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Apr 13, 2024
Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: health, neuroscience
The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the eyes can be one of the earliest signs of cognitive decline. Our latest study shows that a loss of visual sensitivity can predict dementia 12 years before it is diagnosed.
Our research was based on 8,623 healthy people in Norfolk, England, who were followed up for many years. By the end of the study, 537 participants had developed dementia, so we could see what factors might have preceded this diagnosis.
At the start of the study, we asked participants to take a visual sensitivity test. For the test, they had to press a button as soon as they saw a triangle forming in a field of moving dots. People who would develop dementia were much slower to see this triangle on the screen than people who would remain without dementia.
Apr 13, 2024
Many-Valued Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Reminds me of the world of null A by AEVan Vogh.
Many-valued logics are non-classical logics. They are similar to classical logic because they accept the principle of truth-functionality, namely, that the truth of a compound sentence is determined by the truth values of its component sentences (and so remains unaffected when one of its component sentences is replaced by another sentence with the same truth value). But they differ from classical logic by the fundamental fact that they do not restrict the number of truth values to only two: they allow for a larger set W W of truth degrees.
Apr 13, 2024
Newly Found Genetic Variant Defends Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
Columbia neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer’s in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease.
Apr 13, 2024
Rice team demonstrates miniature brain stimulator in humans
Posted by The Neuro-Network in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
Rice University engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient. Thanks to pioneering magnetoelectric power transfer technology, the pea-sized device developed in the Rice lab of Jacob Robinson in collaboration with Motif Neurotech and clinicians Dr. Sameer Sheth and Dr. Sunil Sheth can be powered wirelessly via an external transmitter and used to stimulate the brain through the dura ⎯ the protective membrane attached to the bottom of the skull.
The device, known as the Digitally programmable Over-brain Therapeutic (DOT), could revolutionize treatment for drug-resistant depression and other psychiatric or neurological disorders by providing a therapeutic alternative that offers greater patient autonomy and accessibility than current neurostimulation-based therapies and is less invasive than other brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
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Apr 13, 2024
JetMoE: Reaching Llama2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
From MIT & Princeton.
JetMoE
Reaching Llama2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars.
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Apr 13, 2024
Tesla FSD navigated 13-mile journey to Emergency Room to save a man, Elon Musk responds
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation
Elon Musk praises the Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system for its role in aiding a Tesla owner during a mild heart attack.
Apr 13, 2024
Oxford breakthrough allows secure quantum computing from homes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, quantum physics
Researchers have developed a “blind quantum computing” method enabling secure, scalable quantum cloud computing connecting quantum entities over networks.
Apr 13, 2024
Cornell researchers develop lithium EV battery that charges under 5 mins
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: engineering, sustainability, transportation
A research team led by Lynden Archer, professor and dean of Cornell Engineering, has developed a new lithium battery that can charge in as little as five minutes. This could help address anxiety associated with the charging time of electric vehicles (EVs) and increase their adoption.
In their bid to reduce emissions from transportation, countries worldwide are looking to electrify various modes of transport. Road-based transport such as cars, buses, and trucks have led this transformation, aiming to even ban the sale of fossil fuel-powered cars in the next decade.
Apr 13, 2024
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell multiome data using atlas-scale external data
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Accuracy of gene regulatory network inference is increased by combining multiome single-cell and atlas-scale bulk data.