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- neverscared0
The ambiance in this video is just otherworldly.
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- folks went full antimatter todayneverscared
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- “They were singing the final prayer of Holy Quantum Physics when the Large Hadron Collider wiped out reality as we knew it.” — Edgar CGabriel
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Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
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Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are increasingly in demand for research and medical uses
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An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function
Scientists identify ‘neural fingerprint’ of psychedelic drugs in the brain
Analysis of more than 500 brain scans finds LSD, psilocybin and other psychedelics increase cross-talk between brain systems
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Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study findsFirst ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life
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- hah, thanks i was reccomended this channel last week by a genius researcher i work with and 'kurzgesagt' went in one ear and out the otherkingsteven
- he has one of their bacteriophage plushies https://shop-eu.kurz…kingsteven
- kingsteven1
Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few important math problems, "finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for incompressible porous media, for Boussinesq, and for 3d incompressible Euler."
they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier Stokes problem that could help lead the way there
Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related to Anthropic.
Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic solved a major problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify, without revealing the problem they solved or how they did it.
After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes with a new internal model.
Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.
Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the training.
OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic.
Sep 8th: Tristan refuses to remove Levent, and rushes to publish their results independently.
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- neverscared0
Response speed is modulated by respiratory phase
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Performance on a sustained attention task varies by the phase of the respiratory cycle
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Broad implications for understanding brain-body interactionsSummary
Mere milliseconds can determine whether a sprinter or swimmer wins or places second. Would it help to intentionally control breathing while awaiting the starting signal? Here, we analyzed sustained-attention performance in 35 adults and found that response speed varied with respiratory phase. Responses were faster during exhalations and during respiratory pauses compared to during inhalations. Fine-grained analyses across the entire respiratory cycle revealed that reaction times were slowest around the peak of inhalations, corroborating a systematic relationship between respiratory phase and speed of response in this widely used attention test. This work highlights respiration as an important contributor to moment-to-moment variability in performance under circumstances of sustained attention and suggests potential benefits of aligning breathing patterns with task demands.- so hold your breath at the start line of a sprint race_niko
- or race in one breath? or as less breaths possible...neverscared
- yuekit0
Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging