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Oct 3, 2022

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.

Oct 3, 2022

Finding the on-ramp: Converting Web2 to Web3

Posted by in category: futurism

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Every time someone invents a new standard, the rest of the world is compelled to comply: VHS to DVD, DVD to Blu-ray, or Blu-ray to streaming. Change is inexorable, but it can also be glacially slow. Converting the tech geeks and conspicuous consumers is easy, but getting the long tail of ordinary users to embrace the “new paradigm” is fiendishly hard — and so, it is with Web3.

We’re living through a transitional time when the slow deprecation of one standard is being countered with the mainstreaming of another. To say that red pilling the masses on the wonders of Web3 has been tough would be an understatement, however. At this stage, it cannot even be said for certain that Web3 will replace its numerical predecessor — rather, it is more of an if. For Web2 to go the way of the VHS and fully transition to a new format — much needs to happen first.

Oct 3, 2022

Data ethics: What it means and what it takes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, ethics, governance, law

So how should companies begin to think about ethical data management? What measures can they put in place to ensure that they are using consumer, patient, HR, facilities, and other forms of data appropriately across the value chain—from collection to analytics to insights?

We began to explore these questions by speaking with about a dozen global business leaders and data ethics experts. Through these conversations, we learned about some common data management traps that leaders and organizations can fall into, despite their best intentions. These traps include thinking that data ethics does not apply to your organization, that legal and compliance have data ethics covered, and that data scientists have all the answers—to say nothing of chasing short-term ROI at all costs and looking only at the data rather than their sources.

In this article, we explore these traps and suggest some potential ways to avoid them, such as adopting new standards for data management, rethinking governance models, and collaborating across disciplines and organizations. This list of potential challenges and remedies is not exhaustive; our research base was relatively small, and leaders could face many other obstacles, beyond our discussion here, to the ethical use of data. But what’s clear from our research is that data ethics needs both more and sustained attention from all members of the C-suite, including the CEO.

Oct 3, 2022

What is the fifth dimension?

Posted by in category: information science

We directly experience 3 spatial and 1 temporal dimensions (3+1). But here’s an interesting observation made by Kaluza and Klein almost a century ago: If you write the equations of general relativity in (4+1) dimensions, but imagine one spatial di…

Oct 3, 2022

Relativity IS Easy

Posted by in category: futurism

Einstein did it the hard way, but there’s a much easier approach to relativity.

Oct 3, 2022

Illusory perspectives or measurements of reality?

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Oct 3, 2022

High-throughput mapping of a whole rhesus monkey brain at micrometer resolution

Posted by in categories: mapping, neuroscience

A whole monkey brain is imaged at high resolution in 100 hours.

Oct 3, 2022

BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading

Posted by in categories: biological, cryonics, life extension, neuroscience, robotics/AI

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Oct 3, 2022

The Brain with David Eagleman

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Swapping out cells for circuits, it may be possible for the mind to exist digitally.

Oct 3, 2022

This is Crazy: Scientists See Two Versions Of Reality Existing At The Same Time In A Quantum Experiment

Posted by in category: quantum physics

We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge.

And you may want to rethink your belief that science will always provide you with objective reality.

Physicists can now verify a hypothesis that Nobel Prize winner Eugen Wigner initially put out in 1961.