Kiran Manam – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Empirical economic analysis shows cost-effective continuous manufacturing of cultivated chicken using animal-free medium https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/empirical-economic-analysis-shows-cost-effective-continuous-manufacturing-of-cultivated-chicken-using-animal-free-medium https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/empirical-economic-analysis-shows-cost-effective-continuous-manufacturing-of-cultivated-chicken-using-animal-free-medium#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:23:03 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/empirical-economic-analysis-shows-cost-effective-continuous-manufacturing-of-cultivated-chicken-using-animal-free-medium

Data from tangential flow filtration experiments using cell culture medium without animal products are used to estimate the costs of scaled-up, continuous cultivated chicken manufacturing.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/empirical-economic-analysis-shows-cost-effective-continuous-manufacturing-of-cultivated-chicken-using-animal-free-medium/feed 0 A primer on the current state of longevity research https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:27:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research

Note: This post is co-authored with Stacy Li, a PhD student at Berkeley studying aging biology! Highly appreciate all her help in writing, editing, and fact-checking my understanding!

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research/feed 0 Sam Altman: Ousted OpenAI boss to return days after being sacked https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/sam-altman-ousted-openai-boss-to-return-days-after-being-sacked Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:22:55 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/sam-altman-ousted-openai-boss-to-return-days-after-being-sacked

BBC News

The new agreement “in principle” involves a new board being installed, the tech company said.

]]> Science Cast https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/07/science-cast Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:25:42 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/07/science-cast

Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor? We shall see. But video is hopeful, currents are practical…

Increase your recognition in the scientific world with short video-casts.

]]> OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and “won’t for some time” https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/openais-ceo-confirms-the-company-isnt-training-gpt-5-and-wont-for-some-time Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:22:21 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/openais-ceo-confirms-the-company-isnt-training-gpt-5-and-wont-for-some-time

GPT-5 isn’t being developed, but who cares when GPT-4 isn’t yet understood.

]]> A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:22:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.

]]> Post: What Will Transformers Transform? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/post-what-will-transformers-transform Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:22:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/04/post-what-will-transformers-transform

Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level.

Way back in the early history of GPTs, January 1st this year, I wrote briefly about them and said:

]]> First ‘sand battery’ developed to heat homes or balance renewable energy for grid https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/first-sand-battery-developed-to-heat-homes-or-balance-renewable-energy-for-grid Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:22:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/first-sand-battery-developed-to-heat-homes-or-balance-renewable-energy-for-grid

“The construction of the storage went well, especially considering that the solution is completely new,” said Polar Night co-founder and chief technology officer Markku Ylönen in a statement.

“We managed to get everything in order despite some challenges and a short delay.”

He said the first installation has shown that the system “has even more potential than we initially calculated”.

]]> As Silicon Valley dreams about Web3, India’s UPI leaps ahead https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/as-silicon-valley-dreams-about-web3-indias-upi-leaps-ahead Sat, 02 Jul 2022 22:25:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/as-silicon-valley-dreams-about-web3-indias-upi-leaps-ahead

UPI, an cheap(currently free), proven, alternative payments system designed to be secure, reliable, and interoperable among different payment companies, encouraging a innovative ecosystem.

India’s UPI payment platform is delivering on financial inclusion in ways that Bitcoin and blockchain have yet to do.

]]> The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/the-end-of-the-world-is-just-the-beginning-mapping-the-collapse-of-globalization Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:26:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/the-end-of-the-world-is-just-the-beginning-mapping-the-collapse-of-globalization

Update your world view. Excellent book.

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