Elon Musk's Startup Sees Human Tests In 6 Months

 "Musk's startup Neuralink Corp. should be ready to test its technology on humans in six months, the entrepreneur said Wednesday during a live-streamed update about progress the company has made with its brain-implant technology.

Neuralink has submitted most of its paperwork to the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees medical devices, including neural implants, Mr. Musk said.

The company wants to help restore vision and enable people with severe disabilities to move and communicate by decoding brain activity.

Eventually, Mr. Musk said, Neuralink wants to open clinics where patients could get a device implanted into their brains by surgical robots, which the company also showcased Wednesday.

Mr. Musk showed a video of "telepathic typing" from a monkey that has a Neuralink brain implant. The animal wasn't typing into a keyboard but was able to move a cursor to images of letters. "He's moving the cursor with his mind," he said. "He can't actually spell. I don't want to oversell this thing," he said.

Neuralink has been testing its implant technology on nonhuman primates for several years, including in April 2021, when the company released a video showing that a monkey implanted with two Neuralink devices could play Pong as the device translated its brain activity into commands with machine-learning software.

Clinical testing that proves an implantable device is safe and effective long-term would be necessary before a brain-computer interface, like Neuralink's, could be widely rolled out to patients." [1]

1. Billionaire's Startup Sees Human Tests In 6 Months
Hernandez, Daniela. 
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 01 Dec 2022: B.5.

 

Underlined honestly: Traders enriched themselves more than others from the increase in the price of goods

   "Although economists are talking about the peak of inflation, food market experts are shaking their heads - inflation is still catching up with some goods and prices may rise. The amounts shown on the labels can decrease only under one condition - if the prices of raw materials and energy do not continue to rise

 

    Buyer behavior is changing

 

    According to Arūnas Vizickas, the manager of the price comparison portal "Pricer.lt", due to the fact that the prices on the store shelves are increasing, the producers who felt the inflation strongly contributed. The prices of raw materials and energy have increased for them, wages have also increased, and they were not sure whether they would be able to get all the raw materials at all.

 

    Therefore, they were the first to increase the prices, and the merchants, applying markups, inflated the amounts even more. "And from that, traders won the most, the most euros were collected from food products, and in second place - the state, collecting value added tax (VAT).

 

    But the idea of ​​ a welfare state should not mean that the government wants to collect more taxes. It should think about serving the public, take as much money as is needed to perform the service, and invest the rest in making the country more competitive and efficient," said A. Vizickas.

 

    He noticed that due to the increased prices, residents are beginning to give up something, such as sweets. Some start looking for cheaper alternatives, choose cheaper private labels of retail chains or hunt for promotions.

 

    "In the United Kingdom, it is already noticeable that residents, after seeing at the cash register that the amount exceeds the psychological limit, decide to refuse one or another item and stop taking it.

 

    In Lithuania, we don't often see this yet, although at the cash registers sometimes you see piles of goods that may have been abandoned. Maybe people in Lithuania will start to behave like this", he thought."

 

 

 

Rėžė atvirai: daugiausia iš prekių brangimo pralobo prekybininkai

 "Nors ekonomistai kalba apie pasiektą infliacijos piką, maisto rinkos ekspertai purto galvas – kai kurias prekes infliacija dar tik vejasi ir kainos gali kilti. Etiketėse matomos sumos gali mažėti tik esant vienai sąlygai – jei žaliavų ir energetikos kainos toliau nebekiltų

Keičiasi pirkėjų elgesys

Kainų lyginimo portalo „Pricer.lt“ vadovo Arūno Vizicko teigimu, dėl to, kad parduotuvių lentynose kainos auga, itin prisidėjo gamintojai, kurie infliaciją pajuto stipriai. Jiems išaugo ir žaliavų, ir energetikos kainos, augo ir darbo užmokestis, taip pat jie nebuvo tikri, ar visas žaliavas išvis pavyks gauti.

Tad kainas pirmiausia didino jie, o prekybininkai, taikydami antkainius, sumas dar labiau išpūtė. „Ir iš to daugiausia laimėjo, daugiausia eurų nuo maisto produktų susirinko prekybininkai, o antroje vietoje – valstybė, rinkdama pridėtinės vertės mokestį (PVM).

Bet skambant idėjoms apie gerovės valstybę neturėtų būti taip, kad valdžia nori surinkti daugiau mokesčių. Ji turėtų galvoti apie tarnystę visuomenei, paimti tiek pinigų, kiek reikia paslaugai atlikti, o likusias dalis investuoti į tai, kad šalis taptų konkurencingesnė, efektyvesnė“, – sakė A.Vizickas.

Pašnekovas pastebėjo, kad dėl išaugusių kainų gyventojai ima ko nors, pavyzdžiui, saldumynų, atsisakyti. Dalis ima ieškoti pigesnių prekių alternatyvų, renkasi pigesnes privačias prekybos tinklų etiketes arba medžioja akcijas.

