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Mar 21, 2024

3D-printed holographics can encode data using common plastic — keys and addresses up to 576 bits, with redundancy

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A standard 3D printer and terahertz beams permit for storing data on a regular, 3D-printed piece of plastic— like cryptographic keys.

Mar 21, 2024

Brain Teaser: Use logical reasoning to decipher which of these trucks is in motion

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The brain teaser that asks people to figure out which of the three trucks is in motion was shared on Instagram’s Threads with the caption, “Can you solve it?”

Mar 21, 2024

Researchers achieve >99% photoluminescence quantum yield in metal nanoclusters

Posted by in category: quantum physics

A research team has achieved near-unity room-temperature photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) (>99%) in the near-infrared (NIR) emission of metal nanoclusters in solution. Their work is published in Science.

Mar 21, 2024

Quantum talk with magnetic disks

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Quantum computers promise to tackle some of the most challenging problems facing humanity today. While much attention has been directed towards the computation of quantum information, the transduction of information within quantum networks is equally crucial in materializing the potential of this new technology.

Mar 21, 2024

Sam Altman on when AGI will be created | Lex Fridman Podcast

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Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBcPlease support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- Cloaked: https://cloa

Mar 21, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Rare Complexity

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Mar 21, 2024

NASA is struggling to compete with Bezos, Musk and their 6-figure salaries for starting aerospace engineers at Blue Origin and SpaceX

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SpaceX is currently listing starting aerospace engineer positions at $95,000 to $115,000 a year. NASA offers along a range that starts at $54,557.

Mar 21, 2024

Training artificial neural networks to process images from a child’s perspective

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Psychology studies have demonstrated that by the age of 4–5, young children have developed intricate visual models of the world around them. These internal visual models allow them to outperform advanced computer vision techniques on various object recognition tasks.

Mar 21, 2024

Machine learning tools can predict emotion in voices in just over a second

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Words are important to express ourselves. What we don’t say, however, may be even more instrumental in conveying emotions. Humans can often tell how people around them feel through non-verbal cues embedded in our voice.

Now, researchers in Germany have sought to find out if technical tools, too, can accurately predict emotional undertones in fragments of voice recordings. To do so, they compared three ML models’ accuracy to recognize diverse emotions in audio excepts. Their results were published in Frontiers in Psychology.

“Here we show that can be used to recognize emotions from audio clips as short as 1.5 seconds,” said the article’s first author Hannes Diemerling, a researcher at the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. “Our models achieved an accuracy similar to humans when categorizing meaningless sentences with emotional coloring spoken by actors.”

Mar 21, 2024

Researchers design a spring-assisted actuator that could enhance next-gen robots

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

Whether it’s a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an independent robot navigating the outside world, we are asking machines to perform increasingly complex, dynamic tasks. But the standard electric motor was designed for steady, ongoing activities like running a compressor or spinning a conveyor belt—even updated designs waste a lot of energy when making more complicated movements.

Researchers at Stanford University have invented a way to augment to make them much more efficient at performing dynamic movements through a new type of actuator, a device that uses energy to make things move. Their actuator, published in Science Robotics, uses springs and clutches to accomplish a variety of tasks with a fraction of the energy usage of a typical electric motor.

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