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The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith (@noahpinion) and Brandon Anderson sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk (@YaroslavAzhnyuk), a serial tech founder who went from building PetCube to founding The Fourth Law, one of the world's most advanced AI-guided drone companies. Over two hours we cover the technology, tactics, and geopolitics of drone warfare, and why the modern battlefield has already left the West behind:* Yaroslav's personal history and the Ukraine war [00:01:04 – 00:14:01]* The modern drone tech stack: why FPV drones are the new god of war, the future of the rifleman, fiber optic vs. AI, five levels of autonomy, and the eight dimensions of the autonomous battlefield [00:14:01 – 01:05:13]* The geopolitics and economics of drones: China's manufacturing advantage, the drone race, Western defense readiness, countermeasures, and why the gap is widening [01:05:13 – 01:58:57]For those looking for Noah Smith's commentary, it really gets going around the 00:51:31 mark.Yaroslav Azhnyuk / The Fourth Law:* X: https://x.com/YaroslavAzhnyuk* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslavazhnyuk/* The Fourth Law: https://thefourthlaw.aiNoah Smith:* Substack: Noah Smith * X: https://x.com/noahpinionTimestamps00:00:00 Cold Open: China's 4 Billion Drones and the Cameras-to-Explosives Pipeline00:01:04 Introduction: Brandon, Noah Smith, and Yaroslav Azhnyuk00:05:41 From Tech Entrepreneur to Defense: PetCube, Brave One, and the D3 Fund00:10:42 The Ethics of Building Weapons: Dual-Use Technology and the Wolf at the Door00:14:01 The Tech Stack: Cameras, Autonomy Modules, Interceptors, and a Semiconductor Fab00:18:47 Fiber Optic vs. AI: The Radio Horizon Problem and $32/km Cable00:25:32 FPV Drones: The New God of War — 70–80% of Frontline Casualties00:28:28 The Five Levels of Drone Autonomy: From Terminal Guidance to Full Autonomy00:41:37 The Eight Dimensions of the Autonomous Battlefield00:45:32 AI Safety and the Morality of Autonomous Weapons00:51:31 The End of the Rifleman? Noah's 2013 Prediction vs. Battlefield Reality01:05:13 China's Manufacturing Advantage and Western Vulnerabilities01:24:21 Policy Advice for Western Defense: Defense Valley and the Widening Gap01:32:54 The Drone Race: Who's Ahead, Category by Category01:41:57 Countermeasures: Shotguns, Jammers, Lasers, and Fishnets01:58:19 The Wedding and Final Takeaway: Be Prepared for WarTranscriptCold Open: China, FPV Drones, and the New Warning SignYaroslav [00:00:00]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world. China can produce 4 billion of these FPV drones.Noah [00:00:10]: Would you say that right now China is now the supreme conventional military power on Earth, given its ability to manufacture and deploy drones in the quantity and quality that you just described?Yaroslav [00:00:20]: I don't think we have all the information to claim that but we cannot count it out, and that alone should be a big warning sign. As I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story. And when you think about what your nation, what your patriots are going through, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back, and then the choice becomes very clear.Introduction: Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Petcube, and the Last Flight into KyivBrandon [00:01:04]: Welcome to Latent Space. I'm Brandon. I normally do science podcasts, but today we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm joined by Noah Smith of Noahpinion on Substack and Twitter. And he has lots of interesting things to say about drones. And as a guest, we have Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of The Fourth Law and several other, drone-related startups. To get started, it is February 23rd, 2022. You are running a pet startup. You're connecting pets with their owners. Let's go in just a little bit of background. How did you get started in tech, and what were you working on before the Ukrainian war started?Yaroslav [00:01:50]: Good to be here. Thank you. On February 23rd, late in the evening, 11:00 PM Kyiv time, my wife and I landed in Kyiv. Actually, then she was a fiance. We came from Lviv, where we were looking at a church, where our wedding should have taken place. And we got into this cab ride from the airport to our home, and the driver was like, “You crazy. Like, everyone's leaving Kyiv. Why do you come?” We're like, “What? Nothing's going to happen. Dude, chill.” And then obviously, eight minutes later, or eight hours later, the bombs fell in the city. It was quite surreal. We probably landed on the last flight that landed in Kyiv, or one of those last flights. My background, I'm a tech guy. Studied applied mathematics in Kyiv Polytechnics, born and raised in Kyiv. My parents are old PhDs from academia, and grandparents too. Like, everything, from linguistics to nuclear physics. And I'm an entrepreneur, so I've built a bunch of companies. Petcube is the one you were referencing. So I lived in San Francisco 2014 to 2020, building Petcube, which is one of the leading, pet device companies in the world, selling lots of pet cameras. And then, yeah, as I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story.February 24th: Leaving Kyiv as the Invasion BeginsNoah [00:03:28]: February 24th, I guess a few hours after you, go to check out your wedding chapel, what do you do?Yaroslav [00:03:37]: We had a plan for this situation. So my parents and family live in Kyiv, and we're like, “Okay, this has actually started. The worst has, come true.” And so we basically packed our belongings and got in the car and spent 17 hours driving west. And that was pretty sure most people in our audience watched at least one apocalyptic movie in their life, so