Cool Stuff

[RicInOR]

An Underwater Exploration Toolkit for Boats - Nomadic Research Labs

A tour of the portable marine lab aboard Datawake, including Trident ROV with 100-meter tether and controller, underwater lighting, hydrophone, lifting magnet and grapnel, plankton net, and microscopes.

microship.com

About $2000 to be all in.

 

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Like this:

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Naw man, that's "Mr. Fusion", only works on flux capacitored DeLorean's.

 

[RicInOR]

Allen Institute’s Aristo AI system finally passes an eighth-grade science test

Four years after researchers were challenged to come up with an AI program smart enough to pass an eighth-grade science test, that feat has been declared accomplished.

www.geekwire.com

The 1440 Guide To Machine Learning - 1440

Master The Elevator Talk Over the past five years it has been nearly impossible to read the news without hearing about the coming artificial intelligence revolution. While the revolution may be on its way, what has arrived first is an onslaught of buzzwords like neural networks, autonomous...

join1440.com

 

[Certaindeaf]

They discovered the gene responsible for not clicking. News at 11.

 

[teflon6string]

50 Years Ago Computers, as we know them, began.

Anyone who says (or texts on their smartphone) that the moon landings never amounted to anything more than an expensive political boondoggle has no idea what NASA, MIT and IBM were doing in the 60s "... before this decade is out."

 

[RicInOR]

Volkswagen Transforms The Original Beetle Into A 81HP Electric Ride

Lightning bug.

hiconsumption.com

edit: Add Popular Mechanics story

Vintage VW Beetles and Buses Are Going Electric

And Volkswagen is leading the charge.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[RicInOR]

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This is the what3words address for a 3 metre square location near Sherwood, Oregon.

what3words.com

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These Guys Mapped Out Every 3-Meter Square on Earth with a Unique Three-Word Phrase

What's your coordinate combo?

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[zenbreath]

WATCH: Israeli Team of Researchers Restore 20/20 Vision with Nanotechnology

So......did they get special dispensation from Kosher rules to work on pig's eyes?

 

[RicInOR]

Cool, scary?

 

[RicInOR]

Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

The Apple Watch has a fall-detection feature, which sends out an alert if the wearer is immobile for 60 seconds after a fall. Bob Burdett suffered a concussion and abrasions but is recovering — and has already been back on...

www.seattletimes.com

Cool, I guess. Apple watch detects acceleration - if it thinks there was a fall, and then 30 seconds of no motion, it calls 911.

 

[RicInOR]

Welcome To Disrn — Your New Favorite News Site

After much time and toil, we are delighted to present to you a new kind of news and opinion outlet: Disrn.

www.disrn.com

(Yes, it's pronounced "discern.")

Our motto is "Brief, smart, faithful":

 

[RicInOR]

Project Heaviside is Kitty Hawk's latest high-performance electric VTOL vehicle.

Heaviside

Small, fast, quiet. Introducing Project Heaviside, Kitty Hawk’s latest high-performance electric VTOL vehicle.

kittyhawk.aero

 

[RicInOR]

25FT

Watch The World's Largest 3D Printer In Action At UMaine

The University of Maine just unveiled the world’s largest 3D printer

hothardware.com

 

[RicInOR]

"Pork fat was given the nutritional score of 73. It bested other healthy food items like squash, salmon, and walnuts."

Instapundit » Blog Archive » I KNEW IT ALL ALONG: There are few articles I have ever read that I wanted so badly to be true. “Por…

I KNEW IT ALL ALONG: There are few articles I have ever read that I wanted so badly to be true. “Pork Fat is Officially One of the World’s Most Nutritious Foods.” “Pork fat was given the nutritional score of 73. It bested other healthy food items like squash, salmon, and walnuts.” Lest we forget […]

pjmedia.com

Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food

Recent progresses in data-driven analysis methods, including network-based approaches, are revolutionizing many classical disciplines. These techniques can also be applied to food and nutrition, which must be studied to design healthy diets. Using nutritional information from over 1,000 raw...

journals.plos.org

 

[RicInOR]

So while I am not a fan of social media, (well except for you NWFA), this is cool and terrifying


bookofjoe: Facebook AI fools facial recognition systems — and works on live video

 

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[RicInOR]

This Algorithm Can Remove the Water from Underwater Photos, and the Results are Incredible

An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, "remove the water" from an underwater photograph. The result is a "physically

petapixel.com

Sea-thru Brings Clarity to Underwater Photos

A new algorithm counteracts the distorting impact of water

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[RicInOR]

Scientists have found 142 more ancient etchings in Peru. Now AI will speed up the hunt.

Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height. Now AI is helping speed up the hunt for more hidden symbols—and has already had some success. Mysterious sand symbols: Since their discovery in the 1920s...

www.technologyreview.com

Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height. Now AI is helping speed up the hunt for more hidden symbols—and has already had some success.

 

[zenbreath]

Scientists have found 142 more ancient etchings in Peru. Now AI will speed up the hunt.

Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height. Now AI is helping speed up the hunt for more hidden symbols—and has already had some success. Mysterious sand symbols: Since their discovery in the 1920s...

www.technologyreview.com

Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height. Now AI is helping speed up the hunt for more hidden symbols—and has already had some success.

"Hey guys, let's do THIS. Some time in the next 1,000 years, humans will fly, and this will really freak them out!"

 

[RicInOR]

Researchers Have Created a 'Ballistic' Drone that You Launch Out of a Cannon

A team of researchers from Caltech and NASA JPL have developed something they're calling the 'Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone' (SQUID): a

petapixel.com

Cannon == potato gun

Device looks mostly 3d printed (plastic)