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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Their article: https://writetobrain.com/olfactory

In the end, our headset got a bit hacky: It ended up having a knife taped to the probe for mechanical support. At the time, all of our headsets had a knife taped to the probe, as untaping the knife lead to software errors.

I'm sorry what

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 weeks ago

the hardware equivalent of "I have no idea what this section of the code does but if you remove it, it breaks the app"

[–] cm0002 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's the endgame to "load bearing line of code that's supposed to do nothing"

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's written in CRAB —which is like C#, but sharper because knife.

[–] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Im sure prolonged use is good for the brain

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

From the article:

no one has ever done this before, even in animals.

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space. A bit of ultrasound, a breath in - and you understood a paragraph.

I smell kung fu.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if this could work on people without senses of smell

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 7 points 3 weeks ago

VR porn with realistic smell incoming.