Adam J Calhoun
@neuroecology.bsky.social
I can't imagine smells. Neuro, ecology, behavior, punctuation art.
Now: @Meta @RealityLabs, ML for neural interfaces.
Prev: @Princeton, @SalkInstitute, @Intel
Now: @Meta @RealityLabs, ML for neural interfaces.
Prev: @Princeton, @SalkInstitute, @Intel
It turns out my humidifier is trying to kill me
I got an air quality monitor and notice that the small particle pm2.5 count was reaching "hazardous levels" when the humidifier came on with tap water... but stayed totally healthy when I used distilled water
I got an air quality monitor and notice that the small particle pm2.5 count was reaching "hazardous levels" when the humidifier came on with tap water... but stayed totally healthy when I used distilled water
January 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It turns out my humidifier is trying to kill me
I got an air quality monitor and notice that the small particle pm2.5 count was reaching "hazardous levels" when the humidifier came on with tap water... but stayed totally healthy when I used distilled water
I got an air quality monitor and notice that the small particle pm2.5 count was reaching "hazardous levels" when the humidifier came on with tap water... but stayed totally healthy when I used distilled water
I just got an air quality monitor, so obviously all I am doing is refreshing to check if I am about to be poisoned
January 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I just got an air quality monitor, so obviously all I am doing is refreshing to check if I am about to be poisoned
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With the upcoming book launch, I wanted a webpage that I am proud of, and @stellatecomms.bsky.social delivered in spades. But not just - when the opportunity arose to partner on #SciAdvocacy efforts, they sponsored this for us all:
www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy
@caitvw.bsky.social and team!d
www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy
@caitvw.bsky.social and team!d
January 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
With the upcoming book launch, I wanted a webpage that I am proud of, and @stellatecomms.bsky.social delivered in spades. But not just - when the opportunity arose to partner on #SciAdvocacy efforts, they sponsored this for us all:
www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy
@caitvw.bsky.social and team!d
www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy
@caitvw.bsky.social and team!d
Whipped tea?? This feels like it should be a thing again?
December 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Whipped tea?? This feels like it should be a thing again?
Great reading year for me - 65 books/21,000+ pages read
December 28, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Great reading year for me - 65 books/21,000+ pages read
Screw good coffee - what's the SF coffeeshop with the best vibe?
I'm pretty convinced that all the places I used to go pre-COVID don't exist anymore
I'm pretty convinced that all the places I used to go pre-COVID don't exist anymore
December 28, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Screw good coffee - what's the SF coffeeshop with the best vibe?
I'm pretty convinced that all the places I used to go pre-COVID don't exist anymore
I'm pretty convinced that all the places I used to go pre-COVID don't exist anymore
"I don't want people to be amiable and kindly. I want them to be vital and passionate."
- Somerset Maugham, 'Neil MacAdam'
- Somerset Maugham, 'Neil MacAdam'
December 26, 2024 at 11:22 PM
"I don't want people to be amiable and kindly. I want them to be vital and passionate."
- Somerset Maugham, 'Neil MacAdam'
- Somerset Maugham, 'Neil MacAdam'
What makes fish fast? Can we design robots that make use of designs found in nature (biomimetic)?
-> this article claims that the rough shark skin is more efficient, but it also compares it to the smooth skin of fast tuna or swordfish. So why don't they have rough skin?!
-> this article claims that the rough shark skin is more efficient, but it also compares it to the smooth skin of fast tuna or swordfish. So why don't they have rough skin?!
December 26, 2024 at 7:29 PM
What makes fish fast? Can we design robots that make use of designs found in nature (biomimetic)?
-> this article claims that the rough shark skin is more efficient, but it also compares it to the smooth skin of fast tuna or swordfish. So why don't they have rough skin?!
-> this article claims that the rough shark skin is more efficient, but it also compares it to the smooth skin of fast tuna or swordfish. So why don't they have rough skin?!
My kiddo has shown an interest in learning to read - but is not very interested in those "beginner reading" books.
I've been using @midjourney.bsky.social y every day to generate a new "page" of a collaborative book we've been making together
I've been using @midjourney.bsky.social y every day to generate a new "page" of a collaborative book we've been making together
December 26, 2024 at 6:50 PM
My kiddo has shown an interest in learning to read - but is not very interested in those "beginner reading" books.
