Nanomechanical Transhuman Shrimp. Interested in AI and biology. Very partisan leftist. All pronouns work. Background is art by David Goodsell.
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Thinking about one of my favorite old NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts studies: "Exploration of Jovian Atmosphere Using Nuclear Ramjet Flyer". A tiny little descendant of Project Pluto, it'd use a direct-cycle fission ramjet to fly a drone roughly the size of a Weddell seal all over Jupiter.
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm?
Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg.
w @bingbrunton.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.
Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.
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Did anyone else imagine their crew members in FTL: Faster Than Light having relationships amongst themselves or was that just me?
