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Nov 1, 2020

How To Build Your Own Chatbot Using Deep Learning

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

If you are interested in developing chatbots, you can find out that there are a lot of powerful bot development frameworks, tools, and platforms that can use to implement intelligent chatbot solutions. How about developing a simple, intelligent chatbot from scratch using deep learning rather than using any bot development framework or any other platform. In this tutorial, you can learn how to develop an end-to-end domain-specific intelligent chatbot solution using deep learning with Keras.

Nov 1, 2020

OneSkin Progress Report | Carolina Reis, CEO Oneskin

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

In this interview to Allison Duettmann, Carolina Reis, OneSkin’s CEO, describes the results of the prove of concept clinical study that the company performed for the product launched in the market some weeks ago, and explains more thoroughly the possible mechanisms of action involved in the reduction of senescent cells in the skin.


Zoom Transcription: https://otter.ai/s/DxPPE-AMSl6VdZa4K8dkDQ

Nov 1, 2020

These New Luxury Blimps Hope to Become the Superyachts of the Skies

Posted by in category: materials

Zeppelins are usually equated with the Hindenburg disaster, but today’s airships use modern materials and some aspire to be as luxurious as superyachts.

Nov 1, 2020

How Coronavirus Can Be Stopped: 3D Atomic Map of COVID-19’s Viral Replication Mechanism

Posted by in categories: biological, biotech/medical, chemistry, particle physics

To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of every atom in an enzyme molecule critical to SARS-CoV-2 reproduction.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to identify key information to improve the effectiveness of drug inhibitors designed to block the virus’s replication mechanism. The research is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, expresses long chains of proteins composed of approximately 1,900 amino acid residues. For the virus to reproduce, those chains have to be broken down and cut into smaller strands by an enzyme called the main protease. The active protease enzyme is formed from two identical protein molecules held together by hydrogen bonds. Developing a drug that inhibits or blocks the protease activity will prevent the virus from replicating and spreading to other cells in the body.

Nov 1, 2020

Are the Brain’s Electromagnetic Fields the Seat of Consciousness?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

“It was a jaw-dropping moment, for us and for every scientist we told about this so far.”

But what if there’s more to the story? What if the electromagnetic fields generated by, but which are not identical to, the neuroanatomy of the brain, are in fact the primary seat of consciousness? The brain’s fields are generated by various physiological processes in the brain, but primarily by trans-membrane currents moving through neurons. These fields are always oscillating and they come in various speeds, clustered around certain bands, from delta on the lower end at 1–2.5 cycles (oscillations) per second (Hertz) up to gamma at 40–120 cycles per second.

Some neuroscientists have long considered the brain’s oscillating electromagnetic fields to be interesting but merely “epiphenomenal” features of the brain—like a train whistle on a steam-powered locomotive. Electromagnetic fields may just be noise that doesn’t affect the workings of the brain. Koch still seems to lean this way.

Nov 1, 2020

3D-printing “error” used to produce high-tech textiles

Posted by in category: materials

If a 3D printer leaves gaps in the plastic that it deposits, it’s usually thought of as an unwanted flaw. Now, however, the process has been harnessed to quickly and cheaply produce pliable polymer textiles.

Ordinarily, commonly used fused deposition modelling (FDM)-type printers create items by extruding successive layers of molten plastic. Once the layers of deposited plastic have cooled and fused together, they form a hardened solid object.

Sometimes, though – due to a flaw in the printer or the programming – not enough plastic is extruded. This is known as under-extrusion, and it results in the finished product being full of small gaps.

Nov 1, 2020

US Navy SEALs Rescue American Hostage in Nigeria

Posted by in category: futurism

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U.S. Special Operations Commandos rescued an American hostage during an early morning raid on Saturday, according to Jonathan Hoffman, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.

Nov 1, 2020

Tweeting with your MIND? Meet Stentrode: The Neuralink Rival ALREADY in Clinical Trials

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJQcvGALwZY&feature=youtu.be

A closer look at Stentrode, the Brain Computer Interface that interacts with the brain via blood vessels. Recent paper demonstrating it working in 2 ALS patients.


Han from WrySci HX goes through the very interesting brain computer interface called Stentrode that can let you tweet with your mind. As a BCI, it’s a rival to Neuralink, Kernal, and Openwater. Find out about its background, how it works, why it’s the most unique BCI, and some results from its clinical trials. More below ↓↓↓

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Nov 1, 2020

Cups made from orange peels

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, sustainability

Biodegradable to serve orange juice.

I think this is an epic example of “nothing goes to waste”. 😃

Vishal Mehta

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Nov 1, 2020

The Mystery of The Platypus Deepens With The Discovery of Its Biofluorescent Fur

Posted by in category: futurism

The platypus has gotten a whole lot stranger. Not only does it look like a chimera of different animals, a mammal that lays eggs and has venom, it’s now found to have bioflourescent fur.

It glows green under UV light.


Scientists are seeing the Australian platypus in a whole new light. Under an ultraviolet lamp, this bizarre-looking creature appears even more peculiar than normal, glowing a soft, greenish-blue hue instead of the typical brown we’re used to seeing.

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