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Could Neuroscience Be The Key to Immortality?

If we are nothing but our brain, could a brain transplant guarantee eternal life? — Hippocrates declared that ‘from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter, and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.’ Today, this has become: ‘We are our brains.’ One might argue this is the reason why changes to the brain’s neural structure by a traumatic brain injury changes the…

Science

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Could Neuroscience Be The Key to Immortality?
Could Neuroscience Be The Key to Immortality?
Science

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Published in The Research Nest

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Fashion In The Metaverse

Pixels, not textiles — With classes, concerts, and meetings being held online, the virtual world is gaining dominance. As people spend more of their time there, they wish to have themselves better represented. They want their avatars to look their best. You may know someone who has paid a tidy sum on a pack…

Metaverse

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Fashion In The Metaverse
Fashion In The Metaverse
Metaverse

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Jan 25

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie: Book Review

Jealousy, greed, and murder on the Nile — "Death on the Nile" is a tour de force in the crime fiction genre, written by Agatha Christie. The novel, first published in 1937, takes place on a luxurious steamer traveling along the Nile River in Egypt. …

Book Recommendations

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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie: Book Review
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie: Book Review
Book Recommendations

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Jan 5

Reflections on a Year of Transition: A First-Year Graduate Student’s Journey

As the new year approaches and I reflect on the past year as a graduate student who left my job to pursue my studies, I am struck by the complex tapestry of emotions that surface. …

Graduate School

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Reflections on a Year of Transition: A First-Year Graduate Student’s Journey
Reflections on a Year of Transition: A First-Year Graduate Student’s Journey
Graduate School

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Published in The Research Nest

·Dec 27, 2022

How to program a simple GAN?

A beginner-level tutorial — Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs, have created an uproar in academic circles for their abilities. The machine’s ability to produce new and inspired works has caused awe and horror in everyone’s mind. And as such, one becomes curious, how to build one? A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a deep…

Gans

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How to program a simple GAN?
How to program a simple GAN?
Gans

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Published in The Research Nest

·Nov 10, 2022

Binary classification performance measures

A checklist — Binary classification is a set of classification problems in machine learning where we must classify the elements under two groups. The methods are a type of supervised learning, an approach of machine learning where the categories are predefined and are used to categorize new probabilistic observations into said categories. Simple…

Binary Classification

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Binary classification performance measures
Binary classification performance measures
Binary Classification

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Oct 13, 2022

Why everyone needs to watch the first season of The Morning Show

Conversations on consent A big fan of the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S, I was excited to hear Jennifer Aniston would star in another show. …

Metoo

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Why everyone needs to watch the first season of The Morning Show
Why everyone needs to watch the first season of The Morning Show
Metoo

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Apr 2, 2022

Summers with my sibling

Being nostalgic for the carefree summers of past — As a child, I knew summer had come when the air was filled with the sickly sweet smell of mangoes. The intense heat waves, the cricket matches, and endless bike races. …

Siblings

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Summers with my sibling
Summers with my sibling
Siblings

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Published in The Research Nest

·Mar 24, 2022

“Neuro-Symbolic” AI

Where deep learning meets traditional rule-based coding In 2018, Uber’s self-driving car hit a pedestrian, pushing her bike fatally wounding her. It was later discovered the car’s core system had been trained on countless hours of driving data, but that data did not include pedestrians jay-walking, nor did it include…

Neurosymbolic Ai

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“Neuro-Symbolic” AI
“Neuro-Symbolic” AI
Neurosymbolic Ai

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Published in The Research Nest

·Feb 25, 2022

Genome Editing Technology

Humankind’s desire to enhance itself — One of the talks at the HPAIR conference last year was about a technology called CRISPR. It involves snipping off troublesome/undesirable genes and occasionally replacing them with beneficial ones. CRISPR has multiple functions; one of them is that it can be used to treat diseases. What’s controversial about this technology…

Genome Editing

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Genome Editing Technology
Genome Editing Technology
Genome Editing

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