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Oct 21, 2024

Aria browser AI

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

So Everyone is offering free AI because they have to. From X to more it is a spreading trend. Here’s one:

Aria helps with everything you do in Opera Browser: from shopping research to learning and creativity. Generate text, images and get answers with real-time access to the web on mobile and desktop.


Chat and create with Aria, Opera’s free AI, across devices. Aria answers questions and generates content with up-to-date information from the web.

Oct 21, 2024

JoshEngels/SAE-Dark-Matter: Code for our paper “Decomposing The Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders”

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mapping, robotics/AI

Decomposing the dark matter of sparse autoencoders.

Joshua Engels, Logan Riggs, Max Tegmark MIT 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.

On mapping concepts in artificial neural networks with sparse autoencoders: we find that map errors exhibit…

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Oct 21, 2024

Scientists Unravel Key to the Centromere’s Eternal Life, Solving Decades-Old Mystery

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

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Researchers discovered that PLK1 triggers a process ensuring centromere preservation during cell division by activating the Mis18 complex and controlling CENP-A loading. This finding is key to understanding how cells correctly divide their genetic material, preventing diseases like cancer.

Scientists have resolved a decade-long mystery about the mechanism that maintains the centromere, the crucial region responsible for ensuring accurate DNA division during cell division.

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Oct 21, 2024

Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time.

Oct 21, 2024

Exploring the role gut hormones play in regulating lifespan

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

The gut-brain axis has long been a subject of interest in lifespan research, and GLP-1 agonists, already used in the treatment of obesity and diabetes, are showing promise in the field of healthspan therapeutics.


New research on gut-to-brain signaling uncovers potential links between gut hormones like GLP-1 and longevity.

Oct 21, 2024

Understanding Aging through the Lense of Gut Microbiome

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, neuroscience

Intestinal stem cells play an important role in maintaining intestinal homeostasis and repairing damaged epithelial tissue. These cells function in a regenerative manner to generate new tissue throughout the growth phase and repair damaged tissue during the aging process.101 The interactions between the gut microbiome and intestinal stem cells are crucial because, if this interaction is comprehended, it may be possible to address various disorders that require stem cell therapy, heal wounds, and improve the durability of organ transplants.101 A recent study showed a connection between hematopoietic stem cells and the microbiome through altering metabolic stress.66 Therefore, the microbiota is crucial for maintaining microbial homeostasis, regulating metabolism, and the innate and adaptive immune systems.101 Furthermore, the study reveals that compositional alterations in the gut microbiome driven by dysbiosis are related to stem cell aging, metabolic dysregulations, stem cells’ epigenetic instability, and abnormal immune system activation.66

In the field of anti-aging, stem cells are regarded to have great potential. In numerous organs, it has been demonstrated that as we age, stem cells lose their capacity for self-renewal and differentiation and run out of resources.89 The emergence of anti-aging medications should address the dysregulation caused by aging that affects stem cells’ capacity for differentiation and self-renewal by re-regulating intrinsic and extrinsic variables. The host microbiome, hormones, local immune system, systemic inflammation, and niche structure are just a few examples of microenvironmental and systemic factors that influence stem cell aging.66

Endogenous ethanol is a class of microbiological metabolites. Proteobacteria, including E. coli and other Enterobacteriaceae, produce ethanol with bacterial origins. High endogenous ethanol levels in the human hippocampus inhibit proliferating stem cells and reduce progenitor and stem cells.102 Additionally, when more ethanol accumulates in the gut, it enhances the permeability of the gut by disrupting epithelial tight junctions, particularly zonula occludens. This enables the movement of pathogenic microbes, their endotoxins, and ethanol across the epithelial layer, causing more immediate and adverse effects on tissues. As a result, the stem cell reserve depletes, hastening the aging process and compensating for damaged tissues.103

Oct 21, 2024

Your Consciousness Can Enter Alternate Dimensions While You’re Dreaming, Scientist Claims

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

Fascinating as this may sound, not all dreams serve as gateways to parallel timelines. Whether dreams return is key here. “Recurring dreams, especially those with vivid and consistent scenarios, might suggest deeper connections to other realities,” Leong claims. On the other hand, dreams tied to personal experiences often feel disjointed, with distorted time. The most surreal and incomprehensible dreams are likely the subconscious processing your life here on Earth, he says. But, if it feels like you’re visiting the dream rather than imagining it—like a play with a beginning, middle, and end—you probably are visiting this other world, under Leong’s hypothesis.

Leong also hints that strong emotions in persistent dreams could offer cosmic clues—signals of how another version of you is experiencing life in a parallel world. “Say you have a repetitive dream of being stuck in high school,” he suggests. “While it may reflect unresolved psychological themes, such as feelings of stagnation or anxiety about personal growth, it could also indicate that in another reality, you are still in high school, dealing with the same challenges your waking self has moved beyond.” This emotional resonance—like the frustration of being stuck—could ripple across dimensions, creating a feedback loop between your conscious mind here and one of your alter egos elsewhere.

YET, AS CAPTIVATING AS THIS HYPOTHESIS MIGHT BE, it runs into a significant problem: there’s no empirical evidence to back it up. Quantum phenomena, such as entanglement and nonlocality, challenge our traditional views on time and space. Yet, no scientific studies conclusively support the idea that dreams are portals to other worlds. Mainstream neuroscience and cognitive science, on the other hand, find this hypothesis heretical—if not downright unscientific.

Oct 21, 2024

Kepler Debuts Forerunner K2 Humanoid Robot, Accelerating Commercial Deployment

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

ROBOT ACHIEVEMENT DAY! 🤖😁 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kepler-debuts-forerunner-k2-h…00317.html


SHANGHAI, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. (“Kepler Humanoid Robot”) has recently launched its full-sized, general-purpose humanoid robot, the Forerunner K2, at GITEX GLOBAL 2024, which began on October 14.

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Oct 21, 2024

Cancer Cells Hijack the Neuron-Glia Connection for Brain Metastasis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The incidence of breast cancer in women has increased significantly over the past few decades, but advancements in targeted therapies have led to a decrease in death…


Breast cancer cells send microRNA-filled vesicles to the brain, creating a nutrient-rich environment that facilitates metastasis.

Oct 21, 2024

Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up

Posted by in category: mathematics

Srinivasa Ramanujan embodies the myth of the self-taught genius.


Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

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