I've been using @midjourney.bsky.social y every day to generate a new "page" of a collaborative book we've been making together
I've been using @midjourney.bsky.social y every day to generate a new "page" of a collaborative book we've been making together
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Thanks @elife.bsky.social for featuring our work with an eLife digest! elifesciences.org/digests/8989...
December 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Thanks @elife.bsky.social for featuring our work with an eLife digest! elifesciences.org/digests/8989...
Disappointing (European) bird fact of the day: Europe is the only continent with no endemic families of birds :(
December 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Disappointing (European) bird fact of the day: Europe is the only continent with no endemic families of birds :(
Child development is crazy - one year ago, my son was putting together nine piece puzzles. Today, he is ploughing through 1000+ piece lego sets with ease
December 24, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Child development is crazy - one year ago, my son was putting together nine piece puzzles. Today, he is ploughing through 1000+ piece lego sets with ease
what are some starter packs I should follow?
December 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
what are some starter packs I should follow?
So what are the fun things to do in the Bay Area this week? It always seems things are randomly closed during the holiday weeks
December 23, 2024 at 2:20 AM
So what are the fun things to do in the Bay Area this week? It always seems things are randomly closed during the holiday weeks
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I always found this paper kind of nice: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... it shows that if the environment fluctuates then evolution will favor sensors and the mutual info between sensors and env increases fitness. If the env has memory, I suspect organismic memory will provably be selected for also
December 7, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I always found this paper kind of nice: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... it shows that if the environment fluctuates then evolution will favor sensors and the mutual info between sensors and env increases fitness. If the env has memory, I suspect organismic memory will provably be selected for also
*tap tap* is this thing on?
December 5, 2024 at 10:56 PM
*tap tap* is this thing on?
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And and that's not all!
Here's another large dataset we just released - emg2pose - focused on hand pose estimation using sEMG. emg2pose has 193 participants over 370 hours & >50 behavioral categories w/ hand motion capture ground truth.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02725
github.com/facebookrese...
And and that's not all!
Here's another large dataset we just released - emg2pose - focused on hand pose estimation using sEMG. emg2pose has 193 participants over 370 hours & >50 behavioral categories w/ hand motion capture ground truth.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02725
github.com/facebookrese...
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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And and that's not all!
Here's another large dataset we just released - emg2pose - focused on hand pose estimation using sEMG. emg2pose has 193 participants over 370 hours & >50 behavioral categories w/ hand motion capture ground truth.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02725
github.com/facebookrese...
And and that's not all!
Here's another large dataset we just released - emg2pose - focused on hand pose estimation using sEMG. emg2pose has 193 participants over 370 hours & >50 behavioral categories w/ hand motion capture ground truth.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02725
github.com/facebookrese...
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Our baseline model built using standard techniques from the Speech Recognition literature shows that, with some personalization on top of a model pretrained with 100 subjects, we can quite accurately enable typing with sEMG, eventually without a physical keyboard.
Our baseline model built using standard techniques from the Speech Recognition literature shows that, with some personalization on top of a model pretrained with 100 subjects, we can quite accurately enable typing with sEMG, eventually without a physical keyboard.
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Our baseline model built using standard techniques from the Speech Recognition literature shows that, with some personalization on top of a model pretrained with 100 subjects, we can quite accurately enable typing with sEMG, eventually without a physical keyboard.
Our baseline model built using standard techniques from the Speech Recognition literature shows that, with some personalization on top of a model pretrained with 100 subjects, we can quite accurately enable typing with sEMG, eventually without a physical keyboard.
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Towards that goal, we now release emg2qwerty - a wrist sEMG dataset collected while touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard. With 108 subjects, 1,135 sessions, 346 hours, and 5.2 million keystrokes, this is quite large by neuroscience standards.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20081
github.com/facebookrese...
Towards that goal, we now release emg2qwerty - a wrist sEMG dataset collected while touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard. With 108 subjects, 1,135 sessions, 346 hours, and 5.2 million keystrokes, this is quite large by neuroscience standards.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20081
github.com/facebookrese...
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Towards that goal, we now release emg2qwerty - a wrist sEMG dataset collected while touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard. With 108 subjects, 1,135 sessions, 346 hours, and 5.2 million keystrokes, this is quite large by neuroscience standards.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20081
github.com/facebookrese...
