Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org
Descended from Unix freaks, I evolved to Linux. Some people might consider me old at 60+, but I'm suing the world to get my age down to 30.
I have a blog https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/
and it is read by 8 people. My formal education is in an extinct branch of science called geophysics. Since there was no money in it, I went to engineering. I've done tunnels, radwaste thingies, etc.
Joined Nov 2018
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Harold Asmis
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Today, a wonderful mutation methodology was presented to me in a conference, this was used to generate new proteins to act as enzymes for specific reactions.
They used microfluidics, which already by itself places them in the cool category.
Basically they made up this system in which they have bacterias producing an enzyme, through microfluidics they push a single cell inside a bubble with the reaction substrate and some lysing agent.
The enzyme comes out and the reaction proceeds producing a fluorescent compound, the fluorescence is measured to assess the catalytic performance and based on that, droplets are separated thanks to microfluidics magic.
The good ones go through another stage in which the dna is sequenced to determine what the protein is and random mutations are induced and inserted in other bacterias that are then sent a the beginning of the process.
The whole thing is automatic and they process 1000 proteins per second.
That's crazy, sounded like magic to me.
Cool stuff, I have to insert some microfluidics somewhere in my projects. Microfluidics is better than AI. I have to learn microfluidics now.
#physics #earthquake **M6 coming for Turkey** This is what I was looking for. The geology has forced it up a bit. We need at least an M6 or 7 to close it up for another 300 years.
#physics #earthquake **New earthquakes extending down to the sea** There is too much stress at that lower end. It should do something.
#physics #earthquake **Toronto earthquake scenario - part 1**
https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-toronto-earthquake-part-1.html
#physics #earthquake **Longer blog post** This is it for me right now.
https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/02/edge-effects-in-fault-mechanics.html
Good morning. The Turkey earthquake has me in a tizzy, and I won't be doing much today.
#physics #earthquake **Two branches to continental earthquake** I'm expecting a third, like New Madrid, but we can live with just two. It's an amazing pattern, with both mechanisms the same. The whole area has been wrenched apart, and we await the gps and strong ground motions to see the mechanism. Usually, the existing topography will be reinforced. The lows lower and highs higher.
**Bell direct fiber internet** When they sunk their billion dollars to put fiber to the home, I was one of the first to sign. Then I didn't constantly check their new prices. So now, I went to 50% higher speed for less price. I must have been overpaying for a while now.
I'm not complaining since it could be like the Old Man with a tin can and a string.
#physics #earthquake **acceleration** At about .6g. I consider this to be not as important as the pgv. Earthquake design uses accel which is long and wobbly, thus they design for resonance. The velocity is a big nasty pulse, and more accurately relates to the base shear.
Descended from Unix freaks, I evolved to Linux. Some people might consider me old at 60+, but I'm suing the world to get my age down to 30.
I have a blog https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/
and it is read by 8 people. My formal education is in an extinct branch of science called geophysics. Since there was no money in it, I went to engineering. I've done tunnels, radwaste thingies, etc.
Joined Nov 2018
