BluesF

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would any of that really make it heat more efficiently though? You'd need at least two magnetrons, some sort of computer vision system, and a computer to do the necessary calculations. Even if you could practically produce an interference pattern that's better than a single standing wave, I suspect you'd lose more energy than you save.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm happy to accept that I was wrong, in fact this is a very interesting bit of technology! I didn't intend to be rude, unlike you, clearly.

I'd also like to add that beamforming, despite the name, does not actually involve creating a directed beam. As I described the antenna still sends a signal out in all directions - multiple antennae work together to create an interference pattern with a stronger signal where a device is located. While I wasn't aware of this technology, it is not as "directed" as the name implies and wouldn't necessarily have applications inside a microwave oven, especially since the wavelengths used are pretty long, so I don't think they would not have much flexibility to create the kind of precise pattern that cooking something while skipping the empty space would require.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Routers? Do you mean Wi-Fi routers? Because they certainly don't pinpoint waves for each device, they send all traffic out in all directions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well then the average is just 1 isn't it. It doesn't make any sense to integer-ise your inputs but leave your output rounded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I have never heard of such a thing! Sounds very annoying to say the least

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Surely that's the vaccine, not the needle?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (8 children)

If this is the same startup I read about a while ago... Well the technology doesn't actually exist. There's a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

If shareholders' profits are affected then so will the decisions lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Mm, I've already seen marketers present outputs from GPT models as if it's useful customer feedback. My suspicion is this bubble will burst though, because at some point it will become clear that they are not as good as what they're doing as execs have been told they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And his face half stopped aging! Wild story, always love being reminded of this guy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

100%, all I really want is something I can look at and perhaps sensibly chuckle at when I have a few minutes... Not a pasasitic brain worm that really wants me to pay attention to it.

 

I realise this doesn't hit what might be expected of 'terrible' real estate, but these photos look like they were taken on the most middle class floor of the backrooms. So many chairs, all positioned as if just recently departed...

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