that was exactly like that. Like, felt exactly like that. Missiles are falling. Like, there was smoke in Kyiv. Like, my dad and I went, like, to central part of the cities. It's probably, likeYaroslav [00:04:20]: 800 meters from presidential office, to pick some stuff up at his workplace. Because he's, like, the head of an academic institution, so he had to get some of the things with him. And super surreal. Like, the streets are empty. Like, the gas stations are out of gas. Like, we found some gas station. We didn't have, like, spare canisters with us, so we're like, We figured out, like, the car was diesel, so like, we figured out, if it's diesel, you can actually store it in plastic, canisters, and we bought some window wash for the cars. We poured it out of the canisters, and we poured the diesel into that. Yeah, so it was like that. And then, like, helping friends get out, like my friend and his dog. Like, we found Like, my brother was also, like, riding in a separate car. We found a place for my friend who didn't have a car. It was like, yeah, it was like, totally surreal. And we didn't know of course, and you didn't know this will last for so long. You didn't know whether Ukraine will be able to defend Kyiv. And it was like, yeah, very little information and very little insight into future.From Pet Cameras to Defense Tech: Building for Ukraine and the Free WorldNoah [00:05:42]: What are your thoughts with regards to how do you, defend, Ukraine? So you eventually start building drones Like, what is the process to get from there from where you were building, devices that connect owners with pets to building drones, and what other things did you do to help the war effort in the process?Yaroslav [00:06:07]: It's definitely non-trivial, right? Like, I didn't go, to I didn't get any, like, military education when I was a student. Like, normally, in Ukraine, you would, you would go to like, this military school even if you're getting higher education in any other, sphere. I decided to skip that which is like, an unusual way to go. And I never thought that I will be somehow engaged in a war effort. Like, what is war? Of course, wars are over. It's the end of history. So one thing you got to understand about, like, many Ukrainians and like, I guess, it's also true about most of the people I met here in the US, that your who you are in terms of your nationality is a big part of your identity. So when that gets under attack, it's something deeper than just the country you live in gets under attack, right? And I Day one, I figured I'm going to I'm going to fight back with everything I can, right? But I didn't think on day one that I'm actually going to do, weapons. And a bunch of things. We were reaching out to a number of American, congresspeople and senators, and basically advocating for support of Ukraine, for voting for lend lease, which has happened in May 2022, but didn't actually work as expected. We helped start, Brave One, which is now a very important defense innovation cluster, sort of like a DIU here in the US. We helped start, a fund called D3. It's like, it was started or co-started by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. So a bunch of these odd things, but then eventually I was like, “Okay,”by 2023 it was obvious this thing, A is going to last a lot more time, and B, that the whole world is shifting and that there's going to be a new arms race, that the warfare is redefined by drones as platforms. And for the first time in history, you have a platform that is software defined, that can increase your battlefield capabilities, in a in a step change just overnight. So it's like if you were able to push a software update and get all of your Roman legionnaires a new helmet? That has never been possible before. It's the first time in the history of war this is possible. So all of that and many other things like, supply chain fragilization, and the impact that AI is going to have on all of this all these things have become evident to me in 2023, and it's like, “Okay, I should do what I do best, or what I know how to do best, start a tech company, and sort of leverage the global techno capitalist machine, to provide, defensibility to Ukraine and the free world.” So that's literally the mission of the company, increase defensibility of Ukraine and the free world. And then there was some sort of soul-searching and like, asking yourself. It's like, “Okay, am I Actually, I know nothing about weapons. Am I actually, like, ready to make, things that other people use to kill other bad people?”Yaroslav [00:09:36]: When you think about what your nation, what your Compatriots are going through And think about all the terror of places like Bucha, the occupied cities in the east and south, the abducted children, the raped women, all the economic damage that's being done, and the intention to destroy a whole nation, to genocide the people of Ukraine, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back. And then the choice becomes very clear. And look, we're just passing the ammunition. We're not doing the actual job. The actual fighters and defenders and heroes are people in the armed forces. We're just support.The Moral Question: Weapons, Responsibility, and Fighting BackNoah [00:10:33]: I have so many questions. Actually, I know you seem to have a question. Do you want to ask anything?Yaroslav [00:10:38]: No, I'm just listening. Go ahead.Noah [00:10:40]: I do want to talk about, some of let's say, the moral issues, like you just said. You endYaroslav [00:10:50]: I think there are no issues there.Yaroslav [00:10:52]: What would an example of a moral question be in this case?Noah [00:10:55]: No, I mean Okay. As you just said, you are creating the tools, but others are using them.Noah [00:11:05]: I was maybe thinking of having this conversation later, but one of the questions is like, is it actually you are going to be building them for your homeland, which you are building it for your homeland, which is I think, very a strong morally defensible position, but this technology is not going to stay with you, right?Noah [00:11:26]: This you will probably be selling these to other people Yeah. So the future is really where the moral issues may come into playYaroslav [00:11:38]: The this question becomes, easier and more complete if we ask this not about a particular technology or particular weapon, if we think that this question actually applies to any kind of technology Right? So -Knife or fire. You can use knife to do surgery and save people's lives, or you can use it as a weapon to take people's lives.Noah [00:12:06]: Cut tomatoes, too.Yaroslav [00:12:08]: Cut tomatoes too.Noah [00:12:09]: Yes, knife.Yaroslav [00:12:09]: That's helpful.Noah [00:12:10]: In Japan, sword and knife, they, call the same word.Yaroslav [00:12:14]: It's like, it's with any technology. Large language models, right? Look at how powerful they are and yet they're available to anyone in North Korea or in Russia.Yaroslav [00:12:29]: That's one side of the argument. The other side is As a maker, what is your responsibility for how the tools you're creating, will be used? There's definitely some responsibility, right? Then How should the decision process look like? Should you, like, try to calculate all the possible scenarios before starting to work on something? Or do you create something that is needed now to save people's lives, and then think about, addressing the unwanted edge cases later? In ideal world where there's like, or okay, it's not ideal world. In a mythical world where there is some one governing party and it gets to decide everything, and there is no other country, that can, decide on their own, you could say, “Well, we need to calculate for all the consequences, and only then, maybe build this building, by replacing this park because, maybe we need this park in the city,”right? So that kind of situation. But when you're in a situation where you're in a forest, in front of a wolf, you first going to deal with the wolf that wants to eat you, and then you're going to go consult Greenpeace. So that's kind of situation that Ukraine is in.The Fourth Law, Odd Systems, and Ukraine's Drone StackNoah [00:13:59]: Enough. Because this is a tech podcast, I did want to spend some time talking about, sort of the tech in that you've developed and what you've been working on. So can you explain, I guess, first of all, like, the problem that you were trying to solve from a technical standpoint? And I think, and then maybe, like, go into some of the solutions and some of the design process that led you from designing, little laser-guided, guiding lasers with a with an iPhone versus Having drones.Yaroslav [00:14:34]: Like, it so happened, that my partners and I, we sort of So I started one company called The Fourth Law, and its goal was and is to Make, massively scalable on-drone autonomy. And then In parallel with that together with my, Petcube co-founders, partners, and friends, we started another company called Odd Systems Which, was focused on making thermal cameras. Cameras, thermal cameras are seeing thermal radiation and are used to see at night. And we're now sort of those companies are getting closer and closer together and we're probably going to merge them. And this group of companies is currently the leading, team in on-drone AI and thermal imaging on the Ukrainian battlefield, and Likely one of the leading, if not the leading in the world. So We have these, like, three sort of business units, which are cameras, drone autonomy, and drones. So the cameras and drone autonomy sell daytime and nighttime cameras and different types of drone autonomous modules to other drone manufacturers, over 200 drone manufacturers in Ukraine. And then the UAV, business unit sells the drones themselves to the armed forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian government. And there are different types of drones. Those are sort of front strike, as we call them, so those are sort of FPV strike drones and the bombers, and then interceptors. And there are different kinds of interceptors. We do Shahed interceptors and we do ISR interceptors. We don't do the deep strike-FPV Drones, Interceptors, and Battery-Powered WarfareNoah [00:16:32]: What's an ISR interceptor?Yaroslav [00:16:33]: ISR is stands for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and those are basically drones which are which, Russians are using to watch over positions and then communicate where, the targets are coming.Noah [00:16:48]: It's a reconnaissance.Yaroslav [00:16:48]: That's, the ISR is sort of a classical term for a for a reconnaissance drone.Noah [00:16:53]: Are all of these battery-powered drones that you just described? ‘Cause I know that the sort of deep strike drones still have, like Some sort ofYaroslav [00:17:01]: Internal combustion engine?Noah [00:17:02]: Internal combustion engine. Are all the things you're talking about battery-powered?Yaroslav [00:17:06]: What we're working on is all battery-powered, right? We don't do the deep strikes, right? And then in terms of autonomy-Noah [00:17:12]: You can catch a Shahed with a battery-powered thing. It's not Fast to catch.Yaroslav [00:17:17]: No, absolutely. Look, Shahed interceptor, like ours, it's called Zero, it goes up to 326 kilometers per hour.Noah [00:17:26]: For reference, how fast is a Shahed?Yaroslav [00:17:28]: Eight, like, in internal phase it could be 280, but in cruise phase it's, like, 220-ish.Yaroslav [00:17:36]: Yeah. And sorry, I'm not like you can convert that into miles if you're