Its a transformer, with a CNN refiner after. Specifically, a ViT using the Hiera architecture (https://github.com/facebookresearch/hiera)

The Hiera ViT has dual decoder heads, one for the alpha and one for the RGD foreground, and then a small CNN refiner network to solve some artifacting in the output from the Hiera model.

I'd be very interested to see a long form tech talk of Niko explaining his process of learning ML ropes and building this model.

If the PIO pin could drive a fair amount of current at 3.3v into a long enough wire at that frequency you'd start to get into milliwatts, and AM radio is NOT a band that even amateur license operators can broadcast over a a certain power on. FCC part 15 dictates no more than a 3 meter antenna for personal devices at AM frequencies which is what does the power limiting essentially.

The harmonics fall off quick enough on such a setup that it wouldn't really be a problem - but the only way to really KNOW that is to have a real solid understanding of how this 'radio' you've just made is working, meaning how that square carrier wave is really being driven off the PIO pin, and thus you need the requisite EE knowledge and/or ham radio test equipment and experience.

I've seen more and more of these 'ChatGPT coded up a radio transmitter' posts and it kinda rubs me the wrong way. I'd like to see more calculations and disclaimers for people showing some responsibility with radio, and if it drives people to studying and taking an amateur radio license test that would be for the better...

So what the hell part of the EU are you talking about where they don't ask for any ID at the point where you are boarding, whatsoever?

For reference, here is Iberia's page for required ID when flying, and I've seen that this is absolutely enforced every time when checking in and boarding.

https://www.iberia.com/es/fly-with-iberia/documents/spain/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

Thinking about the logistics of such a feat at that time is wild to me for just the construction of a private residence.

Fast forward 200 years, and I was sweating at the cost just to hire someone to deliver new hardwood countertops from a place not much further away. By truck. By a single person. In a single afternoon. No horses required.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393

It's a ship with a very low deck line that partially submerges itself, with the center of the deck underwater deep enough so the other vessel can 'float on' over the deck. They they pump the water back out, raising the deck above water and the boat on top it just rests flat.

They do this for some oil rigs as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-lift_ship#Semi-submersib...

This is glaringly incorrect. All current brake calipers are machined from aluminum, specifically Aluminum-Lithium or Aluminum-Copper alloys. There is a rule denoting bulk elasticity modulus limit on brake calipers of 80 GPa, which was set just at that to allow the more exotic Lithium Aluminum alloys but to dis-allow Titanium alloys or anything else stiffer (There was experimentation with Titanium calipers in the past.)

Absolutely no calipers are made from composites, CF, graphite, or otherwise. Discs are Carbon-carbon.

You know we used to have to drive the car... sometimes many miles... to a station, get out, and fill it up with a liquid fuel that costs many times more, and then drive home...

Seriously now- The perceived 'inconvenience' you have is the reason that so many of these connected features are being pushed and then the because the ability is there the business types can't resist the data gathering that became possible because of all the antennas, etc.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1310/

I have an ice40UP5k board but I quickly ran out of block ram and LUTS whenever trying to use it for anything substantial, but seeing this project has me itching to start something around one of these icesugar pro boards. yosys & nextpnr support made things really damn easy when I was working with the ice40.

This device however - an entire Raspberry Pi + hat for a router to do..? ... seems like a solution in search of a problem to solve.

It is project I had heard about before but only in bullshit-passing articles and scrolling past brain rot youtube videos (seriously, search 'Kola superdeep borehole' on youtube and take note of how absolutely trash every other thumbnail appears concerning what in reality is just a normal scientific endeavour). So this video by David Smythe of the actual work there was wonderful and also a nice little nostalgic look at science and research as filmed by a VHS camcorder in that era. The computer equipment stuggles, etc...

It left me wondering about new research in this area and surprised I had not heard of any other such projects recently, so this news in interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mzEGeMNAI [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

Estimate for a standard classroom globe at 13" in diameter (I'm seeing a rnage of 12-14 inches as typical). I'm reporting in inches because that is what came up first and most of the globes are for sale in the US. Mixing units here, but, it works out.

But, in meters, the diameter of the Earth is 12,742,000 m on average. if we use the 'Karman line' as defining the edge of what the atmosphere is, that is 100,000 meters. Solving for X ... (13" / 12742000 m)=(X / 100,000 m). gives us an atmosphere thickness of approximately 0.1". -----

Paper glued to the globe would have a thickness of maybe, 0.004" (thin paper) to 0.012" (like a card stock paper).... so that analogy is off by an order of magnitude or more.

Even if you use the mesosphere as the definition for the top of the atmosphere, that is still 85,000 meters and thus similar.

People can check the numbers I used.

* Perhaps the analogy should go more like: the thickness of the cardboard sphere the globe is made out of is about the thickness of the atmosphere. Because, having completely destroyed a globe once in my youth, I remember the cardboard shell being approximately a tenth of an inch thick. But, that's maybe not a great reference for the analogy because not everyone has cut apart a classroom globe....

It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board.

The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as configured and thus didn't know how the full disk encryption was setup.

This whole camera design looks like one of those 'we gave this project to some undergrad engineering students who've never designed a commercial product before and had no price target and thus it has a whole damn embedded linux system inside it for merely taking some HD video and stills triggered by some external wiring and saving them to an SD card'.

See also: almost any specialty medical electronic device ever manufactured.

[0] https://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-rugged-com-runs-linux-or-androi...