venachescu

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by venachescu 7mo ago
This looks amazing! Is there a number hooked up to demo this out? Would love to send this to my nieces and nephews!
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by venachescu 3y ago
> This includes the current US president, who signed a bunch of executive orders right after taking office that increased gas prices by restricting fossil fuel production. I'm sorry, what? https://www.cnn.com/2023&#x
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by venachescu 3y ago
> - We're in a recession (at least if you aren't upper middle class or above) I'm sorry, what recession? https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-a... > In the year ending in Nov
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by venachescu 3y ago
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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by venachescu 3y ago
Now where does this doubt come from? This _person_ has worked and was rapidly promoted to leadership positions at two of the companies that have extremely outsized reputations for technical proficiency, during periods which both companies a
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by venachescu 3y ago
The central nervous system has an extremely delicate chemical environment where routine disturbances like inflammation would induce swelling and destruction of delicate neural pathways. In fact one of the primary roles of the blood-brain ba
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by venachescu 4y ago
> Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits whereby someone halfway around the world can steal your banking credentials, private photos/emails, cryptocurrency, etc. I dunno a lot of my jeans end up with a hole right in the middle of
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by venachescu 4y ago
Being cleared by the FDA means that they have demonstrated evidence, which is linked in the original Apple page: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36305584/ Like others have said, it's likely prescription only becau
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by venachescu 4y ago
While it's mostly a phenomenological observation (and not a natural law), many types of movements in humans and animals are well described by a "minimum jerk trajectory" [1]. There's a ton of debate about whether or not
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by venachescu 5y ago
Sure, you can see a lot of shallow similarities between these two groups but it would miss a pretty important structural difference. Oligarchs don't have power outside the authoritarian apparatus of the state. Oligarchs exist entirely
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by venachescu 5y ago
Not really when it’s used in the ways they use for imaging. What this procedure uses is ‘focused’ ultrasound that is comprised of a helmet-array of transducers (it has serious Magneto vibes) that is very specifically calibrated to create ar
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by venachescu 8y ago
No, we are absolutely predicting when we are looking at a photo; firstly, we really do not see the ‘whole thing’, our eyes make quick, stereotyped (cough predictive cough) movements to a few spots on the image and mentally imagine the rest.
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by venachescu 9y ago
I believe some work with smaller local credit unions who only have in-state business. Not sure if these credit unions are in the clear or just minimally exposed to federal prosecution though?
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by venachescu 9y ago
I'm pretty surprised by all the focus on spiking neural networks too; they are really still much more of an academic topic and I have never heard of any real practical applications (yet). There are a number of methods of training these
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by venachescu 9y ago
But all of their other robots that they bought are in the bay! Except for SCHAFT, who, apparently were also bought by SoftBank today so go figure.
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by venachescu 9y ago
This is nerd fever dreaming conspiracy bullshit, if they were really building such scary capable war machines for the defense department they would have been bought long, long ago by a big defense contactor (and likely that would be the las
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by venachescu 9y ago
Mostly because it was a rushed and not totally thought out acquisition - Boston Dynamics never wanted to leave Boston and has always been about legged locomotion, Google wanted them to change and they didn't.
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by venachescu 9y ago
All the examples you've given are either still very academic or just marketing for 'clever algorithms'. The whole idea that one company or another is owning 'AI' is mainly analyst and marketing words - anything that
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by venachescu 10y ago
You are literally making my dreams come true. Thank you!
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by venachescu 10y ago
I think you're missing the bigger point that he's trying to make - our sensory systems work in concert to provide a full picture of reality and they're very sensitive and extremely well tuned together through a lifetime of ex
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by venachescu 10y ago
I'd like to dismiss this as a little bit of jealous gossip, but the more I read the more it fits. Not to say the things she's done haven't been impressive but she seems like a person better at winning awards and having fancif
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by venachescu 11y ago
It's quite likely the latter, who in the world can / will pay more than Google?
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by venachescu 11y ago
Those are pretty amazing click/follow through rates, and I'm not surprised because they're 100% deserved. This is a great app clearly made with care and dedication, thanks for all your hard work!
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by venachescu 11y ago
This is a cute argument, but I think it falls into a trap of following its own thinking. Video games are explicitly designed to test and fit within our bounds of conscious control and processing; particularly the retro games, but essentiall