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Jul 16, 2023
Quantifying Biological Age: Blood Test #4 In 2023
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
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Jul 16, 2023
Generative AI ‘fools’ scientists with artificial data, bringing automated data analysis closer
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: materials, robotics/AI
The same AI technology used to mimic human art can now synthesize artificial scientific data, advancing efforts toward fully automated data analysis.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed an AI that generates artificial data from microscopy experiments commonly used to characterize atomic-level material structures. Drawing from the technology underlying art generators, the AI allows the researchers to incorporate background noise and experimental imperfections into the generated data, allowing material features to be detected much faster and more efficiently than before.
The study, “Leveraging generative adversarial networks to create realistic scanning transmission electron microscopy images,” was published in the journal npj Computational Materials.
Jul 16, 2023
Revealing the invisible: Detecting variations in extragalactic magnetic fields
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: cosmology, evolution, particle physics
Magnetic fields are common throughout the universe but incredibly challenging to study. They don’t directly emit or reflect light, and light from all along the electromagnetic spectrum remains the primary purveyor of astrophysical data. Instead, researchers have had to find the equivalent of cosmic iron filings—matter in galaxies that is sensitive to magnetic fields and also emits light marked by the fields’ structure and intensity.
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, several Stanford astrophysicists have studied infrared signals from just such a material—magnetically aligned dust grains embedded in the cold, dense clouds of star-forming regions. A comparison to light from cosmic ray electrons that has been marked by magnetic fields in warmer, more diffuse material showed surprising differences in the measured magnetic fields of galaxies.
Stanford astrophysicist and member of the Kavli Institute for Particle Acceleration and Cosmology (KIPAC) Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez explains the differences and what they could mean for galactic growth and evolution.
Jul 16, 2023
How body’s immune response offers alternative approach to neuropathic pain therapies: Study
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
The study explores the possibility of natural killer cells as an alternative for treating neuropathic pain.
Jul 16, 2023
Doctors re-attach boy’s head post-car accident with ‘amazing’ surgery
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
Doctors in Israel have re-attached a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike.
Twelve-year-old Palestinian Suleiman Hassan, from the West Bank, suffered an internal decapitation — where the base of the skull and the top of the spine become detached, but the skin is still intact.
Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Internal decapitation occurs when sudden impact to the head causes the ligaments and muscles holding the skull in position on the top vertebrae of the spine to tear.
Jul 16, 2023
We can’t predict the future, but appreciating its uncertainties will make us happier
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biological, evolution, mathematics, neuroscience
In it, he explores how we can make better, scientifically informed predictions about the world around us, using maths. “Mathematics can provide us with the objective tools to bypass the foibles of our own biology – the limitations imposed by our own thought processes, the compulsions that ultimately make us human, but let us down when it comes to making inferences about the world around us,” he writes. “They are humanity’s shortcuts: the preconceptions and cognitive biases, refined over millennia of evolution, that all too often lead us astray when we try to apply our brain’s old rules to our society’s new environments.”
No matter how tempting it is to think, “Ooh, that’s a bit spooky” when faced with a completely random coincidence or chance occurrence, we should all be expecting unusual things to happen all the time, he says.
Yates describes a person who, when browsing in a secondhand bookshop far from where they grew up, opens a copy of their favourite children’s book, only to find their own name inscribed inside. Yet, he says, “the law of truly large numbers” dictates that, just as someone wins the lottery almost every week, with enough opportunities, such extraordinary coincidences are far more likely to happen than you might think. “There are so many different types of coincidences that make us say: ‘Well, that’s extraordinary.’ But it’s not unlikely that some of them happen to us every so often.”
Jul 16, 2023
Even the scientists who build AI can’t tell you how it works
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
Jul 16, 2023
You studied computer science but big tech no longer wants you. Now what?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: computing, science
Students at the Bay Area’s best universities once dreamed of working for Apple, Google and Meta. Then the lay-offs happened | 1843 magazine.
Jul 16, 2023
PPP fraud is ‘worst in history’: $200B stolen and blown on Lamborghinis, beach houses and bling
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
When people say there s no money for advanced AI research, robotics research, energy research, etc… etc… take a close look at who was rollin in money and buyin below items.
“The fraud was so easy to commit. All of the information was self-reported and none of it was verified or checked,” Haywood Talcove of LexisNexis Risk Solutions told The Post.
“During the height of the pandemic, it was really hard to purchase [luxury] items like a Rolls-Royce, or a high-end Mercedes because you had people walking in with cash from the PPP program to purchase those items for whatever the dealer was asking,” Talcove said.