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This looks amazing! Is there a number hooked up to demo this out? Would love to send this to my nieces and nephews!

> 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 sorr…

> - 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 ye…

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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 …

The central nervous system has an extremely delicate chemical environment where routine disturbances like inflammation would induce swelling and destruction of delicate neural path…

> 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 …

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…

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…

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 authorit…

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 Magn…

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) movement…

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 prosecut…

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…

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.

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 …

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 the…

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 …

You are literally making my dreams come true. Thank you!

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…

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 pers…

It's quite likely the latter, who in the world can / will pay more than Google?

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 …

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 …