A Trump ally using a bunch of funding from the Middle East to buy out an American company well-known for producing children’s cartoons? Where’d their Islamophobia go?
If we had a real propaganda arm and a complete lack of morals, we could exploit this.
OP’s article (which seems like a press release) says several times that they’re trying to make the device portable. I don’t know what is so hard to understand about that.
Regardless of what your article said, I explained to you the quantum aspects. They are being technically accurate in how they describe the device and what they are attempting to do.
I think you and I arguing is just you being intransigent and mistaken on the original article’s claims. For better or for worse, I am also a very stubborn person, so here we are.
Yea I kinda still do.
Communicating to the public about science advances is about using marketing techniques, not education techniques. It’s business stuff, not science stuff. We have journal articles for the real science. It’s unfortunate, but it’s just the reality with anti-intellectual attitudes running so rampant, where real science makes most people tune out.
Btw, the quantum refers to how the tiny magnetic field is actually detected. The laser shines into some helium, and the helium is set to all have one specific quantum spin. This allows the strength of the field to be consistently measured based on how much the laser gets deflected. Without the ability to manipulate quantum spin, this technology would be unavailable. (I did some more reading on it yesterday. lol) So it is actually pretty quantum stuff apparently.
Well of course it’s an incremental improvement. Nobody but you is claiming anyone invented anything new.
The wearable headset as it sits is still not portable, making it portable would be an excellent, and incremental, yes, advancement.
From a different article:
Although the wearable MEG system is housed inside a magnetically shielded room, it is still essential to cancel out the remnant Earth’s field. To do this, the team constructed a set of bi-planar electromagnetic coils that generate fields equal and opposite to the remnant Earth’s field. The coils – designed on two 1.6 m2 planes, placed either side of the subject – achieved a 15-fold reduction in the remnant field.
Making this portable if possible would be very useful.
No, OPM-MEG is still done with a large machine, where do you think all the wires coming out of the silly hat go? I don’t think you read much at all.
This new generation of MEG lifts limitations that have historically confined scanners to universities, paving the way for mobile systems that can be taken directly to those who will benefit most
Mobile means smaller, so you can move it around. Did you even read the article? They don’t imply they invented something new anywhere, you just made that up.
Nor did they just add “quantum”. The word is featured in the links I provided above about MEG, from the NIH and Yale. Did you even look at those?
This particular research project is working on making the hat smaller, so it’s more portable. That’s what this small team is working on specifically.
Regarding the wording they used, well yeah, you may have some interest in science, but that doesn’t mean the broader public does. If they make people like us, hanging out in a tech community, raise an eyebrow but also generate some buzz among the broader public, that’s probably a smart move on their part. The word “quantum” can do that, the way bigger words like “miniaturization” can’t.
Yeah, that’s fair. I mean, essentially the whole world is “quantum”, given quantum phenomena govern the subatomic particles we’re all made from.
I’ll give these guys a pass, though, they just want good PR for their new research project, so they employed some mild clickbait. Which is fair in today’s world. They’re not technically wrong, lasers are a utilization of quantum physics.
I was a little suspicious at first too, but no, appears legit.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10465236/
https://research.yale.edu/cores/optically-pumped-magnetoencephalography
Diane wrote letters to Idaho’s governor and to Trump demanding Binod’s return. She was “disappointed” by the governor’s response – a form reply – and noted that the White House never replied
This reminds me of those videos you’d see in the early parts of the Russo-Ukrainian War, where some Russians would make some sort of appeal to Putin about some problem, as if he actually cared about some random soldiers on the frontline.
I find it useful to remember that entertainment products are designed to be both understandable and fun, where real life was not designed to be understandable and fun.
With that in mind, no, I would not.
200 yards would be a pretty normal deer hunting shot, remember that people use scopes. Something actually impressive would be more like a mile. (1760 yards)
When the Generative Agents system was evaluated for how “believably human” the agents acted, researchers found the AI versions scored higher than actual human actors.
That’s a neat finding. I feel like there’s a lot to unpack there around how our expectations are formed.
An NBC News Stay Tuned Poll from April found that nearly a third of U.S. adults under 30 are feeling lonelier and more anxious about the future than their elders.
This is interesting. Loneliness and anxiety are two different things, but I strongly suspect that anxiety can cause additional loneliness, due to how it discourages risk-taking behavior. Let’s make no mistake, going out and connecting with people can come across as a risky behavior.
Did a FNV run for the first time in maybe 10ish years? I had never played modded, was feeling like some fpv shooter arpg hybrid with a dose of nonsense, so figured I’d give it a replay.
Holds up remarkably well. Played it with the Viva New Vegas modpack as a base to simplify things a little bit for myself, added on a few extras for cool features, and it did significantly improve the experience. I remember crashes used to be very frequent, but even with a bunch of mods, this was actually more stable than I remember. Multiple companions mod made the difficulty completely trivial, so felt more like a power romp than an immersive game, but still fun as it sped the playthrough up enormously, with this posse I’m running around with just gunning down absolutely everything in the wasteland.
On the whole, good stuff, modded replay is recommended.
Thinking about hammering in a screw puts a very serious frown on my face…
Upvote for creativity though.
You’d also need to make it immune to the various antibiotics that work on it. Otherwise it’s not particularly difficult to treat with modern medicine.
Not exactly a showerthought, maybe better off in a TIL, mildly interesting or history sub. This community is not for real information, though, showerthought communities are for more light-hearted and silly stuff.
Ahhh, the Erdogan economic strategy. It’s a bold move, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them.
No, I’m afraid not. They’ve likely been preemptively inoculated against lessons by anti-intellectual sentiment, lessons will not cut it. They won’t trust anything that might be attributable to a “deep state”.
You need a more natural, more grounded style of communication if you want to have a chance.