Noruega ya tiene más de 2.000 robots láser de IA submarinos disparando piojos de su salmón
los hace una empresa llamada Stingray, y ya protegen más de 50 millones de salmones y truchas las 24 horas del día
la razón son los piojos de mar, parásitos diminutos que se pegan al salmón y se alimentan de él
con tan solo 11 se puede matar a un pez pequeño, y un solo corral puede tener 150.000 salmones
la solución habitual es bombear los peces y lanzarles agua caliente o chorros de agua para quitarles los piojos
pero el manejo es tan brusco que el informe de salud de peces de Noruega lo señala como la principal causa de muerte en el salmón de granja adulto
así que en cambio, Stingray mete un robot dentro del corral que caza piojos de uno en uno, todo el día:
> dos cámaras vigilan cada salmón que pasa nadando
> la IA revisa dos fotogramas para asegurarse de que realmente es un piojo
> entonces un láser verde dispara desde hasta 2 metros de distancia
> las escamas del salmón reflejan el rayo, así que el pez sigue nadando bien y el piojo muere
ahora vivimos en un mundo donde los láseres de IA hacen control de plagas en tu cena lmao
god i will always be thankful that faker, the face of lol esports, is a decent human being and not a raging misogynist that you often see loitering around this community given the recent events
“Makerspaces” aren’t really makerspaces, they’re like intro to engineering classes. It’s a huge pain.
I went to one today to get a some filament for a calibration print on my portable printer. They couldn’t give me new filament because of some “policy.” After a manager got involved, they sold me a morsel of recycled stuff for $1. That comes out to about $100/kg, roughly 10x bulk filament cost.
You also can’t take anything out of the lab. To use a hot glue gun or even a screwdriver, you have to hand over your student ID, they register a second card, you scan both. You get logged for trying to glue something 😂There are like 3 safety courses before you can use a soldering iron.
Half the space is cutesy textile and fabric printing machines. The other half has a filament recycling line that costs several times more to run than just buying filament in bulk.
It’s the same attitude from the student “supervisors” at every lab on campus. They explain things you never asked about. I went for some filament and got a completely irrelevant explanation of PLA vs PETG vs ABS, and was told several times it would probably get tangled without a spool. Even a total beginner just asking for filament doesn’t need to be lectured. Answer the question, and offer more if someone wants it. Every question turns into some sort of knowledge dump, and everything needs approval from someone with a title.
These spaces are a fine place to learn what a 3D printer is, but completely useless for projects.
I was going to put some machines in a campus lab and donate some filament, but the rule is any equipment you bring in is university property, and you’d have to ask permission to use your own machine, so they can get lost.
UIUC is probably the school most fixated on getting students jobs, so you’d think they’d make it easy to work on the thing employers care about most, which is projects.
the funniest thing ever is STEP has been a terrible response to model transfer because every other format that has the actual feature tree is proprietary and locked down, and in some cases against EULA to even reverse engineer. AI has finally made it so people can finally break the chains, we are not going back!