My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
🤯 Researchers at Cortical Labs managed to get 200,000 human brain cells inside a petri dish playing DOOM.
The real breakthrough is the leap into Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) and biological computing.
This could eventually solve the massive energy bottleneck of modern AI.
📌 Here’s exactly what happened.
The Australian biotech company, Cortical Labs, grew about 200,000 human neurons (from adult stem cells) directly onto a silicon chip.
They didn't give them a tiny screen. Instead, they translated the digital data of the 1993 game DOOM into electrical signals. If a monster appears on the left, the left side of the cells gets zapped. The neurons naturally react by firing back electrical spikes. Cortical’s software decodes those spikes into game commands—like shoot or dodge.
Through neuroplasticity (the same way our brains learn), the cells figure out which pathways lead to success and strengthen them.
Standard AI requires billions of parameters and massive datasets to learn anything. Biological cells possess "plasticity," meaning they can organically adapt to new, sparse, and chaotic data streams almost instantly to survive and optimize their environment.
📌 Traditional silicon-based AI (like the massive GPU clusters used for current AI training) burns through staggering amounts of electricity—often measured in megawatts. Biological brains are the most efficient computers in the known universe. The human brain runs on about 20 watts of power (less than a standard lightbulb). A server rack of 30 CL1 biological computers consumes less than 1,000 watts combined.
📌 Ever more wild is that Cortical Labs has practically launched a "Wetware-as-a-Service" (WaaS)
This whole this isn't just a lab experiments; Cortical Labs has commercialized this.
Through their "Cortical Cloud," developers anywhere in the world can write Python code and deploy it via an API to a physical jar of living human brain cells sitting in a server rack. You no longer need a sterile lab to experiment with biological computing—you just need a software subscription.
📌 These cells are not conscious.
To have sentience, self-awareness, or the capacity to suffer, a brain requires complex structures—like a prefrontal cortex, a limbic system, and sensory organs.
The CL1 system is just a microscopic, disorganized web of 200,000 neurons (for context, a human brain has about 86 billion). They do not know what DOOM is, they do not see demons, and they do not feel fear. They are simply biological circuits seeking electrical equilibrium.
We are at the very bleeding edge of a transition from simulating neural networks in silicon to utilizing actual neural networks in biology.
Top 50 on Peerlist on my first launch! 🥳 Thanks for the support, everyone.
We’ve been shipping hard this week. New features are live: 🦾
- Download video assets (AI images, scripts, code) 📥
- Choose your caption position 📍
- Improved code examples in videos 💻
Proj. link 👇
Just tried minimax2.1 on claude code and it's not even close to opus. Not sure what the hype is. It hallucinated multiple times even after checking the docs. Cancelled the sub just after an hour of use!
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