Organoid Intelligence (OI): The New Frontier in Biocomputing and Intelligence-in-a-Dish
February 28th, 2023But first, let’s take a walk down memory lane, from nearly two decades ago: “Brain” In A Dish Acts As Autopilot Living Computer:
A University of Florida scientist has grown a living “brain” that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.
The “brain” — a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat’s brain and cultured inside a glass dish — gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level. By watching the brain cells interact, scientists hope to understand what causes neural disorders such as epilepsy and to determine noninvasive ways to intervene.
As living computers, they may someday be used to fly small unmanned airplanes or handle tasks that are dangerous for humans, such as search-and-rescue missions or bomb damage assessments.
And now…
Via: Frontiers in Science:
Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly aspects of cognition in vitro. Coining the term “organoid intelligence” (OI) to encompass these developments, we present a collaborative program to implement the vision of a multidisciplinary field of OI. This aims to establish OI as a form of genuine biological computing that harnesses brain organoids using scientific and bioengineering advances in an ethically responsible manner.
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We envisage complex, networked interfaces whereby brain organoids are connected with real-world sensors and output devices, and ultimately with each other and with sensory organ organoids (e.g. retinal organoids), and are trained using biofeedback, big-data warehousing, and machine learning methods.
Drone Attacks Inside Russia
February 28th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Russia has come under attack by multiple drones on Tuesday, with one of those drones reportedly causing a fire at an oil depot in the southern part of the country, and another hitting outside Moscow.
The attack on the oil facility happened in Tuapse, which lies about 150 miles southeast of the Crimean peninsula, with Reuters citing local media to report, “Emergency services put out a fire at an oil depot in southern Russia overnight after a drone was spotted flying overhead, the RIA news agency said on Tuesday.” Crucially, Tuapse is about 500 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, which exhibits significant reach assuming the UAV was launched by the Ukrainians.
Professor Retsef Levi on Covid 19 Vaccines and Pregnancy Outcomes
February 27th, 2023Via: Retsef Levi:
Nokia Launches a Low Cost, Easily Repairable Smartphone
February 27th, 20233.5mm headphone jack: Yes.
Via: PC Magazine:
The Nokia G22, a low-cost Android phone headed for Europe, features a QuickFix design that allows owners to perform several repairs themselves.
Covid-19 Likely Originated with Lab Leak, U.S. Energy Department Finds in New Report
February 27th, 2023Satire: To Catch Up On Today’s News, Man Just Reads 2-Year-Old Posts On Conspiracy Blog
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Low confidence… Mmm hmm.
Via: National Review:
The Covid-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report from the U.S. Energy Department.
The report, which was included in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office, was recently provided to the White House and other lawmakers. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the updated assessment from the Energy Department is the result of new intelligence.
The Energy Department, which oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, made its judgment with “low confidence,” the Wall Street Journal reported. The assessment marks a change from 2021, when the department was undecided on how the virus originated.
Blizzard Hits California
February 26th, 2023Via: BBC:
Snowflakes have been falling in Los Angeles, including around its iconic Hollywood sign, as a winter storm tightens its icy grip on southern California this weekend.
San Francisco broke a 132-year record low temperature, dipping to 39F (4C) on Friday morning.
Tens of millions of residents in the Golden State are under blizzard, wind and flood warnings.
Woody Harrelson Sneaks Covid Vaccine Mandate Joke Onto SNL
February 26th, 2023I wonder why this was allowed?
Via: ZeroHedge:
On his fifth time as guest host on the now far-leftist Saturday Night Live, Harrelson entered into a monologue which seemed to catch the New York audience off guard as the joke ended with a scathing indirect indictment of Big Pharma, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The progressive media is, not surprisingly, furious, accusing Harrelson of “conspiracy theory.”
Medicare Data Shows the COVID Vaccines Increase Chances of Dying
February 26th, 2023Via: Steve Kirsch:
It shows the vaccines increase the risk of death for the elderly and that these risks appear to remain persistently elevated. It’s anyone’s guess for how long.
So now you know why the CDC never showed us the Medicare data. And now you know why the medical community and mainstream media never asked to see it and never will. They had it the whole time and kept it from public view so they wouldn’t create “vaccine hesitancy.”
Corona Response: What Did They Get Right?
February 25th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Transmission of the disease – wrong
Asymptomatic spread – wrong
PCR testing – wrong
Fatality rate – wrong
Lockdowns – wrong
Community triggers – wrong
Business closures – wrong
School closures – wrong
Quarantining healthy people – wrong
Impact on youth – wrong
Hospital overload – wrong
Plexiglass barriers – wrong
Social distancing – wrong
Outdoor spread – wrong
Masks – wrong
Variant impact – wrong
Natural immunity – wrong
Vaccine efficacy – wrong
Vaccine injury – wrong
Related: What ACTUALLY Happened with Covid
Encryption Lava Lamps
February 25th, 2023Via: Atlas Obscura:
Cloudflare covers about 10 percent of international web traffic, including the websites for Uber, OKCupid, or FitBit, for instance. And the colorful wall of lava lamps in the company’s San Francisco headquarters might be what’s generating the random code. The wall features over 100 lava lamps, spanning a variety of colors, and its random patterns deter hackers from accessing data.
As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.
