Do people think this is new? We have been able to do this for decades. I'm a lowly PhD student and even I get to work with humans whose brains we are actively recording from (although I don't put the electrodes in there myself).

Just another instance of Muskrat talking about things he doesn't know. I used to think he was a genius when he was talking about rockets, then he started talking about things I know (neuro & AI)...

"AI" researcher here. The only reason there are models that can "write" and "create art" is because that data is available for training. Basically people put massive amounts of digital text and images on the Internet and the companies scraped all of it to train the models. If there were big enough datasets for ship building, that would happen too...

Imagine after all the brazen crimes Gaetz has done, the thing that brings him down is calling for diversity LMAO

"is now running for judge in Cook County with the help of a Democratic Party insider and $500,000 in loans from his wife."

wat

IDK, both can be true. Teens might be right in saying something and tiktok might be amplifying that kind of content because it helps China geopolitically. A highly upvoted post on Lemmy literally yesterday was this - https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/us/china-online-disinformation-invs/index.html

Why wasn't he protected as a whistleblower? Or why isn't Biden pardoning him?

*Kims

Worked on me OP 👍 (I'm easily swayed and have no convictions)

Copying my comment from another post before I saw they vetoed -

UNSC is undemocratic, not reflective of the world (no Germany, Japan, India, Brazil, any in Africa etc) and has only served the interests of few (with freaking veto powers) - it needs to be retired or majorly revamped. Or we will keep getting crap like this.

He has so much money that he can keep doing it. And hire the best in the field - there's no money in academia so of course they'll go. And then he'll take credit for their hard work eventually of course.

Upper middle class? I think most if not 90% of billionaires are born in firmly upper class?

Funny how abetting the genocide of 300K-3M people in Bangladesh doesn't even crack top 4

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_Kissinger,_and_a_Forgotten_Genocide

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/01/bangladesh-kissinger-henry-genocide-pakistan-east-legacy/ (probably paywalled)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/04/henry-kissinger-role-in-bengali-massacre

Mark has always been icky for me. I watch these kinds of videos almost excellently - the science-tech ones; yet I avoid him like the plague.

I think the ruling class "controls/exploits some things" and they are "in control" is the difference? Like yes they have bled us dry with their grip but as WikiLeaks, Epstein, Panama papers etc suggests, they weren't really "in control". Right now, there's a decent chance that Pakistan falls to the Taliban and their nukes will be in their hands - is actually anyone "in control" of this situation?

Basically three things -

1. BCI - Brain Computer Interface. This can allow people with disabilities to control prosthetics using their brains. For example, this one from 20+ yrs ago. They are in clinical trial stages now - lot of data over 20yrs showing it's pretty safe. There are some differences like BrainGate uses "Utah" electrodes which sit on the brain rather than go inside the brain.

2. Medical diagnosis - Some patients (with things like epilepsy) get their brains recorded like this to find the region of the brain that is malfunctioning. Then sometimes this region is removed and believe it or not it actually helps! Edit: DBS is another option sometimes like the other commenter said but that needs "stimulation" also, not just passive recording.

3. Understanding the brain - these recording data can help make sense of the brain. We still don't understand much of how the brain works so this data can help and maybe help with treatments in the future.

For all of these currently we only have patients (because "healthy" people wouldn't want metal electrodes in their brain). But neuralink's promise is to make these electrodes so thin and dense (so that you can record more) while keeping SNR high that it might be possible to put it in healthy people without brain damage. I wouldn't hold my breath for that, though.

Oh LMAO

Lithium is only yellow??

Y u leave my boy Gharial out huh?

They are so cute too https://blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Don-Boyer-10425-Gharial.jpg

No way it went up 20x in 5yrs? There must be something weird with the data

What about Wind Mills?