interested.Noah [00:17:41]: No, that's fine.Noah [00:17:41]: Multiply by two thirds or point six or something.Yaroslav [00:17:44]: That's easy. Yeah, I was saying that for autonomy modules, right, we, -We make systems, autonomous systems for frontline, for interceptors and some for deep strikes as well, and then different levels of autonomy. So from terminal guidance, which is like lasts 500 meters, give or take, to autonomous bombing, to autonomous target detection, to autonomous navigation and all of that across day and night, different terrains, different time of the year, different platforms like quadcopters and fixed wing, and maybe some other platforms. So it's quite a wide variety of products. We also have like our own simulation. We have our own training school for the war fighters. And we're about to start construction of two, semiconductor plants to make, sensors for thermal cameras. So that's super exciting for me as a computer science guy is Doing semiconductors. Super cool.Noah [00:18:49]: Like in terms of kind of core drone technologies, you basically are one is an FPV replacement without fiber optics, and the other isYaroslav [00:18:59]: YouNoah [00:18:59]: Signal tracking with interceptorsYaroslav [00:19:00]: With or without fiber optics. Fiber optics Is just like, sort of a communication module.Yaroslav [00:19:05]: You can, you can use classical analog, video link and radio link. Those would be two separate radios. You can do digital, or you can do fiber optic, and then fiber optic Has its own advantages but also adds weight and decreases, the distance and decreases, how fast you can, sort of turn and With a drone. Yeah.Noah [00:19:33]: Do you need AI for fiber optic drones?Yaroslav [00:19:36]: Like you can use AI for fiber optic drones. AI replaces a human, right? Fiber optic is making your communication link more resilient. So those are slightly different goals. Like if you want, you can have, AI controlling hundreds of fiber optic drones instead of having 100 operators for each.Fiber Optics, Radio Horizons, and Terminal GuidanceNoah [00:20:03]: I guess I thought that the key reason that people moved to fiber optic drones was for like electronic, countermeasures. Or I guess to counter those.Yaroslav [00:20:13]: I think that's a correct assessment from sort of a public awareness standpoint. In practice it's somewhat more difficult Because besides electronic countermeasures, you have these issues of a radio horizon For FPV drones, which means that asYaroslav [00:20:36]: I believe Earth is round Some people disagree. But basically if you fly a drone and you have a land station over here and a drone flying over hereYaroslav [00:20:49]: If your drone is flying high, you have good direct radio visibility. If your drone goes low, and usually, Russian infantry and vehicles, they're on the ground and you want to hit them, you need to go low. Lower you go, maybe you'll get behind a hill or behind a forest, and if you're far enough, you'll just get behind the curvature of the earth. You get into what's called a radio shadow. And then That is a real bummer because for the last, be it 60 or 20 meters, you won't be able to see anything and it will be very difficult to hit the target. So to counter that what-- And then the distances that these FPV drones, act on they're, they can be quite large. So for example, here in the US there was this drone dominance program competition, and in drone dominance the furthest distance was about 10 kilometers.Noah [00:21:44]: What was drone dominance? What was that competition?Yaroslav [00:21:47]: Drone, the drone dominance is a is a program started, by the US government, to accelerate the development of drone technology here in the US.Noah [00:21:57]: Got it. And the longest range thing they were using was 10 kilometers.Yaroslav [00:22:00]: Was 10 kilometers, right. In Ukraine, like if your drone doesn't fly at least 20, 25, it just, no one's interested in it, and the usual hits are happening. It was like, okay, many hits are happening between 30 and 40 kilometers, and that's what expected from a regular 10-inch, FPV drone. So at that distance, even at altitudes of like 60 to 100 meters, you might start losing, the link. So some of the earlier AI technology that was fielded in FPV drone was this terminal guidance technology. That was the first product that we ever, launched that helped you as an operator, once you see the target from two, three, 500 meters, you lock onto the target and then, it just, drives the drone towards the target no matter what, even after you lost the visual connection. So optic fiber solves that. However, if you want to go like 20 kilometers with optic fiber, that will add an extra three kilos, of useful weight to your drone. SoNoah [00:23:12]: ‘Cause the cable that you have to unspool as you go weighs.Noah [00:23:15]: It is heavy.Yaroslav [00:23:15]: At first, like the spool is about 800 grams, so a bit less than a kilo, and then, and then think about 10, 10 kilometer optic fiber is another kilo, something like that. That takes away from your useful mass and then now you have like, you need a 15-inch drone and it can only carry maybe one or two kilos of explosives if you want to go, 20 kilometers. If you want to go to 30 or 40, like 30 is probably max. 40 is like very problem problematic on optic fiber. And then the problem with optic fiber is it's actually getting super expensive. So and why? Because of all the data centers for AI. That's literally the same optic fiber-Noah [00:24:01]: We're running out of centersYaroslav [00:24:02]: That's being used there.Yaroslav [00:24:02]: Like when Ukrainians and Russians come to Chinese factories to buy the optic fiber, they're like, “We're out. We sold it out to the Americans.”