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A key challenge with Alzheimer’s is there is no good mouse model for the disease. While some approximate the phenotype, it’s not clear that the disease model as commonly studied in…

Beautifully written and worth the read. And the screensaver nerd snipe is epic.

As a neuroscientist, my biggest disagreement with the piece is the author’s argument for compositionality over emergence. The former makes me think of Prolog and lisp, while the la…

You’re right, I meant class 4

This is a well known phenomenon. It accounts for example in the flash perceived when someone inadvertently looks at an infrared class 5 laser and is blinded

This is fun, and the modeling is cool for sure, but it's well known that ultrasound can be used with surgical precision in the human brain. Focused ultrasound is already used for n…

The Nvidia GH200/GB200 “superchips” are all ARM processors. Seems likely that some of the next generation of foundation models will be trained on ARM

I know the exercise was to p-hack, but instead I decided to one-shot my attempt at the most reasonable model from first principals: - given that we are looking at a national scale,…

Any references for 99.9% density with SLM copper? My understanding is that pure copper SLM printing is less frequently done as doesn’t work well with the infrared lasers on most ma…

The high thermal conductivity of copper makes it difficult to maintain needed temperatures during SLM. Also, copper is prone to oxidation at high temperatures, further complicating…

Fabric8Labs can print 100% density, whereas Desktop Metal is highly porous. Also Fabric8Labs can directly print pure copper, which has historically been very difficult. The process…

Our preprint does exactly that :). https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05583

x1798DE captured my intent well. For example, tonal languages like Mandarin or Cantonese may be more difficult to decode if vocal cords aren’t vibrating, and languages with more ph…

This is a super cool device. Note that the decoding is highly limited: they decode into one of five different sentences. This is easier than five words for example as there is more…

Very interesting but hard to interpret until the performance numbers / benchmarks are available. I can already fine-tune a 70B language model at home using CPU + RAM, but it would …

There’s an amazing effort by a nonprofit to sponsor the first Kayak descent of this river by children from indigenous peoples of the region. This is a seriously intense adventure w…

Does anyone know the state of running Windows / Linux x86-64 virtualization on Apple Silicon? This article is super interesting but dances around the most important application for…

It’s more about the difference in magnitude of the lenses. This also gives you depth information when combined.

Not sure he can claim the phrase. On cursory glance, can find the phrase in multiple books prior to the publication of the cartoon, using the same phrase. Seems it was already in t…

Thanks for the response! So does vscode.dev, but it doesn’t support “Remote - SSH.” Could you confirm if this specific extension is functional? To expand, for Remote - SSH to fully…

The web version you linked does not support the remote SSH extension, which is critical for many folks workflows. I can’t do any work without that extension. I’m curious if the and…

I agree! My PhD thesis is on this topic [1]. We’ve also done a very limited pilot test on a patient with ALS, with above random chance. Actual results may vary heavily on individua…

Thanks! That is interesting and well reasoned. If one wants to change neural computation via a global oscillator, it would seem that a flashing light, auditory tone, or tactile vib…

Cadaver studies have shown that this is almost certainly placebo. Not enough current actually reaches the brain: https://buzsakilab.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Underwo...