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Peter Thiel’s bets are just too unique.
A few months ago, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $220 million investment in Halter at a $2 billion valuation.
Halter is a New Zealand startup that has essentially made physical fences unnecessary for cattle farming.
It puts solar-powered, GPS-enabled collars on cows, allowing farmers to create invisible fences, move entire herds from their phones, and monitor animal health in real time.
As a cow nears a boundary, speakers on one side of the collar emit a tone that grows faster as she gets closer, telling her which way to turn. A gentle vibration confirms when she is moving in the right direction. Only if she ignores both does the collar deliver a mild electric pulse, weaker than a standard electric fence.
After about a week of training, cows respond to sound alone.
In effect, Halter has turned one of the oldest forms of physical labour into something that can be managed through software.
we have a winner for the most absurd AI startup ever
this Peter Thiel backed company uses AI robots to stab fish in the brain so they taste better and last up to 3x longer
it's called Shinkei and it modernizes a centuries-old Japanese technique
dozens of Michelin-star restaurants are already lining up to buy the fish
here's how it works:
> the problem is when a fish gets caught, it usually just suffocates on the boat
> that stress floods the meat with hormones and lactic acid, which hurts the flavor and texture
> the old Japanese fix for this was spiking the fish through the brain right after the catch, which stops all that
> but doing it by hand is impractical for most American fishing crews
> so Shinkei built a fridge-sized robot that sits right on the boat's deck
> the crew feeds in a fish and AI identifies the exact species, so it knows exactly where the brain and gills are
> the robot then drives the spike through the brain and cuts near the gills in about 7 seconds
> the fish goes into an ice slurry so the blood drains out
> so the fish doesn't sit there stressing out, and that tasty flavor and texture is preserved
example number 5,392,417 of how AI can be applied to literally anything
ALT A gloved fisherman on a boat feeds a live salmon head-first into the steel intake of a white Shinkei Systems robot, with the ocean behind.
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we have a winner for the most absurd AI startup ever
this Peter Thiel backed company uses AI robots to stab fish in the brain so they taste better and last up to 3x longer
it's called Shinkei and it modernizes a centuries-old Japanese technique
dozens of Michelin-star restaurants are already lining up to buy the fish
here's how it works:
> the problem is when a fish gets caught, it usually just suffocates on the boat
> that stress floods the meat with hormones and lactic acid, which hurts the flavor and texture
> the old Japanese fix for this was spiking the fish through the brain right after the catch, which stops all that
> but doing it by hand is impractical for most American fishing crews
> so Shinkei built a fridge-sized robot that sits right on the boat's deck
> the crew feeds in a fish and AI identifies the exact species, so it knows exactly where the brain and gills are
> the robot then drives the spike through the brain and cuts near the gills in about 7 seconds
> the fish goes into an ice slurry so the blood drains out
> so the fish doesn't sit there stressing out, and that tasty flavor and texture is preserved
example number 5,392,417 of how AI can be applied to literally anything
ALT A gloved fisherman on a boat feeds a live salmon head-first into the steel intake of a white Shinkei Systems robot, with the ocean behind.
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Go ahead. Watch it in action. youtube.com/watch?v=5gVIWKDN…
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Ignoring the fact that Persians were converted via force.
Islam is such a comically evil religion. Like, only a cartoon villain would ban music, dance, and dogs. Its like they hate happiness.
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Women standin like wide receivers pre-snap to show they ass never not gonn be funny
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Is there a book that explores why England was not able to fully incorporate the Irish and Scottish into an English identity while Italian and German unification was so much more recent and yet more successful
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It's not 300 AD anymore. Our social technology is not based on swords, sandals, and public crucifixions. There is a 0% chance we regress for 1000 years, a near 100% chance we rapidly regress in a few decades and then rapidly re-ascend in a few decades or a century and try again.
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She shrieked at the last minute only because they broke out of the cloud at fairly low altitude and saw how fast the ground was rushing up. Imagine how horrible that was.
