Exploring the Mind-Brain Relationship, by Robert Heath| milan.cvitkovic.net
The most comprehensive database on DARPA neurotech projects, program managers, and outcomes (probably). Plus, a case study.| milan.cvitkovic.net
Facts about your head worth having in your head| milan.cvitkovic.net
Notes on neurotechnology for an Effective Altruist audience| milan.cvitkovic.net
Thanks to AJ Kourabi for research assistance. Deep Brain Stimulators (source) Building on extant stereotactic neurosurgical tools and cardiac pacemaker technology, prototype DBS systems were first implanted in humans in the late 1960s. DBS performed in numerous patients until 1976, when the FDA was established. FDA stopped DBS sales until clinical trial data is submitted. No company was willing to run trials until the neurology field established clearer standards for patient improvement.| milan.cvitkovic.net
Why I and probably you should work on neurotechnology| milan.cvitkovic.net
How the first FDA-approved, fully noninvasive treatment for depression came to be| milan.cvitkovic.net
The long history of sending currents through people's heads| milan.cvitkovic.net
One of the few success stories in nonprofit neuroscience research tool development| milan.cvitkovic.net
A collection of market failures1 in science.2 If I’m missing your favorite market failure, please let me know. Contents Information Asymmetries Knowledge monopolies Mathwashing Replication Crises Poor Credit Assignment Scooping and duplicate work Author lists and contributions Citation pile-ons Public Goods Organizational inflexibility Bureaucratic Bottlenecks Taxes Administrative Burden Institutional Fees Course Teaching Requirements Small Market for Research Tools Switching Costs Graduate...| milan.cvitkovic.net
Rapid progress in primate intelligence over the...| milan.cvitkovic.net
What ML can *and can't* do that it couldn't do a decade ago| milan.cvitkovic.net
Some strategic considerations for pursuing human longevity| milan.cvitkovic.net
AI is useful for a real-world task only if the cost for the AI to do the thing and for you to check its work is less than the existing solution.| milan.cvitkovic.net
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You Can't Build a New Machine Learning Product with Old DevOps| milan.cvitkovic.net
Case Study: The Clinical Translation of MRI| milan.cvitkovic.net
I’d like to build (maybe with you!) a user-friendly web platform for collaborating on mathematical proofs and organizing mathematical knowledge. Why bother? Progress in mathematics is upstream of nearly all progress in science and technology. But unfortunately, progress in math is getting harder to make. Humanity’s mathematical knowledge is getting larger, more complex, and more Balkanized1 by the year. Better tools can help. Calculators, Wolfram Alpha and the like, Wikipedia, and even hu...| milan.cvitkovic.net
Avoiding bad value drift is as important as solving value alignment| milan.cvitkovic.net
In rough chronological order Humans seem to have reached Europe, Australia, India, and China all before they reached non-Mahgreb West Africa. And then they kept moving back and forth between all these places, especially from Eurasia to Africa. (This is all on shaky evidence.) Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Egyptian pyramids. And the pyramids were built when there were still wooly mammoths walking the earth.| milan.cvitkovic.net
A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you couldn't, or didn't even know you could.| milan.cvitkovic.net