It looks like independent hackers with a strong technical background and little regard for decorum.
Their methodology seems reasonable, and their results are plausible.
I’m reserved about the final part of the post where they moot about applications, but the core result seems solid. They elicited osmosphenes like one can elicit phosphènes by targeting the visual cortex.
I don't know the exact details, but as far as I remember they are a employees owned collective with social improvement goals, working on open source, and they are involved in the Orca screen reader for Linux.
Wikipedia and their about page give some more info, but they definitely have accessibility experience and the history of delivering stuff.
This is probably negligible, but the hammer is not perfectly rigid. The tension in the stem at the time the hammer escapes and subsequent oscillations could also play a role.
This little morsel was coagulating in my mind as I was reading all of these comments. No idea what, if any, effect there would be, but it is a variable.
The old, bug-ridden native XSLT code could also be shipped as WASM along with the browser rather than being deprecated. The sandbox would nullify the exploits, and avoid breaking old sites.
They actually thought about it, and decided not to do it :-/
I don't know if the evidence is more than anecdotal, but I've read that ADHD smokers who are taking adderal have to increase the dose of their treatment to remain functional when they quit smoking.
I've been taking nicotine patches for half a year now, with great success (and it is available OTC unlike other stimulants). Nicotine in itself isn't toxic at these doses (7, 14, 21mg), it's a cool life hack :-).
I enjoy cigars and notice the positive effect, my fear with the patches or Lucy/zyn is that it not being self limiting seems to lead to people having one in their lip literally every waking minute when they’re not eating.
Patches are changed once per day, and their pharmacokinetics isn't addictive (the nicotine blood levels rise too slowly to give you a dopamine boost).
I sometimes realize in the afternoon that I forgot to change my patch in the morning because I'm a bit drowsy (a feeling not unlike being uncaffeinated when you're used to drinking coffee). AFAIK the withdrawal symptoms fade out in at most a week.
I've had a similar problem with WebGPU and WGSL. LLMs create buffers with the wrong flags (and other API usage errors), doesn't clean up resources, mix up GLSL and WGSL, write semi-less WGSL (in template strings) if you ask them to write semi-less [0] JS...
It looks like independent hackers with a strong technical background and little regard for decorum.
Their methodology seems reasonable, and their results are plausible.
I’m reserved about the final part of the post where they moot about applications, but the core result seems solid. They elicited osmosphenes like one can elicit phosphènes by targeting the visual cortex.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_focused_ultrasoun...