6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (470+ words) There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer things, or you cou......

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (214+ words) Hackaday One day, people will look back at what we call Artificial Intelligence and laugh We do the same thing today, as chat bots totally outstrip what the computer industry called AI up until pretty recently This didn’t escape…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them Hackaday In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (33+ words) A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, when something went wrong with a student project, “Have you fully characterized the......

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (37+ words) Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can't help but keep falling out of natural processes-- case in point, the six-sided solid we call a hexago......

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (36+ words) We've likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated than we first realized. Whether that'......

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (241+ words) Hackaday In an ideal world, the role of technology would be to make all of our lives easier And although all the ads suddenly appearing in our smart TVs and gaming systems might make it seem otherwise, some technology can…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (224+ words) Hackaday Full body tracking in VR applications involves attaching sensors to one’s body, and [Jaki] has a DIY method to do it on the cheap: the Vive Tracker Lite project repurposes Vive controllers as lighthouse-based trackers, no hardware modifications required....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (32+ words) [Irving John Good] was at Trinity College, Oxford back in 1964. His paper, "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine" could have been a topic for today, as we deal with machines that......

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (276+ words) Silent Speech Hackaday Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before is this prototype tongue-reading system that uses…...