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by rapjr9 2y ago
This article rambles endlessly and mentions crypto 145 times and appears to assume banks are not corrupt. So is illegitimate debanking an example of a real useful purpose for cryptocurrencies? I'm also thinking of the current Musk tak
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by rapjr9 2y ago
The US Army tested Agent Orange in an area near Gagetown, about 80 miles from Moncton, in 1967. Maybe some drums of Agent Orange got left in the woods somewhere in the area and are leaking into the water table today? https://www
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by rapjr9 2y ago
It is also an agent, so it is using you without compensation for your work.
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One of the problems with abstraction is that while it hides complexity, it makes changes that must reach into that complexity difficult. Abstraction is great if the code is never going to change again. If the people using the code want ne
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I was part of a project that did some work in this area also, we developed a machine learning based wearable to detect chewing: https://www.ah-lab.cs.dartmouth.edu/publications/detecting-e...
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by rapjr9 2y ago
The latest hype is around "agents", everyone will have agents to do things for them. The agents will incidentally collect real-time data on everything everyone uses them for. Presto! Tons of new training data. You are the prod
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by rapjr9 2y ago
The corollary to this is that the more people replaced by AI, the fewer customers that exist. There was a reason the Ford Motor Company paid its employees well; they wanted them to be able to afford to buy Ford cars.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Remember that productivity increase that happened due to work-from-home? Expect it to vanish with return-to-office. On top of having alienated your employees who control everything inside your company.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Large corporations blackmailing countries seems to be becoming more common. There was probably some of it going on throughout history (oil companies?, pharma?) but recently we've seen AT&T, Pornhub, TikTok, Google, Meta and others
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by rapjr9 2y ago
My guess is that the main purpose of agents will be to train the AI on your data. Companies have run out of data on the internet for training AI's, so they'll use agents as an excuse to get access to your personal real-time data.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Osha's web page about the health effects of radio and microwave radiation: https://www.osha.gov/radiofrequency-and-microwave-radiation/... Jet fighter AESA radars can output a highly directional 8KW beam of microw
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I suspect the eventual goal is to get citizens to train their own AI avatars, and then those avatars will be used to market to the citizens, to do market research, product research, manipulate politicians, etc. Will you click through letti
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by rapjr9 2y ago
How can this possibly work for the owner of the apartment complex? They deny a parking permit extension, the person loses their car, the person loses their job because they don't have a car, the person can't pay their rent becaus
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by rapjr9 2y ago
When do the batteries start to break down and become dangerous?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Could something like this be used to see inside human bodies? The body might be considered "scattering media". Knowing the general construction of bodies might help in predicting the kinds of scattering that occur.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Here's a corrollary to the Peter Principle: Even if you avoid promotion your bosses will continue to heap more responsibility on you without raising your pay so that eventually you'll have more work than it is humanly possible to
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I read that solar is cheaper than fossil fuel generation. Also, building a solar+battery power source that does not require grid connection means you don't have to wait 5-10 years for an interconnect to be approved. Up time for the d
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Require that new data centers be powered by their own renewables/batteries instead of being attached to the grid. Problem solved. I'm surprised anyone building a data center is not doing this already.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Does anyone have a feeling for how latency (from asking a question/API call to getting an answer/API return) is progressing with new models? I see 1.3 minutes/task and 13.8 minutes/task mentioned in the page on evaluati
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Is this stable and fast enough that I could hand it a camera and train it to point that camera at myself as I move around playing a musical instrument to create a music video?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This is indeed what I thought he was saying, AI needs to dynamically learn, just training on static data sets is no longer enough to advance. So continuous learning is the future, and the best source of data for continuous learning is peop
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Life, a short term attempt to reverse some entropy by creating more entropy.
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AARO is waiting for reports for something that is in the news? They have no field investigation teams? If China/Russia is flying drones over military bases they will wait for a report to investigate? Do they investigate anything at
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This reminds me of a somewhat similar circuit, the capacitance amplifier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_multiplier Which leads me to think about planned obsolescence in electronic circuits. In many electro
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Seems like that will also limit the uses for outdoor IoT applications, like wireless sensing in farm fields or wireless management of solar panels or industrial applications. Outdoor mobile applications seem to be allowed, but that may be
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by rapjr9 2y ago
If Tesla's Powerwall's are so safe, why does the legal agreement to buy one absolve them of all responsibility if there is a fire? This is what has been preventing me from considering buying one in Vermont.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I wonder what is going to happen to all the LiIon batteries in cheap gadgets that are being stored in garages and basements. What happens to them in 20-50 years?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
There are several open source projection mapper projects that run on a RaspPi, or other platforms, here are a few of them: https://github.com/arisona/mpm https://ofxpimapper.com/ https://map
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Sort of, a little. There was a lot of excitement about wearables for medical sensing early on, but the enthusiasm died down a lot when it became apparent that you can't just collect sensor data from the person and turn that into somet
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Yes, exactly why new evidence is needed, new RCT's.

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