camillaSinensis

camillaSinensis, 7 months ago

Good shout with the ice cubes! I think he likes them! Obligatory dog tax included, that’s him being curious about ice cubes

dog.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

Not Ikea specific, but proper wood furniture only really makes sense if you’re staying somewhere long term, have your own house, etc. If you have to move every couple of years for work, because rent is getting too expensive, etc etc, solid wood furniture is really inconvenient and expensive to transport.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

I’ve used Linux on my private laptop for the past few years, never had any major issues. Work desktop is running Ubuntu, no major problems except for the odd bit of poorly maintained software (niche science things, so that’s not really a Linux issue). Laptop breaks, I get a Windows 11 laptop from work…and I’ve had so many problems. Updates keep breaking everything, and I’ve had to do a factory reset more than once since the recovery after those updates also always failed. Wish I had my good old Linux laptop back :(

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

Surely that depends on where in Asia you’re looking at as well? On average, the number of languages people speak is quite different between, say, India and Japan. Or Switzerland vs Romania in Europe.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

I actually used to have one, but even though I was very careful with it, the screen kept breaking from normal everyday use. Eventually, my phone insurance decided they’d no longer cover this type of phone due to it being too fragile, so I went back to using a regular phone.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

I love tea

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

Awww!

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

See username :) So much variety even though it’s all the same tea plant

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago

I was on the verge of abandoning reddit before when I could only use RIF to browse logged out, but now that it’s gone for good…goodbye, reddit. I wonder if it’ll affect things like reddit traffic at all. Time will tell, I suppose.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Brain-computer/machine interfaces are really interesting when treating conditions like paralysis or Parkinson’s disease, and to a certain extent severe psychiatric conditions if you count deep brain stimulation for e.g. severe OCD. I don’t think we’ll be anywhere near sending detailed multisensory content like ads into people’s brains for a long time though. That’s so far outside the scope of what brain stimulation can do right now, it’s really just scifi.

camillaSinensis, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

It does, but it’s important to note that the theoretical basis for much of the rapid progress we’re seeing now (e.g. machine learning) has actually existed for quite a long time. Training very large models wasn’t feasible at the time they were theorised, but the basis for them did exist.

When it comes to brains, we don’t even have a good understanding of how multisensory integration works yet, let alone how we could, even in theory, implant multisensory impressions like ads. It’s much easier with things like movement disorders or paralysis because our understanding of those phenomena is much more advanced. Plus - we’re only really dealing with one modality there - movement.

Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric conditions does exist, but it’s poorly understood, to the point where there isn’t even really a consensus on where you should place the stimulating electrodes for the best effects. At least that’s what a colleague who worked on DBS described a while ago, and I doubt it would’ve changed dramatically in a year.