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Paging Jim Bell
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Hey Jim, I was wondering what you think about the AIDS fraud, denounced by Pretty High Scientific Authorities like Kary Mullis (chemistry nobel prize winner inventor of PCR), and Peter Duesberg. http://duesberg.com/subject/africa2.html You are a self described 'libertarian' and yet I haven't seen you say a word about the total corruption of the medical mafia, the pharmaceutical mafia, the fact that they are close accomplices of the government, and the fact that all of them in the last two years have violated the individual rights of 1000s of millions of people with total impunity. Even if you were an ignorant, cowardly, technofascist fucktard who understand nothing of 'epidemics', you should realize that the political aspect of the fascist flu farce doesn't add up? And then you should learn the A of ABC of 'science'? http://duesberg.com/subject/africa2.html

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neuromorphic processing
by coderman 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

https://github.com/combra-lab/combra_loihi combra_loihi combra_loihi is a neuromorphic computing library for Computational Astrocyence developed specifically for Intel's Loihi neuromorphic processor. The library is developed by [Computational Brain Lab](http://combra.cs.rutgers.edu/) (ComBra) at Rutgers University. Version 0.1 (11/2018) Prerequisites: - python 3.5.2 - NxSDK 0.7 For more information, please go to [combra_loihi WiKi](https://github.com/combra-lab/combra_loihi/wiki) Related Publication Guangzhi Tang, Ioannis E Polykretis, Vladimir A Ivanov, Arpit Shah, Konstantinos P Michmizos. "Introducing astrocytes on a neuromorphic processor: Synchronization, local plasticity and edge of chaos." Neuro-inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE 2019), Albany, NY, USA. [pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.01620.pdf) ==== https://github.com/combra-lab/spiking-ddpg-mapless-navigation Spiking Neural Network for Mapless Navigation This package is the PyTorch implementation of the Spiking Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (SDDPG) framework. The hybrid framework trains a spiking neural network (SNN) for energy-efficient mapless navigation on Intel's Loihi neuromorphic processor. The following figure shows an overview of the proposed method: [overview of method](https://github.com/combra-lab/spiking-ddpg-mapless-navigation/blob/… The paper has been accepted at IROS 2020. The arXiv preprint is available [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01157). New: We have created a new GitHub repo to demonstrate the online runtime interaction with Loihi. If you are interested in using Loihi for real-time robot control, please [check it out](https://github.com/michaelgzt/loihi-control-loop-demo). Citation Guangzhi Tang, Neelesh Kumar, and Konstantinos P. Michmizos. "Reinforcement co-Learning of Deep and Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Mapless Navigation with Neuromorphic Hardware." 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2020. @inproceedings { tang2020reinforcement , title = { Reinforcement co-Learning of Deep and Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Mapless Navigation with Neuromorphic Hardware } , author = { Tang, Guangzhi and Kumar, Neelesh and Michmizos, Konstantinos P } , booktitle = { 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) } , pages = { 1--8 } , year = { 2020 } , organization = { IEEE } } Software Installation 1. Basic Requirements - Ubuntu 16.04 - Python 3.5.2 - ROS Kinetic (with Gazebo 7.0) - PyTorch 1.2 (with CUDA 10.0 and tensorboard 2.1) - NxSDK 0.9 ROS Kinetic is not compatible with Python 3 by default, if you have issues with using Python 3 with ROS, please follow this [link](https://medium.com/@beta_b0t/how-to-setup-ros-with-python-3-44a69ca36… to resolve them. We use the default Python 2 environment to execute roslaunch and rosrun. A CUDA enabled GPU is not required but preferred for training within the SDDPG framework. The results in the paper are generated from models trained using both Nvidia Tesla K40c and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti. Intel's neuromorphic library NxSDK is only required for SNN deployment on Loihi. If you are interested in deploying the trained SNN on Loihi, please contact the [Intel Neuromorphic Lab](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/neuromorphic-communit…. We have provided the requirements.txt for the python environment without NxSDK. In addition, we recommend setting up the environment using [virtualenv](https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/). 2. Simulation Setup The simulation environment simulates a Turtlebot2 robot with a 360 degree LiDAR in the Gazebo simulator. Turtlebot2 dependency can be installed using: sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-turtlebot- * We use the Hokuyo LiDAR model in the simulation and set the parameters to be the same as the RPLIDAR S1. LiDAR dependency can be installed using: sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-urg-node Download the project and compile the catkin workspace: cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /ros/catkin_ws catkin_make Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc in order for ROS environment to setup properly: source < Dir > / < Project Name > /ros/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash export TURTLEBOT_3D_SENSOR= " hokuyo " Run source ~/.bashrc afterward and test the environment setup by running (use Python 2 environment): roslaunch turtlebot_lidar turtlebot_world.launch You should able to see the Turtlebot2 with a LiDAR on the top. 3. Real-world Setup We install the [RPLIDAR S1](https://www.slamtec.com/en/Lidar/S1) on the center of the top level of Turtlebot2. To use the LiDAR with ROS, you need to download and install the rplidar_ros library