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by ckemere 4y ago
The Neuralink system is nothing like testing the biocompatibility of a simple artificial knee. (Though I'll note that insufficient animal testing led to huge issues in this space.)
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by ckemere 4y ago
It sounds like you probably worked on passive devices like joint implants or evolutionary things like a slightly modified version of a previous valve or pacemaker. The type of system Neuralink is building - a surgical robot that implants th
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by ckemere 4y ago
The quote I see says, "staff accidentally implanted Neuralink’s device on the wrong vertebra of two different pigs during two separate surgeries". The other issue mentioned in the Reuters article apparently has to do with testing
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by ckemere 4y ago
I'm not sure what tech space your experience comes from, but this is ridiculous. Thes numbers are true to demonstrate*biocompatibility* but are 4 or 5 orders of magnitude smaller than what is required to show *functionality*, let alone
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by ckemere 4y ago
I would argue that "context" is intentional misdirection. Most people don't know that synchron is marketing an electrified stent that gives maybe one channel of data I/O whereas Neuralink has a robot that implants thousa
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by ckemere 4y ago
I have friends who have worked and currently work at Neuralink, and I agree with much of the sentiment I see in the comments about Musk. I also am confused about the long term viability of the company. BUT, I hate to see this sort of anima
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by ckemere 4y ago
Awesome link! Though I think the reviewer has a bias against crunch and skin flavor. (I don't understand how the Smitten ranks so low.)
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by ckemere 4y ago
Gyorgy Buzsaki is one of the least appreciated and most profound neuroscientists alive. Like many proper philosophers, I think his understanding is best appreciated in conversation as opposed to via lectures or books. Though it is the case
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by ckemere 4y ago
In a stressful world, this was an awesome reminder to remember and celebrate successes.
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by ckemere 4y ago
There's also the timeline that: "Radiology will be automatized in 5 years" (10 years ago) "Radiology will be automatized in 5 years" (5 years ago) "Radiology will be automatized in 5 years" (last year) or
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by ckemere 4y ago
As someone who's wife had an emergency c-section, it also sounded like (a) the decision for surgery should have been done early based on measured distress in the infant and (b) perhaps the post-birth resuscitation was not done correctl
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by ckemere 4y ago
I think what the author sneakily avoids is that what is being withheld is socio-behavioral measurements made along with the genetic samples. And the reason is that people who didn't actually gather data themselves are ignorant of the s
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by ckemere 4y ago
This comment reveals a misunderstanding about how university research works. Individual professors are responsible for raising money from the government or private philanthropists to pay for research. University endowments are sometimes use
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by ckemere 4y ago
Deep-learning-hype-hater-quick-take: Based on that title (and a glance at the paper), my guess is that rather than brute force and megawatts of GPU power, they found a first-principles solution.
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by ckemere 4y ago
To be fair, his most recent job after Microsoft and FB was a Gates- foundation funded startup building tools for healthcare in underdeveloped contexts. I think that might be what the phrase refers to?
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by ckemere 4y ago
To be fair, in the episode where he details the tendonitis, he spends a lot of time describing the ways that the AMZN warehouse bureaucracy is designed to abuse their workers (delay their claims, structure work alternatives to be impossible
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Former tech executive's experience in Amazon warehouse(peaksalvation.com)
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by ckemere 4y ago
For the folks giving hot takes on this transcript of episode 1, I'd definitely recommend the full podcast ( http://peaksalvation.com ). I think Philip is genuinely motivated by the question of how someone with opportunities
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by ckemere 4y ago
I have fond memories of the Small parts catalog (and e-commerce site). Amazon bought them and then destroyed the ability to search. I've since discovered that the tubing and small screw portion of their company lives on as componentsup
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by ckemere 4y ago
Stanford was essentially founded in the 20th century - much more recently than many east coast universities.
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by ckemere 4y ago
Super informative! Maybe auditing the chat logs is an easy way for MS to try to fix this???
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by ckemere 4y ago
> I'm not seeing from this thread any info on what the appeals system is like, but I would be completely unshocked if it were, once again, a system where people who aren't highly invisible on social media will end up SOL. I tot
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by ckemere 4y ago
We've done limited server play with friends. As far as I understand, anyone can download and run the server software (literally - it's a free download). To log into a server, you need the IP address (and need to understand how to
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by ckemere 4y ago
I guess I don't understand - the troll will report your 6 year old for dropping f-bombs? And the chat logs (which MS will now have) will back then up? And why are you inviting trolls to play with your 6 year old? (We're somewhat n
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by ckemere 4y ago
It's apparently a minority voice opinion here on HN, but I for one appreciate what Microsoft is trying to do. As a parent of a 6 and 9 year old who have really gotten into Minecraft during COVID, I appreciate them basically deciding &q
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by ckemere 4y ago
As a scientist, I think this piece completely misses the point. "Science is political" because most scientists aspire to answer questions that will have value for society. If you read the cited articles, the point is to remind sci
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by ckemere 4y ago
I naively assumed from the headline that the author would complain about users blocking cookies. I was very pleasantly surprised to see a post written by someone who appreciates that some users will want to do this and is actively working t
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by ckemere 4y ago
Going home for a week at Christmas and backpacking/surfing for a week in the summer seems not at all unusual? That's why they can pay $30k stipends...
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I've never really loved contextual fear conditioning as the default for "memory". Another way of describing this result is that "even a mild trauma scars the entire brain." In all seriousness, though, I'd say t
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by ckemere 4y ago
Update - having re-read the first post about this, it seems that the issue of resources is exactly the problem. I think that opponents of the CMF would prefer to see More Resources put into careful, thorough elementary/middle school ma

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