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lukeinator42

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About lukeinator42

My name is Lukas, and I am CTO and Co-Founder of a startup called Reverb Robotics Inc. where our goal is to bring Auditory Perception to Robotics.

I have a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Neuroscience, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. I have experience in software development and machine learning for robotics as well as other industries. You can find my contact info at https://lukasgrasse.com or feel free to drop an email to lukasgrasse@gmail.com.

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    The writing style is this staccato LLM-like style that is difficult to read as it has zero flow and meaningless sentences. Like what does the second sentence even mean? Is it even …

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    It's extremely feasible. English is the defacto language of most research in the EU. I spent some time in Italy during my masters degree and know lots of people who have gone on to…

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    Comment #48779334

    isn't this just a by-product of seed hybridization which has enabled pretty much all of modern agriculture? A lot of testing goes into finding the two strains that combine together…

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    Comment #48738226

    It's a cool technology, but for it to gain commercial interest it needs to solve a problem better than the status quo. What problem is it solving and for who? If I was to buy that …

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    Comment #48711254

    This happened to me on a paper I submitted recently where it was clear the reviewers used AI. Revising a paper based on LLM review is also exhausting, haha.

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    Comment #48691383

    Just because the US sanctions a country, doesn't mean the rest of the world needs to as well. As a Canadian we traded with Cuba even when the US had an embargo on them.

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    Comment #48587767

    I think the scanner outputs petabytes of raw data that then get processed down into images, so you would only need to store an image per slice ideally, kinda like MRI DICOM files.

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    Comment #48123947

    This would be great for other use cases too like climbing bolts and anchors in coastal areas. Lots of areas are switching to titanium glue-ins which are expensive, but I wonder if …

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    The other concerning aspect of this leak is the fact that the list was shared with a group of separatists, and the data on the list is basically everything you need to fraudulently…

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    Comment #47915825

    nope, nike vaporflys are super popular. There are usually limits on stack height for many marathons though.

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    Comment #47640112

    https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

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    Comment #47632659

    If they didn't do that people would probably be commenting that its fake or AI.

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    Comment #47602226

    A Baofeng UV-5R cannot receive shortwave, it's in the VHF/UHF range for receive/transmit and can receive commercial FM broadcast.

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    Comment #47301385

    A good analogy for equal temperament might be the Gregorian calendar, as a year does not evenly divide perfectly into 365 days. So in order to compensate for that we adjust the cal…

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    Comment #47068429

    it's still up for me

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    Comment #47055198

    No, they mean we actually clear US customs in Canada as non-US citizens.

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    Comment #47054391

    Same, I haven't been able to get gemini or claude to tell me to walk a single time and I've even tried changing the distance in the prompt, etc.

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    Comment #47030819

    It's a within-subject design and they literally did a power analysis in the paper. This is not absurdly low n.

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    Comment #47016324

    I have a couple slings my cousin brought back from Tibet, and a few years ago when I was in Peru I brought some back from there as well (they're called 'huaraca' in Quechua I think…

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    I was also wondering this, and in one of the footnotes they say "Given that our experiment was conducted in 2025, one might wonder whether Kansas’ updated law is reflected in GPT’s…

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    I also found this blog: https://www.theastroimager.com/picoballoning/pico-ballooning... . His balloon JR14 flew for 507 days and made 6 laps of the earth which is pretty wild.

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