My computer science masters thesis was based on the same goal. I used a 2D convolution which meant you can merge images with inexact overlaps. I had to run a high-pass filter first to limit the image details to their edges only or else the convolution incorrectly matched bright areas.

In reality merging pictures is further complicated because the source images may be slightly rotated relative to each other and also due to the images being slightly curved due to lens distortion.

My supervisor wanted me to do a PHD on the topic!

My favourite clues: Die of cold (3-4) hijklmno (5)

All the tips you've given won't help with either of those, or your 'geg' clue, which is interesting. Maybe the best clues are all about lateral thinking.

Back in the day working for Symbian I used to regularly have to run a load of automated Bluetooth tests. Unfortunately there were 200+ engineers in the close vicinity of my test setup and they all had smartphones and all had Bluetooth turned on, causing loads of the test to timeout. We were very pleased with ourselves when we thought of using a biscuit tin as a Faraday cage to try and improve things. Didn't work as well as we hoped, but got the tests running within their timeouts. I always thought it'd be interesting to try using an old microwave.

Best thing was that we got to eat all the biscuits first :)

If it's captured from the atmosphere and then burnt then surely it's zero-sum (apart from the energy cost of capture). Is this not better than releasing historically captured fossil fuels with a larger net increase in atmospheric levels?

If the capturing process is net-negative in terms of CO2 emmissions then perhaps we could invest in capturing more than we require for fuel - ie pull the CO2 out of the atmosphere and stockpile it in non-gaseous form. My experience is that people are willing to pay to clear their conscience and feel that they're making a positive climate change impact, but irrationally very resistant to changing their own behaviour.

Also, if you can act on public information faster than others then you effectively have that edge in information.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100758754

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interislander

When you fire a beam of particles at something, or another stream of particles then you usually want interactions to happen. Some particles miss, some interact and some are moving too past and fly right by. There is an optimum energy where the most particle interactions occur. If you plot out the interaction rates then you usually get a bell curve. This is known as the excitation function for that interaction.

I don't know if it's accurate but he describes how they communicate primarily using their mandibles, legs and with vibrations through their silk, rather than through audible vibrations like us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/16/oil-and-gas...

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Countersteering moves the bike to one side which means you're no longer balanced and so rapidly fall the other way initiating the turn.