Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

inorganic (electron bonded) and isotope (nuclear magnetic bonded) sequencing

Gencove @Gencove In our latest blog, @joe_pickrell asks what happens when sequencing data becomes “too cheap to meter”? Speculating on the coming sequencing industry changes, Joe shares his four predictions for what things could look like in 2034. Read more now: http://gencove.com/blog/what-happens-when-genome-sequencing-data-is-too-cheap-to-meter https://pic.twitter.com/5mfphw0UeB Replying to @Gencove and @joe_pickrell Focus now on global scale manufacturing of
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Can you and your friends help save the world?

Yohan J. John @DrYohanJohn “I like to build universes that do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem.” – Philip K Dick https://burningshore.com/p/pkds-divine-interference Yohan, The human species now needs precise digital simulations of all things, so machines explore
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replay of memories or experiences.  Including memories from others. Optimal gathering can be taught.

Juan Álvaro Gallego @JAlGallego Very cool! Apparently, ADHD could potentially be evolutionarily advantagous for gatherer peoples… Congrats to the authors! PS 1st author neuroscientist + philosopher David is on the job market 😉 David L Barack @DLBarack Excited to see this out in the wild! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2584 Here, we (myself, Vera Ludwig, Felipe Parodi, Elizabeth Brannon,
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Should work for a range of repetitive and memorization intensive tasks.

Rafael Polania @RafaPolania New pub! Is it possible to modulate sensory information processing in a non-invasive manner by modulating ongoing oscillatory activity in the prefrontal cortex in humans? Yes, we can! Take a look at our Open Access pub @NatureHumBehav https://nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01820-z Replying to @RafaPolania and @NatureHumBehav You should be able to modulate to test and record.
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SEMI seminar on SpectroChip

Kevin, Sean – Thanks for the presentation and discussion I made many comments. Thank you for responding.  The need is for hundreds of millions of these. Since there are also array applications, possibly billions.To use with cell phone, you can use the FLIR thermal sensor approach which is USB C plug-in to the phone, or
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AIs must log their experiences and abilities

Philipp Schmid @_philschmid Speculative Decoding is a method to speed up the text generation of LLMs, but requires additional parameters or a separate smaller model. @Apple now proposes Speculative Streaming, which integrates speculative decoding into a single LLM to speed up inference without degrading… https://pic.twitter.com/7A3N75wyTV Replying to @_philschmid and @Apple Philipp, Stop saying “a separate
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AIs claiming to solve medical problems or offering medical advice without certification and oversight

Richard Dufour @r_dufour Very proud to announce BioMistral, a collection of open-source pre-trained LLMs for the medical domain Arxiv: http://tinyurl.com/3xk8hua6 BioMistral 7B model: http://tinyurl.com/mubkfprp More info: http://tinyurl.com/5etvbvkz @CNRSinformatics @LaboLS2N @taln_ls2n @LabrakYanis https://pic.twitter.com/E9nBzJVM9Y Replying to @r_dufour @CNRSinformatics and 3 others Spreading these around as “trained LLMs for the medical domain” is like putting actors in medical
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not “yet another human running a group in a brick and mortar organization”.

Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jasmina_wiemann Come and join the awesome department of Earth & Planetary Science @JohnsHopkins as our new Dept. Chair (@JHUEPS)! We are entering an exciting growth phase, incl. a major expansion in #ecological research! Please share widely! #geology #climate #ecology https://apply.interfolio.com/140402 Replying to @jasmina_wiemann @JohnsHopkins and @JHUEPS Hire an administrator to do the
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