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Typically eye-trackers work by illuminating the eyes with near infrared light and using infrared cameras. This creates a higher contrast image of the pupils, etc. I assume Apple is doing this in the Vision Pro. Eye-tracking can also be done with just visible light, though. Apple has the benefit of knowing where all the user interface elements are on screen, so eye-tracking in this on the iPhone or iPad doesn't need to be high precision. Knowledge of the position of the items can help to reduce the uncertainty of what is being fixated on.

There are 'dry' EEG electrodes which don't require conductive gel, and algorithms to remove the electrical effect of eye-blinks (ICA, etc.)

Their pocket operator series were inexpensive, at $60-100 per model, but were very basic with essentially a bare PCB and most of the electronics protected by being placed under the screen. I believe that much of the cost of their expensive products is due to a lot of custom parts like CNC machined aluminum enclosures. This product seems designed to hit a price point between the pocket operators (~$100) and their plastic OP-Z (~$500).

There have always been plug-ins, especially by small developers on the Mac, which are AU only.

Apple Silicon macs can now run iOS / iPadOS AUs as well, so there are a ton of plugins from that world that are not available as VSTs.

Apple Logic can't load VSTs, so typically on the Mac it makes sense to just have AUs. Ableton Live on the Mac can load VSTs or AU, but there isn't really a reason to keep the VSTs around.

It would be nice if Bitwig would support existing plug-ins formats like AU.

Maybe try a USB condom: https://www.zdnet.com/article/flying-this-weekend-this-6-usb...

If having a tethered battery reduces the weight of the headset, then I imagine it may be preferable that way. The weight of the Quest can make it uncomfortable to wear for long periods.

It can be an issue everywhere, Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking.

I don't know anything about this research, but I imagine they could also expose samples on Earth to similar radiation?

Sounds like it from their description ("USB-C media disks"):

Supported file formats include H.264, H.265, Apple ProRes and Blackmagic RAW, with clips able to be imported from the iPad Pro internal storage and Photos library, or externally connected iCloud and USB-C media disks.

Research involving human subjects (psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics, etc.) requires institutional review board approval and informed consent, etc. but mostly doesn't involve HIPAA either.

But are any of Google's side projects an existential threat to their main business of search / ads in the way that digital cameras were to film for Kodak?

And two went to the same high school.

Not sure if this is what happened here but demographic / ethnicity questions often have a 'prefer not to say' option.

They are in short supply, however you can still pay normal retail price. Check https://rpilocator.com/ .

Maybe it was just local competition, but in college a gallon of milk at Whole Foods was about $.25 cheaper than the Safeway across the street.

While not DSP chips, analog synths will typically also include microcontrollers, for scanning a keyboard or front panel controls, receiving MIDI messages, and generating control voltages.

This actually isn't true, one example off the top of my head is that currently the black Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad all cost $20 more than their white counterparts: https://www.apple.com/shop/mac/accessories/mice-keyboards

I believe they are referring delivering the gas to the station via tanker truck, not filling a passenger vehicle with gas.

I think the real trick is to never use Jupyter / notebooks to begin with.

I'm sure it depends on your vantage point, but I would argue that ML is more likely to be considered a subset of Statistics than the other way around.

I know that each cable in VCV Rack imposes a 1-sample delay. However isn't the audio still transmitted to the audio interface in blocks? It's not clear why a DAW would need an intermediary in this case, other than something analogous to the VCV Rack 2 Pro VST instrument host. The reason not use Rack is so that it could be an open standard with multiple host implementations.

There should just be a standard for a software module, like VST for plug-in instruments. Then they could re-used across platforms, and a DAW like Ableton could theoretically host them directly without needing an intermediary VST host app like Rack.

No, but there were already other software synthesis options available for people who don't want a skeuomorphic interface, as various levels of complexity - Max/MSP, PureData, Reaktor, CSound, SuperCollider, Audulus, KarmaFX, etc.

I think they probably meant to write GameCube there.

The touchbar Macbook Pros were released 2016 rather than 2013.

SK-1 has 4 note polyphony

The study you cite isn't really in conflict with the parent study. They note that the number of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease in the study was too small to develop a non-linear model relating sleep duration to AD risk:

Pg. 858:

"Similarly, short and long sleep duration and poor sleep quality have also been linked with an increased risk of dementia. Although a similar J-shaped association was observed in our observational analysis, we were limited to performing only the linear MR analysis, as the non-linear MR method requires a large number of cases and individual-level data. In our linear MR analysis, we found no clear evidence that an increased sleep duration was associated with a higher risk of all-cause dementia in UK Biobank or with AD in IGAP. This is unsurprising, as the true association might be non-linear and we were limited with only 1343 dementia cases in UK Biobank. Also, IGAP does not capture non-AD dementia types and comprises an older and more heterogeneous population."

"Results for risks of dementia and AD are still too imprecise to draw any definitive conclusions. Our findings suggest that, in clinical care, attention should be paid to sleep-duration patterns and improved sleep habits could represent a potential therapeutic target for cognition."

Dropbox had acquired the Mailbox email client in 2013, but then shut it down in 2015. This was a very annoying turn of events for people who used the app prior to the acquisition.

I hear you, Ableton actually has pretty great tutorials in the program itself that can help to learn the software as well.