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MonkderDritte , (edited ) in “Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”

I think Wikipedia articles about zero-point energy and quantum-foam explain this well.

Btw, wasn't there an experiment with a laser vibrating a nano-particle with nearly lightspeed, separating the particle & anti-particle pair before annihilation, creating matter from nothing?

Ah, btw, Casimir effect.

stembolts , in “Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”

Ah good, so I can tell my therapist I'm no longer a nihilist but a quantum foamer.

This is great.

nxdefiant ,

Conceptually, the nihilists are right! Nothing does matter.

MadMadBunny ,

Dammit.

Gaywallet Mod ,
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I hate and love this. Thanks 💜

Juno ,

Matters to me.

leftzero , in Why do people hate people? - A question by 'curious kid' Daisy, age 9, Lake Oswego, Oregon

I've met enough of them! People... what a bunch of bastards!

GammaGames ,
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Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling

hallettj , in Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies
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I've often thought that the people working on herpes treatments probably don't get the credit they deserve

FlashMobOfOne , in Why do people hate people? - A question by 'curious kid' Daisy, age 9, Lake Oswego, Oregon
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I don't hate anyone in particular.

I do, however, hate "everyone".

There are just so many small ways that people are insufferable.

Powderhorn , in Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies
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Worth noting: this is 90% effective for HSV-1, but not tested on HSV-2. That's on their radar for research. It's nonetheless a breakthrough, and the Hutch has pulled off some interesting things in the past, so I'd imagine they'll get there.

Rentlar , in Why do people hate people? - A question by 'curious kid' Daisy, age 9, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Dealing with anger is complicated. Blaming your anger on some group of people is easy.

tardigrada OP ,

Probably, but as the article's authors say, hate "does not mean rage, anger or general dislike". It appears to be a different concept.

PerogiBoi , in Why do people hate people? - A question by 'curious kid' Daisy, age 9, Lake Oswego, Oregon
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In my unscientific opinion that will undoubtedly get shouted down by someone here, people hate people because they hate themselves or aspects about themselves.

The ego is fragile and cannot often handle direct known criticism, so people mirror their self hatred to others. Over time as this is practiced, the brain justifies reasons as to WHY they hate certain people. This helps the brain make sense of why they feel the way they do.

whoreticulture , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Why is Google doing this research?!?

GammaGames OP ,
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Harvard has been partnering with their research labs for the last decade to gain access to hardware and algos they wouldn’t have themselves

hazelnoot , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
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Jain’s team then built artificial-intelligence models that were able to stitch the microscope images together to reconstruct the whole sample in 3D.

The map is so large that most of it has yet to be manually checked, and it could still contain errors created by the process of stitching so many images together. “Hundreds of cells have been ‘proofread’, but that’s obviously a few per cent of the 50,000 cells in there,” says Jain.

Ah so it's not a real model, just an AI approximation.

I_am_10_squirrels ,

It still seems like a real model to me. Just because they used a fancy computer to turn a sequence of 2d slices into a 3d representation doesn't mean it's not real.

muntedcrocodile , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Where can I go download this cubic mm?

eleitl ,

https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/data.html

Make sure you have spare 1400 terabytes.

LanternEverywhere ,

Wild

metaStatic ,

you wouldn't download a brain

Kissaki ,
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Only a cubic millimetre of it

eleitl ,

Sadly, you can't download the hardware to run models that size.

muntedcrocodile ,

I imagined it would be big but that's mad. Is that full 3d model or just connection cos of its just connections it really shows how far our ai is from replacing us.

blarth , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Google can do this, but can’t maintain Google assistant features we’ve had for years?

GammaGames OP ,
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Fortunately the people working on brain research aren’t the same people programming assistant

kerr , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

That is amazing.

realitista , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
metaStatic ,

if I cleaned it up I wouldn't know where anything is

echodot ,

It's all just cables now. Someone took the server out years ago and it just kept working out of habit.

Redjard ,
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Electricians will deny this is true but then just make up a new word for it (inductance)

Onii-Chan , in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
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This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. The complexity of life just continues to astound me.

GammaGames OP ,
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Yes! That this thing could evolve into existence is practically a miracle

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