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Oct 1, 2023

Did Aliens put Synthetic Elements in Did Aliens put Synthetic Elements in Przybylski’s Star?

Posted by in category: futurism

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Oct 1, 2023

Tooth Regrowing Drug Therapy Set For Human Clinical Trials Next Year

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Japanese scientists are reportedly set to start human trials for a drug that can regrow teeth. All being well, the clinical trial will start next year and a tooth regeneration therapy could be ready for people with holey smiles as early as 2030, according to Japanese media.

Back in 2021, a team from the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University published promising research that showed a protein called USAG-1 limits the growth of teeth in mice. By turning off the gene that codes for the production of the protein, the mice were able to freely regrow their teeth.

They were then able to create a neutralizing antibody drug therapy that was able to block the protein’s function, stimulating the mice into growing new sets of teeth. Later experiments showed the same benefits in ferrets, which have a more similar dental pattern to humans.

Oct 1, 2023

Microsoft blames Google for Apple rejecting offer to buy Bing

Posted by in category: futurism

Microsoft boss Mikhail Parakhin claims that despite offering more money than Google, the company was still turned down by Apple.

Oct 1, 2023

Facebook Proud of New Glasses That Let You Record People Without Them Knowing

Posted by in category: futurism

The new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses look like regular shades, but can record and livestream video with little warning to those around it.

Oct 1, 2023

PhD student solves a mysterious ancient Sanskrit text algorithm after 2,500 years

Posted by in category: information science

These stylistic choices make the Aṣṭādhyāyī shorter and easier to memorize than it would be otherwise — some historians believe it was initially composed orally — but also incredibly dense. That density leads to rule conflicts, in which two rules may apply simultaneously to the same word yet produce different outcomes.

Pāṇini did provide a meta-rule to solve such conflicts. According to traditional scholarship, this meta-rule states that “in the event of a conflict between two rules of equal strength, the rule that comes later in the serial order of the Aṣṭādhyāyī wins.”

Seems simple enough. But when applied, this meta-rule yields many exceptions. To correct those exceptions, scholars have for centuries created their own meta-rules. However, those meta-rules yielded even more exceptions, which required the creation of additional meta-rules (meta-meta-rules?). Those meta-rules in turn created even more exceptions — and you see where this is going.

Oct 1, 2023

My predictions about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

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00:00 — Introduction.
00:38 — Landauer Limit.
02:51 — Quantum Computing.
04:21 — Human Brain Power?
07:03 — Turing Complete Universal Computation?
10:07 — Diminishing Returns.
12:08 — Byzantine Generals Problem.
14:38 — Terminal Race Condition.
17:28 — Metastasis.
20:20 — Polymorphism.
21:45 — Optimal Intelligence.
23:45 — Darwinian Selection “Survival of the Fastest“
26:55 — Speed Chess Metaphor.
29:42 — Conclusion & Recap.

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Oct 1, 2023

Sourcing Electronic Components Post-Pandemic

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

How are independent distributors assisting manufacturers and identifying ways to reduce electronic component costs? By Del Williams.

Oct 1, 2023

Alleged AMD Zen 5 Specs Leak: Twice the Cores, 15% Increased IPC Over Ryzen 7000

Posted by in category: computing

YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead leaked two new allegedly official AMD slides detailing key specifications and IPC targets for Zen 5 and Zen 6. The new slides report that Zen 5 will be a significant architectural overhaul over Zen 4, targeting 10 to 15% IPC improvements or more. Zen 5 will also reportedly incorporate 16 core CCXs for the first time. Before we go much further, we’ll need to sprinkle a healthy amount of salt on this report.


A new leak has revealed highly in-depth architectural details about AMD’s Zen 5 and Zen 6 CPU architectures, including core architectural improvements and IPC gains.

Oct 1, 2023

‘Molecular road’ to Alzheimer’s leads to new treatment strategy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Repost, but if you know someone’s dealing with such, the information can help you and them. The suppressing of it can not help anyone.

Alzheimer’s disease varies widely in its age of onset, presentation, and severity. Recently, the SORL1 gene has received increased attention since variations in this gene have been associated with both early-and late-onset Alzheimer’s. However, little is known about how damage to SORL1 leads to disease.

Using stem cells from patients with Alzheimer’s, investigators from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that loss of normal SORL1 function leads to a reduction in two key proteins known to be involved in Alzheimer’s and which play an essential role in the neurons of healthy individuals.

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Oct 1, 2023

Longevity Summit Dublin

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

The last 2 questions and the answers are great. The first starts at 30 minutes. And I like his answer to the 2nd question especially, the time is 33:54. “What is giving me great hope is that we’re entering the phases where we have more than enough tools to get really get close to escape velocity.”


Genome Engineering for Healthy Longevity – George Church at Longevity Summit Dublin 2023.

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