Frangipani
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Thank’s, Tech!
Looks more like an upside down 325 or 525 to me, but I don’t have a magnifying glass at hand, so could be wrong.
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Thank’s, Tech!
Looks more like an upside down 325 or 525 to me, but I don’t have a magnifying glass at hand, so could be wrong.
As we know, SCALA 3 is just the lidar transceiver. It's point cloud signals are then processed in software in a CPU.
SCALA 3 has 5 times the laser spots compared to SCALA 2. That's like going from 1 laser pulse per half degree of scan to 1 laser pulse per tenth of a degree of scan. So it is possible (highly probable) that Akida 2/TeNNs was in the right place at the right time. Valeo would have been at the top of the queue to get access to MetaTF with Akida 2 simulation software, and we would have collaborated on compiling the models.
I couldn't say whether Valeo are using the full Akida 2 with TeNNs simulation software, or only TeNNs, but TeNNs would fit with the increased laser pulse rate.
The really funny thing is that the patent does pretty much what my Prophesee DVS / TeNNs analogy from the other day describes.
The patent used the SNN as a "standard" tool. The "invention" is in the processing software utilizing the SNN classification signals.
One issue would be the time taken in processing the frame signals.
The SNN would do the object classification for 2 adjacent frames, and then identifies the differences between the frames, and changes above a threshold difference are used by the CPU in monitoring the cumulative changes. I think TeNNs software could do the change monitoring more efficiently than other software, and, of course, in hardware it would be more efficient again.
DingoBorat
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Already got it, but mines in black..
Yeah - I've got that one with the black writing ...
Frangipani
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You could check with them whether they’d be able to reprint the letters in green or orange, then? And maybe add a time frame?
DingoBorat
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How about AKIDA in "AKIDA blue" down the side next to hope?
Frangipani
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Speaking of colours:
Oh, so your face turned brownish-grey, then?!
Because that’s the fur colour of a rhesus monkey’s “Rückseite“, even though we would never use that word for animals (or human beings) - we’d use “Rücken“ instead.
“Rückseite“ (rear/reverse/flip/back side etc) is used when referring to objects such as a TV, a house, even the Moon. There are, however, exceptions. Some mountains have “Rücken“ (= ridges). And books have literally both a “Rückseite” (back) and a “Rücken“ (spine).
“Butt that’s not what I meant!”
What a bummer! Unfortunately, the colour was lost in translation, arse backside ≠ Rückseite. Literal translations can be tricky.
To convey the fire engine redness of blushing, Affenpopo, Affenhintern or the vulgar, but awesomely alliterative Affenarsch would have been the correct choice of words (usually associated with baboons in German, though, not macaques).
(P.S.: There are those here on TSE who consider me a smart-arse/ass, but hey, I’d rather be that than a dumb-arse/ass).
Oh, so your face turned brownish-grey, then?!
Because that’s the fur colour of a rhesus monkey’s “Rückseite“, even though we would never use that word for animals (or human beings) - we’d use “Rücken“ instead.
“Rückseite“ (rear/reverse/flip/back side etc) is used when referring to objects such as a TV, a house, even the Moon. There are, however, exceptions. Some mountains have “Rücken“ (= ridges). And books have literally both a “Rückseite” (back) and a “Rücken“ (spine).
“Butt that’s not what I meant!”
What a bummer! Unfortunately, the colour was lost in translation, arse backside ≠ Rückseite. Literal translations can be tricky.
To convey the fire engine redness of blushing, Affenpopo, Affenhintern or the vulgar, but awesomely alliterative Affenarsch would have been the correct choice of words (usually associated with baboons in German, though, not macaques).
(P.S.: There are those here on TSE who consider me a smart-arse/ass, but hey, I’d rather be that than a dumb-arse/ass).
Frangipani
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How about AKIDA in "AKIDA blue" down the side next to hope?
Doesn’t work for me, I’m afraid, as I am a synaesthete and perceive the letter A as being red, dominating the colour of the whole word (no kidding, this is true).
Synesthesia - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme–color_synesthesia
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McHale
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Yes, but the instos got their shares @.193, which from memory was around a 4% discount to the 10 day VWAP,
LDA were getting theirs @ around a 9% discount to market, so why were UCP prepared to underwrite
a $20m CR at such a low discount to market (or vwap).
I own a gold miner BGL which is an already profitable producer with v high grade gold and reserve of 3.2m ozs
(world class deposit and v high grade $$$),BGL had to take a 15% discount to market for a recent raise of $120m,
they had $75m in the bank before CR.
