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Re:Abundant Intelligence on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:11AM (#45348204)
Nobody will be afraid to use AI.
Re:Strain gauge made out of PCB on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @07:27PM (#43979010)
Use vibration to measure small masses. Measuring natural frequency can be very accurate and sensitive.
Re:Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot on Saturday April 26, 2025 @04:32PM (#43806928)
What kind of vision peocessing are you envisioning?
It is pollution and it harms people. So in order to do things that are good we must harm others first (or after)?
How dare you stand in the way of regular people burning hundreds of kilograms of fossil fuel in order to spend a couple days at the beach? /s
Re:The race is on to build the most complex machine on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:48PM (#43406103)
Not if we follow strict operating procedures, Gordon.
Legit question: if I replicate a patent for a personal non profit use, is this infringement? Perhaps it is because I'm benefiting from the intelectual property.
Depends on how much power you need (speed times force, acceleration and deceleration...) and how much stiffness you need (can't bend?).

Also depends on how much travel you need. It is easier to get 50 micron accuracy over a total length of 100 micron compared to a total length of 1 meter.

Is this related to lasers behaving as as a body with negative temperature when they manage to heat something to a hotter temperature by radiation?
Re:Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity on Saturday August 24, 2024 @10:21AM (#41338526)
Microwave heating is not a fourth form of heat transfer as it name implies: microwave radiation. Yes, the heat is not being radiated by a thermal source of microwaves, but it is radiation being absorbed. Hence radiation is the mechanism.

Rotational momentum is also heat as it is kinect energy related to movement, linear or not.

If you dig deep enough all our land is on a floating basis.
Enriching uranium is more expensive than making plutonium by a long shot. Modern nukes are two point implosion, not really fiddly. And when was the last criticality incident related to phase transition? Can't remember one.
How so? Huge flooding in Brazil this year, they are not recovering any time soon. Poor countries lack the resources that rich countries literally burn for their luxury.
Re:First anode-free sodium solid-state battery on Saturday July 06, 2024 @02:22PM (#40892149)
Because the market is made up of selfish human beings. First they don't care for long term environmental consequences. If that is not enough, then they use fossil because their enemies are using, and not using it means getting destroyed today.
Re:AI's $600B Question on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:17PM (#40871287)
I recall Marvin Minsky saying that 1 GigaFlops would suffice for doing most of what humans do. Current AI is addiction to more data, more compute but no smarts. At least they gave us cheap compute, soon the right people will figure out how to produce real AI, not this travesty.
Sadly you can't get a glimpse on the immense effort we put into destroying our society. But the nunbers are available if you are curious enough.
Psychopathy is also on a normal distribution... this "big numbers" argument is very weak. We all know what the masses like to do with the environment.
Re:Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:41AM (#39815037)
How are these people arranged in the image? It is doable with good models and some sanity checks, comparing hands per square meter and heads per square meter.
Re:Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:39AM (#39815017)
YOLOA model has knowledge for dozens of objects. At every frame it is computing lots of parameters not related to your case. This is very wasteful and the main reason you can't achieve your performance goals.
Does every token requires a full model computation?
Re:Why It's So Challenging to Land Upright on the Moon on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:26PM (#39595575)
Humans did it manually in the 60's. How hard can it be to do it with computers and radar? I don't want to sound like that guy but... how hard can it be?

Edit: My point being: spacex is already doing it on earth, dealing with stronger gravity and air non linearity.

Re:John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:18PM (#39192816)
It can also be done locally with a fixed base station.
Re:Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100 on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:01PM (#39149196)
More compute can't save you from dumb methods. Memorizing the whole of human text while being fooled by a prompt crafted by a 14 year old doesn't mean its intelligent.
Re:ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @06:04AM (#39026154)
A reminder that so called engineers will bleed you dry before anything. As with many robotics projects, the people hired excel in one thing:doing what they already know. That is why you and I never see new robots.
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Search is unusable.

Most ads I see on YouTube are very dubious and poorly made. A reasonable ammount are plain fraud. It is very frustrating going to "ad center" and reading about how the advertiser did not verify his identity.
VC tend to invest in things going the opposite way.
"Walled garden academic peer review" is not above "centuries of years of group knowledge peer review".
You know what I'm tired of? Not being able to investments because I'm not a "accredited investor", therefore I must be dumb or something.
I agree with that, and I am comfortable with the prospect of others not putting themselves first, therefore opening up the possibility of them putting my interests first.

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