I wonder if the next generation of experts will be held back by use of AI tools. Having learned things “the hard way” without AI tools may allow better judgement of these semi-reliable outputs. A younger generation growing up in this era would not yet have that experience and may be more accepting of AI generated results.
I had the exact same reaction: biology or computers?
The only hint I can see anywhere on the page is "Statistics > Machine Learning" above the abstract title.
I really want it to be about actual biological trees being studied on the scale of forests growing with smooth edges over long periods of time, but I suspect that's not what it is about.
Further testing indicated that the taste was neither enhanced nor diminished, but remained ‘‘very much like a pickle.’’ Our conclusion is that the culinary potential of electrical stimulation is limited.
> “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care of my family by working no more than three or four days a week.”
Would today's youth, even if equally gifted and ambitious, have the same opportunity? I think now there is such a great imbalance in cost of living and pay rates, it may no longer be possible to follow a similar path and get similar results.
While I understand the purpose of HN is to have meaningful and in-depth discussion, and simply stating an opinion doesn't really contribute much, this is something which is so obviously bad and gives such a visceral reaction that the negative opinion outshines anything else I could say about it.
Virtually reaching for things far away might be interesting.
I've alway been on the fence about VR, even for games, and never found any experiences to be compelling after a few minutes of fun.
However, one thing that struck me about Half-Life Alyx was the "magic" feeling of the Gravity Gloves in the game. In the game you point and reach for something, flick back, and it flies into your hand. It's very satisfying and intuitive, and possibly my favorite aspect of the design of that game.
I'm not sure if this would translate well out of a game design and into "real world" mixed reality, but it's an interesting thought.
I see them used in pro/prosumer audio equipment, synthesizers, and effects, which is relatively low volume and medium-to-high budget. FPGAs (and CPLDs, µC+AFE, etc) are great for these applications because they have great capabilities you might otherwise need a pile of discrete components or a custom chip for, but it doesn’t make sense to design fully custom silicon if you’re only ever going to sell about 50-500 of something.
So sure, prototyping and military, but there are other uses as well. But none of them are super high-volume because once you’re selling millions of something you should be designing your own chips.
Yes, I definitely considered that as well. Basically, I knew that 23andme data would eventually exist outside 23andme, whether that be via hack, acquisition, or eminent domain.
I accepted that and did it anyway, taking steps to at least not be directly associated with my sequence, even if my association can be inferred or derived later. My main concern is that their testing would identify something which in the future would be a "pre-existing condition" and get me denied medical care, but there is certainly a long list of other possible consequences.
At this point I don't trust any company or agency that collects and uses data, or the promises made in any privacy policy, but I also don't lose any sleep over it.
When I signed up for 23andme many years ago, it was via a friend in another country, who re-mailed it for me under a fake name and paid in cash. For some time I would log in through a locale-specific 23andme sub-domain until they eventually merged it all together.
It wasn't long before they figured out who I was and placed me within my family tree. My fake name now lives among near and distant relatives I was not aware had signed up themselves or their parents/grandparents. They know who I am, who my siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles are, etc. This was always going to happen as soon as I sent them my sample.
I never believed my anonymity trick would truly work, I just wanted to make it sufficiently difficult for when 23andme inevitably sold out, got gobbled up, or turned evil. I learned what I wanted from the service, and have only logged in once a year or so since to see if they updated any findings or disease studies.
While I truly appreciate the concept of bringing privacy and anonymity to this field, it's worth considering we are all quite easy to identify using these samples.
It had Atari and Commodore music (as audio) as well as Atari and Commodore software (as data).
Despite the claim on their old page to be the “first use of vinyl for software distribution” they did later acknowledge and reference some prior art in a Slashdot thread: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140154&threshold=-1&com...