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mperak

@mperak

Half scholar, half geek; an Electronics & Computer Engineer (PhD) with a passion for novel interaction technologies & end-to-end product design (HW/SW/UI)

Joined January 2009
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all in the same week

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THE MATRIX was released 24 years ago today. One of the most iconic and groundbreaking movies of its generation, the making of story is a fascinating one. A THREAD 1/25

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Knowledge is having the right answers. Intelligence is asking the right questions. Wisdom is knowing when to ask the right questions.


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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - - Charles Bukowski

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RT: “Easy things are often amusing and relaxing, but their value soon fades. Greater pleasure, deeper satisfaction, and higher wages are associated with genuine accomplishments, with the successful fulfillment of a challenging task.” – Donald Knuth (via @CompSciFact)


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Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book everyone should read. But, only 7% of people who’ve started it ever made it to the end. 21 insights from the best book you never finished:

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Here's one of the fastest 8 point FFTs on the planet! The signal propagates at 46.6% the speed of light, uses no power and does not require an FPGA. It generates 8 simultaneous beams from 8 antennas at 2.4-2.5 GHz. Will need to include Planck's constant in the Mflop calculation.

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Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention. 🧠


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“Computer, enhance!” is now reality! SR3 takes a low-res image (64x64) & progressively adds noise until only pure noise remains. It then learns to reverse this process, removing noise to create a 1024x1024 image. ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-f…


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This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Breakfast nook.

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Brain signals decoded to determine what a person sees medicine.wustl.edu/news/brain-sig… using high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT)


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In September 2020, The Guardian asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace. Are you scared yet, human? [full essay: buff.ly/2ZglIoZ]

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#TBT: “Inventors can’t afford to be sentimental. It’s too discouraging. We look to the future. We look to results.” — MIT's Ernesto Blanco. buff.ly/2Ij2lAF


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