The datacenter mineral oil setups are fucking crazy.
Just like 30 servers in this weird ass tub-esque vat filled with mineral oil. Imaging having to maintain it... clean room is definitely the way to go with that shit.
I'm just picturing a tub with computer parts and right next to it a cylinder of bacta fluid with a person in it like Luke on Hoth.
Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth: Thought-controlled music!9:06 https://youtu.be/qSKBtEBRWi4 Together with Chrisi from KOMA Elektronik and my husband Daniel, I am in the process of building a device (the "SynLimb") that attaches to my arm prosthesis instead of the prosthetic hand. The SynLimb converts the electrode signals that my prosthesis picks up from my residual limb into control voltages (CV) for controlling my modular synthesizer. The SynLimb thus allows me to plug my prosthesis directly into my snythesizer so that I can control its parameters with the signals from my body that normally control the hand. For me, this feels like controlling the synth with my thoughts. I show the prototype(s), explain how we put it together and how it works, and do a little demo.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Man, I would get one of those stupid magnet beads implanted in my finger today if I could find someone doing it locally. I will become a cyborg for the dumbest of all possible reasons.
biometric control over electronic devices is so cool and something I want to near more about
but at the same time I am desperately afraid of getting anything implanted in my body
what if it's doing surface reading of nerve signals rather than an invasive probe? that's what I expect to take off more than implants
A few years back I tried some of that stuff and none of it is quite good enough - consumer-level external EEGs pick up too many false positives that make them too cumbersome, which in turn makes the entire process far less efficient than just using your hands and buttons instead.
both the Emotiv and the NIA are barely functional at the best of times as brain-computer interfaces, if you sit absolutely still, and are lucky enough to have no electrical interference, and you have the headset tight on your head, and you're lucky enough to have a) no hair and b) a big head, you can:
slowly control a cursor on the screen, with very little accuracy
you have to focus on it constantly and it will sometimes just not move at all for no reason
if you sneeze, talk, eat, breathe too heavily or really move/tense any muscle in your head the system will go haywire and your mouse will fly off the screen
like there's probably way better tech when you're actually paying tens of thousands of dollars for research-level equipment, but below that threshold it's been pretty disappointing, and for the kind of accessiblity work I want to do the hardware is barely supported on any OS
I'm more thinking of things like sensors that detect motor nerve activations through the skin for things like motor control of a prosthetic hand. That sort of control-your-computer-with-your-mind thing does seem pretty far-fetched.
I have a suspicion that certain advertisers on Facebook have some kind of special deal they can pay for, where when you click the ellipses button the ad with the intent to block it, or hide the ad, you only get a spinning wheel icon and the menu won't load.
Yeah, I'm convinced Facebook intentionally makes that dialogue sloooow. After I click to block the ad I just get a spinner for five seconds before I get the next modal confirming the block.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
a team of scientists from osaka university in japan have developed a blade runner-esque robot that can ‘feel pain’. the robot is programmed to wince when an electric charge is applied to its skin, in hopes to teach empathy to artificial intelligence.
the artificial pain system was unveiled at the recent american assocation for the advancement of science meeting in seattle. asada and his team hope that by coding pain sensors into machines will help them develop empathy to human suffering, so they can act as more compassionate companions. he and his team are focusing the use of these robots on japan’s growing aging society, as they might be able to offer ‘physical and emotional assistance’ to elders who live alone.
Michael Reeves is the literal definition of mad scientist, creating things like Taser Tag, a device that makes short people taller in photos (by electrocuting the ever-loving shit out of the tall people), a floor that zaps people if they don't walk quietly, and a device that shocks you if it heard a swear.
I have a suspicion that certain advertisers on Facebook have some kind of special deal they can pay for, where when you click the ellipses button the ad with the intent to block it, or hide the ad, you only get a spinning wheel icon and the menu won't load. Therefore, in order to block the advertiser, first you have to click through to their page (giving them A Click that they can count as a page view) before you can click the block button.
Anyway, I'm sick and fucking tired of every other ad being some kickstarter reposting service. I'm blocking a new one every day
Seeing Ben Shapiro in that list reminds me that Youtube seems hugely insistent on recommending me alt-right shitfuckery.
V1m: OK I want dinosaurs, cooking, science, history, linux, PC hardware and music from when I still had a sub-36" waistline
Youtube: Sounds like you'd enjoy WHY ENTITLED MILLENNIAL WHORES DESERVE TO DIE LONELY from the Admiral-Incel channel!
