--- Log opened Sat Oct 01 00:00:34 2022 00:04 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@idlerpg/player/Malvolio] has joined #hplusroadmap 02:09 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 04:44 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffffff@2601:5c4:c780:6aa0::1909] has joined #hplusroadmap 05:35 -!- spaceangel [~spaceange@ip-78-102-216-202.bb.vodafone.cz] has joined #hplusroadmap 05:41 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has joined #hplusroadmap 07:59 -!- alkoholiks [~alkoholik@188.240.56.160] has joined #hplusroadmap 08:00 -!- alkoholiks is now known as Parabolics 09:11 -!- darsie is now known as darkie 10:37 -!- Parabolics [~alkoholik@188.240.56.160] has quit [Quit: Client closed] 11:50 < docl> does fmri mean this interface only works inside a giant magnet 11:51 < L29Ah> yes 11:53 < muurkha> for now 11:55 -!- Croran [~Croran@71.231.214.173] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 11:57 < L29Ah> "until when batteries become good enough for electric planes"-sort of "for now", i'd say 12:00 < docl> .t https://scitechdaily.com/reading-minds-with-ultrasound-caltechs-new-brain-machine-interface/ 12:00 < saxo> Reading Minds With Ultrasound: Caltech’s New Brain–Machine Interface 12:04 < muurkha> aye 12:11 < darkie> I have an electric plane. 12:13 < docl> muurkha: for now as in, fmri will improve? or as in, we use a different approach? 12:14 < L29Ah> darkie: it doesn't count until it can get you over the lake :] 12:18 -!- CryptoDavid [uid14990@id-14990.uxbridge.irccloud.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:22 < muurkha> docl: more generally, sensors will probably get better rather than worse 12:23 < docl> fair enough 12:23 < muurkha> will someone be able to produce a SQUID-based fMRI that doesn't require a giant superconducting electromagnet around your head? maybe 12:24 < docl> .t https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23333456/ 12:24 < saxo> SQUID-detected ultra-low field MRI - PubMed 12:25 < muurkha> but if not, probably some combination of PET, ultrasound, EEG, TMS, and millimeter wave scanning will do the trick 12:25 < L29Ah> giant permanent magnet might do these days 12:27 -!- Croran [~Croran@71.231.214.173] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:44 < docl> I wonder if anyone did anything useful with that temporary tattoos as interfaces idea 12:45 < docl> .t https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/12/duoskin/ 12:45 < saxo> MIT's DuoSkin turns temporary tattoos into on-skin interfaces • TechCrunch 12:56 < docl> this site looks frozen since 2016, so probably not 12:56 < docl> .t https://duoskin.media.mit.edu/ 12:56 < saxo> URLError: (title:73) 12:56 < docl> and their ssl cert is out of date apparently 13:08 < muurkha> I'm puzzled about how you'd get decent touch sensor sensitivity given that the back side of the sensor is plastered to your skin 13:16 < docl> well if you touch it now it has 2x as much skin surface connecting it to the next sensor 13:16 < muurkha> yeah, but that's a much, much smaller signal than capacitive touchscreens and touchpads normally use 13:17 < docl> this metal foil stuff is way more crude than I was hopefully imagining when I read about this in 2016 13:17 < muurkha> gold leaf? gold leaf is crude? 13:18 < docl> compared to transistor chip technology yeah 13:23 < muurkha> aren't they literally using transistor chip technology? 14:16 < docl> I guess, for the nfc transmitters and leds 14:27 -!- CryptoDavid [uid14990@id-14990.uxbridge.irccloud.com] has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] 14:52 < muurkha> LEDs don't usually contain transistors ;) 14:57 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffffff@2601:5c4:c780:6aa0::1909] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 14:58 < darkie> some blink 14:58 < muurkha> aye 15:00 < docl> well they are diodes, so merely the building blocks of transistors 15:02 < muurkha> you can't build a transistor out of diodes 15:02 < muurkha> try it 15:23 -!- gnawk [~gnawk@76-196-232-104.lightspeed.sndgca.sbcglobal.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 15:26 < kanzure> greetings gnawk 15:38 < docl> .wik P–n_junction 15:38 < saxo> "A p–n junction is a boundary or interface between two types of semiconductor materials, p-type and n-type, inside a single crystal of semiconductor." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%E2%80%93n_junction 15:38 < docl> " 15:38 < docl> p–n junctions are elementary "building blocks" of semiconductor electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, solar cells, LEDs, and integrated circuits; they are the active sites where the electronic action of the device takes place. For example, a common type of transistor, the bipolar junction transistor, consists of two p–n junctions in series, in the form n–p–n or p–n–p; while a 15:38 < docl> diode can be made from a single p-n junction." 15:52 < fenn> more depressing saturday comics. "Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday" (2:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k 15:52 < Muaddib> [CJkWS4t4l0k] Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday (2:30) 15:53 < fenn> oops mispaste please disregard 15:58 < docl> .t https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/78366/why-cant-two-series-connected-diodes-act-as-a-bjt 15:58 < saxo> Why can't two series-connected diodes act as a BJT? - Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange 16:16 < kanzure> .tw https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1576198502970843139 16:16 < saxo> @kanzure I have good news for your fingers; we can replace them with a GPU. https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1576193601964761089 (@lopp) 16:16 < kanzure> .tw https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1576193601964761089 16:16 < saxo> Incredibly impressed by @OpenAI's Whisper transcription software. // I've tested its performance on 4 machines and its accuracy with 3 different models. This is a leap forward in audio-to-text conversion functionality that's accessible by anyone with a pc. https://blog.lopp.net/openai-whisper-transcription-testing/ (@lopp) 16:19 < docl> nice! 16:21 -!- spaceangel [~spaceange@ip-78-102-216-202.bb.vodafone.cz] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:30 < kanzure> found a fake vendor on pubchem.. bit of a wild rabbit hole. 16:32 < kanzure> apparently anyone can just submit fake non-existing vendors to pubchem and it will show up on literally any chemical compound page you want? https://pubchemdocs.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/submissions-getting-started 16:32 < kanzure> this does not seem to be a real vendor https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/BenchChem https://benchchem.com/ 16:44 < kanzure> also the "smolecule" vendor is highly suspect as well 16:45 < kanzure> how does NCBI expect a vendor with a principle place of business of https://goo.gl/maps/hoQfxwcbTvgAwi3T9 is servicing a catalog of (checks notes) 732,970 compounds? 16:52 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 17:02 < kanzure> likely a scam but maybe they actually dropship the chemicals to you, which might be nice if you can't get sigma-aldrich to deliver to you 17:30 < kanzure> .wik high-volume low-speed fan 17:30 < saxo> "A high-volume low-speed (HVLS) fan is a type of mechanical fan greater than 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter. HVLS fans are generally ceiling fans although some are pole mounted." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-volume_low-speed_fan 17:44 -!- darkie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 18:23 < kanzure> https://colossal.com/ 18:23 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has joined #hplusroadmap 18:25 < kanzure> didn't know the mammoth project was out of austin 18:26 < kanzure> https://longevity.technology/news/colossal-biosciences-spin-out-form-bio-lands-30-million-for-breakthrough-computational-life-sciences-platform/ 18:40 -!- gnawk [~gnawk@76-196-232-104.lightspeed.sndgca.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 19:25 < heath> https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz Buzz transcribes audio from your computer's microphones to text in real-time using OpenAI's Whisper. 21:15 -!- codaraxis__ [~codaraxis@user/codaraxis] has joined #hplusroadmap 21:17 -!- archels [~neuralnet@static.65.156.69.159.clients.your-server.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 21:19 -!- codaraxis [~codaraxis@user/codaraxis] has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 22:24 < muurkha> maybe they sue you for patent infringement if you order some compounds and they can figure out what you're making with them --- Log closed Sun Oct 02 00:00:35 2022