Very excited that the clinical trial results for our PRIMA retinal prosthesis are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine! This is the first time that patients who are blind due to photoreceptor loss have been able to intuitively see again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qT...

The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm.org) today published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant. science.xyz/news/new-eng...

Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting!

As we get closer to market approval for our breakthrough retinal prosthesis, it's time for a Science patient registry. If you or a family member have late stage macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa, or Stargardt disease, please consider getting in touch! science.xyz/news/science...

a take on the Truman show, but told following a bunch of people on the outside world watching it as it airs, and the huge cultural conversations that ensue, eventually leading to a Supreme Court case which ultimately allows it to continue

first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊 science.xyz/technologies...

man remind me to never piss off the humans

is this thing on

Why is it so hard to reverse engineer the brain's 86 billion neurons? What is the future of communication between brains? Join me with special guest Max Hodak, founder of Science Corp, a company pioneering new methods in brain computer interfaces. eagleman.com/podcast/90 #brain #BCI

well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly

united are you ok

me and others often talk about a "bright future" on the horizon that is attainable, but that can feel pretty vague. in practical terms, the vision of the Culture I think captures it best we may be much closer than most people think youtu.be/peSPZnFR_bI

I wish there was a way to have an LLM propose Zotero collection organization for me to accept or reject, or add a Cursor-like chat drawer running PaperQA2 on the local library directly in the UI. Lots of opportunities here!

suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it?

do you remember html image maps? a simpler, happier time

The last step in the PRIMA retinal prothesis clinical trial was for the Data Safety Monitoring Board to vote on whether the data showed it was safe as well as effective, and I'm excited to report that on 11/13 -- they did! science.xyz/news/prima-d...

now that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public! youtu.be/zIJi6dXN6Zc

if you found the events of the last month to be extremely surprising, you might enjoy Years and Years on HBO

Bluesky should add an optional ability to provide a user DID when requesting a custom feed to allow personalization and learning from likes etc

I had an idea way back in college which I've long thought could be, in many ways, the ultimate BCI technology. What if instead of using electrodes, we used biological neurons embedded in electronics to communicate with the brain? Enter biohybrid neural interfaces: science.xyz/news/biohybr...

the fact that the scientific primary sources are considered valuable corporate assets rather than an intellectual heritage belonging to all of humanity feels insane and actually pretty evil

is there a way to find out if you are in any starter packs? curious where these new follows are coming from

a short random thought posted to the internet is, generically, a tweet

the september limit (n): the growth rate a social media platform has to stay under to preserve its culture indefinitely

iso 9001 exists in a superposition of vacuous and profound

software and neuro people, check out this modern suite of tools (probes, a wifi headstage, a standard API for devices, and client software) we just released! feedback v welcome, and if you work in a lab or at a company that could use these things, get in touch! #neuroscience 🧠🤝💻🧪

speech on the internet is definitely capable of propagating real world harms, but imagine if there was no real world, and it was just ALL internet

“LLMs can’t generalize out of distribution” if physics isn’t changing and grounded self play works (it does), why would anything ultimately be out of distribution?

ironically, if you are worried about too much freedom of speech, open internet technologies like bluesky are way worse 🙃

Given we now have the technology to read the inside of ancient rolled up papyrus scrolls carbonized by a volcano, it seems like we might want to take another pass on the Nixon tapes

we are seeing levels of unburdened by what has been which were previously thought only to be theoretical

interested in building brain-computer interfaces, as one does? new chips just dropped science.xyz/news/nixels-...

it’s true, this was a much crazier story than I ever would have guessed going into this a few months ago 🙃 and the pixium story has a long way to go! www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...

Welcoming Pixium Vision’s PRIMA retinal prosthesis to Science

what the hell is reward

OH: “yes, we should bring a bunch of liquid nitrogen to the desert. this is a good use of our resources”

> thanks to an "interstellar shout" - a powerful instruction - its antenna is now back facing Earth > Staff used the "highest-power transmitter" to send a message to the spacecraft oh no https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66408851

if taylor swift ran for president, I somehow suspect there’s a surprisingly high chance she would win

i wish cities skylines had an autonomous mode where new citizens would figure out on their own what there is demand to build and anything is permitted unless you intervene by adding zoning or other policies

i turn 34 today

so much science happening today

The Apple TV+ documentary Extrapolations isn’t like *great*, but there is a lot it really nailed

just watched a trailer for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and wow did I not remember that movie

it’s kind of crazy how physics is in many specific cases easy to model and predict (ie engineering is possible) while the future remains impossible to predict generally. a carefully balanced game mechanic

👋🌌My first post better be good, right?! — so why not drop our latest work #CEBRA! A new machine learning algorithm for representation learning out in #Nature 🦓🖤🍾 ⬇️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06031-6