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asamiontop · 2 years

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A lot of fanart depicts Lena wearing rings. (I love it, it’s so gay.)

But she went to MIT and I haven’t encountered any images of her wearing a Brass Rat…

Putting this out there into the void bc I think those hands would wear one well.

#lena luthor #brass rat #tony stark had one ffs #and we all know she’s a much cooler alum #MIT #Katie’s hands brainrot #that’s it

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stevebattle · 8 months

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Ants: Anita, Sandra, Kisha, Tracie, Niqi, and Hope (1995) by James McLurkin, MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA. There were six robot ants, all with womens’ names since all worker ants are female. We see McLurkin with his ‘Ant Farm’, and before and after images of the ants foraging for ‘food’, then responding to signals from the first ant to find it. “The Ants are programmed with a subset of Brooks' Subsumption Architecture implemented in 6811 assembly language. A program for the Ants would consist of a group of behaviors, arranged in a hierarchy. … A behavior is a small piece of code that acts like a finite state machine. … This is an effective method of providing the robot with a response for every possible sensory input, without having to explicitly program for every condition. Summing the responses of many behaviors is a much easier task that looking at all of the sensory inputs and then trying to decide what to do. As a result, the robots can exhibit surprisingly complex actions with a very small amount of software. … When a robot finds food, she stops and transmits I-found-food through her IR beacon emitter. Other members in the vicinity that detect this signal head towards her, transmitting I-see-a-robot-with-food from their beacon emitters. Any robot that detects this secondary signal heads towards it until they receive the primary signal, then the head towards the first robot. In this manner, many robots can be vectored towards a large food source quickly.” – The Ants: A Community of Microrobots by James McLurkin.

#cybernetics #robot #microbot #1995 #MIT

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captainsophiestark · 2 months

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Super Surprises

Harley Keener x Reader

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Written for my personal fic writing challenge for 2024, Sophie's Year of Fic! Featuring a new fic being posted every Friday, all year long :)

Fandom: Marvel

Summary: Harley's SO shows up earlier than expected to his apartment and discovers he leads a slightly more interesting life than the average MIT student

Word Count: 1,781

Category: Fluff, Humor

Putting work into an AI program without permission is illegal. You do not have my permission. Do not do it.

"Harley! You'll never believe the email I got from my professor! I mean, I'm not complaining, since it meant I could get out of class early and grab some food for us before coming here, but-"

I stopped short, frowning from the kitchen of my boyfriend's apartment. Normally, by now, he would've come out here to join me, or at least acknowledged me from somewhere else in the apartment. But I hadn't heard anything since I'd walked in the door.

Granted, I'd shown up much earlier than he'd been expecting me. My professor had canceled class about five minutes after I'd sat down in the lecture hall because he couldn't find parking, had been trying for twenty minutes, and was fed up with the whole ordeal. Still, there was no reason Harley shouldn't have been here. His lack of response was odd.

"Harley?" I called, tentatively heading towards his bedroom. I heard a hushed commotion and some shuffling from inside, then a muffled bang before total silence. I reached the knob, starting to feel a little concerned for the wellbeing of my boyfriend, when he flung the door open a moment before I could.

"Hey," he said, fixing me with a delayed version of his usual grin. "Sorry, I was just... cleaning something up."

"That's okay..." I said, narrowing my eyes a little and trying to look past Harley into his room. He shifted in the doorway to block me, and I raised an eyebrow at him. He grinned at me, trying to look suave, but I wasn't buying it. I ducked under his arm and moved into the room, looking around with my hands on my hips.

"You, uh... you said you had a story about an email from your professor?" asked Harley from behind me. I just hummed without turning around. He was acting weird, and I was determined to figure out why.

I scanned the room, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Other than my boyfriend, that is, who hovered behind me radiating a nervous energy I never felt from him every time I took a step. I started moving around the room, and Harley looked so nervous I thought he might fidget so hard he hit his head on the ceiling. I walked past the window and his bed with no real effect, but the moment I started heading for the closet with purpose, he sprang across the room to jump in front of me.

I put one hand on my hip and fixed him with a look.

"What's in the closet, Har?"

"Nothing."

I snorted. "According to my sources, that's a load of bullshit."

"What sources?"

"My common sense. Come on, you're never this jumpy, especially not around me! So what's in the closet. I know you're not hiding a secret lover in there, so just tell me. What is it?"

"It's... a surprise," he managed, not even half as convincing as he would need to be. I just rolled my eyes and took another step towards him.

"Harley Keener, you aren't fooling anybody. You are, however, starting to worry me. So come on. What's in the closet?"

