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The Simulated Fly Isn’t Sci-Fi. It’s Actually More Interesting Than That. 🧠🪰
Every few months the internet discovers a real scientific breakthrough and immediately turns it into a sci-fi headline. This week’s example: a fruit fly. If you saw the posts floating around social media, the claim sounded dramatic: “Scientists uploaded a living creature into a computer.” That’s a fantastic headline. It’s also… not really what happened. And honestly, the real story is more interesting—mainly because it’s real. What Actually Happened https://flywire.ai/ Resear

Rich Washburn
Mar 114 min read
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Hacking the Runner’s High: Harvard Proves What I’ve Been Doing All Along
For most of my adult life, I’ve been experimenting on myself. Call it biohacking, call it stubborn curiosity, call it refusing to let...

Rich Washburn
Sep 15, 20253 min read
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Cognitive Horizons and the Future of Human Intelligence
Imagine yourself in a room with Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist. Unless you are a leading expert in computational theory,...

Rich Washburn
May 27, 20242 min read
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Tapping the Mind of LLMs: Latent Space Activation
Recent research has uncovered some interesting techniques for prompting large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 to produce higher quality...

Rich Washburn
Oct 24, 20232 min read
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