? That's the craziest thing. So optic fiber went up in price from like, $4 per, kilometer to like, $32 per kilometer in a few months in the beginning of this year. And I'veBrandon [00:24:26]: Claude Code is stopping the Russian drone effort here.Yaroslav [00:24:30]: Ukrainian as well. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:31]: Ukrainian. But I read somewhere that the Russians had grown more dependent on fiber optic drones relative to the Ukrainians, and that's one reason why the Ukrainians have sort of regained the initiative in drones recently.Brandon [00:24:42]: How accurate's that?Yaroslav [00:24:43]: The Russians were the first ones to scale that. I think by as of now, Ukraine has caught up. I think, like, as of maybe three months ago, Ukraine is mostly caught up on fiber optic. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:57]: What percent of damage would you say is in terms of FPV drone damage would you say is now fiber optic versus, like autonomous?FPVs as the New God of War: Tanks, Artillery, and Cost per KillYaroslav [00:25:07]: For our, for our audience, I actually, I cannot answer that question. Like, it's like I know the answer, but I would not disclose that. But for our audience, I think another interesting fact is out of all the casualties on the front line Between 70 and 80% are done by FPV drones.Brandon [00:25:30]: FPV drones are the new weapon of universal weapon of warfare.Yaroslav [00:25:34]: It'sBrandon [00:25:35]: Land warfare, anywayYaroslav [00:25:35]: They used to say that artillery is a god of war because artillery used to cause, like 80% of casualties, and now On that ranking-Brandon [00:25:46]: FPVYaroslav [00:25:47]: FPV drones rule.Brandon [00:25:48]: FPV drones are the god of war.Yaroslav [00:25:51]: Sort of. Dethroned artillery. But it's not to say that artillery is not useful, is not needed. Like, all of these systems are needed. Maybe except cavalry, although Russians still use it. I know, have you seen the videos of Russians using mules and horses?Brandon [00:26:09]: What is the usefulness-Yaroslav [00:26:10]: It'Brandon [00:26:10]: Of a tank in the in the modern-Yaroslav [00:26:11]: That's where we need Greenpeace to say a word, but they're silent. Yeah.Brandon [00:26:15]: What's the use of a tank on the modern battlefield?Yaroslav [00:26:21]: It's diminishing.Brandon [00:26:22]: Diminishing.Yaroslav [00:26:22]: However, I think there might be technologies which will, revive the tank. Look, tank still provides you armor, and armor is important. Like, you still need to armor and firepower, right? Like, you can be an armor personal carrier that provides you, armor. The challenge that currently exists is armor is not very well protected against incoming drones. However, there are ways to do to protect it. We were previously talking about this before the podcast. The CEO of Rheinmetall, recently sort of ridiculed, Ukrainian drone industry, saying that like, there is nothing interesting there, no real innovation, no to stand Compared to like, Rheinmetall or Boeing, and it's all made by housewives. There was like, obviously a ton of memes about this people ridiculing the CEO of Rheinmetall. And one of the best quotes, I heard on this topic is from my friend, Alexey Babenko, who's, the head of and founder of VIARI Drone, which is one of the largest manufacturers of FPV drones. They're our partner. They're using our autonomy. So he said that the drones we manufacture in one day will be more than enough to destroy all the tanks Rheinmetall manufactures in a year.Yaroslav [00:27:52]: Then, yeah, cost-wise, of course, a drone is like, $500 and a Rheinmetall tank is what, probably 5 million-ish or maybe more.Brandon [00:28:00]: Don't mess with those housewives.Yaroslav [00:28:03]: Drone wives.Brandon [00:28:04]: Drone wives.Yaroslav [00:28:06]: That's it.Noah [00:28:06]: There's a classic saying that everyone always fights the last war.Noah [00:28:12]: Yet do How did So from your standpoint, how did we get to the point where tanks became irrelevant in at least for now In a matter of just a few years?Yaroslav [00:28:24]: Look, I think it's the same way, how do we get to the point that calculators become irrelevant?Yaroslav [00:28:31]: Now we have iPhones. Like, why would you need a calculator? Technology progresses and its influence grows non-linearly. It's all exponential. So I can tell you that full autonomy, when you put it on a drone Look, so if you, if you think about a tank and a like, it's not a direct comparison, but even, like, a drone and a artillery shell or like, sort of cost per kill, an artillery shell for 155 caliber, which is a standard NATO caliber Currently market price is about $4,000 per piece. So compare that to say, $400 per drone. That's 10 times more expensive. Account for the amortization of the artillery gun and for how vulnerable it is and what is the sort of tactical, capabilities it gives you as compared to a drone. You'll figure out that an FPV drone is maybe three orders of magnitude, more versatile, more useful, more capable than artillery and many of than a classic artillery. Many of Because there are different types of artillery. Not just, like, one 155. You have mortars, you have all that. But give or take, roughly three orders of magnitude maybe. Again, it doesn't have that firepower. It's not one-to-one comparison still.Yaroslav [00:29:53]: Now, take that FPV drone. When you put full autonomy on that FPV drone, which can be not very expensive, like systems that we're, producing are like, in hundreds of dollars of pure bombFull Autonomy: From Human Pilots to Smartphone-Directed Drone MissionsNoah [00:30:06]: Just interrupt. You said full autonomy Just a second ago you were saying that the autonomy here is guidance, right? It's not decision-making.Yaroslav [00:30:14]: No, I was I was saying that's the f-First and sort of easiest pieces of autonomy that was fielded by us. But if you, if you add full autonomy to a droneBrandon [00:30:24]: He, I think he's asking what does it can you, for the listeners, can you explain What the term full autonomy means?Yaroslav [00:30:29]: Basically, I think a good way to think about an FPV drone is like an iPhone of warfare. It's, like, very inexpensive, very mass producible, very versatile. You don't need a bunch of other things when you have a iPhone in your pocket. You don't have, need an MP3 player, you don't need a calculator, don't need other things. All right? So FPV drone is an iPhone. Or like, okay, Apple please don't sue me, is a smartphone. And then, when you add autonomy to it sort of becomes like Uber or ride sharing. Okay? So what it means is instead of actually being a trained pilot who has this complex remote controller device which requires a couple months of training to actually pilot the drone, and then having to pilot it for 30 minutes, flying towards the target, et cetera, et cetera, now you basically, you have your smartphone, you have a drone, you pick your smartphone, you say, “We are here. The bad guys are here. Go and get them.” And the drone goes up, flies in a given direction, localizes itself on the map, finds the dedicated area where they, the bad guys are supposed to be sees the bad guys, bombs them, return, like, watches, so does a damage assessment, returns back, sits down, and then you can pick it up and watch the video if you didn't have the radio link, right?Noah [00:31:59]: That's a bomber drone.Yaroslav [00:32:00]: That's full autonomy for a bomber drone, right?Noah [00:32:03]: You're saying that no human decision is made in this entire process?Brandon [00:32:06]: That's not, that's not what he's saying.Yaroslav [00:32:07]: A human decision was made at the beginning of the process-Noah [00:32:09]: I get it. I get itYaroslav [00:32:09]: The same way as you would fire an artillery.Yaroslav [00:32:12]: When you fire an artillery, you don't stop at like, 500 meters away from a target and ask it whether, you want to strike or not. That's exactly, a human decision is always made at some point. So when you do that's full autonomy, and such full autonomy is happening as we speak. And such full autonomy increases the capabilities of an FPV drone, which is already, like, three orders more powerful than an artillery shell. Full autonomy increases its capabilities by four orders of magnitude because now you can have 100 times as many people who can use it, because you don't need to train those people, and this is important. You can have 10 times, mission success rate, and you can have 10 times utility per drone because now instead of being one-way kamikaze, it's, it can be a bomber.Brandon [00:33:05]: Now wait, let's, you said 10 times mission success rate, which means that fully autonomous bomber drones succeed in their missions 10 times more often than human piloted bomber drones do. That's an important thing to know.Noah [00:33:17]: Maybe, to push back onBrandon [00:33:19]: They're super, they're superhuman. They're, they' 10X superhuman.Yaroslav [00:33:22]: They're not vulnerable to electronic warfare. They don't care about the radio horizon. They don't lose track during navigation. They are not susceptible to human error when, an artillery shell or other drone blows up besides you and you're like, “Hell no,”like, “I'm getting out of here.” Right? That doesn't happen to an autonomous drone. Like, all of those things. Like, we have, like, one of the brigades that's using our drones with just first level autonomy They literally said that their success rates-Brandon [00:33:53]: What's first level autonomy?Yaroslav [00:33:54]: First level autonomy is just the terminal guidance.Yaroslav [00:33:57]: By the way, we have video of that. We can watch that.Brandon [00:33:59]: Terminal guidance means a human gets it nearby and then the AI takes over.Yaroslav [00:34:03]: The human flies it all the way, like 30 kilometers towards the target, and obviously the target was probably given to that human by someone who's flying some ISR drone, some reconnaissance drone, right? So all the way to the target, and once you see the target from a distance of 500 meters, you do target lock, and from there drone flies autonomous. So just that feature alone, it has increased the guy's, his call sign is Grom, so it has increased his, mission success rate, like precision of mission, yeah, mission success rate from 20% to 71%, and it also increased his kill zone from three kilometers to 10 kilometers, which means there's certain area around the front line which is designated kill zone. Whenever enemy goes into that area, it's almost guaranteed to be to be destroyed by a drone. And then obviously the drones are not launched from like, the zero line. They're usually launched from like, minus 10 kilometer-Mission Success, Failure Modes, and the Five Levels of AutonomyBrandon [00:35:03]: What is a zero line?Yaroslav [00:35:05]: Zero line is sort of an imaginary line of control, of two conflicting forces.Brandon [00:35:14]: It's important to explain these things to a lot of the listeners who areYaroslav [00:35:17]: Thank you for askingBrandon [00:35:18]: Familiar with warfare.Noah [00:35:20]: Myself.Noah [00:35:20]: I'm one of those listeners.Brandon [00:35:20]: You said that level one autonomy, in other words just terminal guidance, just, like, human gets it to the finish line and then it goes over the finish line, increases mission success from 20 something percent to 71%, or something like that.Yaroslav [00:35:33]: Increases the kill zoneBrandon [00:35:34]: Increases the kill zoneYaroslav [00:35:34]: Three kilometers to 10 