It’s potentially very useful for those who sleepwalk and maybe tells researchers they need to evaluate these conditions more seriously to understand true vectors of disease.

1. This was a very small sample size.
2. I’m curious what the data also says about the percentage of people with the studied brain maladies also physically acting out their dreams prior to showing other symptoms.

Let’s say 10% of the population will eventually get one of these conditions, but only 1% of the population physically acts out dreams, then that explains only 10% of the attributes that correlate to these conditions.

In Syria. Active war zone. Get them into the US and operate them here

I guess the good news is that all of these off the shelf consumer drones are prohibited by their software from flying in a lot of these places.

I have a DJI drone and it has a map of where I’m allowed to fly and it changes constantly (I live near several airports and military bases) and I basically can’t get the drone to turn on if I’m near downtown.

So someone would basically need to build a custom drone. I’m not sure if the open source software also links to FAA sites as well. But basically you’d need decent technical know-how to strap a bomb to a drone and bring it into controlled airspace. And anyone with that know how probably has a job and a house and isn’t going to risk that. That skill set would only be used in actual wartime where those restrictions are removed.

I’m not sure how easy it would be for a foreign military to manufacture their own handheld drones that can bypass those limitations, import them in any quantity to the US, and then have someone fly it in the US, not have the signals be picked up by all of the SIG-INT sites in major cities and then not be picked up almost immediately by authorities after the attack and pinpointed as an agent of a specific country and then have the ever loving shit bombed out of them by NATO.

I like the bright green instead of dark blues and black. Public safety vehicles should be high visibility. Same with the actual uniforms. I think it should be like a high vis blue for cops since they’re already historically blue but anything is better than nothing and green isn’t already taken by another service so that’s fine.

Somewhere in between probably

It probably is up there.

Think of the number of problems that it has to solve.

Medical imaging is pretty straightforward. You’re beaming energy into something and then capturing the image. Humans are doing all of the recognition.

Microprocessors are very difficult but each thing is an evolution of the last.

AR glasses is probably the most difficult integration problem ever solved so far. It is taking a ton of technologies that have only every been used at much larger scales (cars, planes, stationary cameras), shrinking them down, then they’re trying to integrate that with a pair of glasses that are both comfortable and stylish and have a long enough battery to use, and are affordable to buy.

The object recognition is getting pretty decent, but right now phones struggle with this let alone something glasses sized. AND getting the device to do it on device vs the cloud for both privacy and latency. Then once you have object recognition, you have to then filter out which recognized objects are important to display. How does the device figure this out? Watching your eyes? Have you seen a video of human eyes moving? They’re not exactly stable, they jump around constantly and your brain stitches all the image’s together into something cohesive. What about when you want to use gestures to control things, like scrolling through menus on a virtual screen? How does it differentiate between that and when you’re touching an actual screen? So now you need cameras on the inside too, but also super advanced AI onboard to figure out gestures from random hand waving. You also need to build an entire suite of apps that work with this. Smartphones didn’t exactly start out with huge app stores and we didn’t have high expectations for them anyway. Now, our expectations are sky high. We want to replace our phones and laptops with these. So we need that experience but better.

Then on top of that, you need a transparent screen that doesn’t fuck with your vision both while you’re wearing the glasses and permanently that can show high resolution, high frame rate, variably transparent images, video, and text, that can both be stationary in space or motion smoothed depending on the users motion. For example, when you’re sitting and you have virtual computer monitors, you want those monitors to be fixed over a desk, always, even when you turn your head. But when you walk away, you want those monitors to stay there and not move. You want them to be there when you come back though. But you also want them to be able to pop up in the “right” place while you’re on the train so you can work on your commute. You’re facing sideways and the train is moving forward. The glasses need to figure out that motion and allow you to work or watch a movie without a ton of jittering, but it needs enough jittering to match the bounces of the train because otherwise you’ll get motion sickness. It also needs a different interface for while you’re walking and want to do things. It needs stationary menus always in the same place in your field of view (which, define that) but also things that move with the environment, some transparent and others completely opaque.

And it needs to do all of this with absolutely no lag. And not look dorky, and the battery needs to last all day, and it needs to work with different interfaces like keyboards, mice, fingers, eye tracking, figure out when it needs to ignore eye tracking and use the mouse, when it needs to combine the two. And it can’t just be something that only Jeff Bezos can afford.

