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We live in the information age. Information has a lot of value, most software companies' main asset is information. Visa, Mastercard and all the banks are companies that are valued very highly because they provide the infrastructure for managing money. Bitcoin is not just the asset, it is the network and the infrastructure. It's a whole system that works semi autonomously by by aligning the incentives of all of its members. Wouldn't you say that's valuable?

This + OpenWater(https://www.openwater.cc/) will be a way better approach than Neuralink.

Since genetic engineering is necessary to first put light sensitive ion channels in the brain, I don't see how this is "way better" if you're targeting applications in humans like neuralink.

I'd much rather get an injection than get brain surgery.

I would think a brain virus has a higher risk than a one-time surgery.

I wouldn't even try to guess either way - there's zero statistics for genetic manipulation of the human brain and some stats for brain surgery.

Comparing few data points to none just doesn't allow for any intuition about the safety of either compared to the other.

OpenWater doesn't have enough resolution. I find their PR kinda sketchy because it makes a lot of emphasis on laser and optical things, which they use, but rarely mentions that the fact that they rely on an ultrasound beacon makes their best-case temporal and spatial resolution not as exciting.

The tech is really cool, as in a portable MRI-like device is really cool even if it's resolution is way worse than a big MRI machine. But it's nowhere near "brain scanning for brain upload" territory because of fundamental physical laws that they actually choose to work withing the constraints of.

I would really like to see something like OpenWater but used to help with de-scattering LiDAR on rainy/foggy days. I'm not sure if it's possible but from my limited understanding I think it's worth the try.

From the talks/podcasts I've heard, the goal is for the resolution to be good enough to measure and target individual neurons. Not sure where you get the ultrasound beacon part, but the images they have on their are using only red/near-infrared light. That being said, all of these is based on their own advertising. Curious to know, what are the fundamental physical constraints you are referring?

So if I don't misunderstand they heal the scattered wavefront by knowing that they are applying ultrasound to relax/contract a specific blood vessel. So while the image is created with information coming from reflected photons in the red/NIR spectrum they also know how to locate that physically by using a beacon.

This is all from old tech-talks and material that I saw. They were even very vocal about how they were able to do this because they were using this new piezoelectric microphone/speaker chips in the ultrasound frequencies.

Wow, very interesting project, I hope they succeed.

This is a very exciting line of research. Assuming this gets to be a real plane or drone. How do you deal with the Ozone it produces?

Offset it by putting CFCs back in fridges.

Check out "NOVA: Search for the Super Battery" on Netflix www.netflix.com/title/80991272?source=android It's a great intro into the challenges of current batteries and it shows Ionic materials' battery which is very similar tech to the one described in this article.

Is the startup visa (International Entrepreneur Rule) dead? or is there still hope?

Effectively dead, yes.

Since we're sharing alternatives:

https://empiricalci.com is a dashboard to keep track of your experiments & compare them on public benchmarks.

I built Empirical to address 2 major inefficiencies slowing down modern science: discovery and reproducibility of experiments.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Great work! A question: how do we scale the computations? I know how long my experiments normally take on a 40 core PC. How long will it take and how much will it cost if I use Empirical?

Thanks! Currently we're focusing on single host experiments. We provide an open source client for you to run the experiments on your own hardware, so it's free. The use of the platform is also free for open source.

At some point in the future, once we gather more feedback we'll let you to run the experiments on our servers for a fee.

Hi, I'm new to OSS, and would love helping empirical ci grow and become better. Where do I start?

Hey! just saw this message. Wish HN had notifications.

We're still putting together a roadmap for the open source project, but you can start by using the tool and filing issues that you find with the software or documentation. You can also file feature requests that you'd like to see.

Reach out via our Gitter chat: https://gitter.im/empiricalci/emp

Thanks for your interest!

Hi, Peter! as a Mexican, could I get an E2 visa investing $50k of my own money into my startup? Or what's the lowest investment needed for an E2 visa? In order to reach that threshold, could my investment be complemented with VC or angel's money?

Thanks!

The investment requirement is "substantial" relative to the enterprise so there's no legal minimum but in my experience most consulates won't entertain E-2 visa applications where the investment isn't above $50,000. And understand that the investment has two components, the money transferred/invested into the U.S. company and the money spent by the U.S. company and a substantial amount needs to be spent and the percentage is higher the lower the investment. So, where the investment is as little as $50,000, most consulates will want to see nearly all of this spent. But to be clear, $50,000 is really low. And yes, the money can come from others as long as here the money is coming from Mexican citizens or Mexican-owned companies.

We're working on this exact problem at Empirical http://empiricalci.com

We're building a way for CS researchers to run, share and compare experiments including their whole research environment.

We just applied to Apply HN and would appreciate your feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948