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DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians at a Calculation Crucial to Computing
Posted in Software on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"A boost in performance would improve a lot of applications."
Our Conscious Experience Of The World Is A Memory, Says New Theory
Posted in Medicine, Science on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
By reframing consciousness as part of memory, the team hopes the theory can help patients with neurological disorders.
AI Uses a Scan of Your Retina to Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"AI-enabled vasculometry risk prediction is fully automated, low cost, non-invasive, and has the potential for reaching a higher proportion of the population in the community because of 'high street' availability and because blood sampling or are not needed."
Pong-playing brain cells can teach us about better medicine and AI
Posted in Medicine, Science on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"You can take samples from donors, grow genotypically similar neurons, which we can then use to test drugs, which will then hopefully have the same parameters as donor cells"
Lung cancer treatment: Specific gene mutation may be a key
Posted in Medicine, Science on 16th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
Data from a new study found that the mutated KRAS gene influences the lipids and metabolism of lipids in lung cancer. Their findings suggest that targeting components of lipid metabolism and synthesis could be part of effective lung cancer treatments.