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Lossy compression

Začnem trochu zoširoka, ale nevzdávajte to hneď na začiatku, pointa príde. Jedna zo spoločností Elona Muska, Neuralink, sa snaží vyvíjať niečo, čo volajú brain-machine interface. Vpodstate čip, ktorý sa dá implantovať do mozgu a môže slúžiť na rôzne účely. Napríklad na ovládanie vecí na diaľku, na ovládanie protéz, pre ľudí, ktorí stratili niektorú z končatín… dlhodobý vizionársky cieľ je umožniť…

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staré IKEA katalógy Is It a Cheetah? However, schools are to extraordinarily intelligent children what zoos are to cheetahs. Many schools provide a 10 x 12 foot cage, giving the unusual mind no room to get up to speed. Many highly gifted children sit in the classroom the way big cats sit in their cages, dull-eyed and silent. Some, unable…

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria The stations—which didn’t so much scan as photograph books—had been custom-built by Google from the sheet metal up. Each one could digitize books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour. The book would lie in a specially designed motorized cradle that would adjust to the spine, locking it in place. Above, there was…

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