Max Hodak

Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD | NEJM Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

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YouTube video by Science A global mission to restore vision | PRIMA by Science

Very excited that the clinical trial results for our PRIMA retinal prosthesis are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine! This is the first time that patients who are blind due to photoreceptor loss have been able to intuitively see again.

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The New England Journal of Medicine Reports Science Corp.’s PRIMA BCI Implant Restores Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused By Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Scienc... Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm.org) today published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant.

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If you gave a tool calling LLM the ability to send an email and it uses true knowledge it has to extort you I think you’d consider that a threat. This is a totally practical risk give how these models are getting deployed now.

Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting!

Connecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science Corporation Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

As we get closer to market approval for our breakthrough retinal prosthesis, it's time for a Science patient registry.

If you or a family member have late stage macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa, or Stargardt disease, please consider getting in touch!

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a take on the Truman show, but told following a bunch of people on the outside world watching it as it airs, and the huge cultural conversations that ensue, eventually leading to a Supreme Court case which ultimately allows it to continue

a pink stuffed octopus with a neural probe adapter on its head, connected over usb-c to a digital headstage not pictured and hopefully deleted forever: giant neural recording cart

first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊

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man remind me to never piss off the humans

at least only speaking for myself, my goal is still the culture

is this thing on

Why is it so hard to reverse engineer the brain's 86 billion neurons? What is the future of communication between brains? Join me with special guest Max Hodak, founder of Science Corp, a company pioneering new methods in brain computer interfaces.
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#brain #BCI

well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly

united are you ok

the books don’t form a single narrative, they’re all different stories set in the same overall universe. By the “first book” I assume you mean Consider Phlebas; you might find Player of Games better, or maybe Surface Detail or Excession. All very different stories.

YouTube video by The Orbital Array Iain M. Banks, The Culture Series

me and others often talk about a "bright future" on the horizon that is attainable, but that can feel pretty vague. in practical terms, the vision of the Culture I think captures it best

we may be much closer than most people think

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I wish there was a way to have an LLM propose Zotero collection organization for me to accept or reject, or add a Cursor-like chat drawer running PaperQA2 on the local library directly in the UI. Lots of opportunities here!

i've been noticing this too with the firefox extension! i increasingly have to download the pdf separately and add it to the record.

suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it?

do you remember html image maps?

a simpler, happier time

Next stop, applying for the CE mark so we can make it available to patients in Europe (where the trial was done).

PRIMA Clinical Trial Data Safety Monitoring Board Votes to Recommend PRIMA Device for Submission for European Approval | Science Corporation Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

The last step in the PRIMA retinal prothesis clinical trial was for the Data Safety Monitoring Board to vote on whether the data showed it was safe as well as effective, and I'm excited to report that on 11/13 -- they did!

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YouTube video by S3 The Age of Neural Engineering (ft. Science Corp.)

now that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public!

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Years and Years (TV Mini Series 2019) ⭐ 8.3 | Drama, Sci-Fi 1h | TV-MA

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if you found the events of the last month to be extremely surprising, you might enjoy Years and Years on HBO

Actually it looks like this is possible, we just hard to find! You get it from the authentication mechanism

Bluesky should add an optional ability to provide a user DID when requesting a custom feed to allow personalization and learning from likes etc