Chris Scott

@_vmlops A friend of mine did this in 1992 with a camera range-finder. It could scan the furniture in the room.

Someone built ultrasonic scanning on a tiny microcontroller and it’s seriously impressive Using Arduino, an ultrasonic sensor + a servo motor turns into a mini radar system: → scans surroundings in a sweep → detects objects in real time → measures distance with sound waves → builds a simple spatial map As the sensor rotates, it continuously emits ultrasonic pulses When those waves hit an object, they bounce back and the time delay is used to calculate distance That data is then plotted into a live radar-style visualization, just like what you’d see in real systems No expensive hardware No complex setup Just smart use of simple components. What makes it even cooler: → runs on a tiny microcontroller → low power, low cost → easy to build and customize → great intro to embedded systems + robotics This is the kind of project that shows: you don’t need massive compute to build something powerful Small device. Smart sensing. Real engineering

@hunkybill You might get some answers in this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dwa…

If the narrative that AI is starving for data canters is true, then release the economics for all to see. What companies burn through the most AI, how much do they pay, and what are they accomplishing. Do that till you hit average Joe Blow. Show us the state of the nation!

@hunkybill But Google won’t be happy about that as an ads company.

One interesting aspect of using AI for replacing Google as a goto Search, is that the AI by and large, in general and for the most part, will default to and scour Google for data to support reported results for many searches. The iron vice grip of Google ain't going away soon!

@YooDumFoo @stefen_rosner We know Schaeffer is winning the Calder. We know he’s good. The crowd here is focussed on the game and we know exactly when he gets the puck. You either get cheered here, booed or worse, nothing.

MTL's fan base might be the only one that doesn't like Schaefer. Even heard some "Schae-fer" taunting chants on top of the boos every other second.

@JasonrShuman It’s not *the* bottleneck, there are several, including EUV machines created by only one company and demand is greater than supply.

The US needs 500,000 new electricians this decade. Apprenticeships take 5 years. Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s the #1 thing slowing data center expansion. The AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s the trades.

@TBagGamingYT Nobody cares. Give it to me.

Those faces... It just screams generic AI images generator??? WTF

@EndymionYT Looks pretty good to a consumer like me. Bring it on.

I’ve seen enough about Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 we have to nuke it from orbit cause what the fuck is that

@m0nnixx @hankgreen I suspect this sort of thing for a dog would cost at least $20k.

@hankgreen The point is that preciscion medicine is available for pets, cheaply, and with no prior knowledge.

Look, I'm not an oncologist but I am frustrated by the way this dog cancer story is being interpreted from a bunch of different angles and I think basically all of this can be cleared up if people understood like...six things. You should know these 6 things about cancer:

Canada! The first G7 country on track to be a government country. Everyone works for the government, and the government pays everyone for their work. Win win! No one knew how easy it would be to transition to a government country!

@TrentTelenko Canadian here. I’ve followed you since the beginning of the Ukraine war, after your threads on tires and pallets, I think. You shouldn’t take these stats personally. Don’t give-in to manufactured grievances, binary thinking and caricaturing an entire country.

Frustrated entitlement works like that. Canada no longer gets to be a trade loophole for China and that means a lower standard of living for Canadians.

@hunkybill Damn, thought we were returning into spring. Hopefully @hydroquebec doesn’t let us down.

The plus 15 degrees ℃ and balmy weather of today are soon to be replaced by potential centimetre(s) of ICE RAIN in Montréal. Not the hell on earth of volcano, earthquake, tornado or hurricane, but it does turn Montréal in a shit hole for the few hours and days that is exists.

@grantmccagg @The_Creasy So a trade chip?

@The_Creasy NHL regular who is a PP specialist. Scores plenty of goals.

For anyone that *really* follows the prospects, what do we see Bryce Pickford actually becoming at this point?

@Aina_Ai2 Stupid advice. The bg refresh api allows an app to come alive *at most* every 15 min for exactly 30s of runtime. The OS will throttle these events based upon usage and events completely halt if the user terminates the app. Stop spreading FUD. Ask me how I know.

Background App Refresh. This feature is enabled by default and often just drains the battery. Settings → General → Background App Refresh → Disable Basically, apps keep "updating" themselves even when you don't open them. Instagram updates the feed. Shopping apps update prices. But you usually open everything manually anyway.

Stop replacing your iPhone just because the battery is draining quickly. I also thought my iPhone needed replacing because the battery didn't last long. But that wasn't it. Apple leaves some default settings that end up consuming more battery. After adjusting a few things, my battery life went from 6 hours to almost 10 hours. Without replacing the battery. See how to do it:

@CodeEdison Before PHP, there was perl and CPAN, blazing the trail on the early www with CGI.

When programming languages were released: 1957: Fortran 1958: Lisp 1959: COBOL 1964: BASIC 1970: Pascal 1972: C 1978: SQL 1985: C++ 1991: Python 1993: R 1995: PHP, Java, & JavaScript 2001: C# 2009: Go 2012: Julia 2014: Swift 2015: Rust 2016: Kotlin 2017: WebAssembly 2023: Mojo

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@timevalueofbtc This isn’t a new revelation. The Cold War saw many radar stations picketed across the north. We in Canada knew this in the 70s, that nukes would be flying over us. There’s nothing stopping USA upgrading existing installations. It’s just pretext for something else.

At my daughter's friend's birthday party yesterday and pulled out this map from the WSJ as a conversation starter, there was almost no scenario in which this wasn't going to happen

@ztisdale You think China is unfamiliar with our latitudes?

It's going to be funny watching cheap Chinese EVs utterly fail to contend with Canadian winters. 😅

@NikkiHaley Trumponics: come here, go away. youtu.be/0KXlBeziPJ4?si…

Canada cozying up to China to welcome more investment puts all of North America at serious risk.

@Bratt_world “Tantamont” and “hammerning”. Guy can’t spek.

Bannon is a whole idiot with no leg to stand on. So i really do not give a fuck what he has to say about Carney.