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I UPGRADED My Old Redstone Builds!

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World Download: (JAVA 1.21.4) https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/upgrading-builds/

Original Game of Life: https://youtu.be/D8FMiFswZN8?si=7eVZszzhMip0IYJN
Original Tic Tac Toe: https://youtu.be/f_KnGOmNHE0?si=9sB3lRbuJSB6lSxG

Want to get more involved in the logical redstone community?
Learn Logical Redstone! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5LiOvrbVo8keeEWRZVaHfprU4zQTCsV4
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LitKidBeats — GOOD VIBES https://youtu.be/WRBRA3ZZ1cM?si=GRsDLhAJfvcRI_Iv.
Lukrembo — Rose https://youtu.be/XIhyti2Qa74?si=rmOo5hIMqi0lveHi.
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massobeats — aromatic https://youtu.be/vpgK_3TJI_A?si=R4cmTgiwygrehsXi.
Lukrembo — Green Symphony https://youtu.be/qtbl_7cSLMI?si=Kww8YEwYW3ifcLjg.
Lukrembo — Jay https://youtu.be/1zmJ_4kGYUU?si=_OXkCGSqYBrceIWS
Lukrembo — Afternoon https://youtu.be/tayfXQfFDZE?si=JdseBiOdWi44B9I_
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Materialism and Consciousness: The Case of Philosophical Zombies David Chalmers

This is one of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s 15-minute Philosophy Briefings, a series in which eminent philosophers provide their own view of a key philosophical topic, in straightforward and accessible language.

Each one is designed to be a resource for anyone who wants to know more about these questions, whether you are covering them at A-level, teaching them at A-level, studying Philosophy at university, or are simply curious to know more.

David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University and co-director of NYU’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, looks at whether there exist philosophical zombies.

Creator behind AI actress responds to backlash: ‘She is not a replacement for a human being’

Artificial people may put a lot of actors out of work.

Tilly Norwood looks and sounds real, but she’s not real at all.

Created by Eline Van Der Velden, the CEO of the AI production company Particle6, the “actress” has garnered interest from studios with talent agents eyeing to sign her.

Variety reports, Van Der Velden explained at the Zurich Summit that studio interest has spiked since Tilly’s launch with agency representation expected soon. If signed, she would be one of the first AI-generated actresses to have talent representation.

Gaia solves mystery of tumbling asteroids and finds new way to probe their interiors

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, presented at the recent EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, are based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and provide a means of determining an asteroid’s physical properties—information that is vital for successfully deflecting asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

“By leveraging Gaia’s unique dataset, advanced modeling and A.I. tools, we’ve revealed the hidden physics shaping rotation, and opened a new window into the interiors of these ancient worlds,” said Dr. Wen-Han Zhou of the University of Tokyo, who presented the results at EPSC-DPS2025.

During its survey of the entire sky, the Gaia mission produced a huge dataset of asteroid rotations based on their light curves, which describe how the light reflected by an asteroid changes over time as it rotates. When the asteroid data is plotted on a graph of the rotation period versus diameter, something startling stands out—there’s a gap, or dividing line that appears to split two distinct populations.

Engineers create first artificial neurons that could directly communicate with living cells

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical functions that closely mirror those of biological ones. Building on their previous work using protein nanowires synthesized from electricity-generating bacteria, the team’s discovery means that we could see immensely efficient computers built on biological principles which could interface directly with living cells.

“Our brain processes an enormous amount of data,” says Shuai Fu, a graduate student in electrical and engineering at UMass Amherst and lead author of the study published in Nature Communications. “But its power usage is very, very low, especially compared to the amount of electricity it takes to run a Large Language Model, like ChatGPT.”

The human body is over 100 times more electrically efficient than a computer’s electrical circuit. The is composed of billions of neurons, specialized cells that send and receive all over the body. While it takes only about 20 watts for your brain to, say, write a story, an LLM might consume well over a megawatt of electricity to do the same task.

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