from [here](https://github.com/robopeak/rplidar_ros) on the laptop controlling Turtlebot2. After installing the library, you need to add the LiDAR to the tf tree. This can be done by adding a tf publisher node in minimal.launch from turtlebot_bringup package: < node name = " base2laser " pkg = " tf " type = " static_transform_publisher " args = " 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 /base_link /laser 50 " > Test the setup by running (use Python 2 environment): roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch and roslaunch rplidar_ros rplidar_s1.launch in separate terminals on the laptop controlling Turtlebot2. Example Usage 1. Training SDDPG To train the SDDPG, you need to first launch the training world including 4 different environments (use Python 2 environment and absolute path for <Dir>): roslaunch turtlebot_lidar turtlebot_world.launch world_file:= < Dir > / < Project Name > /ros/worlds/training_worlds.world Then, run the laserscan_simple ros node in a separate terminal to sample laser scan data every 10 degrees (use Python 2 environment): rosrun simple_laserscan laserscan_simple Now, we have all ros prerequisites for training. Execute the following commands to start the training in a new terminal (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /training/train_spiking_ddpg python train_sddpg.py --cuda 1 --step 5 This will automatically train 1000 episodes in the training environments and save the trained parameters every 10k steps. Intermediate training results are also saved through tensorboard. If you want to perform the training on CPU, you can set --cuda to 0. You can also train for different inference timesteps of SNN by setting --step to the desired number. In addition, we also have the state-of-the-art DDPG implementation that trains a non-spiking deep actor network for mapless navigation. If you want to train the DDPG network, run the following commands to start the training in a new terminal (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /training/train_ddpg python train_ddpg.py --cuda 1 2. Evaluate in simulated environment To evaluate the trained Spiking Actor Network (SAN) in Gazebo, you need to first launch the evaluation world (use Python 2 environment and absolute path for <Dir>): roslaunch turtlebot_lidar turtlebot_world.launch world_file:= < Dir > / < Project Name > /ros/worlds/evaluation_world.world Then, run the laserscan_simple ros node in a separate terminal to sample laser scan data every 10 degrees (use Python 2 environment): rosrun simple_laserscan laserscan_simple Now, we have all ros prerequisites for evaluation. Run the following commands to start the evaluation in a new terminal (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /evaluation/eval_random_simulation python run_sddpg_eval.py --save 0 --cuda 1 --step 5 This will automatically navigate the robot for 200 randomly generate start and goal positions. The full evaluation will cost more than 2 hours. If you want to perform the evaluation on CPU, you can set --cuda to 0. You can also evaluate for different inference timesteps of SNN by setting --step to the desired number. To deploy the trained SAN on Loihi and evaluate in Gazebo, you need to have the Loihi hardware. If you have the Kapoho Bay USB chipset, run the following commands to start the evaluation (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /evaluation/eval_random_simulation_loihi KAPOHOBAY=1 python run_sddpg_loihi_eval.py --save 0 --step 5 You can also evaluate for different inference timesteps of SNN by setting --step to the desired number. In addition, you also need to change the epoch value in the <Project Name>/evaluation/loihi_network/snip/encoder.c file corresponding to the inference timesteps. For both evaluations, you can set --save to 1 to save the robot routes and time. These running histories are then used to generate the results shown in the paper. Run the following commands to evaluate the history by yourself (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /evaluation/result_analyze python generate_results.py You should be able to get the following results for evaluating the SAN on GPU with T=5: sddpg_bw_5 random simulation results: Success: 198 Collision: 2 Overtime: 0 Average Path Distance of Success Routes: 18.539 m Average Path Time of Success Routes: 42.519 s [overview of method](https://github.com/combra-lab/spiking-ddpg-mapless-navigation/blob/… with red dot as goal positions, blue dot as start positions, and red cross as collision positions. 3. Evaluate in real-world environment Our implementation of real-world evaluate relies on the amcl to localize the robot and generate relative goal positions. Therefore, to evaluate the trained SNN in real-world environment, you have to first generate a map of the environment using GMapping (use Python 2 environment): roslaunch turtlebot_lidar gmapping_lplidar_demo.launch Then, you can use the saved map to localize the robot's pose (use Python 2 environment): roslaunch turtlebot_lidar amcl_lplidar_demo.launch map_file:= < Dir to map > You can view the robot navigation using rviz by running in a separate terminal (use Python 2 environment): roslaunch turtlebot_rviz_launchers view_navigation.launch After verifying that the robot can correctly localize itself in the environment, you can start to evaluate the trained SNN. Here, we only support the evaluation on Loihi. To deploy the trained SNN on Loihi, you need to have the Loihi hardware. If you have the Kapoho Bay USB chipset, run the following commands to start the evaluation (use Python 3 environment): source < Dir to Python 3 Virtual Env > /bin/activate cd < Dir > / < Project Name > /evaluation/eval_real_world KAPOHOBAY=1 python run_sddpg_loihi_eval_rw.py For your own environment, remember to change the GOAL_LIST in the evaluation script to the appropriate goal positions for the environment. Acknowledgment This work is supported by Intel's Neuromorphic Research Community Grant Award.