kilometers.Brandon [00:35:36]: Got it.Yaroslav [00:35:36]: On both parameters-Brandon [00:35:37]: What is full autonomy, dude? AndNoah [00:35:38]: Actually on real quick, can we define mission success and like, maybe in a way, what are the failure modes of missions?Brandon [00:35:44]: I have a guess what mission success is.Noah [00:35:46]: But I couldBrandon [00:35:47]: Get ‘em.Yaroslav [00:35:49]: No, but that's a very good question, in fact, because, even if you fly into the target, well, first the target can be damaged or destroyed. Those are two different modes. Then there can be different targets. A sole infantryman is one kind of target. A dugout where supposed there are some, enemies there is another kind of target, and a some mechanical equipment is another type of target. Radio emitting equipment, which, like, often, like, the targets that the military want to get more than anything else is the some enemy radio tower or something like that or some small radio dish that really makes life difficult in that area, in that combat area. So those are different targets, right? It can be destroyed, can be damaged.Then sometimes, the drone hits but doesn't explode. Like, that happens. And then, there are other failure modes. You didn't even reach the target because you were A jammed by electronic warfare; B, you lost the control over drone because of the radio horizon; C, you were jammed by a different type of electronic warfare that happens way before You hit the target area. It's, impacting your, video receiver. So like jamming on video or jamming on control are two different types of jamming. Then something malfunctioned on a drone, just a mechanical malfunction, maybe like a motor broke or like, whatever. So all of those are different failure modes. Yeah, or maybe you got lost, you're navigate navigating to your, to your target. That happens, too.Noah [00:37:41]: The Level one autonomy, basically you manage to point in a direction.Noah [00:37:49]: You go there, and then the last mile The drone taking over.Yaroslav [00:37:52]: We define this like, I define that but it sort of got picked up by the industry. We define five levels of autonomy. So level one is terminal guidance. It's what we just discussed. Level two is bombing. Level three is autonomous target detection and engagement decision. Level four is autonomous navigation. And level five is autonomous takeoff and landing.Noah [00:38:15]: Those are good things to knowYaroslav [00:38:16]: Those are five levels of autonomy. Now, if youNoah [00:38:19]: I have a question for you.Yaroslav [00:38:19]: Sorry. Like, let me finish withNoah [00:38:21]: SorryYaroslav [00:38:21]: Theoretical part.Noah [00:38:23]: What is Tesla running at right now?Yaroslav [00:38:25]: Tesla?Noah [00:38:25]: No, sorry.Yaroslav [00:38:26]: That's very good point. Like, it's exactly, it was inspired by the levels of self-driving autonomy.Noah [00:38:32]: Waymo's level five, right?Noah [00:38:35]: You just tell it where you want to go, it picks you up, and then you go there.Yaroslav [00:38:36]: I think, like, if you, if you look at the classic definitions of self-driving cars, Waymo is still, like, level four because it still requires even remote, but still, like, human control. It's like if Waymo gets in trouble, there is an operator who takes over and resolves this. So that would still be a level four. It doesn't map directly, but it's also five levels.Brandon [00:38:58]: Can I, can I interject a question here? In terms of an FPV drone that's like a suicide drone that'll just blow itself up killing something, how do what it hit? Like, does it, just transmit back, or do you sort of like, lose track of it and hope it hit? Like, what happens to that?Yaroslav [00:39:16]: That's a great question. SoBrandon [00:39:18]: You need another droneYaroslav [00:39:19]: Like, the current battlefield in Ukraine is saturated with different types of drones. So obviously you have all the FPV drones and last year alone, Ukraine manufactured about 4 million of these, and then Russia's maybe, like, 20% less than that. And for this year, the publicly voiced target was 7 million on Ukrainian side. So it's, like, serious numbers. We're getting in serious numbers here. And then besides those, there are different, reconnaissance drones, ISR as we call them, and there are sort of tactical level ISR where we, both Ukrainians and Russians usually use, Mavic, drone by DJI. And then there are a bunch of locally produced drones, which are sort of fixed wing drones that can stay in the air for much longer than Mavic, maybe, like, half an hour. And then, there are drones that can stay for many hours or even up to a day. And those drones have, are more expensive, have more expensive cameras, et cetera, et cetera. We hunt those drones that Russians launch. The Russians hunt our drones, and so on. But ideally, when you, are a group of soldiers operating an FPV, you'll have someone in your, company, or someone in your platoon who has an ISR asset that will do target designation for you. They'll say, “Oh, like, there's a Russian vehicle over there. Go and get him.”and you go there, you get it, and they're like, “Okay, confirmed.”Battlefield Surveillance and the Eight Dimensions of AutonomyBrandon [00:40:57]: Those guys are watching. They have their own drones in the sky.Yaroslav [00:40:59]: Target destroyed. They have, like, a carousel of drones because One Mavic cannot stay more than 30 minutes. ItBrandon [00:41:06]: They're constantly surveilling the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:07]: Almost every spot on the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:11]: It's not always the case. Sometimes you will not have a surveillance asset, so then you would launch another FPV just to confirm that there