A lot of complaints and speculation here about why do a CR, well for a start it's a much better deal for BRN and for us
because there is much less dilution. Then BRN would definitely be able to get on with their commercialization plans with a solid cash runway, and not have to be concerned with burn rate.
Looks like Sean and maybe Antonio (perhaps others) were working on the CR before the AGM, but why were UCP
prepared to take such a low discount to market, many companies are paying more than cashed up BGL for money, 20% discount is not uncommon at present cash is tight.
Again I ask why would UCP take such a low discount and then put on social media how pleased they were to do
the CR with BRN ???
The Pope
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I heard South Korea really support local tech companies and a special someone from BRN said they are a tough nut to crack but are trying their best.
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DingoBorat
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I'm familiar with synesthesia, from the person refered to as S, who displayed mind boggling feats of memory.Doesn’t work for me, I’m afraid, as I am a synaesthete and perceive the letter A as being red, dominating the colour of the whole word (no kidding, this is true).
Synesthesia - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme–color_synesthesia
He used to write things down, in an effort to "forget" them.
He suffered from the same debilitating condition..
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IndepthDiver
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Everyone has their own take on it. Someone may be able to push the price down low but doesn't mean there's volume from real people selling.
I think it was a manipulative but typical move on UCPs part assuming it was them who forced it down so far and then the company agreeing to a raise at a price so low. However, if the company needs cash it is at the mercy of what the market is offering. You could argue they would have been better waiting till the price was 10% higher and then going with LDA, or just agreed with LDA a few months ago to raise this much when it was 50% higher.
UCP then kept the price below the SPP to minimise dilution from people who might be interested otherwise. I agree it was a token by the company, but at the same time it was a way to gauge the actual interest from shareholders. If few people take them up they're going to be hesitant taking this option again in the future.
When the SPP was raised I thought it was because of the risk of recession in the US. It's a pragmatic move IMO but at the same time, if they thought there were deals happening soon they could have waited a little longer and done it at a higher price. To raise this much, to me it's either a safety net for recession, they see a big opportunity and need to move quick, or it's required for a deal. Hopefully it's one of the latter options.
As a side note, I thought there'd be more uptake on the SPP as it allowed people to exceed the ~20% one stock limit on their super.
Frangipani
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Suffered from the same debilitating condition?! Erm, not at all!
I think you have a total misconception of what synaesthesia means to the overwhelming majority of people who have it. I don’t perceive it as a negative thing at all, on the contrary - to me, it is a special gift that enhances my life and even helps me to remember things better.
When I was a kid, I used to think everyone saw letters, numbers and words in colour. Until I learnt this was not the case, when I made a comment about the colours of weekdays at the dinner table one day - my parents and siblings just stared at me and had no idea what I was talking about.
When I was 16, I found out what this phenomenon was called by sheer serendipity and got in touch with Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge (who happens to be the cousin of the actor famous for playing your avatar’s second half), who was doing research on it at a time when it was hardly on anyone’s radar.
Statistically, there should be quite a few fellow synaesthetes roaming this forum - grapheme-colour synaesthesia is only the most common form - I am sure most of them will have similar stories to tell. We would, however, vastly differ in the colours we see, even though interestingly most people with synaesthesia apparently see A as red.
VIDEO: What is synaesthesia?
lighthouse.mq.edu.au
“Why do some people, such as pop star Billie Eilish, hear colour, or taste sounds? Professor Anina Rich, from Macquarie’s Department of Cognitive Science, explains.
Synaesthesia is an unusual phenomenon – not a disorder – where an ordinary stimulus, such as a sound, gives an extraordinary experience, such as a colour.
(…)
We still don’t really know why some people have synaesthesia – around 1 per cent of the population have it, and it is more common in females. There is a familial link, in that within families, more people will have synaesthesia than in the general population, but there are also many synaesthetes who don’t know of any others in their family. It doesn’t seem to convey any special talents, other than perhaps a benefit to memory and maybe creativity.
Some people report their synaesthesia helps with things, like “I am really good at maths because the colours help” but others say the opposite, like “I am really bad at maths because you can’t multiply colours!”
From talking to more than 1000 synaesthetes during 20 years of research, there have only been a few for whom the synaesthesia became debilitating for various reasons – one had bidirectional synaesthesia, which is very unusual and tends to be more interfering due to sensory overload. Sounds gave colours, but colours also gave sounds; you can imagine that would be pretty overwhelming.
