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Oh boy, you haven’t read enough about the British rule in India.

>"We see a future where intelligence is autility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter” Sam Altman

I always considered jokingly that I am "selling" my intelligence when I work for a company. This clarifies that my perception wasn't far off.

Even without any heavy metal staining, you would end up seeing some structures. This approach allows looking at unstained / native tissue.

Sure it makes a few things easier to execute when you have an agent running locally. But many people fear what such an agent might do under a wrong or misunderstood prompt to your local system. There is also mistrust of how it may access your data locally compared to a more controlled scenario where you specifically choose which files it has access to. So, no, “everyone” “should” not necessarily be using more CC. It depends on the tasks in hand and risks associated

I think the main reason to ban was that the email provider refused to share identity of the sender. Still doesn't justify the actions

For a lot of people, such options are not possible, e.g., elderly, sick, bed-ridden, socially challenged or so on. You underestimate the need and impact of such technology.

How hard is it to do something like this on your platform [0]? Are there any other real-world examples where people are using your platform to do something similar?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw

I'd imagine its easy to set up independent platforms for different users. Organoids are pretty easy to develop. Large costs come from Multi Electrode Array recording devices that can be >30K.

I was once contacted by FinalSpark where they offered free early remote access to use their biocomputing platform. The platform is accessible remotely and allows experiments on neurospheres made from living cells, sitting in an incubator, in their lab, in Vevey, Switzerland. A neurosphere is a round structure build out of approximately 10’000 neurons, connected to electrodes in different places. The platform uses python scripts to communicate with the neuron allowing for various functionalities, such as: Stimulate living neurons, Read data from neurons, Log all the data in a database, and Display graphically the results of experiments for further analysis.

I was too busy to come up with a clear project idea that could beat alreadty existing stuff such as neurons playing Doom [0] (not related to FinalSpark). Still waiting for someone to show something cool using this platform.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw

Is it just me or do you also see half of the article in Chinese when clicking the above link?

>So other than training ever-larger models on the same internet data, how can they make better LLMs? Training a multi-modal model that can integrate audio, visual, text and all sorts of data modalities to human level capabilities still remains an clear challenge. The bottleneck here is not the lack of data imo.

Always amazes me to see that society as a whole has been and continues to be willing to use public (or private) funding to support natural sciences. In the short term, one often faces the argument about the meaningless of doing things just for the sake of knowing or understanding nature. But in the long run, attracting scientists and engineers to work on such problems must (insert my optimism) add a significant value to our society as a whole.

A similar dataset already exists in mouse cortex. More are underway in the field.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586254v1

This tissue was from epileptic patient. So we can not rule out that weird things are related to disease.

A -> B is same as ~B -> ~A

I wonder if someone actually did a long-term study to generate evidence for a causal link that not being able to go to specific conference(s) actually "harmed" science?

On a side note, the same citizenship privilege would also "harm" any other industry market. E.g., there are tons of talented engineers and programmers in "global south" (or insert a more PC term for the under-developed countries) who face years of waiting time to get their work-visa. In extreme cases, there are some companies who do not have a proper visa-support team so they prefer not to hire people such countries.

It shouldn't surpise anyone that being born in the wrong part of the world plays a monumental role in terms of the oppprtunities to which one is exposed.

There is no evidence of actual transfer. It is just a possibile hypothesis.

Both new and old articles are from the same lab. So they hypothesized it in previous article and now found signs of dementia in some of patients who survived. Still no evidence of actual transmission of A-Beta.

This would not be possible to implement in a lot of businesses where the "public image" of the employee (even during non working hours) matters to the company and its business.

But I agree with the argument "Judge the art, not the artist".

As Camus attempted to portray in "The stranger", the protagonist was on "a trial that judged his character and the ways in which he integrated in the society, not on a trial for killing an Arab".

In today's environment, moralists would argue "it's immoral to not have an opinion, i.e. if you are in a position of power and are not actively using your voice to reach out to your audience in order in favour of populist opinions, you are in the wrong."

I don't know what to make of it. I think it's great that people fight for what they believe in but at the same time, "inaction" is becoming more and more difficult.

That's just computational neuroscience, no biological brains, only computations on artificial networks of neurons.

Karl Friston has been a long time proponent of the free energy principle in brain [0]. This paper claims to have found evidence that supports this principle in "neurons on a chip" based system [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle

[1] https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

CO2 absorption is the new technology that is more promising than reducing CO2 emissions. Imagine, you could buy a device that can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and which can subsequently be either converted to a form that is more eco friendly or could be stored in a way that doesn't contribute to global warming, governments and people would invest in that.

Would be great to add the missing sources. But otherwise, what's the message or idea behind this?

You can email them at HN@ycombinator.com and get your comments deleted.

Is it only the update in US or world wide?

Reminds me of the CRISPR "war" between groups of scientists who tried to patent is llt as their own.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-battle-lines-ove...

When will we have regulations that force contracts to be transparent. Perhaps an AI model could be fed with a contract and asked to check for things one should watch out for.

>This provides further evidence that prucalopride is having an effect in areas of the brain that improve cognitive function – both by increasing and reducing connectivity between specific brain regions as required.”

Altering the functional connectivity of the circuits is not necessarily correlated to "boosting" the memory.

Despite the visualizations, I found the mathematical solution described here [0] quite convincing.

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1351058/circle-revo...