Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? | Part 1

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited whenever biocomputing or neurons-on-chip come up, as an accessible example of how such a system can be built.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Thought Emporium

Topic

biological computing

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• The YouTuber "The Thought Emporium" has been working on a similar project for a few years. [VIDEO] They run an amazing channel that covers a variety of topics. Highly recommend. The mummification video is fun.

• Anyone ineterested in more wetware projects should check out the series from The Thought Emporium on youtube: [VIDEO] They are attempting to train a (literal) neural network to play DOOM. And yes, it os as fascinating and horrifying as it sounds. It's hard not to …

• I think the Thought Emporium youtube channel has some explanatory [videos]( [VIDEO] ) of the whole process. I couldn't wrap my head around the thing tho.