Harley's eyes darted around the room, scanning me and our surroundings, and I could see his brain working a mile a minute. Finally though, he sighed, the restlessness draining away from him as he settled his stare on me. He looked like the normal, slightly tired, sarcastic and blunt guy that I'd fallen for so fast in one of our physics classes again, and relief washed over me.

"You want to know what's in the closet? Fine. I was working up to telling you all this shit anyway, so why not now?"

I raised an eyebrow, but Harley just turned around to open the closet door a crack. He had a harsh, whispered conversation with someone apparently hiding inside, and my mind started racing, trying to come up with possibilities that would tie into this whole situation and actually make sense. Before I could come up with anything, Harley stepped back, and someone stepped out of the closet.

Never in a million years would I have been able to come up with the guess "Spider-Man is hiding in my boyfriend's closet".

My mouth dropped open as the beloved hero of New York stepped further into the room, Harley at his side. I just stared, trying to get my brain working again. I wasn't having much success.

"What... how... why-?"

"Remember I told you I met Tony Stark once, in Tennessee? When I was a little kid?"

I nodded, shifting my attention to Harley again. He had his hands in his pockets, and the usual casualness in his posture seemed a little more forced than usual.

"Well, I didn't mention that I saw him again. Regularly. He's kind of... adopted me, I guess, as a science kid who helped him fight off some bad guys one time. I actually go visit somewhat regularly, and Spider-Man's Tony's other science kid."

I blinked a few times, looking between the two people before me, my brain still trying and failing to play catchup. Spider-Man gave me a little wave, which didn't really help.

"That's... Harley, that's insane! Why didn't you... why didn't you tell me?"

He sighed, his shoulders slumping a little as his gaze fell towards the floor.

"I didn't want to tell you before we got serious. It just felt weird, like I was bragging or trying to get you to like me based on who I know. And I didn't want you to go out with me because of it, either. And then when we did get serious, it had been long enough that I wasn't sure how to bring it up. I was trying to figure it out, but I guess that's not a problem anymore."

He shot a look at Spider-Man that only a sibling could, with all the annoyance and irritation possible communicated in a single second. I couldn't help smiling.

"Well, I'm glad I know now," I said, crossing the room to take Harley's hand and give him a soft kiss on the cheek. "I love you, Har. I'm always happy to hear about you and your life, even when it's... unexpected."

He smiled at me, then leaned in and gave me a real kiss. I didn't let it go on for more than a few quick seconds, since we still had a guest in the room, but it was still nice. A little reassurance for us both.

"So..." I started, finally turning to the masked superhero in the room. "It's nice to meet you, Spider-Man."

I held out my hand for a handshake, which he returned.

"Yeah, it's nice to meet you too! Harley talks about you all the time."

I grinned, and I could see Harley shaking his head out of the corner of my eye. Spider-Man's voice made him sound way younger than I'd thought he was, but I decided not to comment on it. At least, not right now.

"So... what brings you to my boyfriend's dorm, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Oh! Well, I'm working on this case, and there's this technology that I think can help me track down the bad guys I'm looking for, but I can't figure out how to hack into it, and Mr. Stark's super busy-"

"Yeah, just gimme the drive," Harley interrupted, holding out his hand. Spidey obliged, then Harley glanced back at me. "Are you okay with this? I know we planned to just hang out together and do some studying..."

"Har, you're involved in superhero business. I'm not going to tell you to drop it, especially when it doesn't really have an impact on us." I turned to Spider-Man. "Luckily for you, I even brought extra helpings of food from Harley and I's favorite place. Although, it might be kind of hard to eat it through the mask."

Spider-Man turned to look at Harley, who completely missed it because he was staring at me.

"I never agreed to share my food with him. How could you offer that?"

I just smiled and shook my head, nodding in Spidey's direction. Harley turned to him with narrowed eyes, but his expression quickly changed when he saw something in Spider-Man's body language or otherwise that had his eyebrows furrowing in concentration. Maybe Spider-Man was secretly telepathic or something.

After a few long moments where Harley and Spidey were apparently managing to have a silent conversation despite the mask, the superhero turned back to me. Harley took my hand in his, a small smile on his face, and then a moment later, Spider-Man whipped off his mask.

A baby-faced teenager stared back at me with a beaming smile, and I instantly got hit with the most irrational surge of protectiveness I'd ever felt.

"Hi! I'm Peter," he said, giving me another little wave. "Peter Parker. Harley trusts you, and I trust him, so I figured... I could probably share this with you."

I smiled, reaching out to lightly squeeze Peter's arm.

"Thanks, Peter. I'm glad you did. And not to be dramatic, but I'll take your secret to the grave."