Oh true. I didn’t even consider that it was the end of the season

Why? If there were a plane crash, they’d hold a draft and resume games. Why is this different?

I’m trying not to be condescending here but the math here is very simple.

If 80% of women’s profiles are missing descriptions and you’re supposed to say no to 49/50 profiles, then you still have 9 remaining profiles with details to say No to before you still get to the one single Yes.

That means of the 20% of “good” profiles, the ones that aren’t bots or aren’t trying to sling an OnlyFans, the ones with genuine photos and good descriptions in their profiles, you’re still supposed to say No to 1 in 10.

Say No to 95% of all profiles. The same way you would in real life if you went to a random bar. You’re not approaching 50% of the women in that bar even if 100% are guaranteed single. Not even 25%. You might say something to 1 or 2.

I think we said the same thing. Guys currently say “yes” way too much. Guys need to swipe “no” a lot more than they do. Women already are swiping “no” the majority of the time. That’s what both should do to maximize high quality matches.

If you’re female, I have no advice. In my experience, women use dating apps the way the apps intend and swipe honestly which is what the algorithms expect.

Speaking as a dude, dudes use dating apps wrong and ruin it for everyone. Dating apps are fine if you use them right. I went 6 years without a single date from a dating app to 3 a week almost overnight just by changing my strategy for swiping. Not literally overnight but in like 2 weeks I barely got matches to the point that when I showed one of my single female friends she was shocked that I didn’t get any matches.

I happened across this article explaining the algorithms and decided to try and see if I can play to the algorithm. What did I have to lose. I can’t get fewer matches. And I wasn’t meeting girls at bars. I’m chubby, fairly introverted, and don’t have great fashion. I am tall but I look like Arnold from “Master of None”. Except I’m not that funny.

You have to tell the algorithm exactly what you like by being super picky and swiping yes ONLY on the profiles that you’re, like, itching to talk to. That even introverted me wouldn’t be afraid to approach in a bar. You can’t swipe yes until you know exactly how you’re starting the conversation. If it takes longer than a minute to come up with anything then swipe No. Your ratio should be 50 Nos to 1 Yes.

Once you do that, the algorithm has a really precise idea of what you’re into and WILL show you profiles likely to match and have a conversation.

If you don’t do this. If you’re not super honest with yourself and the algorithm, you’re going to get shown a lot of bots because the algorithm can’t tell the difference between you and a bot.

I know a lot of people shit on billionaires going to space when they could be doing more to help on earth, but I don’t see this as a failure of the individual billionaires. It’s a failure of government to tax properly.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. If governments taxed properly, the middle class would be much larger and would have more use for the services provided by satellites and space industry and would self fund instead of requiring billionaires.

Space tourism will allow launch providers to increase their manufacturing capacity and thus bring the cost of launch down which will allow more countries to access space. More countries to put climate monitoring satellites in orbit to protect their populations. More companies can provide communications infrastructure in space and bypass censorship.

Accessing space is unquestionably a net benefit for all of humanity but there are better ways to maximize that benefit. Right now we’re minimizing it by finding it with billionaires.

At some point we’re going to have to decide that we’re done studying a “pristine” Mars and that we want to transform it. Bio-engineered bacteria will be the way. We probably need to take a kitchen sink approach and engineer something that eats iron oxides and spews CO2 or Oxygen. We’ll also need something that eats perchlorate too. And then we just fly drones all around the planet dumping it out. We probably want to drop lots of activates carbon all over the poles to make them warmer.

I’m sure there will be quicker and easier terraforming methods in the future but we’re not there yet and if we never get there, these could at least make Mars less inhospitable.

If the fines get so large that the company can no longer compete, then they go out of business…which is the point of the fines.

Or what? Fines should be increased every single time this shit happens with no limit. Jail time for people in the company who do it more than once.

Nice. The one on YouTube is only 720p https://youtu.be/7ZVEe_5Fo1Q

Seriously, Reddit needs to implement like a button that lets you indicate when a post isn’t relevant to the subreddit. Like a downvote or something…

As always, the real LPT is in the comments.

Israel’s response: geopolitics is complicated. We don’t like the situation either but it’s anarchy out here.

Didn’t they also still actually send a decoy package in a sting box on sea and rail, with armed guards though?

Mining isnt that dirty. I mean you’re digging big holes in the ground. But you fill it back up (more complicated than that). It’s refining that is dirty. All those toxic pits are from refining, not mining.