Bitcoin's fourth mining-reward halving is just two days away. The quadrennial event will reduce BTC's per block emission to 3.125 BTC from 6.25 BTC. Though bulls were in the driver's seat following each of the three halvings, the magnitude and the time taken to reach the eventual peak differed.
Boston Dynamics revealed the new fully electric Atlas
The previous hydraulic version was retired yesterday. They have chosen increased range of movement over strictly mirroring the human form. Note the hand has three fingers.
Investment from Hyundai.
Explaining the idea behind the shape of the head in the TechCrunch interview. They also said Altas will begin on site testing at Hyundai facilitates in early 2025.
The previous hydraulic version was retired yesterday. They have chosen increased range of movement over strictly mirroring the human form. Note the hand has three fingers.
Investment from Hyundai.
Explaining the idea behind the shape of the head in the TechCrunch interview. They also said Altas will begin on site testing at Hyundai facilitates in early 2025.
University of Cambridge researchers developed an AI to find new treatments for Parkinson's.
It accelerates the initial screening process 10x, reduces costs 1000x, and already led to the discovery of 5 new compounds.
It accelerates the initial screening process 10x, reduces costs 1000x, and already led to the discovery of 5 new compounds.
University of Cambridge
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, designed and used an AI-based strategy to identify compounds that block the clumping, or aggregation, of alpha-synuclein, the protein that
Immersive_tech_in_healthcare_1713358341.pdf
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This is a very interesting report focused on the use of immersive technology, like VR, in the healthcare sector.
The goal of the work is to help those in healthcare (including providers, built environment experts, and policy makers) to:
1. Advocate for the benefits of XR as a means to innovate health and social care
2. Increase debate and dialog across networks of expertise to create health-promoting environments
3. Understand the overriding priorities in making effective pathways to the implementation of XR.
The authors conclude that:
- both built environment and healthcare sectors can benefit from the various capabilities of XR through cross-sectional initiatives, evidence-based practices, and participatory approaches.
- a confluence of knowledge and methods of HCI and HBI can increase the interoperability and usability of XR for the patient-centered and value-based healthcare models.
- the XR-enabled technological regime will largely affect the new forms of value in healthcare premises by fostering more decentralized, preventive, and therapeutic characteristics in the future healthcare ecosystems.
The goal of the work is to help those in healthcare (including providers, built environment experts, and policy makers) to:
1. Advocate for the benefits of XR as a means to innovate health and social care
2. Increase debate and dialog across networks of expertise to create health-promoting environments
3. Understand the overriding priorities in making effective pathways to the implementation of XR.
The authors conclude that:
- both built environment and healthcare sectors can benefit from the various capabilities of XR through cross-sectional initiatives, evidence-based practices, and participatory approaches.
- a confluence of knowledge and methods of HCI and HBI can increase the interoperability and usability of XR for the patient-centered and value-based healthcare models.
- the XR-enabled technological regime will largely affect the new forms of value in healthcare premises by fostering more decentralized, preventive, and therapeutic characteristics in the future healthcare ecosystems.
Scientists have found a brain area in mice that may reveal how we can quickly discern a stranger from someone familiar.
These new findings may shed light on disorders affecting memory.
These new findings may shed light on disorders affecting memory.
Siemens and Bilt launch spatial computing electrician training on Apple Vision Pro
The companies are the creators of 3D Intelligent Instructions and they’re optimizing their mobile guides into spatial models for the Apple Vision Pro, which lets you see 3D animations overlaid on a view of the real world with the new headset.
The companies are the creators of 3D Intelligent Instructions and they’re optimizing their mobile guides into spatial models for the Apple Vision Pro, which lets you see 3D animations overlaid on a view of the real world with the new headset.
VentureBeat
Siemens and Bilt launch spatial computing electrician training on Apple Vision Pro
Siemens and Bilt have launched a spatial computing app to train electricians using the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset.
Big work in democratizing learnings on "AlphaFold as an AlexMoment for biology".
Adobe is paying for videos of humans in the wild to train its Sora.
They are looking for clips of people interacting with objects and expressing emotions.
The pay scales up depending on how much human intent is captured, but at the high end, they are paying $7.25 a minute.
They are looking for clips of people interacting with objects and expressing emotions.
The pay scales up depending on how much human intent is captured, but at the high end, they are paying $7.25 a minute.
Reuters
Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market.
