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Surgeons Are Simulating Whole Brains To Pin Down The Source Of Their Patients' Seizures

Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 12th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

A decade ago, the Human Brain Project launched with a blue-sky goal: digitizing a human brain. The implications were huge: simulated brains could provide crucial clues to help crack some of the most troubling neurological diseases.

Antarctic Ice Can Melt 20 Times Faster Than We Thought

Posted in Science on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

A study published April 5 in the journal Nature found that at the end of the last Ice Age, parts of the Eurasian Ice Sheet retreated up to 2,000 feet per day.

Three Computer Vision Trends To Follow In 2023

Posted in Software on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

Computer vision applications can run real-time data processing and analysis, which is not just reducing energy and bandwidth burdens, but is also improving computation efficiency.

Finding a Song People Were Listening To Based On Their Brain Activity

Posted in Science on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

A neural decoding model that is able to reconstruct heard music from brain activity can form a reasonable step towards other forms of neural decoding models that have applications for aiding communication.

Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely To Exist-Unless It Is One Of Many

Posted in Science on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

How do we know just how atypical our universe is? To answer that we need to work out the probabilities of each combination of constants.