Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
On top of what other people are saying, here's an interesting video about the connection between LEDs and solar panels: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w
In other words, yeah LEDs and solar panels can function the same way, but they have opposite outputs. In my book that makes LEDs anti solar panels
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22 Jul 2021 14:56
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Comment on: Google Assistant Records Audio Even When You’re Not Using It, Company Reportedly Admits
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03 Jul 2021 07:34
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Comment on: IBM becomes first to demonstrate advantage of quantum computers in real-life scenario | TechRadar
Yeah to be clear, this isn't "quantum advantage" because there's no real world value (as much as IBM claims there is). At best this is what a lot of people refer to as "weak quantum supremacy" since there's no super-polynomial separation to be had here.
This post goes into a taxonomy for different quantum computing milestones in case anyone's interested: https://medium.com/@wjzeng/clarifying-quantum-supremacy-better-terms-for-milestones-in-quantum-computation-d15ccb53954f
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02 Jul 2021 20:44
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Comment on: GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
Curious how this stacks up to [tabnine](https://www.tabnine.com/)
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29 Jun 2021 18:37
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Comment on: Harmony OS to fight Android OS and iOS
If anyone here is thinking this is a viable alternative to Google and Apple's privacy and censorship problems, go check out a few posts in +ChinaSucks first
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20 Jun 2021 15:00
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Comment on: YouTube brings picture-in-picture to iOS users
Why's that?
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19 Jun 2021 21:32
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Comment on: YouTube brings picture-in-picture to iOS users
Wowwwww what an innovation!!
Does anyone take Apple seriously anymore?
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19 Jun 2021 18:58
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Comment on: A Chinese company has started charging for fully driverless rides
No, this is Patrick!
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30 Apr 2021 18:41
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Comment on: Apple introduces AirTag - Apple
Yeah okay this is fair. Lots of iPhones makes this pretty powerful
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20 Apr 2021 19:50
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Comment on: Apple introduces AirTag - Apple
Hasn't tile been doing this for years? What's new?
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20 Apr 2021 18:13
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Comment on: Apple confirms iMessage locks users into iOS, and putting it on Android would hurt Apple
Aren't people still debating that one?
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11 Apr 2021 03:01
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Comment on: Apple confirms iMessage locks users into iOS, and putting it on Android would hurt Apple
In other news, the sky remains blue
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11 Apr 2021 02:15
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Comment on: Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
Pretty cool but per kilogram is a bad metric (talking specifically abou the graph here). Would have liked to see it based on storage capacity
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04 Apr 2021 15:17
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Comment on: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Did... did they really just put TikTok on the same level as GPT-3?
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27 Feb 2021 22:24
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Comment on: DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
At the bottom you can play around with some examples tho, that's kinda fun
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06 Jan 2021 01:54
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Comment on: [meta] What technology do you think will define the 20s?
What do you mean? A quantum computer can (in theory) be used for everything a classical computer can. Granted, currently noise makes that not very useful, but they aren't limited in the types of computations they can perform
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26 Dec 2020 09:01
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Comment on: [meta] What technology do you think will define the 20s?
Not necessarily **the** technology, but one that I think will start having a much larger impact: +QuantumComputing
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23 Dec 2020 23:42
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Comment on: A new widespread malware attack targets Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Yandex users
Doesn't really say how you get infected, but once you get infected the malware serves you up illegitimate ads instead of normal content when you search for something on Google. They never said it was specifically Google, but they don't mention any other browsers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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12 Dec 2020 17:32
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Comment on: Tom & Jerry made 60fps using AI
I can't really tell the difference ngl. Although i've heard of the technique they're using here from Two Minute Papers, it's pretty cool
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28 Nov 2020 22:09
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Comment on: Virgin Hyperloop blasts first human passengers around test track - Roadshow
https://ruqqus.com/+Technology/post/4pj8/virgin-hyperloop-completes-its-first-test
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10 Nov 2020 01:39
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Comment on: Virgin Hyperloop completes its first test with actual passengers
Where are you seeing that they didn't have low pressure in the tube?
To be clear, I agree it's a weak sauce test to go half a kilometer lol
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09 Nov 2020 17:37
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Comment on: MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
Yeah but science alert doesn't ever go for quality, they go for getting the info out there to people who wouldn't otherwise have heard it. I think that's generally a good thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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08 Nov 2020 14:54
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Comment on: MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
That article doesn't talk about it at all, but the paper it comes from actually does given both the sensitivity and specificity of the method right on the front page.
98.5% sensitive and 94.2% specific in case anyone's interested. I'm not sure why the author of the article decided to focus in on the 97.1% accuracy, when the overall accuracy for both covid positive and covid negative on a database of 5320 subjects was 98.8%!
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08 Nov 2020 14:39
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Comment on: Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS!
Sounds like a good windows emulator lol
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27 Oct 2020 18:54
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Comment on: Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS!
Have you used it before? What doesn't work super well?
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26 Oct 2020 20:22
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Comment on: Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
Huh okay. I used it for a while about 6 months ago and they didn't back then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also yeah, I used Jitsi meet, it's great
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26 Oct 2020 16:48
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Comment on: Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
Does matrix have a video call option now?
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26 Oct 2020 06:10
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Comment on: New York Post story goes massive on social media despite crackdowns
A real-life lesson in the Streisand Effect lol
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21 Oct 2020 05:21
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Comment on: Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
At ALL of the gigapascals lol
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18 Oct 2020 20:10
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