2 days agoDear Startups: The power of AI is not in the technology, but in its use to well-defined problemsWhile my day job in academia is to understand the physiology and algorithms that the brain uses in its computations, some of the work I do is with startups and larger companies. Much of what I do with companies is at the intersection between highly advanced scientific and technical research…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
5 days agoRe-Thinking The ‘When’ And ‘How’ Of Brain DeathIn an article published yesterday in MIT Technology Review, Rachel Nuwer wrote a thought provoking piece exploring the boundaries between life and death. It turns out that the more science continues to learn, the more long held notions about death seem to be on less than solid footing. The concept…Brain4 min readBrain4 min read
Oct 8Procyon Photonics — The High School Run Start Up That Could Revolutionize ComputingFounded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. …Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Jul 10The Brain Technology Treating Neurological Disorders That Will Benefit From AIDeep brain stimulation is a surgically implantable medical device that selectively electrically stimulates the brain to treat certain types of neurological movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and dystonia. In some cases, it is also being used to treat mental health conditions such as depression and obsessive compulsive disorders. Existing…Deep Brain Stimulation3 min readDeep Brain Stimulation3 min read
Jul 10Member-onlyAn Introduction to Nanotechnology and Its Applications to MedicineNanotechnology and nanoengineering are producing significant scientific and technological advances in diverse fields including medicine and physiology. In a broad sense, they can be defined as the science and engineering involved in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of materials and devices whose smallest functional organization in at least one…Nanotechnology7 min readNanotechnology7 min read
Jul 10A new computational fabric for Graph Neural Networks3533Michael BronsteinVery well written and informative article. I greatly enjoyed it. Congratulations.Very well written and informative article. I greatly enjoyed it. Congratulations. Here's another (not so) future direction that while nascent I would argue we are starting to see some real connections: The relevant mathematical machinery that is being used to describe and understand certain classes of ML models, and GNN's in particular given their inherent structures, are guiding and giving us deep insights into the computational processes and algorithms of the human brain - not in some hand-wavy abstract way, but grounded in the known neurophysiology. It's as much a fascinating time for neuroscience as it is for ML and AI. What were once abstract topological and algebraic constructions are finding very real-world practical applications towards understanding the brain.1 min read1 min read
Jul 5Canadian Wildfires Are Affecting Millions — How Exposure To Wildfire Smoke Affects Your BrainThe National Weather Service issued warnings on Wednesday to over 80 million Americans across the Midwest, Northeast and Appalachian Mountains to limit or avoid outdoor physical activities and exposure amid renewed shifts in smoke patterns from the wildfires affecting Eastern Canada. Toronto registered the worst air quality of any major…Wildfires5 min readWildfires5 min read
Published inPens & Particles·Updated Jul 2Welcome to ‘Pens & Particles’ — What it is, and why we’re doing it.‘Pens and Particles ‘ is a publication dedicated to fueling the creativity of what might and could be, from what is. It pushes the imagination of boundary knowledge. …1 min read1 min read
Published inBeingWell·Jun 27SARS-CoV-2 Fuses Brain Cells — A Cause of COVID Brain Fog?A research paper published last week in Science Advances, and a related story about it in Science, reported a previously unknown effect that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has on brain cells. This effect might explain why some infected individuals experience brain fog. In particular, earlier strains of SARS-CoV-2…Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Published inPens & Particles·Apr 7The Fourth Paper‘The year 1904 was one for the history books — literally. It was the year of what almost didn’t happen. A young and essentially unknown physicist by the name of Albert Einstein was at the time a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland. …Fiction6 min readFiction6 min read
