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giocampaon Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014)

Sneezing in their hand helps to spread it to everything they touch. The best thing would be to cough/sneeze in the arm.

giocampaon Controlling a 2D Robotic Arm with Deep Reinforcement Learning

This is so inspiring! Have you ever thought of implementing such a thing in ROS?

giocampaon Safety-first AI for autonomous data centre cooling and industrial control

So did they close the feedback loop with an AI, or did they just use some ML hackery to create a model of the system? Does anyone know how this compares to a classical control system?

giocampaon Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight

Well Elon has already sent a car, so a helicopter was the least they could send!

giocampaon Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

Would this work also for... Ehm a friend of mine?

giocampaon The world split into 7 equal areas of population

The whole comments section is worth a scroll-through: didn't know there were so many map nerds on twitter!

giocampaon Portugal electricity generation temporarily reaches 100% renewable

"That shows how ridiculous a 27% target for 2030 is" Yeah well, if your country has plenty of wind coming from the ocean and you are not a big industrial nation with a lot of energy demand, then 27% seems to be a low goal...