Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by close04 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:03AM
(#50412207)
That’s an interesting project and if you ever succeed it will be massive. What I say shouldn’t stop you but just in case, EEG signals through the scalp are incredibly noisy. You can’t get the level of granularity you need like that. You’re putting a stethoscope on the side of the building and trying to guess what everyone in a few rooms is working on.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by gabriel666smith on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:19AM
(#50412291)
Yeah! Super super noisy - and maybe harder than you've described. At least you might overhear some meetings with a stethoscope-on-building approach.
That's kind of the motivation for trying a no-MEG, (comparatively) large dataset, ML approach - it strikes me as exactly the kind of problem to which transformer models might be particularly well-suited, if it's even possible to find a hint of anything in that noise at all.