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This looks amazing! Is there a number hooked up to demo this out? Would love to send this to my nieces and nephews!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Now where does this doubt come from?

This _person_ has worked and was rapidly promoted to leadership positions at two of the companies that have extremely outsized reputations for technical proficiency, during periods which both companies achieved dramatic successes...

but somehow, somehow, there are doubts about _her_?

The central nervous system has an extremely delicate chemical environment where routine disturbances like inflammation would induce swelling and destruction of delicate neural pathways. In fact one of the primary roles of the blood-brain barrier is to ensure that any type of “growth” or “organ repair” is extremely retarded - any changes to cells happen very slowly compared to the rest of the body. This is one of the reasons brain damage is so slow to repair, the whole nervous system has a very prescribed way that it grows as a fetus and childhood/youth and then it puts the brakes on everything and only allows very small changes from then on.

> Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits whereby someone halfway around the world can steal your banking credentials, private photos/emails, cryptocurrency, etc.

I dunno a lot of my jeans end up with a hole right in the middle of the crotch and it actually kinda feels similar

Sure, you can see a lot of shallow similarities between these two groups but it would miss a pretty important structural difference.

Oligarchs don't have power outside the authoritarian apparatus of the state. Oligarchs exist entirely at the pleasure of the leader and have no true autonomy. If an Oligarch tries to 'branch out', they end up in jail or dead.

Not really when it’s used in the ways they use for imaging. What this procedure uses is ‘focused’ ultrasound that is comprised of a helmet-array of transducers (it has serious Magneto vibes) that is very specifically calibrated to create areas of focused resonance within the brain, using the MRI imaging as guidance. Any of the individual transducers don’t have anywhere near enough power or penetration to be really dangerous by themselves.

This same technique is also being researched as an alternative for radiation therapy, since it doesn’t cause nearly as much collateral damage.

No, we are absolutely predicting when we are looking at a photo; firstly, we really do not see the ‘whole thing’, our eyes make quick, stereotyped (cough predictive cough) movements to a few spots on the image and mentally imagine the rest. Secondly, that’s assuming we recognized something in the image, if it’s unclear, like a grainy photo or lots of shadows, we start to make informed guesses about what could be there.

All of our sensory systems work this way - we use an enormous amount of context to bubble up predictive categories and the collect marginal amounts of information until one prediction dominates over all others.

When one doesn’t, we get gestalt like illusions; like the cubes that are projected both forwards or backwards - or dresses that are blue and black and white and gold - or laurel and yanni in perfect harmony, etc.

I believe some work with smaller local credit unions who only have in-state business. Not sure if these credit unions are in the clear or just minimally exposed to federal prosecution though?

I'm pretty surprised by all the focus on spiking neural networks too; they are really still much more of an academic topic and I have never heard of any real practical applications (yet).

There are a number of methods of training these kinds of networks like Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) which is essentially a reinforcement learning algorithm that increases the weights between neurons that spike often together and modulates the increases by a reward signal. However, all these methods are really more focused on replicating and modeling the biological phenomena and not being performant.

In theory, spiking networks should be much more efficient, real neurons are able to take advantage of many non-linear effects to create incredibly complex analog to digital (spikes) computation in every cell using incredibly little energy - our brains only use about 20 watts of power.

But, the current approach to CPUs and even GPUs means simulating all this stuff is ridiculously inefficient and ultimately looks nothing like the real thing.

But all of their other robots that they bought are in the bay!

Except for SCHAFT, who, apparently were also bought by SoftBank today so go figure.