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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech(arstechnica.com)
3 points by kurthr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, don't complicate it, it's just corruption.
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by kurthr 1y ago
Hug of Death for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20250629233816/https://crookedti...
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by kurthr 1y ago
The political uncertainties of western countries where "there is no truth" and "facts don't matter" could easily bring this level of systemic corruption to them as well. People love to rage bait and say how bad it i
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yep, only yield improvements and equipment depreciation are really in the cards. Cost per transistor increased from 7nm to 5nm, but we're about at breakeven with 3nm again. If there's not real fab competition at 2nm then prices pe
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by kurthr 1y ago
Marijuana was known to do this in 1936. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kg0sK-dY98
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by kurthr 1y ago
What's interesting is that with modern GAA and nanosheet transistors at the "1-2nm" scale (really ~6-12nm gate length) is that there are only about 50-100k silicon atoms. That means that the channels are inherently intrinsic.
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by kurthr 1y ago
It feels like this is the optimism of early internet where "information wants to be free". We got a solid 5 maybe 10 years of that (up through 2k)?
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by kurthr 1y ago
Exactly, the level of commitment required to get the data and run the simulations to convince hundreds of interested and highly capable people to agree that your analysis method is better than what they had previously considered. Just amazi
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by kurthr 1y ago
I have so much extra money just laying around that I take unnecessary risks and add complexity to my financial life for kicks and giggles.
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by kurthr 1y ago
If you're paying for your food delivery on an installment plan, you're probably going to have a blow up. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/business/doordash-klarna-...
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by kurthr 1y ago
Came to say this about fluorescents, but even the tungsten filament in an old style bulb could easily be 5000K which is ~8500F.
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by kurthr 1y ago
I'm all for reducing permit requirements, but realisitically these would be used by McDo and Starbux to externalize more costs while increasing their quarterly profit. Really, you need to have something that is trusted and rational wit
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A grad student got LHC data to play nice with quantum interference(arstechnica.com)
18 points by kurthr 1y ago|3 comments
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by kurthr 1y ago
Once it's backdoored you don't know who's watching it. It's the most hilarious thing about backdoors or collecting extensive covert intel on your own population, that any failure of opsec makes it much easier for all you
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by kurthr 1y ago
Create whatever joyful apocalypse your putrid hateful heart desires. I think the key here is "mistake". I don't really like that word here, any more than I like "precious" as opposed to interesting. Many rare things
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by kurthr 1y ago
Don't you mean the SpaceShuttle in the 80s? or Delta Clipper which didn't reach orbit? Really, what SpaceX did was radically different from the tests in the 90s from the rockets, to the controls, to the reusability goals. Otherwis
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by kurthr 1y ago
I agree, a lot is about money, but it's not like Honda is raising external funds. Getting management to agree to do anything pretty much requires guaranteed success in large organizations.
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by kurthr 1y ago
Proof of concept. It's a lot easier to do something, if you know it can be done.
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by kurthr 1y ago
This is a really key result. You can't effectively be "blind" to a parameter that is significantly correlated to multiple inputs and your output prediction. By using those inputs to minimize false positives you are not statis
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by kurthr 1y ago
Interestingly, when firing your own, you could also make Supertiles from combinatorial collections of Penrose or other aperiodic tiles.
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by kurthr 1y ago
No, it was the banks that held the mortgages, and the builders and real estate agents who make the most on rising prices. You can't buy a house without selling the one you live in... without leverage!
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by kurthr 1y ago
Real estate and rent, just like bitcoin, designer fashion, "art work", and watches. Unfortunately, you need somewhere to live. If it's more profitable to hold empty real estate than or less dense/improved property waitin
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by kurthr 1y ago
If it was so profitable, why wouldn't the electricity utility do it themselves? Certainly, they have the scale, infrastructure, and pricing power to do it. Oh, that's right. This is supposed to be wealth transfer.
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by kurthr 1y ago
You can also build much lower inductance bypass caps with your internal power planes than you can get out of any component!
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by kurthr 1y ago
I don't know what you're saying either, because not only is it completely at odds with the measured data presented in a lumber university textbook, but you seem to be unclear on how moisture is even measured. Please reread the sec
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by kurthr 1y ago
Sorry, it's not true that "initial drying is absolutely 100% not different than any other time". https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pub/em-8600-wood-m... Fiber saturation is a thing and it ra
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by kurthr 1y ago
Ummm, most wood starts at a much higher moisture content (50%-200% noting that this is as a percentage of fully dried so it can easily be over 1) than it will ever have after drying (typically 5-15%). Frankly, the idea that a piece of wood
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by kurthr 1y ago
The time has long passed for dry aged Pepys.
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by kurthr 1y ago
It's a good start to realize that what underlies all the understanding of science are simplified predictive models, and usually only statistical models at that. What this means is that running an experiment in many fields is so difficu

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