DrunkenPirate
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- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 weeks ago:
This is exactely how most inventions are made: put together two things from different realms that might have a good fit.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
I work with of those shiny tech companies from China. Believe me the shiny part is on the surface only. The more you look under the hood, the more it’s getting poor. With Chinese tech the problems start when you have it. European companies before you have it. US companies when you have no scale.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
That’s a different thing indeed. In your case the AI 🤖 is goes wild, will strip dance and tell poor jokes (while flirting with the ventilation machine)
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
I doubt it. It simply would be enough, if the AI could understand and say when it reaches its limits and hand over to a human. But that is even hard for humans as Dunning & Kruger discovered.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
And then you‘re lying on the table. Unfortunately, your case is a little different than the standard surgery. Good luck.
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 4 weeks ago:
Actually, this is where mastership comes from.
If you spend even more time, you‘ll become a master in this matter. Because you recognise the little differences to the former experiences. And you learn to handle and to steer it.
It‘s not all bad in not having a first experince only.
- Comment on The Decline of Usability: Revisited | datagubbe.se 5 weeks ago:
It’s all Marketing. In order to attract users with fancy looking interfaces, many usability rules get overriden.
This started already years ago with the new, sleak looking Windows 10. Internally the usability problems were known. But marketing pushed for the release date. This UX drama was costly. over 5 billion in the air for the launch alone. Ending in a blame.
- Comment on Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in a fully autonomous 3-on-3 football game powered entirely by artificial intelligence in Beijing on Saturday night. 5 weeks ago:
That sort of competitions exists already for ages. RoboCup is the keyword to search Youtube. Besides other shapes, the Humaoid league is this area.
Proud to say, that Germany is quite advanced in this competition. I once talked with a Prof of the winning team about the challenges. It‘s mainly speed of computing and recognition, coordination with team with close to no network connectivity (think about how crowded networks are at every standard exhibition)
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
Can you source your statement that fast charging reduces lifetime?
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
I‘m not sure if fast charging degrades batteries. Just read somewhere an article stating that fast charging initially - first charge - boosts the overall capacity of the batterie due to chemical reactions that do not occur that long at anodes.
The issue with fast charging was the thermal management - it’s getting to hot. This is managed by good battery management and a different packaging of cells nowadays. I think fast charging isn’t an issue anymore. Can’t provide you a link or such, it’s what I gathered through serveral podcasts.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
In recent test of a German suto club they found out that it‘s cheaper/ more effective to charger faster. You loose a lot of energy if you load slow over hours.
This energy is taken by the electricity of the car. So, while charging the car is on and takes some Watts/h. There are just a few brands that habe decoupled the charger circuit from the overall electric circuit of the car.
Can’t find the article now, but I think charging a PHEV through a standard power plug had about 20% energy lost. It was clearly visible that a charger is a good choice.
- Comment on Hyundai begins using Boston Dynamics humanoid robots at US factory 2 months ago:
Good point.
However, there‘s a crucial difference to cars. Robots are hardware AND software. And I don’t know anybody who uses Windows 95, CorelDraw, and Netscape today. Software and connected hardware outdate mich faster than simple hardware.
- Comment on Hyundai begins using Boston Dynamics humanoid robots at US factory 2 months ago:
The battery! It lasts for just 1-3 hours. That’s why there aren‘t robots on the battlefield nowadays. Once the energy issue is solved this will change
- Comment on Hyundai begins using Boston Dynamics humanoid robots at US factory 2 months ago:
Sure. But at what costs? One can do many things by technology. Are people willing to pay for it? And how much?
- Comment on Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface 2 months ago:
Great writer
- Comment on Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface 2 months ago:
You are not inside your brain. That’s an outdated concept. You are your entire body.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Take me now even if I stink. German song youtu.be/gyrMA-pu6y8
- Comment on My cat will pee in a box but she will not pee in a box in a box. 2 months ago:
How clever your cat is. Look at you, you pee in a box and you live in a box.
- Comment on AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs 3 months ago:
I‘m very sorry. Just a frustrated guy
- Comment on AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs 3 months ago:
What do I do? I‘m a cooker. Yeah I cook meals. Early in the morning I press this button and meals get ready and dishes cleaned and served. That’s cooking today.
I love it old school. Cooking on a stove, cleaning dishes by hand and peeling vegetables manually. Automation is evil, you know, it takes jobs. That’s why I cook on a stove
- Comment on AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs 3 months ago:
Well done. It’s needed so urgent. Craftman still work like in the 60-90ies. They are sooo old school. And call it „tradition“.
If they use a laser for measuring things, that‘s advanced. If they use a smartphone and digital apps for notes and customer contact (instead of pen and manual notebook) that’s advanced. Wtf.
I had quite many craftman in my house last years and it’s unbelievable how they work nowadays. Two of them even didn‘t send me a final invoice. Well, that’s stupid backoffice work. Many couldn‘t send me an offering after having a (time consuming) site visit at my house. One showed up twice because he lost his paper with the measurements. And didn‘t send an offering.
Nono, I lost all my respect about any modern capabilities of craftman. It’s insanely old schooled.
Coming back to the 3d printer: How is construction building up a house nowadays? One after the other is doing their work. Nobody thinks ahead. How do they lay out pipes, lighting or power lines? By cutting into the wall. Why? Because of tradition. Any documentation? With pen and notebook? No way. How laying tiles in a bathroom? Showing up with a stack of tiles and cut it one by one. Laser measure it first and cut ahead at their shop to save time? Well, the leaning walls and tradition, they will answer.
I do not wonder that building up houses became insanely costly.
Sorry for my rant. But my experience were just eyeblowing and frustrating. (And as my mother was a craftman I know that matter a bit)
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 3 months ago:
And if you ignore construction sites with high cranes and not documented buildings. Or overland high voltag power cables, wind mills, hobby drones, and local variations of birds.
It‘s just taking the complex challenges of autonomous drivinf into the third dimension. Making it even more complex.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 3 months ago:
It uses high frequency radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside drones, causing them to crash or malfunction.
At a range of 1km…
That‘s useful not just for drones. I wonder if this works against helicopters, too.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 3 months ago:
You swap seeing with recognizing. You recognize things. And you see light.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 3 months ago:
That’s it. And, indeed, you see light. That’s what your eyes do.
Little smart ass knowhow: With your hands, you can feel light. (You feel infrared light as heat. Not visible light though. Just heat up your cooker stove and it emits a bit visible red and a lot infrared light. Don’t touch just keep your hand close to the stove. Now you feel the IR-„light“)
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 3 months ago:
There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In just see no alternative to Microsofts Office tools. I think 99% of all companies in Western world rely on Microsoft office.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 4 months ago:
Just paint a road on the back of every truck trailer.
- Comment on When people look back on the dawn of the computer age a few centuries from now computers, the internet and AI will all be a part of the same innovation 5 months ago:
This is called Kondratiev‘s waves and indeed we‘re at the end of the IT cycle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kondratiev
The new infrastructure cycle for next 40 years is something like renewable energy/ reusable materials, I assume