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We asked Steven Pang what he's working on (Orbit). "We built a precise modulator of the vestibular system, which is in your inner ear." "It's like making high-level API calls to regulate your heart or breathing rate." "The vestibular system evolved so early on in the evolutionary chain that...

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Mycillithumb1 year ago

@thewildstevenp Pang its like the joke wrote itself its the first sound the spoon makes when its thrown

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