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Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...

To ChatGPT: Can training (sighted) humans for visual-to-auditory sensory substitution help build cognitive reserve to effectively delay or help protect against future cognitive decline? https://chatgpt.com/share/68fa9147-eca0-8004-b4d9-333510229d1f Spoiler: "Put toge…

ChatGPT - VASS and cognitive reserve
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First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

By simply exposing an AI-friendly live camera view on the screen, The vOICe offers an API-less interface for "raw vision" through The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution and "semantic vision" through any AI scene description app that can do screen capture. #BCI #vision

SPORTS: Simultaneous Panoptic Odometry, Rendering, Tracking and Segmentation for Urban Scenes Understanding
Zhiliu Yang, Jinyu Dai, Jianyuan Zhang, Zhu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12749

SPORTS: Simultaneous Panoptic Odometry, Rendering, Tracking and Segmentation for Urban Scenes Understanding
The scene perception, understanding, and simulation are fundamental techniques for embodied-AI agents, while existing solutions are still prone to segmentation deficiency, dynamic objects' interference, sensor data sparsity, and view-limitation problems. This paper proposes a novel framework, named SPORTS, for holistic scene understanding via tightly integrating Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS), Visual Odometry (VO), and Scene Rendering (SR) tasks into an iterative and unified perspective. Fir…

Unlike all electrode-based brain implants for restoring vision that can at best only convey a couple of rough edges at a time, The vOICe sensory substitution can also convey smooth shading and textures, completely noninvasively https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Multi-View Camera System for Variant-Aware Autonomous Vehicle Inspection and Defect Detection
Yash Kulkarni, Raman Jha, Renu Kachhoria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26454 https://

Multi-View Camera System for Variant-Aware Autonomous Vehicle Inspection and Defect Detection
Ensuring that every vehicle leaving a modern production line is built to the correct \emph{variant} specification and is free from visible defects is an increasingly complex challenge. We present the \textbf{Automated Vehicle Inspection (AVI)} platform, an end-to-end, \emph{multi-view} perception system that couples deep-learning detectors with a semantic rule engine to deliver \emph{variant-aware} quality control in real time. Eleven synchronized cameras capture a full 360° sweep of each vehi…

It is not difficult to think of military applications of brain implants. It is much more difficult to think of military applications of The vOICe sensory substitution. ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/692d8dd3-92e4-8004-aa8c-ca38c1fe2a38

ChatGPT - Military applications comparison
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