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by seesawtron 2mo ago
Oh boy, you haven’t read enough about the British rule in India.
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by seesawtron 4mo ago
>"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 c
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by seesawtron 8mo ago
Even without any heavy metal staining, you would end up seeing some structures. This approach allows looking at unstained / native tissue.
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by seesawtron 9mo ago
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 yo
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by seesawtron 1y ago
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
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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.
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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.
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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, i
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by seesawtron 2y ago
Is it just me or do you also see half of the article in Chinese when clicking the above link?
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by seesawtron 2y ago
>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 r
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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
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Use of large language models might affect our cognitive skills(nature.com)
2 points by seesawtron 2y ago|1 comments
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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
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by seesawtron 2y ago
This tissue was from epileptic patient. So we can not rule out that weird things are related to disease.
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by seesawtron 2y ago
A -> B is same as ~B -> ~A
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by seesawtron 2y ago
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 &qu
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by seesawtron 3y ago
There is no evidence of actual transfer. It is just a possibile hypothesis.
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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.
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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, no
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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 opi
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by seesawtron 3y ago
That's just computational neuroscience, no biological brains, only computations on artificial networks of neurons.
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Adversarial image manipulations influence both human and machine perception(nature.com)
2 points by seesawtron 3y ago|0 comments
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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.wikip
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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 frien
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by seesawtron 3y ago
Would be great to add the missing sources. But otherwise, what's the message or idea behind this?
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by seesawtron 3y ago
You can email them at HN@ycombinator.com and get your comments deleted.
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by seesawtron 3y ago
Is it only the update in US or world wide?
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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...
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by seesawtron 3y ago
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.

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