Peter's eyebrows shot up, and I heard Harley snort from next to me. I grinned at them both and headed for the kitchen.

"Now c'mon, you've got a case to work on or whatever and I have a ton of upper div calculus homework. None of us has time to waste."

Both boys followed after me, and within a few minutes we were settled at the table in Harley's apartment. Harley and I sat shoulder to shoulder, legs pressed against each other. Even though we were working on separate things, we were completely together, which made everything so much easier.

Every once in a while, I'd look up at Harley and Peter working over the same laptop. Whenever one of them noticed me, we shared smiles before returning to our tasks. We'd moved past the whole Stark-superhero thing pretty quickly, and I was okay with that. It didn't really change my impression of Harley or who he was, it was just another interesting aspect of his life. But I didn't miss the significance in Peter sharing his identity with me.

He wouldn't have done that, and Harley wouldn't have given him the silent yes, if Harley wasn't incredibly serious about this relationship. I'd become more and more convinced over the past few months that Harley was the one, and this told me he was most likely on the same page.

Of course, we'd have to have some conversations about that at some point in the future. But for right now, I was just happy to be working next to him, perfectly comfortable together, even in this new aspect of his life. Shoulder to shoulder through shitty classes and superhero drop-ins alike.

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materialsscienceandengineering · 2 years

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MIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently

Systems used in many industries could save energy through these new surface treatments.

The boiling of water or other fluids is an energy-intensive step at the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics.

Improving the efficiency of systems that heat and evaporate water could significantly reduce their energy use. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to do just that, with a specially tailored surface treatment for the materials used in these systems.

The improved efficiency comes from a combination of three different kinds of surface modifications, at different size scales. The new findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials in a paper by recent MIT graduate Youngsup Song PhD ’21, Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, and four others at MIT. The researchers note that this initial finding is still at a laboratory scale, and more work is needed to develop a practical, industrial-scale process.

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aborddelimpala · 1 year

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National Boston Day

Supernatural has a gif for that

#January 16th #boston #mit #02x02 #sam #sam winchester #ash #spn gifs #mygifs #spn has a gif for that

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vitrinanorte · 9 months

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#Technology #Innovation #MIT #Future #Ocean #VitrinaNorte

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looosey · 11 months

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Lucy's Main Quest #1: 046

"Min Hash is the locally sensitive hashing for Jaccard similarity!"

Gonna miss the seniors.

#algorithms #MIT #because why would i need to know that #jaccard similarity #hash functions #actual ihouse

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abri-chan · 1 year

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today at the inauguration for the new MIT president,

they were giving out sugar cookies with the portrait of tim the beaver on it, bit on it thinking it was a sheet of edible sugar (the ones insomnia cookies does for example,

turns out it was just paper.

how can you be so cheap? why even print out the beaver?

i will never trust again.

#anime manga rambles #mit

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a-way-we-go · 2 years

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Visualisierung von uns nach Kleo.

@solarsystemmoonandsun, @nickiswithoutidea

#fernsehen mit der gang #ihr zwei seid die gang #schön war das heute #danke <3 #die zigarette danach #mit #andreas wolf #kleo

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harrelltut · 10 months

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IT'S THE END

#om #o michael #quantumharrelltech #mu:13 #kemet #quantumharrelltut #harrelltut #king tut #u.s. michael harrell #MIT #mitanni #eye robot

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cyarskaren52 · 4 months

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2024 has already revealed that the masses truly believe Black people in high positions, like Claudine Gay, Kamala Harris, and Thasunda Duckett, are all unequivocally “diversity hires.” People holding these views are delusional and quite frankly RACIST. #America

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moremedtech · 4 months

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MIT Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

MIT Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it’s time to stop eating. When you eat a large meal, your stomach sends signals to your brain that cause you to feel full, allowing you to realize it's time to stop eating. These messages can also be sent by a stomach full of liquid, which is why dieters are often advised to drink a glass of water before eating. MIT engineers have developed a new method for capitalizing on this phenomenon, employing an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach. These vibrations activate the same stretch receptors that detect when the stomach is distended, giving the illusion of fullness. The researchers discovered that giving this pill to animals 20 minutes before eating not only stimulated the release of hormones that signal satiety, but also reduced the animals' food intake by about 40%. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the mechanisms that influence human body weight, but if further research shows that this technology can be used safely in humans, such a pill could offer a minimally invasive way to treat obesity, according to the researchers. “For somebody who wants to lose weight or control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT graduate student and postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University. “This could be really interesting in that it would provide an option that could minimize the side effects that we see with the other pharmacological treatments out there.” Srinivasan is the lead author of the new study, which appears today in Science Advances. Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author of the paper.