For most synaesthetes, though, it is just their normal way of experiencing the world, and they may even think the rest of us (non-synaesthetes) a bit weird! I usually describe it as an unusual gift, which gives people’s perception an additional richness. But it is as difficult for a synaesthete to imagine what it is like NOT to have it, as it is for us to imagine what it is like TO have it.
I completely missed that product… 
would be nice to see 2025 an updated version with akida 
come one SONY!! Come on brainchip
“Updated DSEE Ultimate for Enhancing Streaming Music Quality
The NW-ZX707 and the NW-A306 both use Edge-AI (Artificial Intelligence), DSEE Ultimate™ (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) which upscales compressed digital music files in real time. The evolving algorithm now delivers even greater benefits for CD-quality (16 bit 44.1/48kHz) lossless codec audio. Restoring acoustic subtleties and dynamic range provides a richer, more complete listening experience.”
would be nice to see 2025 an updated version with akida come one SONY!! Come on brainchip “Updated DSEE Ultimate for Enhancing Streaming Music Quality
The NW-ZX707 and the NW-A306 both use Edge-AI (Artificial Intelligence), DSEE Ultimate™ (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) which upscales compressed digital music files in real time. The evolving algorithm now delivers even greater benefits for CD-quality (16 bit 44.1/48kHz) lossless codec audio. Restoring acoustic subtleties and dynamic range provides a richer, more complete listening experience.”
Hi Idd,
I had not considered such devious machinations. Certainly, the SP was manipulated down. The low volume of trade during the period showed that shareholders were not selling, but I can't see how pushing the price down would help UCP.
Yes, it would be good to have a recession buffe, but, in the support document for the SPP, we were told it, together with the capital raise, was to further develop TeNNs and to develop a cloud-based FPGA, which, I presume, would serve as a marketing tool.
A week or so ago, we were discussing an intern, now employed full time, who had developed a system which looked like a precursor for the on-line FPGA, so I think the company is being driven by Sean's "Damn the torpedoes" attitude.
DingoBorat
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Suffered from the same debilitating condition?! Erm, not at all!
I think you have a total misconception of what synaesthesia means to the overwhelming majority of people who have it. I don’t perceive it as a negative thing at all, on the contrary - to me, it is a special gift that enhances my life and even helps me to remember things better.
When I was a kid, I used to think everyone saw letters, numbers and words in colour. Until I learnt this was not the case, when I made a comment about the colours of weekdays at the dinner table one day - my parents and siblings just stared at me and had no idea what I was talking about.
When I was 16, I found out what this phenomenon was called by sheer serendipity and got in touch with Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge (who happens to be the cousin of the actor famous for playing your avatar’s second half), who was doing research on it at a time when it was hardly on anyone’s radar.
Statistically, there should be quite a few fellow synaesthetes roaming this forum - grapheme-colour synaesthesia is only the most common form - I am sure most of them will have similar stories to tell. We would, however, vastly differ in the colours we see, even though interestingly most people with synaesthesia apparently see A as red.
VIDEO: What is synaesthesia?
“Why do some people, such as pop star Billie Eilish, hear colour, or taste sounds? Professor Anina Rich, from Macquarie’s Department of Cognitive Science, explains.
Synaesthesia is an unusual phenomenon – not a disorder – where an ordinary stimulus, such as a sound, gives an extraordinary experience, such as a colour.
(…)
We still don’t really know why some people have synaesthesia – around 1 per cent of the population have it, and it is more common in females. There is a familial link, in that within families, more people will have synaesthesia than in the general population, but there are also many synaesthetes who don’t know of any others in their family. It doesn’t seem to convey any special talents, other than perhaps a benefit to memory and maybe creativity.
Some people report their synaesthesia helps with things, like “I am really good at maths because the colours help” but others say the opposite, like “I am really bad at maths because you can’t multiply colours!”
From talking to more than 1000 synaesthetes during 20 years of research, there have only been a few for whom the synaesthesia became debilitating for various reasons – one had bidirectional synaesthesia, which is very unusual and tends to be more interfering due to sensory overload. Sounds gave colours, but colours also gave sounds; you can imagine that would be pretty overwhelming.
For most synaesthetes, though, it is just their normal way of experiencing the world, and they may even think the rest of us (non-synaesthetes) a bit weird! I usually describe it as an unusual gift, which gives people’s perception an additional richness. But it is as difficult for a synaesthete to imagine what it is like NOT to have it, as it is for us to imagine what it is like TO have it.
