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also lots of reviews online about it being woke, if this is you then skip it...this is art from an artist and if you don't like his vision then skip the movie. no one is forcing you to watch it
the state of the art is dexa scans but they can be off by 5+% and more error on the distribution of the fat
bro this is like the first gen, in two years they will iterate and get better. this is just like first gen video, text and image generation were crap but people saw the potential. i've been involved in natural language processing and TTS and in the span of 1-2 years we have seen some crazy innovation. now you can run really great expressive open source multi-lingual TTS on phones and edge hw like raspberry pi's. they have completely wrecked career prospects of voice actors and translators.
if i was a bad guy, i could spin up a 100 agents and find exploits faster than the number of elite security researchers on the planet could fix it. imagine getting the latest version of apple ios and have a new vulnerability within a few days to a week
You have to first do a dopamine detox...you mention YouTube but it's usually a lot more than that. You probably addicted to a lot of other stuff (like porn, food, sugar, TikTok). You need to give your brain a break from the over stimulation.
what does this look like? get rid of all your electronics except what is essential. for me this is just my phone, kindle and laptop. as soon as I get home my phone goes in an electronic time lock box and its locked until next morning. on my laptop everything is blocked like YouTube and only the stuff essential is available (I'm on my Mac I use an app called SelfControl). get rid of your junk food and eat wholesome home made meals. replace YouTube with other interests you have always wanted to do preferably something that doesn't require electronics like drawing or reading or playing an instrument
After 30-60 days you feel a lot better and more at peace with yourself. at this point you have a decision to make, can I go back to where and keep it under control or do I need to make this the rest of my life. for me I chose an analog life and I avoid electronics as much as possible. I use instagram and YouTube but I have iOS timers on them so it's blocked after my allowed time runs out.
Having the something similar to a multi monitor setup in a portable setup is amazing.
the negatives are the battery and the weight after couple hours. I can do a max of two 2-3 hour sessions per day and anything more would be pretty rough. Ideally I just do one 3 hour session and the rest on MacBook.
is it cool...yep! is it a necessity? nope. would I recommend it? nope. do I love it and use it a lot? yep
I can't wait to see what Apple does with this after 2-3 generations. i still think VR is looking for that killer app.
also in my life i notice a big difference in performance from when i had goals/vision for my life vs. going through the motions.
IMO i think you need to have goals/vision/standards for all the important areas in your life (hobbies,partner,career,family,relationships)
can you use existing factories and manufacturing techniques or do you need to invent or build those. we've started hearing about solid state batteries about 15 years ago and we still dont have any at a big enough scale. if solid state batteries do takeoff it will probably takeoff first in electric aviation and supercars which can hide the cost due to a more expensive products and the need for higher density
"Our approach differs from previous work by combining 3D and spectral super-resolution simultaneously with readily available fluorochromes as well as operating in a wavelength range where biological autofluorescence is minimised."
i use it for everything from playing music, adding stuff to my to do list, getting sports scores, turning on/off my smart lights, to figuring out measurements and setting timers while cooking.
the speech recognition and speech synthesis is great! this is actually the only google product i still use...everything else has been replaced by apple, duckduckgo, fastmail, etc.