Links for 20210818
The connections between two brain regions that are required for consciousness are regulated by dopamine https://singularityhub.com/2021/08/12/new-research-shows-dopamine-may-play-a-key-role-in-consciousness/
A Specific Example of How AlphaFold 2 From DeepMind Could Help Us Achieve Immortality youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PMQ-ViucOig
SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec: “At 3kbps, SoundStream outperforms the popular Opus codec at 12kbps and approaches the quality of EVS at 9.6kbps while using 3.2-4 times fewer bits, Google claims.” https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/08/soundstream-end-to-end-neural-audio.html
Study: Yellowstone Magma Much Bigger Than Thought https://www.geologyin.com/2014/11/study-yellowstone-magma-much-bigger.html
Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6548/1333
Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00977-5
The impact of evolutionary processes in shaping the genetics of complex traits in East Asia and Europe: a specific contribution from Denisovan and Neanderthal introgression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.12.456138v1