Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words....
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.
Had the song It’s Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?
“And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
Isn’t this how it always goes with any kind of censorship? It doesn’t even matter if there were good intentions behind it or not, the result is the same.
Oh dog, they meant Fathrenheits! I was thinking 10 degrees Celsius hotter, which sounded even more insane (that’s 18°F if my math is correct).
Message to dear Americans: If you insists on using your freedom units, can you at least mark them properly? We have no way of knowing where you are from.
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
Does LibreOffice finally have ribbon or does it still look like MS Office 2003? You can hate on Microsoft all your want (and I’d gladly join you in most cases) and I get the privacy concerns but the Office suite is, after all those decades, still unmatched (well maybe except Outlook).
Ribbon is one of the best inventions Microsoft ever came up with and I will die on this hill. I’m old enough to remember very well the suffering when I was trying to find something in the classic menus or among the billion equal sized icons scattered across multiple toolbars in old MS Office versions. When Office 2007 came out, everything was suddenly so much easier to find, often with less clicks. I don’t see any reason why I’d need the old style menu in addition to ribbon.
You can’t possibly have every feature on a keyboard shortcut, even just all those various formatting features in Word for example where you often have to choose something from a list of options. And even if you somehow did manage to have a shortcut for everything, you’d still only remember those you use frequently enough.
Not to mention, I’m pretty sure most of those shortcuts from 2003 still work today.
This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l’s with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.
The crazy part is that your brain is doing similar processing all the time too. Ever heard of the blindspot? Your brain has literally zero data there but uses “content-aware fill” to hide it from you. Or the fact, that your eyes are constantly scanning across objects and your brain is merging them into a panorama on the fly because only a small part of your field of vision has high enough fidelity. It will also create fake “frames” (look up stopped-clock illusion) for the time your eyes are moving where you should see a blur instead. There’s more stuff like this, a lot of it manifests itself in various optical illusions. So not even our own eyes capture the “truth”. And then of course the (in)accuracy of memory when trying to recall what we’ve seen, that’s an entirely different can of worms.
My understanding is that’s exactly the point. To make clocks on the Moon be synchronized with UTC and not drift over time. You can only do that by making the clocks physically tick at different rate. This is because of relativity - time itself on the Moon passes at slightly different rate than on Earth, so if your clock is precise enough, you need to compensate for it. Just like GPS satellites need to compensate for being in slightly lower gravity and going fast relative to stationary clocks on Earth’s surface. This isn’t any kind of illusion, this is how the universe really works. If you’ve seen the movie Interstellar, it’s basically the same effect they experienced on the planet orbiting a black hole, just a much less extreme case.
Right? Even here in Czechia, which is like in the TOP 3 most atheistic countries in the world, everyone knows it’s Easter. And no one has a problem with it (nor with Christmas), everyone accepts is as part of cultural heritage. Some people in this thread have such a weird take.
Over here, when you’re applying for a loan, you’re the one who has to bring the proof of your credit worthiness - typically your employment contract, bank statement etc. - they can’t have it automatically without your consent. Also you have to prove your identity with your ID (either the physical card which is mandatory to have, or I guess nowadays a secured electronic identification if you were to do it remotely somehow). So I was genuinely lost in this comment thread, not knowing what the exact process was in America.
After skimming through the article and at the abstract and introduction of the article in Nature, it seems that unlike those technique you mentioned, this is really a single-shot real time imaging.
You’ve gone home with a Tinder date, and things are escalating. You don’t really know or trust this guy, and you don’t want to contract an STI, so… what now?...
<span style="color:#323232;">(×) I don't discuss my colleagues' works or my own. A novelist writes from
</span><span style="color:#323232;">many viewpoints; opinions expressed even by a first-person character are not
</span><span style="color:#323232;">necessarily those of the author. Fiction is sold as entertainment, not as fact.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(×) Please do not write to me again.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Sincerely yours,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Robert A. Heinlein, by ____
</span>
The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....
As a non-native speaker, I was kinda confused at first by this comic because in my head the vowels definitely didn’t sound all the same. But I personally consider pronunciation of vowels in English to be one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, so no wonder.
Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ (www.nature.com)
Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words....
Lab mice might be doing their own experiments (www.popsci.com)
Mr Rodgers actually was who he was
Mr Rodgers actually was who he was
It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men.
Had the song It’s Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
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Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?
Dogs run about 10 degrees hotter than humans, so do you think they regard us as the giant cold ones?
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice.
I’m not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.
Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.
Nasa to create time standard for the Moon, where seconds tick faster than on Earth (www.independent.co.uk)
Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) needed due to differing gravitational forces...
Me, explaining Easter to my wife, who grew up amongst the heathens (dmv.social)
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream? (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists Invent World's Fastest Camera That Shoots 156.3 Trillion Frames Per Second (petapixel.com)
Calmara suggests it can detect STIs with photos of genitals -- a dangerous idea | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
You’ve gone home with a Tinder date, and things are escalating. You don’t really know or trust this guy, and you don’t want to contract an STI, so… what now?...
Robert Heinlein's form letter response to people who wrote to him (lemmy.world)
Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)
The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....
xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2907...
Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform (alternativeto.net)
10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.