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It always amuses me whenever a biology story here gets the tech crowd quivering, when they would normally be crowing gleefully about ASI and human obsolescence.

• debo_ 2y ago
  I took a course on neuronal computing in undergrad. I expected sci-fi; instead I was bored out of my skull. (Pun somewhat intended.)
  • freilanzer 2y ago
    What was it about?
    • debo_ 2y ago
      Mathematically modelling neurons, basically. We were using some horrendous sketchy PDE solver that had by far the most hostile UI of any program I've ever used, and that's quite an achievement. It was taught by this fellow, who is one of the loveliest folks I've ever met in academia: https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/profiles/brian-ingalls https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/profiles/brian-inga... Edit: Looks like the course is still around 20 years later, but has expanded quite a bit in scope since I took it. https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/current-undergraduates/undergraduate-course-list/amath-382biol-382-computational-modelling-cellular-systems https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/current-undergradua...
      • freilanzer 2y ago
        That sounds very interesting apart from the horrible software!
• f6v 2y ago
  It’s a classical “loud minority”.