Meta open-sourced a brain-to-text system that reaches 78% word... accuracy without surgery. Brain2Qwerty v2 converts non-invasive brain recordings into text with 61% average word accuracy and 78% for its strongest participant. The system reads MEG signals from a helmet, not electrodes placed inside brain tissue. 9 volunteers typed about 22,000 sentences while researchers recorded 10 hours of neural activity each. Brain2Qwerty v1 mostly mapped brain signals to single typed characters. It tries to recover characters, words, and full sentence meaning together. The system studies those brain signals and tries to turn them into the words you wanted to type. - 61% average word accuracy across all participants - 78% word accuracy for the top participant - 50%+ of sentences decoded with no more than 1 word error Performance improves as the data pile grows Raw brain signals are messy because many mental and physical processes fire at once. Deep learning handles that mess by learning patterns directly from the original recordings. A fine-tuned LLM then uses language context to repair likely word and sentence errors. This explains why the system beats earlier non-invasive methods reporting 8% word accuracy. More than half of sentences from the strongest participant had one word error or less. Accuracy also improved as training data grew, suggesting more recordings may close more of the gap.show more

NEURALINK: REAL-TIME BRAIN ACTIVITY, STREAMED Neuralink's implanted neural device... is already delivering what scientists have chased for decades: live visibility into human brain activity within minutes of surgery. In this demo, signals flare as a participant wakes up post-procedure - the device capturing the gradual surge of neural activity in real time. It’s a glimpse of the frontier: hardware that doesn’t just record the brain, but streams its inner rhythms instantly. From clinical care to brain-computer interfaces, the implications are massive. Source: Neuralinkshow more

🚙 Word Trip is a light-action word-building game. The... goal of the game is to get from the top word to the bottom one by making new four-letter words. $6 from Shaun Inman •show more

There’s no other way to describe it: Your child’s... physical and intellectual growth between 12 and 24 months is exponential. At one year of age many children are speaking their first words and taking their first unsteady steps. A year later and you’ll hardly recognize them as the same child. Check out this little one (shown here approaching two) who manages to string together, not a word or two, but a six word sentence (requesting to be taken to her grandmother’s house). When her father asks her to repeat herself, she lays it on thick, adding a pair of extra pleases at the start of the sentence for good measure - extending her request to 8 words. Isn’t it amazing to think that less than 12 months earlier this little one likely spoke her first word? Such amazing growth in her vocabulary and sophistication. Kudos little one! Here’s hoping you made it over to grandma’s house. When did your baby speak their first words? Their first full sentences? This adorable language learner was shared to TT by rosemeblue_alllove.show more

HOLY SHIT thought-to-action is almost here meta just published... two papers showing they can decode thoughts into text with 80% accuracy, in real time, using non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. pardon my french, but WHAT THE FUCK?show more

Want people glued to your ad? Try this: Tear... a piece of paper into parts, then arrange them back together, revealing your hook word by word. The data shows that people stop scrolling and wait to see the message come together! 👀show more

A word to the wise, from a man of... few words. #bitcoinisinterestingshow more

A peek from earlier today as we took to... the streets of Lagos to spread the word about the awesomeness of Not Insane Challenge (NIC). Come join us with multiple opportunities to spread the word wherever you are. Let’s get NIC to everyone. #NICtothestreets #Phyna𓃰show more

A stroke can destroy brain cells within minutes, often... leaving people with long‑term problems in movement, memory, or speech. But scientists may have found a way to help the brain heal itself. In studies of mice, researchers injected stem cells into areas of the brain damaged by stroke. These stem cells began turning into early‑stage brain cells, and many later developed into active neurons that connected with surrounding tissue. The treatment did more than just grow cells.show more

As the World's Highest IQ 276 Holder, I declare... the Word of God: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) The Word is Jesus, and Jesus is the image of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15)show more

"Turn! Turn! Turn!" uses verses from Ecclesiastes 3 almost... word for word, released in 1965, and inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. Do you know the band's name?show more

🏆 We're thrilled to announce that Meta FAIR’s Brain... & AI team won 1st place at the prestigious Algonauts 2025 brain modeling competition. Their 1B parameter model, TRIBE (Trimodal Brain Encoder), is the first deep neural network trained to predict brain responses to stimuli across multiple modalities, cortical areas, and individuals. The approach combines pretrained representations of several foundational models from Meta – text (Llama 3.2), audio (Wav2Vec2-BERT from Seamless) and video (V-JEPA 2) – to predict a very large amount (80 hours per subject) of spatio-temporal fMRI brain responses to movies acquired by the Courtois NeuroMod project Download the code: Read the paper: Learn about the challenge: Download the data:show more

“Nilaban ko talaga si Lea Salonga, and “I’d Give... My Life for You,” because that specific performance of hers from Miss Saigon has been a core memory in my brain— and I know that word for word, soul for soul.” —Kai on her yfsf performance #KaiMontinola | kai ☆show more

“Our Word Means Something”? What a Sick Joke. I... had to physically restrain myself from hurling something at the TV the moment I heard that smirking, weasel Albanese declare, “Our word means something.” This coming from a pathological liar whose word means absolutely nothing — a man who won’t tell the truth if it slapped him across the face, and who’ll spit out any filthy lie if he thinks it’ll buy him one extra vote. And let’s never forget exactly why we’re in this shameful mess. We signed the IEA agreement and our politicians gave Australia’s solemn word to keep a minimum 90 days of petrol and diesel reserves. Shamefully, Australia is the only nation on Earth that has arrogantly broken its word and completely ignored this obligation. And now Albanese is up in Singapore begging that Australia be forgiven for breaking its word. No one — and I mean no one — is more directly responsible for Australia breaking its word than Anthony Albanese. For six long years as Infrastructure and Transport Minister under the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd circus, and nearly four years as Prime Minister, he has contemptuously thumbed his nose at the promise Australia made to the world. No wonder we was smirking as he lied through his teeth yet again. Every single time this man opens his mouth, a torrent of lies, spin, and pure dishonesty comes gushing out like raw sewage. Listening to him makes you want to vomit.show more

more experiments in shapes of text: mapping word embeddings... of a paragraph using different sliding windows (1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 words)to 3d space. unsurprisingly, as the sliding window size gets larger the whole shape gets “smoother”.show more

The Brain Benefits of Bacon.... Selenium protects the brain... from inflammation and oxidative stress, halts mental decline & depression. Choline, an essential nutrient vital for brain health, cognitive functioning & crucial for mental acuity. Tyrosine one of 9 essential amino acids found in Bacon that function as the building blocks for the production of brain cells, brain chemicals, neurotransmitters and hormones – all of which impact mood. Tryptophan is one of the key ingredients our bodies uses to create Serotonin, to prevent/eliminate Depression & Anxiety. B Vitamins convert food into energy & form red blood cells. Bacon contains six of the eight B vitamins that are important for brain and energy function. By consuming healthy amounts, bacon can support & boost vital processes such as brain development, memory & learning. Bacon is a great source of protein & fat, B-vitamins, iron, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus & omega-3. Higher intake of dietary Choline reduces the risk of Dementia by 28%. A Ketogenic Animal Based Diet will speed up your brain’s processing & learning speeds, improve your memory, & support overall intelligence, while helping to ward off degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s & Dementia.show more

Scientists at Cornell University have developed a “biohybrid” robot... that moves in response to signals from the nervous system of fungi. These robots incorporate mycelium, the root system of fungi, which senses and communicates through electrical signals. Researchers grew mycelium directly into the robot's electronics, allowing it to drive the machine by processing these natural signals. The team built two versions: one with wheels and another spider-shaped with soft legs. Both versions respond to light and other stimuli, with the mycelium sending signals to the robot's actuators to initiate movement. Experiments demonstrated the robots' ability to move based on natural mycelium signals, react to ultraviolet light, and even allow manual override. Future developments may include multiple inputs like chemical signatures, enhancing the robot's ability to autonomously interact with its environment. Credit: Cornell University #engineeringshow more

Trump: "A simple word like that -- groceries --... it was like, almost, a strange word. I hadn't heard the word in so long. But what could be more beautiful than the word 'grocery?'"show more

JOHN CENA POSTED THE FIRST WORDS OF HIS PROMO... FROM RAW WORD FOR WORD ON HERE HE REALLY MEANT THIS 😭show more

Scientists suspect that at the threshold of death, the... human brain may display activity patterns similar to memory replay. One published study reported intriguing findings from EEG recordings of an 87-year-old patient who died of a heart attack. The study observed elevated gamma brain waves, which are often associated with memory, dreaming, and conscious thought. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as a “life recall experience,” in which a person subjectively feels as if they are replaying moments from their life immediately before or after the heart stops beating. This may occur because as the brain begins to lose its oxygen supply, it can release bursts of intense neural activity in parts of the cerebral cortex, potentially triggering a surge in memory-related processing. Although more research is needed, these findings offer a new perspective on how the brain may still show organized activity even after the heart has stopped. This could provide a biological basis for various reports of near-death experiences, which often include life review or vivid flashbacks.show more

Trump: Anyway, let's have a good, they call it... a lifting. They also use another word, but I'm not going to use that word. The word, it starts with an E. You know what the word is?show more