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Comment · 3 days ago
This isn't a product though, it's just showing off an interesting idea, and telling you how to do it yourself
Comment · 9 months ago
The interesting part here is that Tesla seemingly used AI image generation to reproduce the images that they couldn't get with permission to try and skirt around copyright
Comment · 9 months ago
This wouldn't have made the front page if it was: "How to not store your secrets in plain text"
Comment · 11 months ago
Absolutely disgusting. This is just plain evil. Absolute stain on Denmark society
Comment · 1 year ago
South African actually!
Comment · 1 year ago
Anecdata: my neighbour runs a doggy day care. She's been flooded with 1 star reviews (clearly not from her customers), and received similar coercive phones calls to help her improve her online presence. Not much she can do about it, as Google is not particularly responsive
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been following work metrics quite closely this year that has this problem. I don't know why I didn't think of this!
Comment · 1 year ago
i'm actually quite happy that he died without me noticing
Comment · 1 year ago
If threat to society is the only purpose to put someone behind bars, then a large swathe of the incarcerated population wouldn't be behind bars. You could make the same argument for Bernie Madoff, who probably isn't a danger to society considering his fraud is out in the open.
Comment · 1 year ago
But the morality is completely different. First one is beating the casino, the second one is marketing gambling to create new generation of degenerates.
Comment · 2 years ago
You want to start with narrow band. So object tracking, where the object is emitting a single frequency is a great start.

i think at 2khz (it is blazingly irritating to listen to), you need to space your microphones about 15cm apart. so you don't need too much room. Then it's just hooking up 4-6 microphones to a wooden board. Sampling with a decent microprocessor. You can do the processing on board, or ship it to a laptop, and do the processing there.

Just take care with your microphones and sampling. Any large defects will greatly inhibit your results.

Then for the algorithm, do a delay and sum. it's the dumbest approach, but the easiest to understand, and should work

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah the intuition, is that the sphere of the signal is so large, that any small section of it can be approximated to a plane
Comment · 2 years ago
The article (and what is generally talked about with phased arrays) generally focuses on radio wave based phasing. This is pretty inaccessible to average hacker. However it works just as well with audio, and can be rigged up much more easily. You can get quite solid results and learn quite a lot about DSP in general
Comment · 2 years ago
We are also moving away from traditional bowling pins because the mechanisms are too expensive and hard to maintain, and moving towards pins that are attached to strings, to cheaply reset

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