stevenjgarner

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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
See also : https://bostondynamics.com/products/atlas/
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Product version of Boston Dynamics Atlas robot [video](youtube.com)
3 points by stevenjgarner 9mo ago|3 comments
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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
LEGO announced the Smart Brick at CES Media Day. It contains a tiny chip and speakers that allow the bricks to "know" what you’re building and respond with sound effects and lights based on the specific set (starting with a Star W
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Lego debuts Smart Brick and Smart Play system that reacts as you play(mashable.com)
2 points by stevenjgarner 9mo ago|1 comments
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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426292
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Particle of Light Produced That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions(science.org)
1 points by stevenjgarner 9mo ago|0 comments
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Charted: Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Spending (1970-2023)(visualcapitalist.com)
1 points by stevenjgarner 9mo ago|0 comments
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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
I think especially heinous is the use of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Proof technologies where a centralized attestation authority (e.g. government agency) verifies compliance, and the verifier (e.g. business needing to prove compliance) relies on t
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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
There is a gradual chilling effect of self-censorship to mass surveillance and loss of anonymity. When you know you are being watched, you change your behavior. You don't visit the "wrong" protest, you don't meet with t
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by stevenjgarner 9mo ago
Also "Full tour of Largest Organ in the World! (Boardwalk Hall)"[1], the pipe organ at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyUwk6L9lA
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Well we do know their consumption of energy is not insignificant and comes at great cost.
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Agreed. Even xAI's (Grok's) access to live data on x.com and millions of live video inputs from Tesla is a moat not enjoyed by OpenAI.
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
As we enter a world of robotics, some users may also find it useful to have their robots directly access their "appliances", including with "retro" appliances that do not adhere to some future interoperability standard.
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Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism(psychiatryonline.org)
4 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|1 comments
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A new way to map how cells choose their fate(nature.com)
2 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|0 comments
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Walmart opts for 3D-printed buildings using technology from Alquist(unionrayo.com)
4 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|1 comments
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
The dollar's share hit a historical bottom around 45-46% in the early 1990s (specifically hitting roughly 45.8% in 1991 and remaining in the high 40s/low 50s through 1994). By the end of 1994 and into 1995, the share began to ris
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Haha! Great catch. That specific structure ... "It’s not just a [Product], it’s a [Experience/Metaphor]!" ... is a classic trope of mid-to-late 20th-century American advertising. This style exploded during the "Creati
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Yes, I love the analogy. You can think of the CMU Split-Lohmann system as a "per-pixel tilt-shift lens" or a "freeform focal surface" camera.
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Human-readability is the ultimate error correction for the most expensive link in the system: the human-in-the-loop. The information-theoretic justification is that binary's efficiency assumes a perfectly known codec, but the entropy o
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USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994(wolfstreet.com)
283 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|301 comments
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
From an information theory perspective, "Always bet on text" is a plea for symbolic efficiency. It argues that while binary or visual formats might have higher bandwidth, they often have lower meaning-per-bit for the complex, abst
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
No the site is just having its own "fairytale-like hallucinations"
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
This is great! I'm sure like a lot of programmers, I had been fulfilling the requirement for similar conditional logic by having a simple recurring cron job run other code or database queries with the conditional logic that this post
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
> The results suggested that in even higher-energy collisions, the proton would appear as a cloud made up almost entirely of gluons. The gluon dandelion is exactly what QCD predicts. I find the proton as a gluon dandelion cloud enthralli
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Cardboard box demolition ideas for kids [1] I like where this video is going, letting kids explore the structural capabilities of different geometries. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHhzIJ18gQ
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
Yes! K’NEX [1] is based on spatial geometry. You connect plastic rods of different lengths into star-shaped connectors. This creates a "skeleton" or wireframe structure. It is much better than LEGO for building large-scale, open-
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by stevenjgarner 10mo ago
I believe the lytro camera was a plenoptic, or light field, camera. Light field cameras capture information about the intensity together with the direction of light emanating from a scene. Conventional cameras record only light intensity a
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First 3D-printed microscope blew up in 2025(newscientist.com)
3 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|1 comments
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Scientists boost mitochondria to burn more calories(phys.org)
6 points by stevenjgarner 10mo ago|0 comments

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