A sense of fullness

When the stomach stretches, specialized cells known as mechanoreceptors detect it and send signals to the brain via the vagus nerve. As a result, the brain increases the production of insulin as well as other hormones like C-peptide, Pyy, and GLP-1. All of these hormones work together to aid digestion, feeling full, and stopping eating. At the same time, ghrelin, a hunger-promoting hormone, decreases. Srinivasan became interested in controlling this process as a graduate student at MIT by artificially stretching the mechanoreceptors that line the stomach with vibration. Previous research had shown that applying vibration to a muscle can create the illusion that the muscle has stretched further than it actually has. “I wondered if we could activate stretch receptors in the stomach by vibrating them and having them perceive that the entire stomach has been expanded, to create an illusory sense of distension that could modulate hormones and eating patterns,” Srinivasan says. As a postdoc at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Srinivasan collaborated closely with Traverso's lab, which has pioneered many novel approaches to drug and electronic device delivery. Srinivasan, Traverso, and their colleagues created a capsule the size of a multivitamin that contains a vibrating element for this study. When the pill, which is powered by a small silver oxide battery, enters the stomach, acidic gastric fluids dissolve the capsule's gelatinous membrane, completing the electronic circuit that activates the vibrating motor. In an animal study, the researchers discovered that when the pill begins to vibrate, it activates mechanoreceptors, which send signals to the brain via vagus nerve stimulation. The researchers monitored hormone levels while the device was vibrating and discovered that they mirrored hormone release patterns seen after a meal, even when the animals had fasted. The researchers then examined how this stimulation affected the animals' appetites. They discovered that when the pill was activated for about 20 minutes before the animals were given food, they consumed 40% less on average than when it was not activated. The animals also gained weight at a slower rate when they were given the vibrating pill. “The behavioral change is profound, and that’s using the endogenous system rather than any exogenous therapeutic. We have the potential to overcome some of the challenges and costs associated with delivery of biologic drugs by modulating the enteric nervous system,” Traverso says. The current version of the pill is designed to vibrate for about 30 minutes after arriving in the stomach, but the researchers plan to explore the possibility of adapting it to remain in the stomach for longer periods of time, where it could be turned on and off wirelessly as needed. In the animal studies, the pills passed through the digestive tract within four or five days. The study also found that the animals did not show any signs of obstruction, perforation, or other negative impacts while the pill was in their digestive tract.

An alternative approach

According to the researchers, this type of pill could provide an alternative to current approaches to treating obesity. Nonmedical interventions such as diet and exercise are not always effective, and many existing medical interventions are quite invasive. Gastric bypass surgery and gastric balloons, which are no longer widely used in the United States due to safety concerns, are examples. Drugs such as GLP-1 agonists can also help with weight loss, but the majority of them must be injected and are therefore out of reach for many people. According to Srinivasan, the MIT capsules could be produced at a low enough cost that they would be accessible to people who do not have access to more expensive treatment options. “For a lot of populations, some of the more effective therapies for obesity are very costly. At scale, our device could be manufactured at a pretty cost-effective price point,” she says. “I’d love to see how this would transform care and therapy for people in global health settings who may not have access to some of the more sophisticated or expensive options that are available today.” The researchers now plan to explore ways to scale up the manufacturing of the capsules, which could enable clinical trials in humans. Such studies would be important to learn more about the devices’ safety, as well as determine the best time to swallow the capsule before to a meal and how often it would need to be administered. Other authors of the paper include Amro Alshareef, Alexandria Hwang, Ceara Byrne, Johannes Kuosmann, Keiko Ishida, Joshua Jenkins, Sabrina Liu, Wiam Abdalla Mohammed Madani, Alison Hayward, and Niora Fabian. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Novo Nordisk, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a Schmidt Science Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation. Read the full article

#healthtech #medtech #medtechnews #MIT #weightloss

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stevebattle · 8 months

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Goliath (1995) by James McLurkin, MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA. The second image shows Goliath (left) next to the earlier Squirt (right), showing how much smaller it is. “James McLurkin is a daring innovator who has helped to push the frontiers of microrobotics. Awarded the prestigious Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Prize, his inventions range from a tiny self-contained autonomous robot that was the smallest in the world at the time—named Goliath, it measured a little over one inch per side—to his current research project: constructing the largest fleet of autonomous robots that have ever worked together to carry out cooperative, real-world tasks. … Inventing since the age of three, McLurkin’s inspirations came from Lego bricks, model trains, video games, BMX bicycles and his parents—who were key role models.” – Cobb: stoic observations, January 2005.

#cybernetics #robot #1995 #MIT #microbot

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