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Dec 5, 2021

Lifespan.io Longevity Research Advocacy and Allied Projects

Posted by in category: life extension

In addition to our film, Gitcoin is also hosting several different longevity projects via Lifespan.io / Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation, all of which you can support by clicking below 🧬


Projects put forth by the Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) — aka Lifespan.io — and projects fiscally sponsored by LEAF.

Dec 5, 2021

Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, engineering, life extension

Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in regenerative medicine.

“People recovering from heart damage often face a long and tricky journey. Healing is challenging because of the constant movement tissues must withstand as the heart beats. The same is true for vocal cords. Until now there was no injectable material strong enough for the job,” says Guangyu Bao, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

The team, led by Professor Luc Mongeau and Assistant Professor Jianyu Li, developed a new injectable hydrogel for wound repair. The hydrogel is a type of biomaterial that provides room for cells to live and grow. Once injected into the body, the biomaterial forms a stable, porous structure allowing live cells to grow or pass through to repair the injured organs.

Dec 5, 2021

India seeks collaborators for a mission to Venus, the neglected planet

Posted by in category: space travel

Spacecraft slated for launch in 2023 will drop a balloon in Venus’s hot, acid atmosphere.


A series of deck-handling trials aboard a supercarrier is part of the buildup toward planned operational capability in 2025.

Dec 5, 2021

Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drone Goes Aboard A Carrier For The First Time

Posted by in category: drones

A series of deck-handling trials aboard a supercarrier is part of the buildup toward planned operational capability in 2025.

Dec 5, 2021

Commentary: Rise of the (fast food) robots

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Five million people are employed in the fast food industry in the U.S. alone, but their tasks are monotonous and easily automated.


Bei einem Experiment in der Antarktis haben Forscher Teilchen beobachtet, die ein Beweis fĂŒr eine alternative RealitĂ€t sein könnten.

Dec 5, 2021

Deepmind’s Crazy Plan To Surpass OpenAI’s Best AI

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Google’s Deepmind is working on a rather crazy and unique plan to surpass OpenAI’s biggest and best Artificial Intelligence Model within the next few months. In a new paper, AI researchers at DeepMind present a new technique to improve the capacity of reinforcement learning agents to cooperate with humans at different skill levels. Accepted at the annual NeurIPS conference, the technique is called Fictitious Co-Play (FCP) and it does not require human-generated data to train the RL agents.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 How Deepmind is ahead of OpenAI
01:45 Why this AI is similar to our Brain.
04:17 New AI Features and Abilities.
06:36 How successful was this AI?
08:58 The Future of AI
10:13 Last Words.
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#ai #agi #deepmind

Dec 5, 2021

The Snowflake Mystery

Posted by in category: media & arts

Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen — his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.

Thanks to Dr Ken Libbrecht for showing us how to grow designer snowflakes. Obviously, this video would not have been possible without his help and his expertise. His website is full of information about snowflakes http://snowcrystals.com. His new book is also available to purchase from here — https://ve42.co/SnowCrystalsBook.

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Dec 5, 2021

Helen Caldicott — “Th” Thorium Documentary

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks, media & arts, military, nuclear energy

This is the same type of double double DOUBLE down on hyperbolic and aggressive anti expert BS that has pushed a not insignificant portion of the population of the US to throw a violent tantrum against covid19 vaccines and wearing a piece of cloth on their face to keep from DYING. Similarly, ultra environmentalists on the far left have ceased to try to protect the environment FOR future generations. Now they want to protect the environment FROM future generations. They’ve become ANTIHUMAN, often to a disturbingly horrific — if hilariously stupid — extent. LITERALLY. Unless you think we shouldn’t build anything on the sterile, irradiated and dead surface of the moon by polluting it — or any other moon, asteroid, or planet by stepping on it’s surface with our filthy monkey feet. Or throwing trash into the SUN because we’d be


👉😏🙄POLLUTING IT!🙄đŸ€Ș👈

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Dec 5, 2021

THE CRYONICS INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 3, 2021

Posted by in categories: cryonics, life extension

https://www.cryonics.org/images/uploads/magazines/CI_NEWS-2021-03.pdf

Dec 5, 2021

DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

Computer simulations and visualizations of knots and other objects have long helped mathematicians to look for patterns and develop their intuition, says Jeffrey Weeks, a mathematician based in Canton, New York, who has pioneered some of those techniques since the 1980s. But, he adds, “Getting the computer to seek out patterns takes the research process to a qualitatively different level.”

The authors say the approach, described in a paper in the 2 December issue of Nature1, could benefit other areas of maths that involve large data sets.