„Jungtinėje Karalystėje jau pastebima, kad gyventojai, kasoje pamatę, kad suma peržengia psichologinę ribą, nusprendžia vienos ar kitos prekės atsisakyti ir jos nebeimti.

Lietuvoje kol kas to dažnai dar nematome, nors prie kasų kartais tenka išvysti krūveles prekių, kurių galbūt buvo atsisakyta. Gal ir Lietuvoje žmonės ims taip elgtis“, – svarstė jis."

Lustų įstatymas: Europa atsidūrė nepalankioje padėtyje

"ES negali neatsilikti nuo pinigų, kuriuos amerikiečiai skiria savo pramonei – nuo ​​baterijų iki lustų gamintojų. Jis turėtų sutelkti dėmesį į kokybę, o ne į kiekį. 

ES neturi puoselėti jokių iliuzijų. Prasidėjo subsidijų lenktynės su JAV – europiečiai neturi gero sverto. ES negali neatsilikti nuo pinigų, kuriuos amerikiečiai skiria savo pramonei – nuo ​​baterijų iki lustų gamintojų.

 

To nekeičia ir dabar Ministrų Tarybos priimtas „Lustų įstatymas“. Su 43 milijardais eurų gamybos skatinimui Europoje. Tačiau bendrą sumą galite gauti, tik kūrybingai tvarkydami buhalteriją. Tai nieko, palyginti su 50 milijardų JAV dolerių lustų įstatymu ir 500 milijardų dolerių infliacijos mažinimo įstatymu. Skambės raginimai dėl naujo – skolomis finansuojamo – ES fondo.

Vietoj to europiečiai turėtų investuoti į tikslines sritis, kuriose priklausomybė nuo žaliavų ir produktų (iš Kinijos) gali sukelti rimtų problemų. „Lustų įstatymas“ gali būti įspėjamasis pavyzdys: jis skirtas visų tipų lustams finansuoti – nuo ​​aukščiausios klasės iki pramoninių gaminių. Jei negalite ir nenorite švaistyti milžiniškų pinigų sumų, turite pasikliauti kokybe, o ne kiekybe."

 

 Protingas ir nuogas, konkuruojantis su banginiais - žudikais? Sėkmės tame.

 

Chips Act : Europe is at a disadvantage

"The EU cannot keep up with the money that the Americans provide for their industry, from battery to chip manufacturers. It should focus on class instead of quantity.

The EU must not harbor any illusions. The subsidy race with the USA has begun – and the Europeans have the shortest leverage. The EU cannot keep up with the money that the Americans provide for their industry, from battery to chip manufacturers.

The “Chips Act” now passed by the Council of Ministers does not change that either. With 43 billion euros to promote production in Europe. But you can only get the total with creative bookkeeping. That's nothing compared to the $50 billion US Chips Act and $500 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Calls for a new – debt-financed – EU fund will become louder.

Instead, Europeans should invest in targeted areas where dependence on raw materials and products (from China) can cause them serious problems. The "Chips Act" can be a warning example: It is intended to promote all types of chips, from high-end to industrial products. If you can't and don't want to waste huge sums of money, you have to rely on quality instead of quantity."

Smart and naked in competition with killer whales? Good luck with that.

Oh my priceless: Why has Lithuania become so expensive?

"LNK journalist's questions were answered by Luminor bank economist Žygymantas Mauricas.

 

- Food products and fuel are still the most expensive - by a third. Twice as fast as the entire European Union (EU). Why is life so expensive in Lithuania?

 

- Lithuania has become expensive in recent years, as prices here have grown significantly faster than the EU average. Food prices are of particular concern. The annual growth is about 34 percent. In the EU, it is also high, but it reaches 17%. So it is likely that we will reach the EU average in terms of price level this year. 

 

So the prices of drinks and food will soon be more expensive than in the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and only by a few percent lower than in Germany, France and Italy.

 

- And what is the salary difference compared to Lithuania, so that we can imagine?

 

- The wage gap reaches more than two times. In Lithuania, we already have almost 1,200 EUR in hand, and in Western European countries - from 2.5 to 3 thousand. Eur. in hand.

 

- If they do not stop the rise in prices, especially food prices, what awaits Lithuania?

 

- Lithuania will become expensive rather than rich. This is a huge challenge for the country in terms of competitiveness.

 

It will be more difficult to attract and retain employees.

 

Well, if we continue this price increase, we will already reach the EU average this year, and next year we will even exceed it. A psychologically unpleasant border - the Rubicon - will be crossed. We will become an unattractive country neither for emigrants who might want to return to Lithuania, nor for migrants from third countries, because everyone will see that life here is more expensive than in other Western European countries. Nor in the same Poland."

 

What you work for, that's what you get. If you looked around for it, you would work for twice or three times more, and you would live better. No one else is at fault here. Stupid is getting beaten even in the church.