Waow so cool
Our clinical trial participants have now used their Neuralink implants for over 50,000 hours, building one of the largest datasets of intracortical neural activity ever.
We used it to pretrain a foundation model for BCI: self-supervised neural encoders that turn noisy, drifting spikes into stable representations.
Some initial results:
• Decoders that keep working for weeks instead of days. For some users, calibration dropped from 10 min/day to 10 min/week
• Teleporting cursors that jump straight to the intended target
• A new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second (exceeding the performance of most able-bodied people)
We’re just getting started. Future directions include pooling data across participants, one-shot (or zero-shot) calibration, and an API for the motor cortex.
Read more:
neuralink.com/updates/pretra…
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Our clinical trial participants have now used their Neuralink implants for over 50,000 hours, building one of the largest datasets of intracortical neural activity ever.
We used it to pretrain a foundation model for BCI: self-supervised neural encoders that turn noisy, drifting spikes into stable representations.
Some initial results:
• Decoders that keep working for weeks instead of days. For some users, calibration dropped from 10 min/day to 10 min/week
• Teleporting cursors that jump straight to the intended target
• A new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second (exceeding the performance of most able-bodied people)
We’re just getting started. Future directions include pooling data across participants, one-shot (or zero-shot) calibration, and an API for the motor cortex.
Read more:
neuralink.com/updates/pretra…
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This does make an interesting point that dualism is a key prerequisite assumption in a lot of idea of what makes human art special and distinguishable.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Reminder: orange chicken isn’t fake Chinese food, it’s authentic Hawaiian food
Once again, Chinese fobs love Panda Express. It's tasty, cheap, and filling.
Most people who make fun of Panda Express are white guys with Asian-American girlfriends who've never had real Chinese food in their lives.
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This is the soul of Confucianism
New York Times' tech exec is shot dead by his elderly Chinese in-laws at California sports complex trib.al/PYNkBmD
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Important lessons I learned from competitive sailing:
- deciding to win instead of lose is half the battle
- always abuse right of way as much possible
- always look for where the wind is where no one else is going
- rules lawyering is a perfectly valid way to win
Bought this for my dad but there’s actually some bangers in here.
Step one, make sure you actually plan to win.
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Based and additivepilled. Let me drop some ice cream alpha. This is my base recipe which everything is adapted from.
once you get into making ice cream you start realizing food additives are actually great. i add my special hybrid of lambda carrageenan, locust bean gum and guar gum because i love my customers
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TIL there’s a website where you can just get organs for free
organclearinghouse.com/organ…
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Those who know
In the 1980s, Domino's Pizza ran ads urging people to "avoid the noid", a gremlin who made competitors' pizza deliveries late and cold
Unfortunately, a paranoid schizophrenic named Ken Noid thought he was being personally targeted, so he took hostages at a local Domino's
After a few hours, he got hungry and had the workers make him a pizza, and after eating the whole thing, he got a little sleepy and the hostages escaped, and he surrendered to the police shortly after
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I had no idea this question had such an obvious answer apparently
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