AI accelerationists frequently hype the amazing increases in productivity that AI will deliver, and the enormous benefits to society that will result.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

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I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Sending raw sensory data to the cloud is so 2022. More and more compute capacity is rushing to the network edge — in-sensor computing is the next big thing, and #neuromorphic processor cores are ready to step into the commercial limelight.

The road to commercial success for neuromorphic technologies - Nature Communications

Neuromorphic processors for commercial success require facing challenges in methods for programming neuromorphic applications and deployment at scale. Here, the authors discuss the pathways towards wi...

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tfw most of your favourite albums are available in their "20th anniversary edition" #genxthings

A few months ago I had the great pleasure to chat with @giuliadangelo.bsky.social and @fabhertz.bsky.social for their new #Sottosoglia #podcast. We covered the differences between working in #academia and the #startup life, as well as a lot of very personal ground...

SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #3: DYLAN MUIR

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If #Colesworths is engaging in #anti-competitive behaviour, then recommend changes that will increase #competition, instead of some pricing trims around the edges. #accc #auspol

ACCC urges reform as Coles and Woolworths named among ‘most profitable’ supermarkets in world

A 441-page report calls for 20 recommendations, including greater transparency around prices, special offers and ‘shrinkflation’

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What a horrifying article to see posted by the premier science journal. Attacks on scientists and on science are direct attacks on the rational basis for liberal democracies. None of this is normal or acceptable, and leads very quickly to a very dark place.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2y ago

All scientists, regardless of their discipline or location, are potential targets for online hate. But there are things you can do to protect yourself, and resources that can help. Nature provides five steps to get started. #Academicsky 🧪

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

What an incredible cluster-f*** of late-stage capitalism and neoliberal privatised healthcare policy. #LNP

Woman whose baby died at a Sydney hospital waited 50 minutes after emergency caesarean was called, staff say

Exclusive: Staff say category-one emergency caesarean was called at privately run Northern Beaches hospital but mother gave birth vaginally almost an hour later

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1/7. Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the years. At @commhsp.bsky.social we’ve been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In a new 538 article, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social and I share what we’ve been seeing and why it matters. abcnews.go.com/538/national...

How the national conversation shifted from structural racism to DEI

How the conversation about DEI has evolved over time.

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Absolutely nobody can be surprised, let along shocked by this, right? Surely #Europe spent the months since November planning to assist #Ukraine without yoosa?

‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock

European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’

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Government is big business. *Somebody* has to do the work required to keep public agencies grinding along. If you fire full-time staff, you spend much more in personnel contracting, consultants and private firms taking up the contracts. 🤔 Funny, sounds just like #LNP policy… #Dutton #auspol

How many millions of dollars and terawatts of energy will it take to convince the math sand to do math

We built sound source localization for consumer #microphone #arrays in #SmartHome devices, using the #neuromorphic #audio #processor #XyloAudio from @synsense.bsky.social. New paper out today from Saeid Haghighatshoar in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commseng.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/s44...

Low-power Spiking Neural Network audio source localisation using a Hilbert Transform audio event encoding scheme - Communications Engineering

Sound source localisation is used in many consumer devices, to isolate audio from individual speakers and reject noise. Saeid Haghighatshoar and Dylan Richard Muir demonstrate a sound source localisat...

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Dylan R Muir@dylanmuir.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sound source localization is an important part of dealing with audio. People use it to help pay attention to someone talking to us in a noisy environment. Smart home speakers use it to identify when someone is speaking, to focus on their voice and reject the background noise.

