The paper has more details. What's interesting to me is that the key innovation isn't the deformable mirror but rather the design of a wavefront sensor that focuses on coronal features (instead of the "grain" on the solar surface prior systems used).
Likely nanotechnology. Sensors that can reside in your body and give up to the moment details, and chemical factories that we can programmatically make adjustments to the body's existing pathways (reprogramming the immune system, etc.).
In other words, better integration and faster feedback loops.
When dealing with code we say refactor and simplify. Superintelligence my (rightfully) consider us too complicated and a 'big ball of mud' and replace us with version 2.0.
The article feels like it was written by ChatGPT, and it doesn't explain anything about the "special reflectors" or the overall theory behind the optical design that enables shadowless lighting.
Yeah, good eye. It reads like a general description of the product type and not of this particular implementation. Your link has an actual exploration of the tech.
>Outcome-oriented design involves orchestrating experience design with a greater focus on user goals and final outcomes, while strategically automating aspects of interaction and interface design.
Dark patterns is another type of "outcome oriented design" where the outcome is the user subscribing/not canceling/paying needlessly. Adding "strategic automation" will doubtlessly just make this problem worse.
Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a typical toilet is getting replaced with a series of solenoids. Flush is now just energizing an electromagnet, rather than the gravity-powered dance of floats and valves you're used to.
There's also fun to be had trolling toddlers. Sometimes when my 2yo closes the toilet I'll sneakily open it with the remote and she'll yell at it "NO!" and slam it shut again.
They said remote, not app. My toilet has a remote with all it's features that's mounted on the wall next to the toilet. The on toilet controls are limited to the essentials.
As to why they have the remote outside of the bathroom apparently.... I took have questions.
I heard about somebody at Google (where they have lots of Washlets) who swapped the remotes for two neighboring Washlets either on purpose or by accident. Much hilarity ensued.
There was a good Chinese Pod episode on this but I can't find it now. One of the things I recall was to express emphasis, make the tones really obvious (almost like a beginner might, consciously speaking them).
If your operation has reached the point where milliseconds matter..something likely has gone wrong.
I'd be curious to see data on how other cognitive metrics change in absence of atmospheric nitrogen. Abstract reasoning / mental math abilities / etc. It's possible some actually improve, just like I might rush and make more errors while doing something after drinking a few coffees.
It'll be hard to make traditional motor windings out of this particular material because AFAIK it's a ceramic, but perhaps with thin films on flex PCBs it would be possible.
I'm imagining a future where a superconducting layer on a PCB is just another checkbox you can choose when ordering small runs of boards.
[ ] 1 oz copper
[ ] 2 oz copper (+$2)
[X] 10 micron LK-99 (+$10)
Another thought - I think the first place we'll see this widely rolled out is in IC's (waiting for the Asianometry video on it). IC's are already planar, they're small so exotic materials aren't a big contributor to costs, and they're very power dense. Replacing a metal layer with a superconducting one could enable greater gate density and potentially significant improvements in efficiency. I don't know by how much because switching losses are probably where most energy is dissipated, but it's an incremental change that seems compatible with the process.
The theoretical papers I've seen (linked here in recent days) suggest that pure crystals of LK-99 would superconduct only in one dimension so it's likely to be fussier than that.
Perhaps it will be like a "tape" laid down with the proper orientation for each conductor. Perhaps you'll need separate north-south and east-west and maybe diagonal layers with special attention to inter-layer connections.
The paper glosses over the technical design of the solar shield spacecraft. I'd like to understand how they will maintain their attitude given how huge they are. Would gyros be enough to counteract radiation pressure?
What you need your counter ia radiation pressure gradients that would deform the shield. I’m assuming the craft rotates so that the centrifugal force keeps the shield flat and extended, so the craft itself would be a gyroscope on one axis. For average radiation pressure, the shield would need to be slightly closer to the Sun than the L1 point so that the pressure and the gravitational pull cancel each other out - you’ll still need at least two engines, one facing the Sun and other facing the Earth that would do orbit height adjustments. You may be able to get away with one if you shine lasers on the shield when you need to push it sunward.
The paper has more details. What's interesting to me is that the key innovation isn't the deformable mirror but rather the design of a wavefront sensor that focuses on coronal features (instead of the "grain" on the solar surface prior systems used).