Brendan Watt
NeelixBiederman [he/him]
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Cake day: March 7th, 2023
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44·1 month agoF35 stands for “Flies, 35 seconds”
9·1 month ago
they’re gonna desecrate it’s danged corpse
6·2 months agoTldr, it’s clickbait, probably written by ai. The chip lost some connections and musklink claims they’ve fixed it. The human guinea pig seems ok.
Article:
spoiler
NEWSLINE PAPER,- The first Neuralink brain implant in the human headly did not work smoothly, in which damage occurred to parts of the implant’s ulto-thin electrode system.
The brain chip called “telepathy” implanted in the head of a 29-year-old man named Noland Arbaugh through surgery in early 2024 suffered damage. Damage occurred to part of the chip system.
This brain chip was created by Elon Musk’s biotechnology company, Neuralink, with the aim of creating a brain-computer interface that allows humans to control a device with only a mind.
The implant consists of over 1,000 electrodes that are combined into 64 super-small, thinner-sized “strands” of human hair designed to channel signals from neurons. These flexible strands are mounted through robotic surgery into the motor cortex of the brain, the brain area involved in movement. This is the part that’s in trouble.
“In the weeks following surgery, a number of strands were pulled from the brain, resulting in a decrease in the number of effective electrodes,” Neuralink said in a blog post.
As a result, the task of controlling the computer’s cursor with the mind is experiencing little trouble, especially in terms of speed and accuracy measured in bits per second. (BPS).
Although the Wall Street Journal that Neuralink is considering removing the implant, the fact is that the company now claims to have addressed the problem by making changes to the algorithms involved in recording the nerve signals, and how these signals are then translated into cursor movements.
According to Neuralink, these changes have successfully fixed the BPS so that Noland can control the device even better than when the implants were first installed.
As for the brain chip capabilities, they were first shown to the public in early March 2024 through a video upload on the social media X. The video uploaded to the Neuralink account shows how Noland, who is paralyzed from shoulder to shoulde, is able to control a computer cursor to play chess.
“I love playing chess, so this is one of the things that allows me to do it. I haven’t been able to yield much fruit in the last few years, much less like this—chess game,” said Noland. “I have to use my mouth—to control the rank—but now everything is done with my brain.”
9·2 months agoI keep forgetting to watch this. Thank you for the reminder
So I’ve been watching that “modern love” show that’s based on NYT essays. It’s a little “high on their own supply” liberalism but it’s mostly interesting. For anyone bored and in the mood for some vignettes, give it a try
10·2 months ago50m x 70m billboard
Isn’t that basically “the man in the high castle”?
It really gets downplayed in American history classes the amount of postwar rebuilding the ussr had to do. One of my favorite scenes in The Americans is when it flashes back to the main characters’ childhood years (born during WW2) and a group of boys are banging on the back door of a cafeteria, so the cook let’s them scrape the dried food bits off the cookware before washing it. I would love to learn more about what interpersonal/societal impacts having your population not just survive, but triumph over a war of extermination has on the people
I can only think of two recently, the gunshot “suicide” after testimony guy and the MRSA infection guy
If nothing else, there’s gout
13·2 months ago“the corporation” is a little old now (early 2000s) but it covers neoliberalism, globalization, and privatization pretty well
11·2 months agoSeems hard to imagine. The few years of social media saturation has pushed people further apart, subdividing is into fractured enclaves of true believers. A popular leader or organization who can pull together these threads of movements into a cohesive rope is needed. Bernie was the best I’ve seen for that in this country. He had Civil Rights cred, decades of sticking to message, a popular platform (universal health care) and the most campaign contributions by orders of magnitude more than other candidates, pulling votes from disparate communities. And look where that got him. Licking Joe Bidet’s boots and thankful for the opportunity.
As things get worse, people will need to rely on each other to get by. Maybe that will be when we build community…
I wonder if Donald Trump was the most talked about person on the planet when he was president? Making headlines every day. Every off the cuff line is meme fuel for a week. Countries of people hanging off your every word. Being able to influence public opinion like the tides. The life force of a planet to sustain his ego.
You’re trying to suck up for a job and you sent …apples?
Best Friday night LAN party 2004 has ever seen. everyone got their own $5 Hot N Ready from Little Caesar’s, and Curtis’ Mom got us cherry vanilla Dr Pepper
9·3 months agoOh good they found a new signifier for “Bernie Bros”
342·3 months agoan apartheid state who has terrible relations with all neighbors and is inexorably tied to a declining empire who sees you as a goon squad to deal with their geopolitical enemies, all for a few billion dollars a year in military equipment? It’s a bold move, cotton, let’s see how this plays out
Amazing they couldn’t spell semitic twice