Aside from this very probable issue with training data, it might be getting confused about the color white vs. the race. The Asian lady in the pic does look pretty pale. Will it work if you try “Caucasian” instead off “White”? Heck, just capitalizing “White” to match “Black” might even help. I don’t have a Meta…

Wheels or treads are great, until it needs to use the stairs. Different hands may work better in a lot of cases, but might not be able to press a recessed button sized for a human finger. A different body shape could be fine, until it needs to sit at a workstation with a built in chair sized for a person. There are…

Sure, but it’s really small. People with ALS that become locked in have no other way to communicate with the world. They can’t even blink their eyes anymore. But they can use a brain implant to surf the web, type, and interact with computers. After them are people with high-level SCI who can’t move much, but the need…

That’s likely because I bet they just relabeled disposable insulin syringes. It looks a lot like my daughter’s Humalog pens. This is crazy, because A) insulin is also expensive (but not as expensive as Ozympic) and B) it can kill people in large doses. If they were actually filling counterfit syringes I would think…

I have and frequently use Dave’s Insanity Sauce (basically liquid pepper spray). No sane person would put that directly on food (I’ve seen someone try and it wasn’t pretty) but a few drops in a pot of chili, jambalaya, or red beans & rice kicks the whole dish up a notch. One small bottle will last years on the shelf.

What about sports mixed with a food challenge? I’ve done a “food relay” at camp before- basically a relay race where each participant has to blindly reach into a bag at the far end, eat whatever they pull out, and run back. The person who got the twinkies was really lucky, I got a small jar of pimentos (not too bad,…

Agreed. The giant ground sloth as a movie monster even has a built-in backstory-

It’s not like everyone gets the side effects, and if you do you know pretty soon. I’m on Rybelsus (pill version of semaglutide) and it does nothing to me aside from improving my blood sugars and making me not as hungry. It’s much easier to resist cravings/desert/seconds/etc. My weight is dropping slowly and steadily…

Monster is too small & not enough CG to be an Asylum picture. Now if the title were “Slothceratops” or “Giant Ice Sloth” we’d be in their territory.

Federal research funding actually requires that publications from any work it supports be made freely available now (with temporary exceptions for embargo periods), but it didn’t for a long time. Sci-Hub helped make this issue more visible and helped motivate that turnaround.

“one of the more notable thing about ToD is how the heart-ripping sacrifice scene and the child slavery elements are not muted as one might expect for a PG movie”

Agreed. I always thought Luddites were opposed to technology that would negatively impact their own livelihood. They didn’t care about the larger impacts on society. Also there’s a big difference between short term and long term impacts. Human society was pretty negatively impacted by the switch from hunter-gatherers…

Plane-based LiDAR has done amazing things for archaeology. If this space-based solution is anywhere near as accurate it could lead to tons of new finds.

I heard an interview with the CTO (I think) of Amprius. This is just their 1st gen model. The technology has headroom to increase capacity from here- he said they could potentially double capacities from what they’re currently at. So they’re at double capacity now and hopefully up to quadruple in the future. For…

If China would just follow our lead and start calling it “political campaign contributions” instead of “bribery” like we do everything would be fine. At least as fine as things are in this country...

I’m surprised that more people don’t take the idea to this point. I’d eat it, especially if cultured from my own cells- Me burgers just like in Project Hail Mary!

I use regular generic Metformin and it’s dirt cheap. How different is the XR version? Could you just take smaller pills more often instead of paying an absurd price premium?

Carbon has been making custom 3D-printed hockey helmets for CCM Hockey, football helmets for Riddell, shoes for Adidas, bicycle seats for lots of manufacturers, and god knows what else for years now. Why is this news? This just looks like a competitor coming to the party years late with a different technology (SLS vs.…

“...acacia leaves, which they remove from trees with their long, prehensile purple tongues.”

Even the ones that get through peer review often have problems- it’s not a perfect system. My first reaction when reading this is how do they present “facts” that aren’t true when the subjects know they’re lying? I’ve got a pretty good idea what an average penis size is because I’ve heard the statistics before. If…