Joanne Peng
895 posts
Joanne Peng
@JoanneZPeng
- at Irish border control: “an O1 visa? what’s your extraordinary ability? you know, our Cillian Murphy has an O1”
- I got my EB1 visa (yay!)
- Replying to @buccocapitalhe dropped a whole business book in 30s at a news briefing
- very excited to announce amaranth.foundation’s latest philanthropic project, co-led by @naturecomputes, @AToliasLab, Tirin Moore, and Barun Dutta at @Stanford enigma is collecting the largest single-neuron dataset, to build a foundation model of the brain the team, withNew project: enigmaproject.ai Engineers, ML researchers, mech interp community: Reach out if you're interested in getting involvedamaranth.foundationAmaranth Foundation - Longevity and NeuroscienceAmaranth Foundation funds groundbreaking work in longevity and neuroscience. Learn more about our grants, projects, and team .
- Replying to @willdepuevatican is way ahead of their time (2021, exploring the mind, body, and soul from Pope Francis)
- hosting a small gathering to watch In Silico, the documentary about the 10-year, $1B failed quest to simulate a brain! ego, conflict, scientific feasibility all come into question. this sunday, 8PM, SF dm for invite :)
- in 2007, DARPA put out 23 mathematical challenges which are about as undefined as they can get including finding a "mathematical theory of the brain" and the "fundamental laws of biology" (the 100 year question) so many biology problems! web.math.utk.edu/~vasili/refs/d… (h/t @_julesh_)
- I have been extremely lucky to work with @jamesfickel. He genuinely cares about science and people he funds, and is one of the most thoughtful people I’ve met. It’s a rare combination!My exclusive today on the biggest investor in brain and longevity science that you've never heard of. James Fickel turned a crypto fortune into a research empire bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- thinking about the fact that most of my friends who drop out to become operators still want to continue learning math/physics, but it becomes exponentially harder to justify doing so in comparison to faster feedback loops in their other work. 1/3
- there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to chinese nobles who died taking elixirs of immortality over 2000 years
- walking for even 5 days in the Italian Dolomites reset my poor eating + sleeping schedule and mental focus the views helped too
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you can simply take a very long walk - mitochondria are so extremely underratedSuperb video of the mitochondrial community in a single cell—hundreds of squiggly microorganisms sensing, processing, and signaling energy and information By @chillinwithpfn1 x.com/chillinwithpfn…