I recently discovered how to ask YouTube to stop recommending anything from a given channel, and that seems to have helped a bit, but jfc, just because I accidentally clicked one video out of the 50 goddamb channels I blocked doesn't mean you should keep trying, YouTube.
They're pushing this bullshit on me real hard. Anyone else get this or have I just tainted my history too badly?
That's how the algorithm is designed. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon except replace Kevin Bacon with alt right indoctrination. Especially for children
There also talk of the alt right assholes gaming the system somehow, there was something Cody "Some More News" Johnston talked about last year, I think
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
Nah I get that bullshit too and it's infuriating. No I don't want to hear a 2 hour long screed about how *female lead* ruined *franchise*. Fuck off.
That's how the algorithm is designed. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon except replace Kevin Bacon with alt right indoctrination. Especially for children
Excellent, I'll add that to the list of things to worry about when I can't sleep.
ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
The important thing to remember about these "algorithms" is they're largely a crock of shit. Facebook and Google employ tens of thousands of remote workers worldwide to do moderation and curation labor on the cheap. Their algorithms can't yet perform nearly as many tasks as they let on and a significant portion of it likely never will be.
The important thing to remember about these "algorithms" is they're largely a crock of shit. Facebook and Google employ tens of thousands of remote workers worldwide to do moderation and curation labor on the cheap. Their algorithms can't yet perform nearly as many tasks as they let on and a significant portion of it likely never will be.
it's actually just al gore, locked in a booth full of levers. always pulling levers, but he can't get in a rhythm to do it. thus our current state of affairs
The important thing to remember about these "algorithms" is they're largely a crock of shit. Facebook and Google employ tens of thousands of remote workers worldwide to do moderation and curation labor on the cheap. Their algorithms can't yet perform nearly as many tasks as they let on and a significant portion of it likely never will be.
OTOH, they'd argue that the algorithms are the only reason that the job of screening some of the stuff that falls through can even be done by that many people. The scales involved here are insane.
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I have a suspicion that certain advertisers on Facebook have some kind of special deal they can pay for, where when you click the ellipses button the ad with the intent to block it, or hide the ad, you only get a spinning wheel icon and the menu won't load. Therefore, in order to block the advertiser, first you have to click through to their page (giving them A Click that they can count as a page view) before you can click the block button.
Anyway, I'm sick and fucking tired of every other ad being some kickstarter reposting service. I'm blocking a new one every day
Seeing Ben Shapiro in that list reminds me that Youtube seems hugely insistent on recommending me alt-right shitfuckery.
V1m: OK I want dinosaurs, cooking, science, history, linux, PC hardware and music from when I still had a sub-36" waistline
Youtube: Sounds like you'd enjoy WHY ENTITLED MILLENNIAL WHORES DESERVE TO DIE LONELY from the Admiral-Incel channel!
I recently discovered how to ask YouTube to stop recommending anything from a given channel, and that seems to have helped a bit, but jfc, just because I accidentally clicked one video out of the 50 goddamb channels I blocked doesn't mean you should keep trying, YouTube.
They're pushing this bullshit on me real hard. Anyone else get this or have I just tainted my history too badly?
This is probably a little unkind of me toward the playerbase, but I believe you're heavily into EVE Online, so it may be saying, hey, you're interested in EVE, here's a bunch of things other EVE players like to look up.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
The important thing to remember about these "algorithms" is they're largely a crock of shit. Facebook and Google employ tens of thousands of remote workers worldwide to do moderation and curation labor on the cheap. Their algorithms can't yet perform nearly as many tasks as they let on and a significant portion of it likely never will be.
and IIRC from that Verge (?) article from a while ago, those remote workers (usually 3rd-party contracted) are treated pretty poorly and suffer pretty serious mental damage from having to constantly look at horrific content all day.
Allow me to be the first to say I don't want the government running our cell phones because the fifth amendment still exists and they will likely find some way to worm everything that happens over the cell network admissible and potentially prosecutable if they feel like digging into shit using AI to find suspicious terms or whatever. When the NSA did it everyone had a fit, I don't see how giving that control directly to the government is a good thing.
If there was a way to nationalize it, keep it cost-effective, and keep information private, like it should be, I'm for it, but I don't trust that to happen.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
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Everyone had a fit for like a week and then forgot about it and nothing has actually improved on that front?
