PostsCommentsleguna in #ehrlich • 5 months ago"If reality doesn't match my predictions, that's reality's problem."Biologist Paul Ehrlich aptly demonstrating why blindly believing what scientists say, or mindlessly "following the science" is a bad idea. His peer-reviewed book wronglleguna in #movies • 8 months agoFilm media is still a thing. I've given my share of reasons why I still shoot film, and why my only digital camera is on my phone, and why I don't plan on changing that. It's hard for me toleguna in #technology • 10 months agoWhy did Google Glasses fail?895 million was how much Google spent developing Google Glass. $1,500 was the price per unit. It was reported over 100,000 units were sold or given away. Googleleguna in #applied • 11 months agoHey Scientific Community, Start Showing a Little Humility, Why Don't Ya!?These are a few examples I use to differentiate between applied history and applied science: In science, when a theory is disproved or becomes outdated, itleguna in #technology • last yearHow easy it is for companies to look like they are tech companies, when they have very little tech. Numilk Saw this company on Shark Tank, where it got 2 million dollars invested and checking Google, it looks like it’s raised 1.5-4 million since the sholeguna in #technology • 2 years agoDeep learning advances enable programming with (almost) no coding ability?Recent developments in Multimodal Abstraction (e.g. Transformers, Foundation Models) are a tremendous step forward from deep learning. These new models are able to ingest a…leguna in #technology • 2 years agoLet's address some critiques of Uber. Saw a video from the Gravel Institute bashing Uber and thought worth addressing some points made in it. The first negative point they mentioned on Uber was lack of…leguna in #war • 2 years agoWhat would happen if the money that went to the Iraq War went to science instead?First up, how much did Iraq actually cost? Found one group saying the long term price tag is 6.4 trillion. Another group said the long term cost will be 2.4 trileguna in #social • 2 years agoResearch to sway policy makers?If you imagined academic journals in the social sciences are supposed to be impartial forums offering a diverse dialogue in unbiased research, think again. Theirleguna in #history • 2 years agoMaxwell is in my eyes a contender for GOAT in Mathematics. Yesterday, poking around, I asked myself how you could generalize the ellipse for more than two focal points, and I found out that a Scottish boyleguna in #technology • 2 years agoDeep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff?While deep fakes have been a hot topic on and off for the last couple of yearleguna in #science • 2 years agoMultidimensional universe inside the human brain!?Here's a great article and video on the latest pushing back of the noetic horizon. I've read thousands of pages on neurology and the quantumleguna in #technology • 2 years agoReal time deep-fake to save us in a world of perpetual lockdown!New AI-based video compression techniques enable a 1000x reduction in data usage for approximately the same quality. These new forms of compression are essentially Deep Faking…
