> Internet via satellites is cool, but still can't compare itself to the one provided by optic fibers, so not a game-changer.

As someone whose family lives in a rural area, it absolutely is. The difference between Starlink internet and the crap they used to get from Viasat and other satellite internet companies is like going from dial-up to fiberoptic.

Not to mention use cases like natural disasters (it was used effectively in areas suffering forest fires, where internet lines were down or didn't reach those areas), underdeveloped countries, underdeveloped areas in developed countries, etc.

Heck, being able to use Starlink while traversing the ocean would be a game-changer in and of itself for freight, military, and passenger ships.

The more I hear about the innerworkings of Apple the more it resembles a bigger slower valve.

Thousands of engineers and designers working on pie in the sky ideas with nearly limitless budgets and no timeliness, whatever is interesting they work on with no real end.

And when something is not perfect employees shift to other projects or decide to scrap it internally. There must be so many ridiculously useless things being worked on at Apple.

Reminds me of hearing Mark Rober talk about him pitching ideas and them just building teams around it, making an ar headset generate games based on the g forces of the car.

Why is stuff like this even a priority?

Eh, there is still truckloads of money to be made on companies that aren't trying to pretend like they are the most important thing to ever happen during their pitches.

Dealing with that is pretty much what I do for a living, so I think I'm fairly up to date on how corporations work.

Probably would. the Punk in Cyberpunk refers to dystopian living conditions because of massive wealth inequalities producing both a class of highly opulent mega-wealthy people and a progressively decaying poor class whose lives are continuously intruded on by those in the wealthy class

A good future would be just a Cyber future

> responsible for what it does

I have sad news about how corporations work. You better sit down...

See that tells me that while you'll never be ultra rich. You'll also never completely torpedo yourself into the dirt like Elon and Zuckerberg are. Humans like dramatic and loud displays (gotta love that monkey in us). The people who'll be comfortable are ones who just look for the reasonable long term use tech.

Agreed that this tech has potential, I'm just fed up with promo materials that take a promising incremental step in something and spin it as "This discovery will make everything perfect forever, by the end of the fiscal year!"

Not-that-rare Belisarius Cawl sighting on reddit

If you aren't aware of how funding and running a company makes you responsible what the company achieves I really don't know how to help you on that one... And acting like Tesla or SpaceX would have gotten where they are without him is a massive stretch. Acting like they did it in spite of him is just silly.

Thanks, I just never looked into it.

And penicillin started as mold in a sink, science takes time and everything builds on what we know. Definitely oversold, but it's a step in the direction of a better tomorrow.

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How? He got fired from Paypal so he didn't revolutionize paying for stuff as much as he was trying to get in the way of it. How did he revolutionize phone books? He didn't do much for electric vehicles. Tesla has been doing well but to attribute that to him personally I is bizarre. And regarding space travel, sure he works on SpaceX and reusable rockets are a great idea but what did he personally contribute? The idea to use ipad-like touchscreens in an environment where physical controls will be better in an emergency? Or compromising the design of a rocket to make a reference to the movie "The Dictator"? It's becoming more and more apparent that Elon's companies have had successes in spite of him rather than because of him. It's even worse now since he's taken engineers away from his other companies and is making them work on Twitter instead.

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>"This interface could revolutionize the way we interact with technology," said co-first author Amy Rochford from the Department of Engineering. "By combining living human cells with bioelectronic materials, we’ve created a system that can communicate with the brain in a more natural and intuitive way, opening up new possibilities for prosthetics, brain-machine interfaces, and even enhancing cognitive abilities."

Mmm...you made rats twitch paralyzed forelimbs. Methinks you're overselling this a bit.

Could you kindly give me a dumbed down explanation about what the difference between the diffusion and GNN models?

I looked up both definitions but I don't understand them.

Cheers.

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Just imagine how much solar, power line infrastructure and wind turbines Canada could have invested in if you we used the 12 billion spent on the pipe line.

LOL. "a literal order of magnitude" makes no sense. It doesnt work as English and the current state of development is so primitive there's nothing to compare.

Idk Rick, I don't know if I can agree with this(the part of revolutionize), he did several good things and some of his products do work pretty well(and others don't like the Boring's Company Vegas Loop), but he didn't exactly "revolutionize" anything yet.

Take the car company for example, Tesla still uses lithium-ion batteries which is the norm for any EVs today, we don't see an exclusive formulae of new batteries for Tesla that can make the energy density 5x-10x bigger than conventional batteries.

FSD is still a worse driver than your average human driver, dunno if he'll manage to make it work perfectly before all the LiDARs, Radars + Cameras that are being put on other self-drivings approaches. If he pull that, then Tesla will have a revolutionary product, but I take Elon's claims with a heavy grain of salt.

Internet via satellites is cool, but still can't compare itself to the one provided by optic fibers, so not a game-changer.

Reusable rockets whistl a quite impressive feat, they're evolutionary at best, at least for now. Unless Starship manage to really make trips to LEO 100x cheaper, then in this case it'll be indeed an actual game changer.

You’re reading comprehension is clearly shit. My whole point from the beginning is that he hasn’t revolutionized anything. That’s why I called Zip2 into question. No, I don’t know wtf that is or I wouldn’t have asked. But hey, if you enjoy publicly sucking off wealthy tax dodgers who take away from public funds and programs, by all means. Just do us all a favor and take it to twitter where that bullshit belongs.

I’m sure your idol will appreciate it.

>"The challenge with integrating artificial limbs, or restoring function to arms or legs, is extracting the information from the nerve and getting it to the limb so that function is restored."

How does spinal repair help someone who lost the limb in the first place? Be as specific as you can please.

>and not just slap the implant on and say it's done.

It's a good thing that's not what they're doing then.

For anyone wondering how much reading that is: You'd have to spend an entire year reading 6200 words per second, if every single word you read is "revolutionize" to hit musk's net worth.

So now you're jumping to some entirely different argument to complain about. Kinda sounds like you just weren't aware that zip2 existed and are now scrambling to refuse to admit you were wrong... Also having a really tough time figuring out how you think "he came from a wealthy family" means that he isn't Tony Stark... Think thats my cue to stop responding to you.