Ms-Anthrop t1_jebrn5j wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Reply to comment by NotacreativeguyGM in It is odd that some people support the right to bear arms, but reject the right to read books by schadenfreudender

One of the headline today was Missouri defunding all libraries, not just for kids. Not just schools.

[deleted] t1_jebrh7q wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:22 PM

Reply to Incompetence in one debilitates the competence of the whole team by JollyMcStink

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[deleted] t1_jebrgqk wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:22 PM

Reply to Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_jebrdcq wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:21 PM

Reply to Thumbs are what separate us from the animals but they feel like the least civilized of the fingers. by diet-Coke-or-kill-me

Humans are still technically animals, and they aren't the only animals with thumbs.

littlebitsofspider t1_jebr74v wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:20 PM

Reply to comment by BanzoClaymore in Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

If you like flicker artifacts and bouncing around gaze vergence, sure. If you want stereo fusion, good edge detection and depth estimation, and smooth saccades, you'll probably want an event camera. Ideally, you'd have a robot eyeball with a beamsplitter inside with an event camera sensor grid on one side, and a traditional camera-CCD sensor on the other. That way, an event at one of the event camera pixels can trigger a pixel dump on the corresponding CCD color subpixels. Better yet would be a Foveon-style stacked-RGB CCD, which could match 1:1 resolution with the event camera in color. You could do the sensor fusion on a dedicated ASIC hooked up to both cameras and let them both do what they do best.

fabulishous t1_jebqw6r wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:18 PM

Reply to comment by Groftsan in Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

Our eyes also have frame rates

Smiddy7465 t1_jebqw52 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:18 PM

Reply to comment by sakonigsberg in Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

Came here to say this

Edit: I’m almost surprised I had to scroll this far too see it

LUVSWIM t1_jebqu77 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:17 PM

Reply to Thumbs are what separate us from the animals but they feel like the least civilized of the fingers. by diet-Coke-or-kill-me

Isn’t that why it makes sense, the last part to evolve was thumbs in the hands so they’re generally useless

GeraldBWilsonJr t1_jebqnvq wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Reply to comment by Groftsan in Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

I was just thinking that a strobe light could really fuck one of these systems up, and remembered that my front teeth are fake due to an accident involving a strobe light 20 years ago

Showerthoughts_Mod t1_jebqnie wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM

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jdcmurphy22 t1_jebqmzp wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Reply to We may have seen the same bird twice in our life. Or more. by Responsible_Rub9050

Living on a college campus you'll definitely see the same birds and shit over those four years.

[deleted] t1_jebqlvx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM

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Showerthoughts_Mod t1_jebqln6 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Reply to Incompetence in one debilitates the competence of the whole team by JollyMcStink

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jwgriffiths t1_jebqh0h wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:15 PM

Reply to It is odd that some people support the right to bear arms, but reject the right to read books by schadenfreudender

People pick and choose the parts of the Constitution they support/don’t support all the time. The ones that hate the Second Amendment crack me up, though, since that’s the one that protects all the others.

colostitute t1_jebq96l wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:14 PM

Reply to comment by NotacreativeguyGM in It is odd that some people support the right to bear arms, but reject the right to read books by schadenfreudender

What sexually explicit book did your kid bring home from school?

[deleted] t1_jebplbi wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:09 PM

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TaliesinMerlin t1_jebpl7v wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:09 PM

Reply to comment by goofwayne in At some point, someone thought to ground up the meat of a pig, shove it inside its own intestines, and cook it for people to eat. by greatpoomonkey

It also uses up more of the animal, specifically the intestines and some of the loose bits of meat. It's sort of like figuring out how to make stock out of bone and cartilage. The less of an animal you waste, the better.