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FOUND! An infallible way to beat the English speaking US Gov-Pol-CDC-FDA-$$$-VaxCorp!
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Get off the internet.

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COVID Misinformation Is Causing a Run on Ivermectin
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/covid-misinformation-ivermectin-sho… If you’re not a consumer of conservative media and/or the audio offerings of conspiracy theorists, where the likes of Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Alex Jones have been pushing the drug as a miracle cure

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Sue Yourself to the Moon (Sonic Weapons)
by Gunnar Larson 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Do sonic weapons affect St. Benards? Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon

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Sue Yourself to the Moon (Sonic Weapons)
by Gunnar Larson 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Do sonic weapons affect St. Bemards? Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon

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HIV/AIDS denialist claims are Batshit-Crazy lies based on "Govcorp" conspiracy theories,
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism Wikipedia contributors. Heh. They are far too kind. As for the Govcorp conspiracy crowd spending so much time online. Is that wise?

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COVID Misinformation Is Causing a Run on Ivermectin
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

"... It sounds worth using. Don't forget Famotidine (Pepcid), some others..." Bleach. Inhaling Hydrogen Peroxide Cyanide capsule A 7.65-millimeter Walther PPK pistol Appropriate bullet Eternal Struggle

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DC COPS close in on JOHN YOUNG!
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

MicahLoewinger · 3h For @Gothamist , @georgejoseph94 and I reviewed hacked Oath Keeper online materials and found the names of multiple NYPD and city officials. Mayor Bill de Blasio's office says its investigating:

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Another Batshit-Crazy that can’t differentiate between reality and bogus conspiracy theories
by professor rat 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

" Grarpamps " could be Dumbfuck Jnr for all we know. Totally Batshit. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-jr-just-blew-it-3/41755/

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