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Our clinical trial participants have now used their Neuralink implants for over 50,000 hours, building one of the largest datasets of intracortical neural activity ever.
We used it to pretrain a foundation model for BCI: self-supervised neural encoders that turn noisy, drifting spikes into stable representations.
Some initial results:
• Decoders that keep working for weeks instead of days. For some users, calibration dropped from 10 min/day to 10 min/week
• Teleporting cursors that jump straight to the intended target
• A new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second (exceeding the performance of most able-bodied people)
We’re just getting started. Future directions include pooling data across participants, one-shot (or zero-shot) calibration, and an API for the motor cortex.
Read more:
neuralink.com/updates/pretra…
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Based and additivepilled. Let me drop some ice cream alpha. This is my base recipe which everything is adapted from.
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My parents raised me on soy milk in the 70s. They thought it was super healthy. I think that’s why I look like a Mexican woman. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I make it work.
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see, if we had an Early Bronze Age Fair, one could synthesize the desires for anachronism, animal garb, and sexual perversion by covering oneself in wolf-skins in a ritualistic fashion before setting out into the wilderness to carry off agriculturalist women
🚨 FURRY BAN: The Maryland Renaissance Festival has banned fursuits this year, saying they don’t fit the Renaissance theme and that some patrons complained about feeling uncomfortable around them. Organizers also cite past issues with unauthorized performances. (City Cast DC)
It’s a private event with a dress code. Not every venue has to accommodate every subculture — and “discrimination” doesn’t automatically mean someone’s rights were violated.
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You know what they say about small predators? Big personalities.
The American marten is a lightning quick member of the weasel family that makes its home in forests across northern North America. Don't let that cute face fool you. This little hunter can be ferocious.
ALT Pine marten clinging to a tree trunk surrounded by green pine branches in a natural forest setting.
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If Han Wudi had picked Mohism as his official state ideology rather than Confucianism:
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a few years @ escaperoom I remember this guy had a challenge to escape from his room so we set it on fire and kicked in the door and he got really upset because apperantly we weren't supposed to do that and he had no way to repair it, that's when I realized it was all a 500$ LARP
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ALT “What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope. “it really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp nearby, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around.