In absolutely unsurprising news, #Dutton and the #LNP jump into a #cultureWar beat-up, to support #Hanson 's revolting anti-trans bullshit imported from the USA. @albomp.bsky.social and #Labor need to step in a progressive direction quick-smart, if they want to avoid a lurch to the right. #auspol

Dutton says frontbenchers who backed Hanson’s call for transgender healthcare inquiry entitled to conscience vote

Opposition leader also doubles down on party’s call to gag attorney general speaking about antisemitism in parliament

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Dylan R Muir@dylanmuir.bsky.social · 2y ago

In my birth state of Queensland, children of 10 years old can now be put in jail on life sentences. A shocking degradation of human rights, rushed through by a right-wing government, under a completely made-up pretext pushed just to win an election.

The main barriers to commercial adoption of #neuromorphic technology in 2025 are not technological — Neuromorphic #processors are already available, with #benchmark #applications in #audio and #vision processing showing massive advantages over conventional processing.

Came back today to the amazing #tenochtitlan tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl by @thomaskole.bsky.social . Breath-taking and heart-rending from a colonial perspective.

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

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Peter #Dutton is claiming inflation is too high under #Labor. The inflation rate was 6.1% when the #LNP were booted out of power. It's now 3.2%. #insiders #misinformation #auspol

It should be trivial for #Labor and #Albanese — along with every person with a sense of ethics or international law — to reject this revolting proposal for ethnic cleaning in Gaza. Australian politicians need to find a backbone and get louder. #auspol

Dutton praises Trump as ‘big thinker’ as Albanese avoids direct comment on proposed US Gaza takeover

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, condemns Australian government’s response as ‘pathetic’

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Let's remember every single company and institution that's rolling back their DEI programmes right now without even being forced to do so. The fact that they're doing it so fast means they were just waiting for the opportunity. True colours shown. Google, Meta, HHMI 😢, ...

The fundamental point is: they are coming for trans people because they are coming for queer people because they are coming for cis women because they are coming for Black people

Let’s be really clear, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS. This is about *violence* against Trans women. This is about enforcing hate as public policy. This is pure evil.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Breaking News: The NCAA followed President Trump’s executive order and prohibited transgender athletes from women’s sports.

So #Dutton wants to axe cheap full-time employees, and go back to the Liberal policy if wasting $20bn per year on expensive consultants instead? Make it make sense. #auspol

Peter Dutton coy on what public servant jobs he will slash if he wins election

Public service minister Katy Gallagher says opposition leader’s words are ‘reckless’ and would bring back ‘expensive consultants’ and robodebt

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Trump: "I'm also directing Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem to deny any and all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States as women athletes." A visa ban on trans people.

To be fair, Trump may actually be a big thinker compared with Dutton #qldpol

Australia politics live: Dutton says Trump a ‘big thinker’ as Francesca Albanese condemns ‘pathetic’ countries for not pushing back on Gaza plan

Follow the latest updates live

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Exciting opportunity for a talented scientific software developer to join our Global Disease Modelling team(bit.ly/4gtvnNN) to build & maintain #malaria & disease #models! If you share a passion for achieving impact in #GlobalHealth, please apply here: bit.ly/40ZSdrF Closing date: 12th Feb

Reading the news then watching Inglourious Basterds as catharsis

In my birth state of Queensland, children of 10 years old can now be put in jail on life sentences. A shocking degradation of human rights, rushed through by a right-wing government, under a completely made-up pretext pushed just to win an election.

Children will get sentences ‘more punitive than necessary’ under new crime law, Queensland LNP admits

Attorney general Deb Frecklington acknowledges bill likely to increase number of children in state watch houses

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Ordering the NIH, NSF, and CDC to erase any mention of "LGBT", trans people, gender... We are watching Magnus Hirschfeld's research institute be burnt down by Nazis all over again This is *why* people see transness as a fad. We were erased from history! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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Friends in the neuromorphic community may be interested in Brains and Machine's own Giulia D'Angelo and her new podcast Sottosoglia with co-host Fabrizio Ottati and first guest Jason Eshraghian. Different vibe from Brains and Machines, but fun! @giuliadangelo.bsky.social youtu.be/2mMVPsZBPr0?...

SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #1: JASON ESHRAGHIAN

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