Pramod Kollabathula

Understanding Our Place in the Cosmos

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2.

Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain signals. It advances beyond character-level performance to decoding words and semantics, enabling accuracy for overall communication.

We believe this research has the potential to make a real difference for the millions of people who suffer from brain lesions or disorders that prevent them from communicating.

🧵👇

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

People often credit genius with changing the world. But more often than not, it was a stubborn fool that kept going while other geniuses sat around and laughed.

[Pramod Kollabathula @pramodzk]

@binji_x I’m curious where Ethereum towards . I’m happy to join the group

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.

An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.

This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

[Colossal Biosciences® @colossal]

BREAKTHROUGH: Colossal scientists hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggs.

No shells. No hens. Just bioengineered eggs that breathe like the real thing.

This could help bring back giant extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were ~80x a chicken’s. (1/10)

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

[Pramod Kollabathula @pramodzk]

My assumption is that a time will come where people worship an intelligent systems like ChatGPT or I don’t know

[AMI Labs @amilabs]

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) is building a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe.

We’ve raised a $1.03B (~€890M) round from global investors who believe in our vision of universally intelligent systems centered on world models. This round is co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world.

We are a growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one.

Read more: https://t.co/kyVAL7EoFx
AMI - Real world. Real intelligence.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Activities which give you a massive dopamine boost but require little effort will ultimately destroy you

[Pramod Kollabathula @pramodzk]

A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | P... https://t.co/CMN16dDT0q via @YouTube

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/jM7uZAfnQO

[binji @binji_x]

cryptography 101: everyone talks about zk but there’s 2 other things to know:

zk (zero-knowledge) = you can prove something about data without revealing the data itself. eg: “i know the password” without showing the password.

fhe (fully homomorphic encryption) = you can compute directly on encrypted data without decrypting it. so someone can process your private inputs and give you encrypted outputs that you can then decrypt yourself.

io (indistinguishability obfuscation) = much more theoretical (but the ef has given research grants for this), it hides a program’s logic entirely and makes two programs that compute the same function indistinguishable. the “holy grail” of cryptography because it will let you publish code that runs but can’t be reverse-engineered.

tldr:

> zk = prove without revealing

> fhe = compute without revealing

> io = hide the program itself

[Sam Altman @sama]

Abundant Intelligence: https://t.co/sVOhzBeE3A

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Repetition is the name of the brain game.

Repeat what you want to become.

This is neuroplasticity.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

1 hour of scrolling your phone in bed increases your insomnia risk by 59%.

It also shortens sleep by 24 minutes on avg.

Chronic sleep loss feeds obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

Read a book and feel great.

[Pramod Kollabathula @pramodzk]

WoW!

Just tried MetaMask’s new social login on my phone it’s really super smooth😀

Onboarding my grandma to Web3 has never been easier 🦊✨
#MetaMask #Web3

[Francesco Andreoli ᵍᵐ @francescoswiss]

BOOM, finally i can say it!

Excited to share that @MetaMask Social Login is live 🎉

Social login uses a cryptographic primitive called “Threshold Oblivious Pseudorandom Function” (TOPRF) alongside a distributed key management protocol to ensure that you remain in custody of your tokens, all while providing a high level of protection against attacks and failures.

This is a huge step for our ecosystem enabling users to onboard seamlessly and create a wallet with the login methods they already use. No more friction, just faster entry into Web3.

[Ethereum @ethereum]

Tornado Cash (@TornadoCash) is a decentralized privacy protocol using zero-knowledge proofs to break the onchain link between sender and receiver.

It is designed to provide privacy on a public blockchain.

Ethereum is for privacy.

[jack @jack]

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

—David Clark, 1992

[Pramod Kollabathula @pramodzk]

believe in somETHing