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Aug 28, 2020

“We’re going to use technology to remove our political enemies and call it removing hate speech!”

Posted by in category: futurism

The more you rely on unaccountable, opaque, and closed source epistemic vaccines, the more you will end up with a supercult. I’m personally guaranteeing it.

Final warning. This is military-grade techniques being applied to American citizens and if you don’t see a problem with it, you will when we start going after your academics, journalists, intellectuals, scientists, and peers with the same techniques. And you can fucking bet we will.

Aug 28, 2020

Neo Joins Coinbase-led Blockchain Framework

Posted by in category: bitcoin

Coinbase-led Rosetta, an open-source set of tools to help developers integrate other blockchains into their services, just got a new signup: Neo, a blockchain platform that is itself focused on interoperability.

Rosetta, which launched on June 17, is a standardization tool to make it easier for blockchains to speak to each other. Each blockchain is different, making it difficult and time-consuming for crypto project developers to integrate other blockchains.

“The process requires careful analysis of the unique aspects of each blockchain and extensive communication with its developers to understand the best strategies to deploy nodes, recognize deposits, and broadcast transactions,” wrote Neo in a blog post today. “Project developers spend countless hours answering similar support questions for each team integrating their blockchain, rather than spending time working on their blockchain.”

Aug 28, 2020

Russian Submarine Sets Off Alarm Bells After Surfacing Near Alaska Amid Rash Of Posturing

Posted by in category: military

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OnK3oKNsXYo

Russia is holding its largest naval drills in the Pacific in recent memory as the U.S. Navy’s big RIMPAC wargames are underway.

Aug 28, 2020

People Power Increase Processing Speed

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Big initiatives to understand the workings of the brain

Neuroscience has a data problem. In our efforts to understand the brain researchers are generating ever greater amounts of data. The problem is, how can they gain meaning from it?

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Aug 28, 2020

How robots could help save underwater ecosystems

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Why underwater robots are vacuuming up lionfish.

Aug 28, 2020

GM could offer Michelin’s airless tire soon

Posted by in category: futurism

No puncture, no pressure. GM could offer Michelin’s airless tire soon.

Aug 28, 2020

Rotary cell phone

Posted by in categories: futurism, mobile phones

A space engineer made a working rotary cell phone.

Aug 28, 2020

Tiny battery for micro robots

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

This tiny battery could change the game for micro robots.

Aug 28, 2020

Superluminal Motion-Assisted 4-Dimensional Light-in-Flight Imaging

Posted by in categories: information science, mathematics, physics, robotics/AI

Abstract: Advances in high speed imaging techniques have opened new possibilities for capturing ultrafast phenomena such as light propagation in air or through media. Capturing light-in-flight in 3-dimensional xyt-space has been reported based on various types of imaging systems, whereas reconstruction of light-in-flight information in the fourth dimension z has been a challenge. We demonstrate the first 4-dimensional light-in-flight imaging based on the observation of a superluminal motion captured by a new time-gated megapixel single-photon avalanche diode camera. A high resolution light-in-flight video is generated with no laser scanning, camera translation, interpolation, nor dark noise subtraction. A machine learning technique is applied to analyze the measured spatio-temporal data set. A theoretical formula is introduced to perform least-square regression, and extra-dimensional information is recovered without prior knowledge. The algorithm relies on the mathematical formulation equivalent to the superluminal motion in astrophysics, which is scaled by a factor of a quadrillionth. The reconstructed light-in-flight trajectory shows a good agreement with the actual geometry of the light path. Our approach could potentially provide novel functionalities to high speed imaging applications such as non-line-of-sight imaging and time-resolved optical tomography.

Aug 28, 2020

How to make AI trustworthy

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI, transportation

One of the biggest impediments to adoption of new technologies is trust in AI.

Now, a new tool developed by USC Viterbi Engineering researchers generates automatic indicators if data and predictions generated by AI algorithms are trustworthy. Their , “There Is Hope After All: Quantifying Opinion and Trustworthiness in Neural Networks” by Mingxi Cheng, Shahin Nazarian and Paul Bogdan of the USC Cyber Physical Systems Group, was featured in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Neural networks are a type of artificial intelligence that are modeled after the brain and generate predictions. But can the predictions these neural networks generate be trusted? One of the key barriers to adoption of self-driving cars is that the vehicles need to act as independent decision-makers on auto-pilot and quickly decipher and recognize objects on the road—whether an object is a speed bump, an inanimate object, a pet or a child—and make decisions on how to act if another vehicle is swerving towards it.