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seesawtron

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    Comment #48903803

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

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    Comment #48202836

    >"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 inte…

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    Comment #46862060

    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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    Comment #46342687

    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 …

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    Comment #43842462

    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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    Comment #41613695

    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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    Comment #41379687

    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…

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    Comment #41379558

    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 c…

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    Comment #41379353

    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 neu…

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    Comment #40555728

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

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    Comment #40555678

    >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 sor…

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    Comment #40555639

    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 fa…

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    Comment #40342913

    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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    Comment #40342897

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

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    Comment #40049347

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

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    Comment #40041498

    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 n…

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    Comment #39190113

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

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    Comment #39190107

    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 …

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    Comment #38980779

    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…

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    Comment #38980724

    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 you…

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    Comment #37391050

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

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    Comment #37033760

    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" …

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    Comment #37033704

    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 subse…