THE EDIT | a couple of the best articles I've read this week

I have been searching through feeds and articles and I've found some that are extremely interesting.  There's various topics so I hope you enjoy.  I'm including a snippet and the link over to read the articles in full.

Inspiration DE

first of all, doing work ....... on ourselves

over at POOSH, this article on creating a Woke Relationship ...i found this so very insightful

A Guide to Being WOKE IN A RELATIONSHIP

BY RYAN HADDON

Most people don’t realize this unspoken agreement when entering into a partnership. And then they don’t understand when their magical “soul mate” connection devolves into a relational sh&% show of unmet expectations and 





simmering resentments, as they are in full resistance to recognizing the relationship’s true purpose of healing them at their deepest level. From this lack of understanding, they demand that the person in front of them be what they need them to be (sometimes what they themselves can’t be either), while powering through being fully uncomfortable, triggered, and bitterly disappointed in their mate, and even in the idea of love itself. They misguidedly focus on what their partner is not doing right, holding up the mirror to all their lover’s frailties and vulnerabilities, while not taking ownership of their own baggage that desperately needs unpacked. It’s a head-on collision of the you-complete-me, butterflies-and-rainbows fantasy of what they think a relationship should be, versus the true healing reality of what it’s meant to be in its full, wonderful glory.

read the full article here ...

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next up ...

 Significant news from Neuralink this week

An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels

Elon Musk, Neuralink

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/703801 

Abstract

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical BMIs have not yet been widely adopted, in part because modest channel counts have limited their potential. In this white paper, we describe Neuralink’s first steps toward a scalable high-bandwidth BMI system.....

....Here, we report Neuralink’s progress towards a flexible, scalable BMI that increases channel count by an order of magnitude over prior work. Our system has three main components: ultra-fine polymer probes (section 2 of this report), a neurosurgical robot (section 3), and custom high-density electronics (section 4). We demonstrate the rapid implantation of 96 polymer threads, each thread with 32 electrodes for a total of 3,072 electrodes.

We developed miniaturized custom electronics that allow us to stream full broadband electrophysiology data simultaneously from all these electrodes (section 5). We packaged this system for long-term implantation and developed custom online spike detection software that can detect action potentials with low latency. Together, this system serves as a state-of-the-art research platform and a first prototype towards a fully implantable human BMI.

 read the full article here .......

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happy weekend....
xoxo, ande