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Nor does it appear to be a photograph. It looks very much like a 3D rendering with false coloring.


Your eyes don't have quantum energy packet receptors :-) A normal photograph is made by bouncing light off something and detecting it. If you are using a CCD, you are still using false colour. It just happens to correspond to the true colour.

In this experiment, the electrons interact with the photons to produce quantum energy packets, which the microscope detects. What is the colour of the quantum energy packets? The question has no meaning, because they aren't light. Since the colour is arbitrary, they can choose to colour it in any way they find useful.

Having said that, I also don't understand the "photograph".


> Your eyes don't have quantum energy packet receptors

Actually, we do, so long as that energy is in the form of photons [1].

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1...


> so long as that energy is in the form of photons

Of a particular range of frequencies


There are 2 major assumptions with your argument:

1) That the pesticides/fungicides are bad for humans. You haven't shown that. Some fungi are bad for humans, so it might be better to eat something with a fungicide but no fungus than to eat it with a fungus

2) You're assuming that applied pesticides/fungicides can just be washed off. But it's also possible that the plants absorb them and that the man-made ones are worse than the genetically engineered ones.


To play devil's avocado: you don't have to assume pesticides/fungicides are bad for humans. You just have to assume they may have unpredicted side-effects.

For example, if those pesticides result in a drastic reduction of the populations of pollinating insects this may lead to ecological changes beyond the intended crops. It's not hard to imagine other things susceptible to fungicides and pesticides that might be beneficial but can get caught in the crossfire and would suffer, especially from spill-over.


Some GMOs result in lower use of applied pesticides. Bt corn comes to mind. Such crops reduce the risk of unpredicted side-effects from spill-over.


seems the bugs are gaining immunity... whats next ?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farmers-say-gmo-c...


This appears to be from 2014. Prior to 2014, using GMO seeds "required" farmers to plant an in-field refuge of non-resistant crops. Since farmers could, short term, get better yields if they didn't plant these refuge plants, they often chose not to. In 2014 companies started mixing in non-resistant seeds, known as "refuge in bag". It's seen some mixed results, but for the most part, it looks like it has helped.


And don't forget that some of these pesticides, even if they do wash off, are harmful to other things we care about. Like... say... bees (yes, I know the mite problem is bigger).


Agreed on both counts. I didn't mean to say I'm not making those assumptions, just that they're the relevant questions for opposing GMO crops that produce pesticides/fungicides.

1) Lots of pesticides, including some of those we're addressing, are known to be bad for humans. Without going into biochemistry, the GMO-designer argument here isn't "it's safe" but "it isn't produced in the edible part of the crop". I'm content to say take the word of the people selling a pesticide-producing-crop if they say the pesticide is bad to eat.

2) This is a way bigger and harder question. If 'natural' pesticides are being pitted against indiscriminate use of neonicotinoids, we should probably choose the natural/GMO options and not kill all the bees. And I realize that some pesticide/crop combinations absolutely can't be cleaned up by washing - broccoli comes to mind as particularly hard to clean. I only meant to raise the question of dose/harm in pesticidal GMOs, not assert that they're always worse than external application.


I agree. And most art these days involves quite a bit of science. Photoshop's image processing algorithms aren't just sloppily thrown together, for example! It takes a lot of science to make good artistic tools, and artists often do a lot of science when creating their art. (Checking audio levels, figuring out when the light will be just right, etc.)


You're thinking of the Lytro light field cameras.

https://lytro.com/


No - OP is probably thinking of this GoPro rig:

https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/08/gopro-odyssey-rig-for-ju...


Both of them, the Lytro camera captures multiple depths of field. Combine that with stereoscopic 360 cameras so that $15,000.00 camera might as well make that at least $30,000 now with twice as many cameras. That's hard though, where does it focus? Screw that instead lets make a 360 phased array grid camera so we can rapidly capture everything

Edit: actually the phased array crap I thew in there doesn't make sense, only of you're meeting an em wave not receiving.


They already have some Swift projects [0], which I think is kind of cool. Not sure I would want to use code named "Bro" or "Conman" though. lol.

[0] https://code.gov/#/explore-code/agencies/DOL [1] https://code.gov/#/explore-code/agencies/DOE


Bro is actually already a widely used and incredibly popular piece of software. However, I don't think the main branch is developed by the US government, so this may be the DOE trying to dodge the law.


> iCloud did _not_ become the consumer's single hub for all devices

Are you sure? I now keep only a small portion of the music I own on my phone. The rest is in my iCloud account. I don't keep any video on my devices (other than what I record with the camera). It's all on iCloud. I use my AppleTV to watch movies, television shows, and listen to music, and it all streams from the cloud. While I don't keep my photos in the cloud because I value security, most iOS users do.

iCloud has its issues, but people using iOS are using it for most of their digital media.


I find web fonts so annoying, along with images that don't load until you scroll to them. I usually read in Reader mode, and it takes the loaded page and re-renders it without web fonts in a normal style. But when the site doesn't load all the images, I end up missing half the article because I can't see what they're talking about. So annoying.


So this seems to be the problem. You're definition of Pro includes "all the ports". The author's definition of Pro includes "avoid HDMI, SD slot, Display Port". It can't both have and not have all the ports.

The author's definition of Pro also includes 16GB RAM, but most posts I've seen complain about not being able to order 32GB RAM. It seems that Apple can't win no matter what they do.


Well, given how many millions of devices they sell, maybe they can allow a couple more options. We don't all need the exact same device.

(tbh, avoiding sd and hdmi doesn't make sense to me. What do you have to lose?)


The RAM issue is a different one. Someone who wants 16GB RAM isn't likely to complain if 32GB is an option.


Can you post some names and links? I'd like to check them out.



If you're doing video editing with FCPX and/or Motion, those dual GPUs in the MacPro help a lot!


Sure, but the hardware's anemic for the price. The MBP is pretty much at the reasonable spot on the price/performance curve.

(I use an MBP as the brain of a multi-camera video studio; I totally get why one would buy a Pro. But I'd pull 100% off of Macs before buying one.)


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