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alex_hirner

2,545karma·320submissions·July 22, 2015
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Funding bodies emphasize data sharing more and more. However, that is along or after a publication. No one has figured out academic attribution of data-only in a satisfactory way yet, but some notewor…
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Not to forget chronix.io, which was shown to have favorable performance for more complex queries and space efficiency at last week's http://munich-datageeks.de/dadada/ (slid…
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In order to transfer learnings from virtual worlds to the real world more efficiently, I imagine a module that translates real world footed to an abstract representation that is the same as for render…
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An E-2 investor visa could also do the trick in case of affluent resources. I wouldn't know about limits on the controlling stake though. > Did it mean that 50% of YC batch applicants for EB-1…
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> I am trying for EB-1 but even with my background it will be difficult. If you have probed this possibility already, what is the evidence that speaks against you reaching EB-1A status? I assume ma…
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I have not looked at the filings, but R&D expenses are usually amortized much like factory equipment. At least, activating R&D as an asset is often exercised in the IFRS world. Nevertheless, r…
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What a beautiful project. I started to hack around for a guitar amp emulator on the bb in 2014, but it quickly became too involved. Thanks for sharing.
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If there is one thing you can change in the process of battery R&D, what would it be? And likely a related question: Which scientific data is not readily available but would help battery R&D?…
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Where can the reviews be read and do they involve other vendors too?
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All sorts of problems with lithium-metal as we know it. A more benign version pitched by ZAF Energy is zinc-air. They inherit a few problems from pure metal electrodes (like dendrite growth) but not i…
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You must be talking about the flow version of lithium-sulfur. The ones with (presumably) graphite and cobalt oxide electrodes are going into e-scooters in China now [0]. However, they are yet far from…
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Differential Privacy has its limits for small data sets. Luckily, more research is on the way to run arbitrary calculations on multiple datasets that remain private in its entirety (basically homomorp…
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