Well it obviously doesn't give you the ability, to detect when someone is taking the mickey
..Unless of course, in spite of your long explanation, you're taking the mickey out of me, in eliciting this reply, to your reply...
I have a small understanding of our minds incredible "potential" and having it work in a different way, can open up doors, to some of this potential, meditation is another avenue. The creative arts, have a strong history of drug use, for inspiration as do, some deep thinkers and spiritualists (but I consider that a "cheap" or inferior route).
Great movie.
The fact that a synaesthete's mind is inherently more creative (as it's already "wired" to make stuff up) could benefit such individuals, in some cases, as imagination and creativity are some of Humankind's greatest strengths.
It is simply not logical, for a sound to evoke a sensation of colour, or any of the phenomena that synaesthetes experience, but experience it they do.
If sounds did have colours and colours sounds etc etc for various other senses and a synaesthete, was able to perceive this, then wouldn't there be an absolute agreeance, on those perceptions among them?
I guess the sample size is quite small and there is no real way, to measure, which synaesthetes, are more "able" or "normal" like you can, with a colour blindness test.
Everybody, "sees" the World a little differently, depending on their Life experiences, among other things such as physiological differences and nobody knows exactly how it "feels" to be in someone else's shoes, although sometimes we can get a taste, or have a glimpse through their window of the World.
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IndepthDiver
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Hey Dio,
Assuming this is the last capital raise at such a low price, this is the most shares the company will give away if they want to raise the same amount. If investors took up the entire $3M, this is close to 15 million shares (getting close to 1% of the current shares available).
Nevermind that UCP are getting 100 million shares, in the long term it's in their best interest to minimise how much other people hold.
I'd argue that share price is one of the strongest tools available to cause investors to get frustrated and consider selling. When it gets too low, investors presume something is going wrong (even if there isn't) thereby also helping the giants like UCP get more cheap shares.
I think recession risk shouldn't be completely disregarded. If you were going to raise money, it will flow more freely if there is a positive spin. However, just the other day Ford indicated they were dropping a few EV lines and changing their strategy. Many other big companies have been cutting staff and scrapping products recently.
From a sales perspective, the automotive industry has shifted in the past few years partly from lower customer interest in EVs than hoped. Many companies have delayed their EV commitments and a lot are shifting more to hybrids now. The EV market is one of which Brainchip was relying heavily on. Hybrids still have engines so aren't as reliant on minimising every bit of energy as EVs.
It's not to say these companies are no longer interested, they're likely trying to reduce costs for the time being (they all overspent billions on EVs) and may push out their initial plans. New EV models may still include Akida and new features developed for EVs may still get included in other new car lines, but there may be less and it's too soon to say.
That said there are other technologies which will continue to be innovated and improved on to stay ahead of competitors, so integration in products like Lidar and Radar hopefully aren't too far off, as well as other safety focused technologies.
It's also worth pointing out that machine learning technology doesn't guarantee the correct result 100% of the time. There is always going to be some hesitation by customers and regulator scrutiny if the product isn't 100% safe and is harder to verify, but machine learning capabilities are at the point where they are as good as or better than many human experts in most things. People are aware doctors aren't always correct but will generally have a lot of hesitation about using an AI health tool promising 90% accuracy, even if doctors don't achieve greater than 80% for the same task. It will take time but eventually acceptance will occur.
With this in mind, I still find it really interesting that TENNS demonstrated 100% accuracy in an application from one of the company presentations not too long ago (vital signs from memory). Being able to demonstrate this will not only increase customer interest, it will also likely speed up how fast their products can enter the market due to regulations. If TENNS has that sort of accuracy with other applications it should accelerate uptake with those too.
If Shaun is raising money to speed the time to market of TENNs, then this is a wise choice IMO. I still think $20+ million is a lot to raise for software improvements. If you have experienced how good and cheap AI tools are becoming you would understand. Hence my thought about recession (and other opportunities - with Jason on the SAB, SNN supercomputer / servers are definitely on the cards).
I think Shaun pulled the short straw by becoming CEO when he did. The economic conditions were pretty poor when he started and they're not much better now. A strong economy will drive retail interest in products, and hence customer sales. At the very least, from what he's been doing I think Shaun has a solid strategy in place.
I'm still of the view that the Space industry is almost a guaranteed success because as you remind us, there are large radiation benefits digital provide over analog. Given time frames of the space industry, if they are starting to get close to having chips or products ready, I think the consumer market should be even closer. I'm still optimistic that we are really close to success.
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