-engineered for high altitude. By 02030 you could have about ten aircraft delivering a quarter million tons of sulfur per year at a cost of $700 million.“ The amount of sulfur being released might be up to a million tons by 02070, but that would still be only one-eighth of what went into the stratosphere from the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption in 01991, and one-fiftieth of what enters the lower atmosphere from our current burning of fossil fuels. By then we may have developed more sophisticated particles than sulfate. It could be diamond dust, or alumina, or even something like a nanoscale “photophoretic” particle designed by Keith that would levitate itself above the stratosphere." - Todd Hoff

"After several failed attempts to talk to the spies himself, Šeba asked his student to explain to them that he wasn’t a tax collector, or a criminal — he was simply a “crazy” scientist willing to trade tequila for their data. The men handed over their used papers. When the researchers plotted thousands of bus departure times on a computer, their suspicions were confirmed: The interaction between drivers caused the spacing between departures to exhibit a distinctive pattern previously observed in quantum physics experiments." - Todd Hoff

"Scientists now believe the widespread phenomenon, known as “universality,” stems from an underlying connection to mathematics, and it is helping them to model complex systems from the Internet to Earth’s climate." -- odd sense of things. Doesn't math have a connection to the phenomena? It's the outcome of the interaction of packets of things, which IMHO explains the connection to math without suggesting a more radical ontology. - Todd Hoff

Awesome! Thanks for sharing :) - RetiredTeacherD

I forgot shims. Shims are inserts of various thicknesses that make things fit. Since buildings are rarely perfectly square, they also shift around over time, and even standard sizes are often not all that standard, shims are needed to raise the height of something or make for a tight fit. Code has lots of shims. - Todd Hoff

It's important as a hook for historical narrative, with that tag (whether literal or not) it's easy to start a conversation. Businesses and people come and go, but objects with advertising give you little hints at some interesting matter that may no longer exist. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

It's amazing how persistent this phenomena is of a few garnering a large percentage of whatever is in play. - Todd Hoff

The hardest part is successfully starting the loop, and entering a cycle. That requires a considerable amount of luck. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

Where we are is a one time thing. If we go backwards may never be able to go forwards again. The opposite of the original intention. - Todd Hoff

"These days, we provide thermal comfort in winter by heating the entire volume of air in a room or building. In earlier times, our forebear's concept of heating was more localized: heating people, not places. They used radiant heat sources that warmed only certain parts of a room, creating micro-climates of comfort. These people countered the large temperature differences with insulating furniture, such as hooded chairs and folding screens, and they made use of additional, personal heating sources that warmed specific body parts. It would make a lot of sense to restore this old way of warming, especially since modern technology has made it so much more practical, safe and efficient." - Todd Hoff

My invention is that I'll 3D print coveralls that are festooned with pockets for hot water bottles. The water bottles will warm by the fire then I can use the bottles to regulate my temperature both inside and outside the house. - Todd Hoff

Fascinating. - Todd Hoff

Illusions tell is where the system is flexible. - Todd Hoff

"visit the lab of Caltech materials ­scientist Julia Greer is to enter a realm where the ordinary rules of physical stuff don’t seem to apply. Greer designs and builds nanomaterials that behave in ways surprising to those of us who spend our days in a world where strong materials like ceramic and steel tend to be heavy, while lightweight ones are weak. When Greer controls architecture at the nanoscale, the rules change." - Todd Hoff

Space elevator! - Ken Morley

"This article introduces features to simulation code presented in previous articles: Now, bodies immersed within the fluid float or sink depending on the mass of fluid the body displaces. This new feature augments how visual effects have a two-way interaction with physical objects in the simulation." - Todd Hoff

"England’s traffic in intoxicants between 1580 and 1740, both domestic and international, can be best traced through port books. As such, me and my fellow Research Associate Tim Wales have spent the last six months – and will spend the next two – trawling through the relevant collection (E 190) at The National Archives for our respective case studies (Cheshire and Norfolk), doggedly on the trail of intoxicant-related commodities for our first research strand, and associated dataset, on the Economy of Intoxicants and Intoxication." - Todd Hoff