A server rack in Singapore runs on 16 million living human brain cells. - Each unit grows 200,000 adult blood-derived human neurons on a silicon chip drawing just 30 watts at 37.0°C - 120 units in Melbourne and a 20-unit rack in Singapore stay alive up to 6 months on a 72-hour glucose perfusion loop - Wired into a physical quadruped robot, the living neurons steered it around obstacles in real time at 40 Hz Tech giants are locking up nuclear plants to feed 1,000 watt silicon GPUs while living human wetware learns from sparse physical data on 30 watts.

For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously. It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI. Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech: * early detection * passive universal testing * filtration/ventilation/UVC * better vaccines (including making them open source and open science) * cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.

Trade: Colts have agreed to send eight-time Pro-Bowl guard Quenton Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks, per me and @rapsheet. Nelson is on an expiring contract and the Colts are opting to get back draft capital now before they could lose him in free agency. But an all-time Colt now moves on to the Seahawks.

Massively parallel assays using oligopools, barcoding, & deep sequencing follows the same story. Replaces 100s of microtiter plates (one assay per well) with 10000s of experiments run in one pooled assay. Work your 🧠, not just more 🤖.