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If you would like to request access to the training data she has been gathering / labelling, you may email team@ecofriendlyapp.com . To her knowledge, hers is the most comprehensiv…

Please understand that I have no problem with genetic engineering in general, and am probably one of the few people on this thread with genetic engineering experience. I have custo…

This is not satire. If it helps explain my position, I also agree with the scientific consensus that animals, not just humans, are sentient, and that sentience comes in varying deg…

The Vatican these days is no longer regressive, at least on scientific issues. Here is a letter from the Pope in 2015 urging action on climate change: http://w2.vatican.va/content/…

Patrick, don't you think you should reflect on what you are doing before taking sentient neurons and forcing them to live their entire lives confined inside a machine, with no poss…

Don't you think this would constitute slavery? Shouldn't this be extremely illegal?

Speaking as a vegan: The reason I am vegan is for utilitarian reasons. Neuroscientists agree that there is firm evidence that all animals (NOT PLANTS) are sentient to varying degre…

In the second paragraph: "In 2017, a reported 11 Titans had gone vegan".

I feel like part of the cultural fascination with flying saucers is that we intuitively feel like it should be possible for someone with advanced technology to levitate without exp…

Along similar lines, since AI is considered to be potentially dangerous, by figures from Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking, I would rather our civilization never open this pandora's box…

At least in electrical engineering, we use mental math every day. More specifically, we use approximate mental math (trying to calculate to within about +/- 25% of the correct valu…

Is it common for military electronics to have a self-destruct feature to protect technology secrets? E.g., when damaged beyond repair or abandoned in a hasty retreat, the hardware …

> you have to power it to have it hold still Is it common to work around this by supplementing the electric motor with a disc brake? Depending where you want to be on the tradeoff …

This seems like it would make Xperia phones a potentionally great platform for prototyping of IoT devices that would benefit from a cellular radio. The UART port would be used to c…

Speaking as an engineer, you're supposed to design for the worst-case tolerance stack to be viable... If 0.01% is out of spec then you need tighter tolerance specs on your individu…

Let me start by saying that I agree that desktop electronics manufacturing will be the "next big thing" in the maker movement, and I am a huge fan. However, this article does not m…

Would the DEC2 mutation be amenable to being given to adults via a gene therapy?