omfg, neuralink give exclusive to new yorkt imes who calls it "baby steps" . 1,500 neurons in a rat. nytimes.com/2019/07/16/tec…
“We want this burden of stealth mode off of us so that we can keep building and do things like normal people, such as publish papers,” said Max Hodak, Neuralink’s president and one of the company’s founders.
Definitely, if its academic science
reviewing my predictions from earlier
sewing machine😀
ultra fine flexible electrodes😀
1,000 neurons 😇 (pretty close to 1,500)
monkey 👺 (no, rats. but suspecting they done monkeys)
"ready for patients" says bloomberg. no, this is ready for human "volunteers" but not patients, because it doesnt do anything i.e. some people getting brain surgery for some other reason may consent to let Neurlalink play with mind.
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Did covid-19 start in Wuhan? Not according to China's patent office.
The intellectual property organization is changing the text of patents on drugs and vaccines to remove references to covid-19's starting place.
Examples follow. 🧵
First, the (im)moral of the story. China alters the facts in technical documents for what are likely political reasons and U.S. corporations go along with it.
Example 1: Pfizer's patent on paxlovid.
The US edition (at left) and the machine translation of the Chinese version (at right). Can you see what is missing?
I highlighted the text that was removed. It was the part that said mentioned the outbreak originated in Wuhan.
Eric Lander will return next month to Broad Institute and faculty positions at MIT and Harvard. He was on two-year leave to serve as White House science adviser, but got booted from that post for bullying.
This seems to settle the succession question at the Broad Institute, which was founded by Lander. Over the years, other contenders, like David Altschuler and Aviv Regev, departed for industry.
Lander is 65, according to Google, nominal retirement age, but that doesnt mean much in academia. According to Broad, Lander will return to research, mentoring and, one expects, institution building activities.
Features unusual access to recorded calls with Jiankui He, the Chinese scientist involved + who this year got out of prison. Also a unique interview with his American PR rep, Ryan (no surname used).
2/ I travelled with this documentary team to China in Oct/Nov 2018 on the *theory* that if there were CRISPR babies, they would be found in China. (this was before the news broke).
Here is the crew filming with Harvard Prof. George Church in China.
3/Incredibly enough, the fates decreed we would encounter JK during the trip, and a couple of weeks later it became clear he had actually made crispr babies. He posted some data about the babies online, leading to our scoop about the project. technologyreview.com/2018/11/25/138…
Drama for non-profit news house @propublica after co-signing Covid-19 lab leak article with @VanityFair . that divined hidden meaning in Chinese lab safety documents. Were translations correct?
New kid news org @semafor has scoop on post-facto effort to check translation.
"Three people with direct knowledge told Semafor that editors at the nonprofit news organization have been reaching out to Mandarin translators about whether the publication correctly quoted a communist party dispatch regarding safety in the Wuhan." -- @maxwelltani