@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-06-30 16:07:06
Neuralink Blindsight brain implant or The vOICe vision BCI? Informed consent means that Neuralink's blind patients at least know of The vOICe vision BCI #BCI
@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-29 15:38:52
Researchers have given people a taste of superhuman vision
after creating contact lenses that allow them to see infrared light.
Unlike night vision goggles,
the contact lenses need no power source,
and because they are transparent,
wearers can see infrared and all the normal visible colours of light at the same time
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-30 19:23:22
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-30 21:17:36
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: Can you walk?
AVON: Very likely. [stands up] But just at the moment I can't think of too many places to go.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/289 B7B6
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-08-28 06:26:14
This does rather explain why going to the cinema to watch a real film (köln 75 5* huge recommend) last weekend was such a brilliant experience. The streamers have deadened the experience of watching at home...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/28/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-08-28 18:11:43
More quotable quotes from Krugman:
❝Market pricing almost never takes into account the possibility of huge, disruptive events, even when the strong possibility of such events should be obvious. The usual pattern, instead, is one of market complacency until the last possible moment. That is, markets act as if everything is normal until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t.❞
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@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-30 09:06:02
SN2022jli modeled with a $^{56}$Ni double-layer and a magnetar
Mariana Orellana, Melina C. Bersten, Claudia P. Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21304 https://
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-31 21:14:40
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
CALLY: [Nodding] I think I can guess.
JENNA: It is a trap, isn't it?
CALLY: Avon thinks so.
JENNA: Well Avon always thinks so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/321
