"Verily, Alphabet's life science division, is building a tech-focused rehab campus in Ohio to combat the opioid crisis": https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/alphabets-verily-building-a-rehab-campus-to-combat-opioid-addiction.html "focus on understanding what works in the clinic & track patient behaviour when they get out to see what sticks" And so it begins...
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"Money Machines - An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader": https://logicmag.io/06-money-machines/ #Robot #Business
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Was on a panel last week called "Digitaler Salon: Zahlen, die malen" on the topic of Creativity + AI. If you can speak german and don't mind some rambling, have a look:
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Patent of the day - by Sony: "Scanning method for applying ultrasonic acoustic data to the human neural cortex": https://patents.google.com/patent/US7350522 #BCI #Biology #SE
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Modification of the conditioned emotional response in animals living in a 60-Hz electrical field: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03333883.pdf #BCI #Biology #SE
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"Human Mind Control of Rat Cyborg’s Continuous Locomotion with Wireless Brain-to-Brain Interface" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36885-0 #BCI
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Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse: https://aeon.co/videos/watch-a-single-cell-become-a-complete-organism-in-six-pulsing-minutes-of-timelapse #Biology #ALife
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I'm extremely bored by extremists: Tech, Climate Change, Politics etc. People all nonstop screaming "X changes *everything* - urgent rapid total revolution now!". With all due respect: shut up, take a deep breath & chill out. Yes, you as well will die & *everything* will be fine
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It is interesting to think about how primary efforts in the AI industry - Self-Driving Cars & AI Healthcare - are tightly coupled to US socio-political realities. In the EU, existing effective public transport & public healthcare systems make the case for AI interventions much weaker.
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Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37359-z #NeuroScience #BCI
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"Forget everything you know about 3D printing — the ‘replicator’ is here": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9 "Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies"
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While Alan Turing is best known for his contributions to computing, his ideas on other topics were equally interesting. #Magic #Technology
"When the body dies, the 'mechanism' of the body holding the spirit is gone, and the spirit finds a new body sooner or later, perhaps immediately."
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The value of pixels is collapsing. Plan accordingly. #ML #Generative #Business
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I must admit, i have reoccurring dreams of starting a giant automated insect farm, that uses robotics & machine learning to end-to-end optimise their life-cycle...
https://www.fastcompany.com/40454212/this-automated-cricket-farm-is-designed-to-make-bugs-a-mainstream-source-of-protein #Ideas #ML #Robot #Biology
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“Most corporate planning is like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather, but those who engage in it think it does. Much of the advice and instruction is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather” - Russel L. Ackoff
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"Scientists now understand that the information in the DNA code can only serve as a template for a protein. It cannot possibly serve as instructions for the more complex task of putting the proteins together into a fully functioning being"
http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it #Biology
