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New comment by seesawtron in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

seesawtron — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:39:16 +0000

>"We see a future where intelligence is autility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter” Sam Altman

I always considered jokingly that I am "selling" my intelligence when I work for a company. This clarifies that my perception wasn't far off.

New comment by seesawtron in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

seesawtron — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:43:46 +0000

Even without any heavy metal staining, you would end up seeing some structures. This approach allows looking at unstained / native tissue.

New comment by seesawtron in "Everyone should be using Claude Code more"

seesawtron — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:13:20 +0000

Sure it makes a few things easier to execute when you have an agent running locally. But many people fear what such an agent might do under a wrong or misunderstood prompt to your local system. There is also mistrust of how it may access your data locally compared to a more controlled scenario where you specifically choose which files it has access to. So, no, “everyone” “should” not necessarily be using more CC. It depends on the tasks in hand and risks associated

New comment by seesawtron in "Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail"

seesawtron — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:11:33 +0000

I think the main reason to ban was that the email provider refused to share identity of the sender. Still doesn't justify the actions

New comment by seesawtron in "AI Companions Reduce Loneliness"

seesawtron — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:35:13 +0000

For a lot of people, such options are not possible, e.g., elderly, sick, bed-ridden, socially challenged or so on. You underestimate the need and impact of such technology.

New comment by seesawtron in "Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month"

seesawtron — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:06:28 +0000

How hard is it to do something like this on your platform [0]? Are there any other real-world examples where people are using your platform to do something similar?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw

New comment by seesawtron in "Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month"

seesawtron — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:54:21 +0000

I'd imagine its easy to set up independent platforms for different users. Organoids are pretty easy to develop. Large costs come from Multi Electrode Array recording devices that can be >30K.

New comment by seesawtron in "Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month"

seesawtron — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:35:30 +0000

I was once contacted by FinalSpark where they offered free early remote access to use their biocomputing platform. The platform is accessible remotely and allows experiments on neurospheres made from living cells, sitting in an incubator, in their lab, in Vevey, Switzerland. A neurosphere is a round structure build out of approximately 10’000 neurons, connected to electrodes in different places. The platform uses python scripts to communicate with the neuron allowing for various functionalities, such as: Stimulate living neurons, Read data from neurons, Log all the data in a database, and Display graphically the results of experiments for further analysis.

I was too busy to come up with a clear project idea that could beat alreadty existing stuff such as neurons playing Doom [0] (not related to FinalSpark). Still waiting for someone to show something cool using this platform.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw

New comment by seesawtron in "Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review"

seesawtron — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:19:30 +0000

Is it just me or do you also see half of the article in Chinese when clicking the above link?

New comment by seesawtron in "LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore"

seesawtron — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:11:36 +0000

>So other than training ever-larger models on the same internet data, how can they make better LLMs? Training a multi-modal model that can integrate audio, visual, text and all sorts of data modalities to human level capabilities still remains an clear challenge. The bottleneck here is not the lack of data imo.

New comment by seesawtron in "David Hilbert's 1930 Radio Address [video]"

seesawtron — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:07:16 +0000

Always amazes me to see that society as a whole has been and continues to be willing to use public (or private) funding to support natural sciences. In the short term, one often faces the argument about the meaningless of doing things just for the sake of knowing or understanding nature. But in the long run, attracting scientists and engineers to work on such problems must (insert my optimism) add a significant value to our society as a whole.

Use of large language models might affect our cognitive skills

seesawtron — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01859-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514612

Points: 2

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New comment by seesawtron in "Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution"

seesawtron — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:08:15 +0000

A similar dataset already exists in mouse cortex. More are underway in the field.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586254v1

New comment by seesawtron in "Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution"

seesawtron — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:07:07 +0000

This tissue was from epileptic patient. So we can not rule out that weird things are related to disease.

New comment by seesawtron in "Citizenship Privilege Harms Science"

seesawtron — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:41:31 +0000

A -> B is same as ~B -> ~A

New comment by seesawtron in "Citizenship Privilege Harms Science"

seesawtron — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:03:08 +0000

I wonder if someone actually did a long-term study to generate evidence for a causal link that not being able to go to specific conference(s) actually "harmed" science?

On a side note, the same citizenship privilege would also "harm" any other industry market. E.g., there are tons of talented engineers and programmers in "global south" (or insert a more PC term for the under-developed countries) who face years of waiting time to get their work-visa. In extreme cases, there are some companies who do not have a proper visa-support team so they prefer not to hire people such countries.

It shouldn't surpise anyone that being born in the wrong part of the world plays a monumental role in terms of the oppprtunities to which one is exposed.

New comment by seesawtron in "Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure"

seesawtron — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:54:50 +0000

There is no evidence of actual transfer. It is just a possibile hypothesis.

New comment by seesawtron in "Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure"

seesawtron — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:54:14 +0000

Both new and old articles are from the same lab. So they hypothesized it in previous article and now found signs of dementia in some of patients who survived. Still no evidence of actual transmission of A-Beta.

New comment by seesawtron in "Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time"

seesawtron — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:27:45 +0000

This would not be possible to implement in a lot of businesses where the "public image" of the employee (even during non working hours) matters to the company and its business.

But I agree with the argument "Judge the art, not the artist".

As Camus attempted to portray in "The stranger", the protagonist was on "a trial that judged his character and the ways in which he integrated in the society, not on a trial for killing an Arab".

New comment by seesawtron in "Pinker was right, I was wrong"

seesawtron — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:22:12 +0000

In today's environment, moralists would argue "it's immoral to not have an opinion, i.e. if you are in a position of power and are not actively using your voice to reach out to your audience in order in favour of populist opinions, you are in the wrong."

I don't know what to make of it. I think it's great that people fight for what they believe in but at the same time, "inaction" is becoming more and more difficult.