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by swordsmith 5y ago
You are missing the point, they are not decoding semantics. The signals being decoded correspond to imagined motor activations needed to produce the word. It's similar to asking you to mentally rehearse throwing a ball.
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by swordsmith 5y ago
This was possible while I was in high school -- I was able to take Bio, Chem, Physics, and Calculus in the same year. However, this is no longer possible now for my younger siblings enrolling at the same public high school. Apparently the s
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by swordsmith 5y ago
> Imports are already subject to tariffs precisely to protect farmers. I think you got these backwards. Subsidies are provided because other countries imposes tariffs on US farm products.
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by swordsmith 5y ago
> and the breeder had (nearly) her own highway exit This is the key assumption on which your statements are based on. How do you know the state built it for her, rather than, she built her house next to the highway exit? I find it hard t
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by swordsmith 5y ago
> I'll tell you - because there are no alternatives. How about other more legit consulting firms like exponent ( https://www.exponent.com/ )?
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by swordsmith 5y ago
The difference here is Yue Fei has had a solid track record of being loyal to the emperor. In contrast with Huawei being CCP controlled, having poor track record of intellectual theft, and that CCP having clear conflicts of interest with th
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by swordsmith 5y ago
Hopefully this get upvoted to the top. Answers a lot of speculations and questions in the thread.
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by swordsmith 5y ago
I am a research scientist at a FAANG. The interview process we went through is much less demanding in the CS part, as the domain knowledge is the focus (yet we still struggle to find good candidates that pass). But I've noticed that th
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by swordsmith 5y ago
Compared to the pricetag of Macbooks, $1000 is a great deal, no?
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by swordsmith 5y ago
You are touching on the subject of attention, which is actually extremely important and has a whole field of research (see for example, the hillarious invisible monkey experiment: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_e
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by swordsmith 5y ago
There is a big difference between decoding covert and even "imagined speech" and decoding "thoughts". In covert/imagined speech decoding, the user actually tries very hard to imagine the action of speaking and movin
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by swordsmith 5y ago
I'd argue it is the "Hello, World" in any BMI lab. Assuming existing implants and electronics, and non-naive monkey, advanced undergrads should get it in a semester.
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by swordsmith 6y ago
Not far away: https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-03-31/braingate-wireless
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by swordsmith 6y ago
Funny you should compare understanding biological neural networks to a microprocessor. Check out this paper ( https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... ), which systematically addresses how app
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by swordsmith 6y ago
Noninvasive signal modality directly from the cortex are certainly possible (e.g. Ultrasound, fNIR). But they lack the spatial and temporal resolution of implanted electrodes. Intracortical brain signals are the most well understood and mat
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> Maybe it will be able to extract speech directly from the brain, which is orders of magnitude harder than controlling a joystick. Check out https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1119-1 And yes it is definitel
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by swordsmith 6y ago
See ( https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-03-31/braingate-wireless ), wireless BCI, in humans nevertheless. It's not mass produced, but mostly because there isn't the need to.
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by swordsmith 6y ago
This whole "our existing i/o bandwidth is too limited" story started by Musk and co is not very well thought out. Most people cannot think faster than they type or speak, at least coherently. The rapid information transfer wi
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by swordsmith 6y ago
The location of the electrodes aren't arbitrary. The region of implantation is likely the hand-motor cortex (which has thickness on the order of mm), the area associated with arm movements (check out somatotopy), so the signals acquire
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> - resumable tasks - I want to sit down and work, not sit down and figure out what to do I've found this indeed helps me get back to productivity. But at the same time, if I know what exactly needs to be done, it would be hard for
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> Here are the most common traits: apathetic, very logical, quantitative and concise sentences, fast-speaking, use and identify their models in their speech, a dash of academic prose, direct eye contact, infallible confidence. Oh man I h
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by swordsmith 6y ago
Apparently there is a big shortage for ABF (Ajinomoto build-up film) substrate, which is big part of PCB manufacturing (see for example https://www.hardwaretimes.com/ps5-supply-to-be-affected-by-a... , https://www
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> spew their hate of anyone who is not a white conservative? This is extremely biased and ignorant. For one, there are plenty of non-white non-conservatives on the platform. Your statement here reveals much about your biases. You are bas
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by swordsmith 6y ago
You claim it's clear, yet the majority of protestors that showed up in DC DID NOT storm the capitol. How is it it's clear to so many people on the left that Trump was inciting violence, when that wasn't the case for most of h
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> The one sole reason the West was so eager to jump on the China train unlike any other broke harebrained communist country was because China went from the start to openly bribing Western elites. This is very accurate. Recent example is
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> You also might get interesting perspectives if you explore outside the software industry. Second this. I'd think PM at Google work differently than PM in Lockheed.
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by swordsmith 6y ago
The results are foreign companies moving out of China. Bringing much more world attention to the aggression of China in the South China sea, and uniting foreign powers (India, Japan, Philipines, Vietnam, Australia, etc) to contain the CCP&#
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> China knows that no other country has the influence to form such a coalition. That means it doesn't even need to be coy about what it's doing At least now that CCP is showing its true colors, the world is more aware of its th
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> > […] By the mid-1920s, the overwhelming majority of Chinese intellectuals believed that an authoritarian solution was China’s only recourse. Some looked to the Soviet Union, and to Bolshevism. Others looked to Italy, and later Germ
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> which is why Xi inaugurated his office with the anticorruption campaign. Yes, there was some power consolidation involved, but most of the effort was genuine - CCDI has investigated close to 2,000,000 officials, even Xi doesn't ha

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