Cooling brain tumors. Prolonging (rodent) lives. 🧠🐭 Out in @ScienceAdvances: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… @dukeengineering @utswnews @AKUGlobal #glioblastoma #bioengineering #medicaldevices #cancer #brain

Sualeh Asif, a 26-year-old Pakistani from Karachi, has become a billionaire after his AI coding startup Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation. A former math Olympiad participant who studied at MIT, he is now Chief Product Officer at Anysphere, the company behind Cursor. The AI-powered coding platform is widely used by global tech firms and has seen rapid growth in users and revenue. Backed by major investors like OpenAI Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and Google, the startup highlights Pakistan’s tech talent potential while also reflecting concerns about brain drain as top innovators build success abroad. #PakistanTech #AI #Cursor #StartupSuccess #Billionaire #Innovation #Karachi #MIT #TechNews #Entrepreneurship

Did they find the first replicator?!

Software creates soft men Soft men create hard times Hard times create hard men Hard men create hardware Hardware creates good times Good times creates software

A brilliant team that @AleenaKhan and I had the pleasure to mentor. They took the problem and came up with their own solution!

A stellar team and it was a true pleasure to mentor!

My new (AI generated) theme song🤯: suno.com/s/OfWLOr9j48buDr65 suno.com/s/Q1922MqjF5x1kJiN Which version is better?

Do not start with fundamentals. This is an awful approach to learning. Start with so-called "advanced" topics and ask questions until every term/concept is understood. This is the correct, rigorous, scientific way to learn, because the advanced topics are embedded in larger, more convoluted, more abstracted constructs. This embedding is what gives the individual pieces their *meaning*. Foundational studies have removed this embedding, and present only the isolated, sterile pieces. They have no meaning. They have no context. The notion that students will piece together fundamentals into some eventual synthesis down the road is absolutely incorrect. It is literally information-theoretically obtuse. Children don't learn language using pieces. They mumble *fully*. They are never not fully embracing the complexity. It is the juxtaposition between their naive attempts and the full picture that imbues their mind with learning. Prerequisites are the dumbest approach to learning. It is utterly indefensible using any scientific argument. The basics-to-advanced directionality is diametrically opposed to how information is encoded, comprehended and used. Prerequisites are why most computer scientists and whiteboard exam-passers can't make software themselves; they can only be cogs in a company. It's why a Princeton math PhD can write the update rule for gradient descent but can't draw the actual process with circles and lines on a damn chalkboard (true story). Idiot level stuff because their learning was all basics to advanced. They never defined terms and concepts in an embedded fashion. It was all disconnected. Meaningless muscle memory with no understanding. It does not work both ways. Only pieces that are seen inside the bigger picture are understood. Do not start with fundamentals.

Introducing Helix youtu.be/Z3yQHYNXPws?si=vqTN… via @YouTube

Finally became a US Citizen today! Proud to be a part of this idea, truly a "Nation of Immigrants" as the president poignantly states in his letter. Of course, I won't forget my roots in Pakistan and continue to help uplift those in need. But, the ideology and subsequently the paths to naturalization here contrast starkly with Pakistan. I received my early and graduate education here. Eventually obtained a National Interest Waiver, then Green card, and now this.

Paving the way to cure GBM @faaizenam Thank you for presenting your work at the TNNT Symposium #2024CNS @CNS_Update @NeuroOnc @AtherEnam

Any engineer/scientist in my Twitter list who knows the ins and outs of carbon capture technology?

The Annual O'Donnell Brain Institute Research Day is underway on North Campus. UTSW scientists who have received OBI grants are giving updates on their research projects. Learn more about how we support research exploring new directions in #neuroscience. bit.ly/4bPJxab

T-2 min for totality outside the hospital here in Dallas!

Nice one youtu.be/3jwVBroYd3Q?si=772G…

Progress in #BCI? Or just hype? So much work to be done. I had a great opportunity to comment on the progress. Neuralink shares video of patient playing chess using signals from brain implant cnb.cx/3TUQvEJ

"I would not be productive in today's academic system" -- Higgs.