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New invasive neurotechnology preprint. Researchers investigated pathway-specific therapeutic mechanisms of dopamine and DBS on cortex-STN communication using invasive ECoG & LFP recordings in Parkinson’s disease.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is proving effective at targeting specific pathways in the brain that cause problems in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Specifically, researchers've discovered that DBS can influence a critical brain pathway from the cortex to the subthalamic nucleus (STN).
Research shows that DBS can imitate dopamine, a chemical naturally produced in the brain that helps regulate movement and emotional responses. By mimicking dopamine, DBS can adjust the brain's activity to improve symptoms of PD.
In the future, combining MRI connectomics with invasive multitarget neurophysiology will enable real-time adjustment of brain network communication. Targeting the right pathway with millisecond precision.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is proving effective at targeting specific pathways in the brain that cause problems in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Specifically, researchers've discovered that DBS can influence a critical brain pathway from the cortex to the subthalamic nucleus (STN).
Research shows that DBS can imitate dopamine, a chemical naturally produced in the brain that helps regulate movement and emotional responses. By mimicking dopamine, DBS can adjust the brain's activity to improve symptoms of PD.
In the future, combining MRI connectomics with invasive multitarget neurophysiology will enable real-time adjustment of brain network communication. Targeting the right pathway with millisecond precision.
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Crypto Use Cases 2024 (12 Real-World Stories of How Millions of People Are Using Crypto Services Today)
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Meta just announced it’s opening its mixed reality OS to third party headsets. Asus, Lenovo, and a Microsoft Xbox version of the Quest are coming… more here on Horizon OS
CNET
Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets
Meta opened the Quest Horizon OS to others, and now VR headsets from Asus, Lenovo and even an Xbox variant are on the way.
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Using the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas, a team of Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante researchers built a mouse MRI template incl structural and diffusion contrasts as well as anatomical annotation.
LLAMA 3 8B was amazing but will be overshadowed
Phi-3 mini 4b, small 7b, medium 14b this week, and the benchmarks are insane.
Synthetic data pipelines are massive improvements over internet data.
Flywheel only continues with big models too when these techniques are applied.
Phi-3 mini 4b, small 7b, medium 14b this week, and the benchmarks are insane.
Synthetic data pipelines are massive improvements over internet data.
Flywheel only continues with big models too when these techniques are applied.
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CB Insights released report "Tech Trends for 2024"
Here are 8 insightful slides on AI:
1. Companies are desperate for GPUs.
An Nvidia H100 costs $3.3K, sold to customers for $30K & selling on other marketplaces for $100K.
2. Startups are linking up with big tech to access their AI chips and compute power.
3. Researchers estimate that, by 2026, we will exhaust high quality text data for training LLMs — a trend that can slow down AI progress.
On the contrary, developers have increasingly started experimenting with synthetic data.
4. Scraping proprietary sources is getting harder & comes with legal risks too.
Companies like X, reddit have taken measures to monetize this with many more already following.
5. Interest in the intersection between quantum computing & AI is heating up as quantum advances tease more powerful AI models down the road.
Investment surged to a record high in 2023 too.
6. AI is the talk of the town in banking. Earnings calls mentions of AI hit a record high into Q1’24.
7. Brain activity data can now be coupled with AI to ‘read minds’ with some accuracy.
8. AI could cut dev costs while making gameplay more immersive.
9. Humanoid robotics startups like Figure are gain momentum. Dealmaking in the space also ramped up in 2023 & in Q1 2024
Here are 8 insightful slides on AI:
1. Companies are desperate for GPUs.
An Nvidia H100 costs $3.3K, sold to customers for $30K & selling on other marketplaces for $100K.
2. Startups are linking up with big tech to access their AI chips and compute power.
3. Researchers estimate that, by 2026, we will exhaust high quality text data for training LLMs — a trend that can slow down AI progress.
On the contrary, developers have increasingly started experimenting with synthetic data.
4. Scraping proprietary sources is getting harder & comes with legal risks too.
Companies like X, reddit have taken measures to monetize this with many more already following.
5. Interest in the intersection between quantum computing & AI is heating up as quantum advances tease more powerful AI models down the road.
Investment surged to a record high in 2023 too.
6. AI is the talk of the town in banking. Earnings calls mentions of AI hit a record high into Q1’24.
7. Brain activity data can now be coupled with AI to ‘read minds’ with some accuracy.
8. AI could cut dev costs while making gameplay more immersive.
9. Humanoid robotics startups like Figure are gain momentum. Dealmaking in the space also ramped up in 2023 & in Q1 2024