On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 01:42:10PM -0400, funkymail via cypherpunks wrote:
https://ar.anyone.tech/6cb-OyzPFi1nJYZ-uHAHH2uwoCbosf0AQuS_qGEgBXY#-U_3AcjRg... https://ar.anyone.tech/WQnYlm58fO0G-zFK2kCBkdvTL0mT8P2xH6TdTDV9CGc
i may end up running mbsync by hand. anyway ...!
so. in the 2010s there was a tiny newsitem that this chinese grad student or such had applied ICA to video and found you could use it to measure pulse ox parameters pretty simply.
heartpulse app is an attempt to make a mobile app that shows this--
[noting some inhibition experiences, they describe observing people's pulses with video as evil or creepy and focus on amplifying the evilness judgements and associated stoppingness with the behavior, rather than relating around responsible implementation or use.]
--using normal optimization procedures for mobile tech demos at the time.
this pursuit roughly ended my life of optimizing algorithms.
https://ar.anyone.tech/06A3e23wXYwcR-RnGF_IKnPhi8krLWBohpzY9wBn80c#UR5xrZOsJ... https://ar.anyone.tech/S1UTv6HrFilwXUxuDXIGpHOvISG62oG_CdzYJakyUHs
more creepiness amplification. of course the problems are in the tech work, not the release or use, it is now what i am navigating. suddenly i am realizing that it's use of full-imate averages means a person so far away they are only a single pixel could have their heartbeat reported clearly to a user-- [would send here but that would mean waiting for mbsync ...] now feeling kind of nauseaus and having a different kind of dissociation ... taking;some time. so it's very powerful, the stoppingness, but it's illogical because it is talking about things i am not doing, such as _using_ or _sharing_ an app i _have not started_ that uses _generally useful technology_ (that is also quite old now). here we kinda see my habit of arguing with my experiences. they raise strong reasons that are likely insufficiently true -- they act for goals moreso. getting hard to be rational and consistent. https://ar.anyone.tech/LswTA4aAbQVRCoGZXTzvDMcbvad92J4cBdUDLffgfY8#aKzQ_aLgg... https://ar.anyone.tech/Dvb-DfTjw5VVfh7S2Y5wwOoWico8DY_rjzO4x-r0W9c I am not affiliated with https://ar.anyone.tech .