The government already has access to whatever phone records of yours they want, also loads of social media info
EDIT: Basically I just also don't trust corporations any more than the government
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Tesla Cybertruck is now a $400 Toy 2:49
The smaller one is $20
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Together with Chrisi from KOMA Elektronik and my husband Daniel, I am in the process of building a device (the "SynLimb") that attaches to my arm prosthesis instead of the prosthetic hand. The SynLimb converts the electrode signals that my prosthesis picks up from my residual limb into control voltages (CV) for controlling my modular synthesizer. The SynLimb thus allows me to plug my prosthesis directly into my snythesizer so that I can control its parameters with the signals from my body that normally control the hand. For me, this feels like controlling the synth with my thoughts. I show the prototype(s), explain how we put it together and how it works, and do a little demo.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
but at the same time I am desperately afraid of getting anything implanted in my body
what if it's doing surface reading of nerve signals rather than an invasive probe? that's what I expect to take off more than implants
A few years back I tried some of that stuff and none of it is quite good enough - consumer-level external EEGs pick up too many false positives that make them too cumbersome, which in turn makes the entire process far less efficient than just using your hands and buttons instead.
both the Emotiv and the NIA are barely functional at the best of times as brain-computer interfaces, if you sit absolutely still, and are lucky enough to have no electrical interference, and you have the headset tight on your head, and you're lucky enough to have a) no hair and b) a big head, you can:
slowly control a cursor on the screen, with very little accuracy
you have to focus on it constantly and it will sometimes just not move at all for no reason
if you sneeze, talk, eat, breathe too heavily or really move/tense any muscle in your head the system will go haywire and your mouse will fly off the screen
like there's probably way better tech when you're actually paying tens of thousands of dollars for research-level equipment, but below that threshold it's been pretty disappointing, and for the kind of accessiblity work I want to do the hardware is barely supported on any OS
Yeah, I'm convinced Facebook intentionally makes that dialogue sloooow. After I click to block the ad I just get a spinner for five seconds before I get the next modal confirming the block.
https://www.designboom.com/technology/japanese-scientists-develop-hyper-realistic-robot-that-can-feel-pain-02-24-2020/
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Michael Reeves is the literal definition of mad scientist, creating things like Taser Tag, a device that makes short people taller in photos (by electrocuting the ever-loving shit out of the tall people), a floor that zaps people if they don't walk quietly, and a device that shocks you if it heard a swear.
He has a slight thing for electricity.
why not?
Seeing Ben Shapiro in that list reminds me that Youtube seems hugely insistent on recommending me alt-right shitfuckery.
V1m: OK I want dinosaurs, cooking, science, history, linux, PC hardware and music from when I still had a sub-36" waistline
Youtube: Sounds like you'd enjoy WHY ENTITLED MILLENNIAL WHORES DESERVE TO DIE LONELY from the Admiral-Incel channel!
I recently discovered how to ask YouTube to stop recommending anything from a given channel, and that seems to have helped a bit, but jfc, just because I accidentally clicked one video out of the 50 goddamb channels I blocked doesn't mean you should keep trying, YouTube.
They're pushing this bullshit on me real hard. Anyone else get this or have I just tainted my history too badly?
Excellent, I'll add that to the list of things to worry about when I can't sleep.
it's actually just al gore, locked in a booth full of levers. always pulling levers, but he can't get in a rhythm to do it. thus our current state of affairs
OTOH, they'd argue that the algorithms are the only reason that the job of screening some of the stuff that falls through can even be done by that many people. The scales involved here are insane.
This is probably a little unkind of me toward the playerbase, but I believe you're heavily into EVE Online, so it may be saying, hey, you're interested in EVE, here's a bunch of things other EVE players like to look up.
and IIRC from that Verge (?) article from a while ago, those remote workers (usually 3rd-party contracted) are treated pretty poorly and suffer pretty serious mental damage from having to constantly look at horrific content all day.
This is what I know about algorithms
this seems like it might be a good idea, while the US is on the topic of "actually nationalizing certain things makes a lot of sense"
If there was a way to nationalize it, keep it cost-effective, and keep information private, like it should be, I'm for it, but I don't trust that to happen.
The government already has access to whatever phone records of yours they want, also loads of social media info
EDIT: Basically I just also don't trust corporations any more than the government
Yep. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A