Eylon Bachar

Love, freedom and hard problems. Dad. Founder.

[יהודה פריאל @yehudapriel]

עיני עיני יורדה מים.
על בניהו, איש חיל ירד לעזור.
לא חפץ מלחמה, איש שלום, איש בניין הארץ.
איש רמח איבריו מלאים מלט.
איש חוזק רוח,
איש אומץ לב להסתער למלאכתו.
מלאכת קודש.
על קידוש הארץ.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@ElishaYered הזוי.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

Molecules are only the carriers for the relevant information in our bodies.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Your skin is wired. A new mouse study in Cell says the nerve fibers running into it are what keep it making collagen, because they deliver a chemical called glutamate straight to the cells that build it, and when that transfer fails with age, those cells stop working.

The human version was shown in 1988. Doctors biopsied people with spinal cord injuries, both above and below the injury, in the same person. Below, cut off from its nerves, the collagen chemistry was depleted. Above, in the same patient, it matched an able-bodied volunteer.

Same body, same blood, same diet, same weeks in bed. One side had nerves.

So no, don’t put MSG on your face. A nerve handing glutamate to one cell it touches is not the same as flooding the tissue, and glutamic acid has been in moisturizers for years. Nobody’s collagen came back.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@MartinBJensen True. But in retrospect it will seem easier than most think.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Using more than 1.4 petabytes of electron microscopy (EM) imaging data, researchers generated a nanoscale-resolution reconstruction of a millimeter-scale fragment of human cerebral cortex, providing an unprecedented view into the structural organization of brain tissue at the supracellular, cellular, and subcellular levels. ⁠
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The human brain is a vastly complex organ and, to date, little is known about its cellular microstructure, including the synaptic and neural circuits it supports. Disruption of these circuits is known to play a role in myriad brain disorders. Yet studying human brain samples in such great detail comes with a host of challenges, ranging from technological limitations to the availability and preservation of tissue samples from healthy individuals. ⁠
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In a 2024 Science study, researchers performed a high-resolution EM reconstruction of the ultrastructure of a cubic millimeter of human temporal cortex. According to the authors, the reconstruction contains roughly 57,000 cells, about 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and nearly 150 million synapses, comprising 1400 terabytes of data. The authors generated a three-dimensional reconstruction of nearly every cell and process in the cubic millimeter sample and developed a freely available tool for visualizing and analyzing the vast dataset.⁠
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Learn more on #WorldBrainDay: https://t.co/ye8JncNkrJ

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

Cells, tissue and organs as well.

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

A network is one of the most powerful ideas in Mathematics.

A simple graph G = (V, E) can grow, carry flow, lose branches, repair itself, and start to feel almost alive.
Here, the lifelike motion comes from changing connectivity, pressure, memory, and adaptation.

The same concept helps model blood vessels, neurons, ecosystems, the internet, power grids, social systems, and the spread of information.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@fMindAI There won’t be a need for EEG and MEG in the future.

[P. E. Sottas @pesottas]

Basically, trillions in capital investment for revenues that will hardly hit hundreds of billions.

Huge asymmetry with age reversal: billions invested for revenues that will arguably reach the trillions. People will pay far more for additional healthy years than for AGI.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@hiteyjit Cool. It’s already a thing in prosthetics.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@khalio 🔥

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Yes! Make Sci-fi Optimistic Again

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@DrUkeAging These are all downstream of a higher-order process.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@Sagar_kr_Maity Same.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@aquinasheard23 Likewise. I think they’re starting to. “Unschooling” is getting popular in the US, and hopefully it will propagate fast.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@jeremiegags Sciware/Bioware.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@Dr_Singularity Minimize coercion, maximize freedom.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

Compulsory schooling is an anti-human institution. It suppresses creativity, diversity, critical thinking, and personal agency, the very qualities that make us human.

[Chris Fore @chriscfore]

Name an education opinion that’ll have you like this…

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@ivnbkrv No. But I'll gladly offload all non-creative thinking.

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@SterlingCooley Per OrchOR theory we need a quantum computer to model mt dynamics. Regardless, I think a nested neural network architecture will be beneficial nonetheless.
@StuartHameroff

[Eylon Bachar @eylonbach]

@hiteyjit Hey, let’s talk.