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ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.

Because that's what people are worried about: THE LOST DATA.

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Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can you imagine the marketing value?

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- credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The blog is obviously targeted towards advertisers. The future looks amazing and full of possibilities. Just think about how your 8 hours of sleep alone could be turned into product placement opportunities for nestle.
  
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  - 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Futurama tried to warn us.
    
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  - Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    ;_;
    
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mhague@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
When a computer reads some signal, the 0s and 1s in it’s memory is the data. The data must be processed so that the computer can understand it.

This computer is using threads to read neuron activity. It must necessarily receive data because if it didn’t it wouldn’t be reading neuron activity. They’re the same thing.

This data is processed so that the computer can make sense of the brain. Once it understands some activity it generates signals that can control external devices.

Here’s another example. Imagine a device that monitors the heart and does something to fix a problem. The device would get data on the heart and process the data so that it can perform it’s function.

Wouldn’t monitoring health concerns and mitigating data loss be extremely important in these scenarios?

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- Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The point is that this is the opening paragraph about something going wrong in human brain surgery, and the first thing they tell us is “don’t worry, the data’s fine”, rather than anything about the human.
  
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  - ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    and the first thing they tell us is “don’t worry, the data’s fine”, rather than anything about the human.
    
    I do agree it would have been more considerate to mention that the person is ok, but I feel like you’re confusing data storage (ie something they’re collecting) with data processing (ie how the device operates). The data in question is the latter. In other words, they are explaining that the problems are being accounted for so that the device can still function in the human it’s attached to.
    
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    Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No, I understood that, I did read the article. I’m lambasting the fact that in an article about “brain chip gone wrong”, burying the “but human seems to be unharmed” at the end of an article is indicative of a set of priorities wildly different from my own.
    
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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
confused Data from Star Trek answering an antique phone sitting in a strange cabinet in his belly

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blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
TY! My first thought was he was this poor sweet guy who just wanted to play Civ and fell for this grifter

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