Human Thought Has a Speed Limit. Scientists Just Found It by guptaneil

John M Lund Photography Inc // Getty Images Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought only comes in at roughly 10 bits per second. To discover this limit, scientists applied techniques found in the field of

ByHackTechFebruary 26, 20250Comments

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Permanent human settlement under the sea by 2027 by cacois

Down an easy-to-miss turnoff on the A48 just outside Chepstow on the Welsh border, the gentle rumble of trucks, cranes and people at work mixes with birdsong in what is an otherwise peaceful rural setting. It is a crisp and sunny winter morning when I visit and, at first glance, the site appears to be

ByHackTechFebruary 5, 20250Comments

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Predicting Human Brain States with Transformer by tzury

[Submitted on 11 Dec 2024] View PDF Abstract:The human brain is a complex and highly dynamic system, and our current knowledge of its functional mechanism is still very limited. Fortunately, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we can observe blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) changes, reflecting neural activity, to infer brain states and dynamics. In this

ByHackTechJanuary 18, 20250Comments

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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright by rwbhn

by guest blogger Heather Whitney To the surprise of no one, a D.C. district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. 1:22-cv-01564 (D.D.C. Aug. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” U.S.

ByHackTechAugust 22, 20230Comments

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Human Resource Outsourcing Kenya by joeNdungu

Career Options Africa is one of the best staff recruitment consultancies, companies, agencies, and vendors in Africa. With our own recruitment centers in nine cities of Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, Bujumbura, Kinshasa, Johannesburg & Cape Town, Lagos & Abuja, and Juba we are the leading Staff recruitment and selection agency or consultancy company in Africa offering recruitment solutions

ByHackTechJune 29, 20230Comments

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How AI can distort human beliefs by headalgorithm

Just a moment…

ByHackTechJune 23, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: What is the best way to confirm that an AI is not a human being? by schappim

I'm creating a service for Artificial Intelligences (AIs) and need to prevent human signups. What's the best way to identify if an intelligence is artificial?

ByHackTechJune 19, 20230Comments

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Human Alignment Technology by manx

Human Alignment Human alignment, the process of establishing shared understanding among individuals, is crucial for effective collaboration and organization. It is essential for civilizations to flourish. Alignment establishes shared knowledge, values, and goals. It finds trade-offs and negotiates a shared truth. Shared goals allow people to work together toward those goals, rather than everyone pulling

ByHackTechJune 15, 20230Comments

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HTML Energy and Human Webs by cookingoils

After hosting the bay area meetup for html.energy to make websites over the weekend, I’ve been thinking about the question of what is html energy?Omar, in his brief letter about html energy, described it as a series of more likes and less likes: like using old, deprecated tags is more and loading javascript from another

ByHackTechJune 6, 20230Comments

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Information ‘deleted’ from the human genome may be what made us human by docmechanic

What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The new findings, published April

ByHackTechApril 29, 20231Comment

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