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OpenWorm – creating a virtual organism in a computer
- meindnoch 2y agoSo they finally got it working?
- kennyadam 2y agoSadly no: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestones https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestones If everyone who submitted this to HN made a commit to the repo we'd have a worm civilization being simulated!
- Almondsetat 2y agoCan you run 10 of them concurre ntly and equip them with various ridiculous weapons in a turn based match?
- rpastuszak 2y agoOpenliero?
- hoseja 2y agoLiero was realtime.
- doubloon 2y agoI dint understand how this works without also creating the ecosystem that worms depend on.
- Tenoke 2y agoMaybe it's not the case, but I've been suspecting that at this point the worm, and even much more complex organism simulations can work well if enough work and compute is put on it, the development has just stalled and isn't especially well funded. This is only based on me quickly checking a while back how many commits they get, and how many new approaches are even tried and it didnt seem to be so much anymore. I'm rooting for them though, it's a really cool project.
- atemerev 2y agoWe have enough compute to simulate human brain. The theory and our understanding of human brain neurodynamics is not yet there. We are close to fully simulating mouse brain though (it basically works, save for a few wrinks)
- kennyadam 2y agoWho is close to fully simulating a mouse brain?
- meindnoch 2y agoApparently "we".
- jellyspulp 2y agoHello, Sorry for off topic but I wanted to ask if you can tell me how I can make an Account with sigma-aldrich.ch? I saw your comment on the Odin-lab post. I want to order some stuff for my bio lab at home but on every vendor in Switzerland, I have to be a "Unternehmen" for it to work... It would be great to hear from you, thanks!
- atemerev 2y agoI have registered a company and used a business address (but this was a generic company, not related to any biotech activity). If you don't have your own company, you can ask someone who has one to use its name and delivery address probably. Anyway, this was a long time ago. Ordering things from Sigma-Aldrich is extremely expensive. Perhaps there are better ways. (BTW, besides S-A, there are many smaller companies here where I ordered biotech equipment from, as an individual, without referring to a business. You just need to write an email explaining what you want, and if you are a legitimate researcher, they will probably sell it to you as long as it is not something dangerous).
- jellyspulp 2y agoThanks so much for the help! Yeah its expensive but I can't find other sites that have all the staff in one place and often they write on the site that they don't sell to a private person. I'll have to tray to make a company, maybe a GmBh would work :D
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- skilled 2y agoSubmitting this because I saw this on Twitter, https://x.com/7etsuo/status/1799717207913480604 https://x.com/7etsuo/status/1799717207913480604 And then someone else commented on it, https://x.com/MysteryGuitarM/status/1799905253439221937 https://x.com/MysteryGuitarM/status/1799905253439221937 > It takes 2GB of RAM and 60GB of storage to simulate ~300 neurons. > If we scale that linearly (eew) to other organisms: > Mouse (~75M neurons): 500 TB of RAM // 14,900 TB of storage > Human (~86B neurons): 570,000 TB of RAM // 17 million TB of storage
- 3abiton 2y ago> Human (~86B neurons): 570,000 TB of RAM // 17 million TB of storage Can't wait for 2040 to simulate a human.
- whazor 2y agoNVidia DGX Helios have 4 systems, where each has 144TB of shared memory between the GPUs. Which totals to 576TB, just enough to simulate the mouse. I wonder what kind of latencies are acceptable for simulating a mouse.