Meta has actually been supportive of wireless SteamVR for a long time. You can do it from their native application via airlink (available since ~2021) and via Virtual Desktop (an application on their store since 2019).

I'm excited to give it a try, but honestly the existing solutions are so good that it will be tough to beat them.

There are plenty of 'metaverses' where people go to hang out. For example VRChat has ~20k daily active users according to steam. https://steamcharts.com/app/43... That number is a low estimate since it doesn't count the many people who use it via the quest standalone client. The artificial scarcity of NFTs is really nothing but a money grab and the sooner we all wake up to that the better off we will be.

The parameters in this context are much closer to neural connections than they are to neurons. In the human brain each neuron has ~7k connections. So while we only have 100 billion neurons, we have something like 100-500 trillion connections. In that context, these models seem quite capable by comparison. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Back of the envelope math puts this model somewhere around 0.056%-0.28% of the connections that our brains have. Obviously this is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, but it's the best we've got. There is some recent work trying to quantify how many artificial neurons it takes to simulate a real one, and its somewhere around 1k: https://singularityhub.com/202...

Well it depends on what we're looking for. If this was sound at frequencies outside the realm of human hearing we have two options:

1) Below 20 Hz
2) Above ~14 kHz (22 kHz for young children)


According to this table the sound level for continuous exposure ear damage would be ~85 dB SPL (at the ear). At those volume levels, option 1 would likely be 'felt' even if they could not be heard. I think that means we can reasonably surmise that it was option 2, high volume at high frequency.

When we're looking for high frequency signals, we have to remember our friend Nyquist. Therefore we need at least double the sampling rate in order to recover the signal.

In the 'pro' audio world, there are a number of portable recorders with a sample rate at 192 kHz. For example. This would give a theoretical recordable frequency as high as 96 kHz. The problem with actually using a hand held device like this is that despite the fact that the sample rate is high enough to capture the signal, the microphones commonly used in the 'pro' audio world are designed for use in the band of human hearing. Their sensitivity at or above 20 kHz is generally very poor with a precipitous drop-off at 20 kHz.

That means we would need to find special purpose microphones. A quick look around yielded some microphones designed for wildlife that might work.

All of the above hardware is based on the assumption that we are looking for signals 96 kHz. If it is even higher, we would need even more specialized equipment to record/detect it.

That's a very good point. I am currently young and arrogant so I have yet to create a will. There is a 'live' copy of my shared data which is accessible to the appropriate people, but they would be unable to access my backups. That means disasters that strike both myself and my live storage location are still a threat to that data.

I think having multiple encryption volumes on the drives might be the answer here. Potentially a 'personal' volume which only I know the key to, and a 'shared' volume which I share the key across will / lawyer / loved ones. To make that more useful, storing a clear-text list of who should know the shared key with the data seems like a reasonable precaution.

I think the next time I rotate through my archives I will implement that type of multi-volume solution.

I happen to like 2TB internal laptop hard drives (2.5").

Pros:
-High capacity
-Small form factor, will fit in most safes / lock-boxes
-Slightly more shock resistant than 3.5" drives.
-Fit my hard drive dock/drive duplicator
Cons:
-Slightly pricey because of the large capacity

Keep the anti-static bag it comes in and toss a few zip-lock bags around it for a little bit of water resistance. If the data is worth anything to you, keep a local offline archive and one at a friend's house. If anything sensitive is on it, pick your favourite encryption (truecrypt is still my goto).

If it were as simple as polarized glass they might actually go that route. Unfortunately for everyone, it is much more complicated than that. You need specific lenses to protect from specific wavelengths (of which there are many).

With high powered lasers (that are surprisingly easy to come by) a fraction of a second is all it takes to cause serious and often permanent eye injury.

Khan Academy is quite good in my experience. You can pick and choose if you want or follow their 'knowledge map'.

It's basically a waterfall design where you have a group of non-technical people (state and federal government) writing the requirements document. That seems like a recipe for disaster to me.

No, the complaint here is "I need to buy another computer unrelated to the one for which I want to develop software". When developing for mobile devices you're cross-compiling anyway, so why shouldn't we be able to work in an environment we prefer (linux or windows)?

You can also look at their servers as they load balance: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/status/

When I was in college one of my first dorm walls was a magnetic metal sheet (it was an OLD building) and we never had any electronics problems...except horrible cell signal. It was useful when hanging posters.

Hate to burst your bubble...but 'printing' cells is not a new concept...from 2007

Yahtzee? I didn't know you read slashdot....

Perhaps its just me, but it seems like a few people may have jumped the gun here. There is a major distinction between correlation and causation. More to the point, just because in x% of accidents a cell phone was involved does not in any way show that by removing that factor you're going to magically stop those accidents. I'd be willing to bet over half of all car accident victims listen to the radio, and yet I do not see any government banning their use in cars. ((yes this is a stretch, but it illustrates my point))