Towards that goal, we now release emg2qwerty - a wrist sEMG dataset collected while touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard. With 108 subjects, 1,135 sessions, 346 hours, and 5.2 million keystrokes, this is quite large by neuroscience standards.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20081
github.com/facebookrese...
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But can we further push the boundaries of what is possible with sEMG?
We imagine many other applications for sEMG, including the ability to manipulate objects in AR or write full messages as quickly as—or faster than—typing on a keyboard, with very little effort.
But can we further push the boundaries of what is possible with sEMG?
We imagine many other applications for sEMG, including the ability to manipulate objects in AR or write full messages as quickly as—or faster than—typing on a keyboard, with very little effort.
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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But can we further push the boundaries of what is possible with sEMG?
We imagine many other applications for sEMG, including the ability to manipulate objects in AR or write full messages as quickly as—or faster than—typing on a keyboard, with very little effort.
But can we further push the boundaries of what is possible with sEMG?
We imagine many other applications for sEMG, including the ability to manipulate objects in AR or write full messages as quickly as—or faster than—typing on a keyboard, with very little effort.
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And at Connect 2024, we showed how one can use an EMG wristband with Orion—our AR glasses product prototype—for seamless and comfortable control over digital content to swipe, click, and scroll while keeping your arm resting comfortably by your side.
And at Connect 2024, we showed how one can use an EMG wristband with Orion—our AR glasses product prototype—for seamless and comfortable control over digital content to swipe, click, and scroll while keeping your arm resting comfortably by your side.
Introducing Orion, Our First AR Glasses | Meta Quest Blog
Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Orion—our first pair of true AR glasses, previously codenamed Project Nazare.
www.meta.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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And at Connect 2024, we showed how one can use an EMG wristband with Orion—our AR glasses product prototype—for seamless and comfortable control over digital content to swipe, click, and scroll while keeping your arm resting comfortably by your side.
And at Connect 2024, we showed how one can use an EMG wristband with Orion—our AR glasses product prototype—for seamless and comfortable control over digital content to swipe, click, and scroll while keeping your arm resting comfortably by your side.
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Earlier this year, we unveiled a wristband device that can be seamlessly worn, non-invasively sense muscle activations in the wrist and hand via surface EMG, and achieve out-of-the-box generalization across individuals for multiple tasks including handwriting!
Earlier this year, we unveiled a wristband device that can be seamlessly worn, non-invasively sense muscle activations in the wrist and hand via surface EMG, and achieve out-of-the-box generalization across individuals for multiple tasks including handwriting!
A generic noninvasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction
Since the advent of computing, humans have sought computer input technologies that are expressive, intuitive, and universal. While diverse modalities have been developed, including keyboards, mice, an...
www.biorxiv.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Earlier this year, we unveiled a wristband device that can be seamlessly worn, non-invasively sense muscle activations in the wrist and hand via surface EMG, and achieve out-of-the-box generalization across individuals for multiple tasks including handwriting!
Earlier this year, we unveiled a wristband device that can be seamlessly worn, non-invasively sense muscle activations in the wrist and hand via surface EMG, and achieve out-of-the-box generalization across individuals for multiple tasks including handwriting!
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The papers - emg2qwerty and emg2pose - are accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
If you’re in Vancouver next week, drop by our posters on Fri Dec 13 at 11am PST or at the Meta booth. We have some cool demos to show too!
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
nips.cc/virtual/2024...
The papers - emg2qwerty and emg2pose - are accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
If you’re in Vancouver next week, drop by our posters on Fri Dec 13 at 11am PST or at the Meta booth. We have some cool demos to show too!
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
nips.cc/virtual/2024...
NeurIPS Poster emg2qwerty: A Large Dataset with Baselines for Touch Typing using Surface ElectromyographyNeurIPS 2024
neurips.cc
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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The papers - emg2qwerty and emg2pose - are accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
If you’re in Vancouver next week, drop by our posters on Fri Dec 13 at 11am PST or at the Meta booth. We have some cool demos to show too!
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
nips.cc/virtual/2024...
The papers - emg2qwerty and emg2pose - are accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
If you’re in Vancouver next week, drop by our posters on Fri Dec 13 at 11am PST or at the Meta booth. We have some cool demos to show too!
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
nips.cc/virtual/2024...
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We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.
We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!
We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.
We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!
Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
ai.meta.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.
We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!
We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.
We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!