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Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Post by beenBoutIT »

wcunning wrote: post #38
sudhirj wrote: post #6

Love it. This is a game mechanic / movie superhero device that's been around a long time, just love the fact that this does it so simply and with so much promise. As sensitivity and the quality of the neural net increases, combined with AR, this is going to make super soldiers out of SWAT teams.

And this is why you build a shipping container house -- free Faraday cage, built right in. Not mention that it's not hard to convert shipping containers to meet California earthquake code, or so I've read.

An earthquake could easily convert such a structure into a casket that 'respects your privacy' with no hope of dialing out for help.

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Post by jjoonathan »

kolpa wrote: post #63
jjoonathan wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devil's advocate: "let's fund PhDs with respectable salaries instead of green cards."

How does that solve the problem of attracting talent?

It solves the problem of attracting American talent, not talent in general.

Immigrants get "paid" more than citizens to do a PhD in the U.S. because there's a green card "stapled" to each degree, which is of no value to citizens but of significant value to immigrants.

I called the argument "Devil's Advocate" because it is more than a little thankless to complain about someone working hard to obtain a privilege you were born into. It still hurts to have your dream job undercut by someone else, though.

Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Post by beenBoutIT »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #24

I'll repeat it again. - Machines that see through walls are coming - Microscopic drones are coming - Mind-reading machines are coming - Private key cryptography will become obsolete Fighting for privacy is backward. It's unsustainable. We must work toward a post-privacy world. The sooner we do it, the smoother the transition will be.

Describing the exact same inevitable phenomena as "The Age of Transparency" is probably going to elicit a better response from most people. "Post Privacy" is negatively charged and makes it sound like more of a net loss as opposed to progress.

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Post by RIMR »

hello_1234 wrote: post #21
jjoonathan wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devil's advocate: "let's fund PhDs with respectable salaries instead of green cards."

We are talking about MIT. Their acceptance rate is around 6%. I am sure they get plenty of applications from the smartest American undergrads. Assuming that they choose the best and the brightest, it makes sense that they would have students from all over the world. Americans don't have a monopoly on intelligence.

>Americans don't have a monopoly on intelligence.

Sadly, we seem to be quite deficient in that department compared to other first world countries...

Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Post by namibj »

LgWoodenBadger wrote: post #120
wcunning wrote: post #43

I've noticed, recently, that literally every major chain store I go into blocks my cell signal. I get full bars outside, perfect LTE, and about 5 ft past the glass doors, I'm suddenly cut off. Specifically, Meijer grocery stores and Home Depot are the worst offenders. Coincidentally they offer free in store WiFi to track me with, so I turn off my wifi radio on both smartphone and smartwatch before walking in the door…

It's somewhat similar, but AT&T (and Apple) have forced my iPhone to always join the "attwifi" public wireless networks (present in Home Depot, airports, etc.). I can't make my iPhone NOT auto-join it, no matter how many steps, guides, hop-on-one-foot voodoo that I've tried. The wireless network is terrible at everything except signal strength.

Buy an iPhone, and get a seperate sim card for it. That way the phone is yours. And if you are careful, it shouldn't cost you more than a 1-digit sum, and even that would only be to cover postage when you hunt down a cheap offer.

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Post by RIMR »

ggg9990 wrote: post #98
patrickyeon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you believe any of those names are not American?

They're all American in some measure as they are all living in the US at MIT. But they are clearly immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.

Look, I get the point you're trying to make, and I know you're not trying to be racist or xenophobic, but implying that having a foreign-sounding name make you less than entirely American is a really bad look.

Literally everyone credited in this paper could have been born and raised in the USA with birthright citizenship. I know that, realistically, that's not the case, but jumping to assumptions about individuals based on how ethnic their names sound is a form for casual racism that has absolutely no place in academia.

More importantly, if non-citizens are so much more likely to get admitted to MIT than citizens, it's not the immigration system we should be worried about. We should be worried about our education system that fails to produce highly-educated and motivated adults that qualify for admittance into MIT.

I also need to call you out for even bringing "descendants of immigrants" into this conversation. The children of immigrants have a name in this country: American citizens. We ought not judge people for the national origins of their parents, we should judge them for their academic and professional merits.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

wcunning wrote: post #43

I've noticed, recently, that literally every major chain store I go into blocks my cell signal. I get full bars outside, perfect LTE, and about 5 ft past the glass doors, I'm suddenly cut off. Specifically, Meijer grocery stores and Home Depot are the worst offenders. Coincidentally they offer free in store WiFi to track me with, so I turn off my wifi radio on both smartphone and smartwatch before walking in the door…

A common cause for this is foil backed insulation. A number of companies install this in the ceiling spaces and outside walls to reduce the energy costs of keeping the store at a comfortable level.

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Post by musage »

beenBoutIT wrote: post #124
miguelrochefort wrote: post #24

I'll repeat it again. - Machines that see through walls are coming - Microscopic drones are coming - Mind-reading machines are coming - Private key cryptography will become obsolete Fighting for privacy is backward. It's unsustainable. We must work toward a post-privacy world. The sooner we do it, the smoother the transition will be.

Describing the exact same inevitable phenomena as "The Age of Transparency" is probably going to elicit a better response from most people. "Post Privacy" is negatively charged and makes it sound like more of a net loss as opposed to progress.

That's because it is.

Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Post by RIMR »

jjoonathan wrote: post #122
kolpa wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that solve the problem of attracting talent?

It solves the problem of attracting American talent, not talent in general. Immigrants get "paid" more than citizens to do a PhD in the U.S. because there's a green card "stapled" to each degree, which is of no value to citizens but of significant value to immigrants. I called the argument "Devil's Advocate" because it is more than a little thankless to complain about someone working hard to obtain a privilege you we…

>It still hurts to have your dream job undercut by someone else, though.

What an absolutely atrocious way to think of your fellow man...

If someone else is getting the job you want instead of you, they worked harder for it than you did. If you want your dream job, you need to be prepared to compete for it, regardless of what color skin the competition happens to have.

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