brunogadaleta

brunogadaleta t1_j6ynika wrote

Reply to Are cultural changes more important than technological ones to solve environmental and capitalism issues? by G-Funk_with_2Bass

Truth is we don't yet. With the current state of knowledge, we have to put every effort to slow down our emissions and culture and technology will be needed if we want to avoid gigantic crisis. If capitalism and free market was enough to drive society in the right direction, governents wouldn't be needed and union and strikes wouldn't be needed

But on one hand what we see worldwide is greedy gigantic corporations making huge profits by destroying natural ressources and threatening all kind of regulations. And on the other hand states worker, public education and health system struggling to fulfill their role efficiently for the majority of the populations. So yes, we need to regular more.

Either we anticipate the risks of climate change, either we'll suffer it's effects. And climate change is not the only environmental problem screaming for solution: we should also consider all the others threads in the planetary boundaries like soil use, biodiversity, biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, chemical pollution,..

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brunogadaleta t1_j4n5tie wrote

Reply to Researchers develop an artificial neuron closely mimicking the characteristics of a biological neuron by MichaelTen

AFAIU they made a neuron-like transistor based on organic compounds like sodium. I guess it can speedup AI neural network training, lower their cost and/or be integrated in living organisms.

From the article:

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) [...] have multiple desirable features, such as exceptional sensing capabilities for biological and physical plus chemical signals. Moreover, they are biocompatible, switch speeds readily, operate at low voltages, and exhibit coupled ionic–electronic transport properties, which are controllable via external dopants.

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