More Machine learning and less chunky hardware
We all have seen this year the video on YouTube with Elon Musk the alive pig the brain implant connected to a computer. One of the speculations was that “it will create super-cognition” (whatever that means). Despite being more on the side of science-fiction and borderline with ethical approvals, everybody was talking about it.
In all this hype (more due to the figure of Elon Musk than real science), most of the people neglected two things: The annual Brain Computer Interface Award where scientists compete with their latest advancements in this topic, and the many startups which are actually creating…
Current state-of-art tools putting together quantum physics and artificial intelligence
Data science and machine learning are definitely among the buzz words nowadays. At startup competitions and conferences I have seen too much. AI-trained beer draft to give you the perfect taste, plastic bag with sensor training IoT systems based on machine learning on how much people swing them, toilets with machine learning based system to optimize lights usage. Seriously? Is this innovation?
Either people just put this technology anywhere to sound cool, or machine learning is the “new electricity” and therefore there is nothing cool anymore about it.
About 10–15…
3 things you should know about Lion’s Mane mushrooms
Nature is amazing, there is so much we do not know or understand. Mushrooms are often stigmatized, and people generally only know champignons and psychedelic mushrooms though there is an entire universe out there.
A popular mushroom among mycologists (scientists studying mushrooms) but not so much to the general public is the Hieracium erinaceus. This fluffy fungus has several nootropic benefits which we start to understand now. In this story, I will share research and anecdotes about it. …
is Iboga the heart-shaped magic plant of Black Panther?
The actor Chadwick Boseman recently passed away due to colon cancer. He will be most likely be remembered for his role of king T’Challa, the leader of Wakanda in Black Panther. In the year of the uprising related to the Black Lives Matter movement, a black super-hero from an afro-futuristic place was actually what was needed. The death of the actor interpreting it on movies is definitely something heartbreaking.
However, this article is not about Chadwick Boseman, it is not about the Black Panther, it is not about Black lives matter…
What can we learn from psychedelics and AI?
In our data and machine-obsessed society, psychedelics together with cannabis are starting to be decriminalized and used for pharmaceutical purposes. There is now even an ETF on pharmaceutical companies related to psilocybin and other psychedelics considered a promising market.
DMT (acronym of N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is the main component of the Ayahuasca brew traditionally used by shamans in South America for therapeutic purposes. Together with the therapeutic purposes and mental health effects, it introduces highly visual hallucinations. Those are generally geometric patterns and saturation of visual spaces. …
Tasty Sustainable Computing Solutions
Machine learning is the new electricity, quantum computing is now a reality, but what if we can go beyond those buzz words with something even more impressive?
Prof. Andrew Adamatzky is a known figure in the field of unconventional computing. He has used slime moulds to solve mazes, optimize roadway systems (as the railway in France or the underground of Tokyo), and among the first to make music and read signals from mushrooms.
Recently Prof. Adamtzky, jointly with Prof. Alessandro Chiolerio of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Torino (Italy), and Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi…
The 3 Main Points for a Better Leadership after 2020
At the beginning of 2020, unaware of how strongly hit we would be by the pandemic, I founded a biotech company. Obviously, it did not start well. Things look worse than the worse scenario in the business plan. How am I reacting? I discovered servant leadership and I am reframing the situation with it. You can give up or try to understand what you are doing wrong, this might be the good mindset to do so.
The “servant leadership” movement was introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in the 1970 in his essay :
“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins…
Ask what Machine Learning can do for Quantum computing
Quantum computing and machine learning are among the buzz words of our days. Beyond the clear hype, there are some true basis. With the advancement of traditional computing, we are able to achieve incredible results in image related analysis based on machine learning and other fields. On the other hand, quantum physics has been some kind of difficult mystical field leading to amazing progress in math (and a lot of pseudo-sciences totally unscientific). Quantum computing is emerging as a new path to overcome some limitations of traditional computing, including physical limit to miniaturize transistors. …
Researcher, Lecturer, Interested in innovation, medicine, and global health especially in low-income countries.
For a guy spending a lot of time in ego-shattering, I was a bit against this publication. However, for the same token it is important to have connections, and sometimes tools like this are the best way to connect with people, especially in a crazy period as 2020–2021. I use this publication as a sort of new year's resolution, though I usually have everyday resolutions.
I promise it won’t suck too much. My typical conversations are:
Girl:”so, are you seeing anyone?”
Me:”you mean… like a therapist or hallucinations?”
I have been doing many things, and I would say lived…
Dr. Alessandro Crimi
Researcher, Lecturer, and founder of www.yawlab.io Interested in biotech, medicine, cooperation, education and entrepreneurship, also in low-income countries.
