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Dystopian Horror Story “The Tunnel Under The World” | Full Audiobook | Sci-Fi Classic

Guy Burckhardt finds himself trapped in a perplexing and eerie reality, waking up to the same day, June 15th, over and over again. The world around him seems laced with an uncanny artificiality, and bizarre, aggressive advertisements abound. Desperate to escape this mysterious loop, Guy embarks on a tense journey to uncover the truth, only to stumble upon a shocking revelation about his existence and the world he inhabits. Frederik Pohl’s tale is a labyrinthine enigma, a suspenseful exploration of reality, manipulation, and the clandestine machinations of unseen forces.

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“Teams of AI agents working together” ― The Sci-Fi Future Being Built RIGHT NOW

When I have described my rationale for the likelihood of the Economic Singularity, key to this has been the ability of this new form of machine intelligence to make decisions and to make plans.

SummaryTatiana Mamut, co-founder of Wayfound AI, explains that AI agents are like human workers with the ability to interact and make decisions on their own…

FINDING THAT CONNECTION© — neurons connecting to one another in a Petri dish — growth cones

FINDING THAT CONNECTION ©
This is my laboratory work, please see copyright details at bottom.

You’re watching two neurons that I saw under the microscope sensing one another and connecting.

There are 86 billion neurons in the brain — how do they know how to connect to other neurons or body parts when our bodies are developing?

They use these webbed hand-like structures that you can see in this video. The finger like projections actively sense the environment around it.

When we are developing in utero, you’ll find these “growth cones,” at the tip of every growing neuron, actively searching their way between cells, trying to find the right spot to connect to. When they make their connection, they become resorbed and disappear.

I know — it’s heartbreaking that the video ends right when we get to the exciting part, but see the black wavering line in the bottom right? That’s what they look like after they’ve connected together in a Petri dish.

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Bright prospects for engineering quantum light

Exploring the design of efficient quantum emitters using defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors, specifically silicon carbide (SiC) and diamond.

It highlights how these defects can be engineered to emit single photons, which are crucial for quantum technologies like secure communication and quantum…

Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet?