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We are at a *very* unique moment—on the cusp of a revolution that will usher in multiple trillion-dollar companies and industries.
This moment reminds me of a few other periods filled with disruption and opportunity:
US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Boring Company is developing a tract of land in Texas near as housing for its employees.
Called Project Amazing, the development will be located in Bastrop County near Austin and contain 110 homes built for workers at the nearby facilities of the Boring Company.
Developed by homebuilder Lennar, the community will be situated in a largely rural area on a tract of land owned by Gappes Bass, an affiliate of the Boring Company, according to Business Insider.
A couple minutes of your time for a little optimism.
Dr David Sinclair talks about no matter all the push backs and criticizes, he believes reverse aging therapy for human will be succeeded in this short clip.
David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study sirtuins—protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction—as well as chromatin, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, cancer, and cellular reprogramming.
Yeah, death is scary and freaky, but on the other hand, I have no direct idea of what it actually involves (having never been dead myself). Given that reality, my job is to live this life as completely as possible. You can engage fully in its richness, its sorrows, and its beauty, or you can miss it by worrying about when or how this aspect of being ends.
From this perspective, the transhumanist desire to “conquer” death sounds like the worst forms of religious zeal. Both science and spiritual practice are supposed to help us look directly into the truth of life, the Universe, and Everything. Death, whatever it means, is part of all three. To spend effort thinking otherwise is to, quite sadly, miss the point profoundly.
Even more important, however, is the wrong-headedness of the transhuman conception of what it means to be human. Their idea is that it’s literally all in the head. Your life, in the transhumanist conception, is reducible to the computations happening in your brain. The totality of your experience — its vibrancy and immediacy and the strange inescapable luminosity of its presence — is all just meat computing. And if that’s the case, who needs the meat? Let’s just swap out the neurons for silicon chips, and it will all be the same. Heck, it will be better, and it gets to go on forever and ever.
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In collaboration with the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Nutrition, the Berry Good Food Foundation convenes a panel of experts to discuss the rise of comprehensive medicine and nutritional healing to treat chronic disease and maintain general well-being. [6/2018] [Show ID: 33486]
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‘We’ve put together the top 10 technology trends to watch out for in 2023 that will help enterprises be future-ready and build resilience within their organisation to thrive in any new normal,’ Kalyan Kumar, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems of HCL Tech said in a release.
Posted in neuroscience, science
Do you find yourself buried under an avalanche of tedious coding tasks? Is your brain about to explode from hours of troubleshooting? Fear not, for we have just the solution you need!
In this video we have conjured up 5 magical ways ChatGPT will revolutionize the way you work in data science. Get ready to be spellbound by these 5 enchanting use cases:
0:00 Five Use-Cases Summary.
0:31 1 — Python Library Suggestions.
3:27 2 — Code Troubleshooting.
6:21 3 — Code Generation.
10:24 4-Translate Code from R to Python.
15:17 5 — Article Summarization.
With ChatGPT by your side, you can save time, increase accuracy, and take your data science skills to a whole new level. These tips and tricks are guaranteed to have a significant impact on your career in data science, whether you’re a padawan or a Jedi master.
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How often in Doctor Who does science fiction meet science FACT?
Over the 60 years Doctor Who has been on our screens, it’s fair to say the show has introduced us to a multitude of science, both fiction and fact. Aside from bio-electric dampening fields and reversing polarities, today we ask: What are some of the key bits of Doctor Who science that are relevant to life on earth today? What is the real science of Doctor Who?
Neurologists at a memory clinic in China have diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believe to be Alzheimer’s disease, making him the youngest person to be diagnosed with the condition in the world.
The male teenager began experiencing memory decline around age 17, and the cognitive losses only worsened over the years.
Imaging of the patient’s brain showed shrinkage in the hippocampus, which is involved in memory, and his cerebrospinal fluid hinted at common markers of this most common form of dementia.
