Wow! Very cool, looks like it is more of a world hard drive for now, but sounds like you have bigger plans for it. Very very cool. I'm downloading it right now. I've shot you a connection request on linkedin. I would really like to stay updated on this project. I work in blockchain development sometimes and I think ease of use has been a HUGE hurdle for adoption, but it seems you have overcome that a bit in your project. In fact I think your project could be compatible with/useful for one of the blockchains I develop on.
I specifically liked when you talked about people (kids in particular) being able to program simply again without the need of specialized knowledge in networking etc. I think this is actually what Stadia and other streamed gaming services have been trying to do. Except they seem to be doing it ass backwards (centralizing the service and serving it to the customer).
Anyways, really cool project, looking forward to using it.
I normally hate node based programming because I'm basically relearning programming but with nodes and the systems are a lot of times opaque so I can't read it at a glance to see what it does, but with this custom node stuff I could get behind that.
I completely agree with you. Really getting sick and tired of the tech industry thinking they are better than everyone else because they can program. Very egotistical culture. Down to even morals. I had one guy comment to me "Hard to believe someone in the tech industry believes such things."
But I think it is mostly just American programmers. Or maybe just big city programmers. I've had the opportunity to work with people in Spain, The UK, and Prague, others remotely as well, but I haven't seen the level of ego in those guys as I have seen in Americans.
It's part of the reason I loathe the idea of hiring developers from America. EVERYOTHER industry is perfectly fine with criticizing or reanalyzing the work of others either underneath their authority or about their competitors. I'm sure even some of these programmers have even said "OMG this caffe macchiato is crap. I'm never drinking from this place again." But nope, don't criticize programmers or ask them to redo work. It's just so rude.
But it is probably the fact that companies like Google literally put slides and children's toys in their offices for their apparently adult programmers to enjoy. An artifact of programmer scarcity I'd imagine.
>>We’re programmers, so writing code is what we do, is it not ? As the title suggests, our job is a bit more complicated than stroking keys on a keyboard in front of a screen all day.
I don't know what it is about the tech industry but it really seems to think highly of itself and is constantly self congratulatory.
You should be careful with the "can penetrate the trees" statement for people who don't understand the technology. But you are correct. Like light, some of the lidar can make it to the ground and give us a partial map of the floor.
I'm sure more passes from different angles would get a better picture as well.
This would be a lot more useful if any of those things were in the store. Our stores here in Las Vegas are constantly being stripped. My mom said she had gone to go pickup some milk for my nieces and had two quarts that she could find and even then people were complaining about her "taking so much" and one lady tried to take one. It's hard to find places that have stuff. When you do, it weird stuff that you just have to use because there is nothing else.
Hey John. I know how you feel a bit. Dont worry about people thinking its depressing. It's your struggle and your story and you can tell it how ever you want. I remember tiny things like being able to tell my story helped me when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
People may not understand what milk has to really do with your situation but it is those tiny things that make the most profound impacts I'd say. I still look at the tiny needle scars and that reminds me more than the actual scar on my head.
So feel free man. I found being able to talk about it openly helped me deal with it A LOT MORE than anything else.
There is implied failure of services in Spookies response. Already here in vegas, my step dad works at a bread factory as supervisor, they are seeing an increase of demand. He's had to go in several times late at night to relieve someone who was on a longer shift. He says if they lose one person they will start falling behind.
The short term consumables or raw resources are the ones that matter the most. If people stop going to work to make bread or toilet paper or refine oil it's going to put a strain on a lot of things. The oil and chemical industries are really going to be important for producing medical items like gloves, sanitizer, cleaning agents, plastic ventilators, sanitary plastic containers for equipment and needles, etc. Not to mention the effects of lower oil production and the strain and cost on shipping those things back and forth to their respective factories.
But it will have to be pretty bad before we have to worry about that I think.
Let's just hope we are more equipped to deal with the Wuhan Virus than we were with the Spanish Flu. I know experts have been training waiting and warning about this type of event since 1918 but our leaders seemed to have screwed the pooch on not letting them do their job and taking their advice.
There are different challenges of course due to the virus itself and the transportation infrastructure today. But there are better tools too. Our governments just need to act appropriately and stay correctly informed.
South Korea is reporting more recoveries than new cases which means it can be extinguished if we take similar measures elsewhere. If South Korea didn't have to worry about new infected entering the country , with those numbers it's on the path to eradication.
Unfortunately in America steps were taken to actively refuse help, like offered early tests from the WHO weeks ago that were rejected by the US so we could instead make them here for whatever reason, which as everyone knows lead to the bad tests and put us far behind in the response in catching this before it got off the ground.
We have all the tools and experts we need but our leaders are going to need to let the experts call the shots and do their job if we are going to avoid the scale of the Spanish Flu.
Once it's past a certain point the strain on the medical industry will cause rises in other preventable diseases and we'll have more problems and deaths than just from Wuhan Virus.
Shrooms are not way more powerful. To put shrooms on lsd level is kind of ridiculous. They're all different from each other of course but most are very mild compared to LSD. The very common ones are just serotonin reuptake inhibitors. I've seen some people say they see shimmers of light or visuals but I've taken the same ones and all I get is super happy and motivated. It's great but it's not on lsd level. I'd say it's same level of weed.
I know everyone acts different to everything but I've had trippier experiences with weed where my memory was so short I thought I was just appearing in places and forgot what my arms felt like. So I think the concerns of shrooms are greatly over exaggerated.
Well it's not too crazy when you think about it. The web is just encoding location and size data for them. Any medium that generated the same results every time would do the same thing. I think because of their smaller intelligence it just seems more profound than it actually is because it represents a significant portion of their capabilities.
We see this in some types of machine learning. Echo state networks and reservoir computing essential just encode the data with their random connections.
So I think it's cool, but not that surprising. The spider is just learning the world through its web just like a musician learns music through a specific instrument. The difference is its not a significant portion of our intelligence and we have extra space/power to learn the world through different tools. Language, writing,reading, computing, mathematics, etc.
You're not going to. There is real incentive to divide people into categories. People in the grey are hard to deal with and hard to manage.
Massive tech companies like google have perfected how you are supposed to move someone from unaware and not caring into the firmly aware caring and loyal brand consumer. They extend that ability to anyone willing to pay for it.
All the twitter ads all the Facebook ads all the Google ads. Doesn't matter if it's for potatoes or Trump, they have the same ability to subtly move you into their camp. Even a basic search engine in reddit or google will constantly feed you the same bs day in and day out based on what you already search for. Take Google news. They aren't going to show you too much out of your region, even in world news as an American you are usually going to see American policy and any topics the engine thinks is important to you based on your previous views.
The whole of Internet technologies is meant to divide and feed you the confirmation bias info you love. Only stuff that already aligns with your views. You take that and couple the fact that ai algorithms are literally designed to take non linear data and plop them into definite categories and you'll get independent/grey thinkers slowly being pushed to one side or another no matter how complex the data.
Unless there is a way to forcefully break the feedback loop, you won't stop it. If you sat day in and day out twirling a butterfly knife or painting or whatever, you would be an expert eventually. That's what is happening now but not with a useful skill, just information aligned with what you already believe. Then after years of programming someone comes along from the other category and tries to break your beliefs, of course you'll get toxicity because it's hard to unlearn how to paint. The brain is not meant to unlearn constantly practiced behavior.
I specifically liked when you talked about people (kids in particular) being able to program simply again without the need of specialized knowledge in networking etc. I think this is actually what Stadia and other streamed gaming services have been trying to do. Except they seem to be doing it ass backwards (centralizing the service and serving it to the customer).
Anyways, really cool project, looking forward to using it.