was a hit. Then if you see there was a hit and you're not sure if it completely destroyed, you maybe hit again for good measure.Brandon [00:41:26]: You double tap.Yaroslav [00:41:28]: That's how it works. But I was about to give you another sort of piece of taxonomy. So you have five levels of autonomy, right? Then you have sort of eight dimensions of autonomous battlefield. So what is eight dimensions? It's crucial to understand how autonomy evolves in a modern, battlefield environment. So dimension number one is level of autonomy. What are the capabilities that your asset has? Dimension number two is the platform you're operating on. So it can be a quadcopter, a fixed wing drone, different types of maybe, like, a long range drone or short range drone, but it can also be a missile. You can have autonomy even on an artillery shell or a ground vehicle or a sea vehicle. So all of those are different platforms. Level three would be domain. So it's ground to ground or ground to air as an intersection, or ground to sea or sea to air. They're all, like, all the nuances with different domains. Then level four, would be higher levels of autonomy, such as swarming, drone carriers, drone nests, et cetera.Brandon [00:42:39]: Now when you're saying level, you're talking about dimensions, not about-Yaroslav [00:42:42]: Sorry. YeahBrandon [00:42:43]: Autonomy levels. So dimension four.Yaroslav [00:42:43]: The dimension. Yeah, I used to say I was supposed to say dimension. I say dimension because each of them works with another, right? So you might have, like third level autonomy, fixed wing drone operating in land to air, and stuff like that right? And then operating in a swarm or operating from a nest. Right? Then you have, sort of dimension number five is environment. So is it day or night? Is it summer or winter? Is it, humid, cold, dry? What kind of target is it? Is your target hiding in a forest, or is it, behind a hill or within buildings? So all of that is environment. Then you have, dimension number six is command and control. How are you dealing with or like, tens of thousands of those assets around the battlefield? How are you coordinating that on the higher levels of command? How are you collecting data? All that.Yaroslav [00:43:44]: Dimension number seven would be infrastructure, so things like simulation, data collection tools, security, deployment mechanisms, et cetera. So all those systems have to be developed separately and integrate with all the others. And finally, dimension number eight is sort of distribution. Have you deployed 100 of these systems or 100,000 of these systems? Because those are two very different ballgames. So that now gives you a more broad overview of how autonomy propagates across the battle space.Targeting, Human Responsibility, and Rules of EngagementNoah [00:44:23]: As someone who has done machine learning and had gone out of distribution and had things, go horribly wrong, you were talking several of these, kind of axes of thinking about drone warfare seem like they could be very susceptible to some sort of distribution shift if you start making things autonomous.Yaroslav [00:44:41]: Like what?Noah [00:44:41]: I mean Well, first ofYaroslav [00:44:43]: If the I'm very interested Sort of sort of kinds of scenarios that you're thinking about.Noah [00:44:48]: Like the most obvious one is you, if I assume these are computer vision guided systems for at least the last mile, how do you ensure that oh, well, like you now have some fog roll in or something, and you, the drones just attack the wrong thing? Or maybe, it probably will not turn around and fly back and attack you, but youYaroslav [00:45:10]: Same, the same, the same question, how do you ensure that your mortar fire hits the right thing? Well, it's like mortar fire, give or take half a kilometer could be plus or minus. So maybe you fire one, and then you fire another. So drones are actually, much better in being precise in those scenarios. And I think, to your point, I think five to 10 years from now it will be immoral to use weapons without AI.Yaroslav [00:45:44]: ‘Cause weapons without AI will be more likely to cause, collateral damage or unwanted damage. Same way, it will be immoral to drive your own car manually on a public road because it's more likely to cause, unwanted damage.Noah [00:46:02]: Wow, I never considered that mightBrandon [00:46:04]: Really? That's definitely coming.Yaroslav [00:46:07]: Anyway.Brandon [00:46:07]: No, but that' I don't know, it's an obvious, an obvious thought. I agree with you.Brandon [00:46:12]: I, No, they, obviously they're not going to let you drive once most of the cars on the road are autonomous.Noah [00:46:17]: No, that one, don't I believe.Yaroslav [00:46:19]: No, I think you were you were talking about drones, right?Brandon [00:46:21]: The drones, right. Cool.Yaroslav [00:46:22]: The weapons, right?Brandon [00:46:23]: Friendly fire and collateral damage and stuff like that is all minimized with AI.Brandon [00:46:27]: Here's my question. Take all let's go to level six autonomy. Let's take all of the target selection. Let's take all the battlefield data, integrate it into one big AI, and have that big AI basically be in command of the battlefield And agentically do target selection.Yaroslav [00:46:44]: Be the general, right?Brandon [00:46:44]: It's a general. It's, you've cut humans out of the loop except maybe as dexterous robots, repairing drones and fastening things to drones or maybe something like that because you don't have those robots yet. How soon are we there? AI general.Yaroslav [00:46:58]: The most important thing to ask ourselves is who will be faster to that us or our adversaries?Brandon [00:47:07]: I assume us, but how fast will we be to that? I hope us.Yaroslav [00:47:11]: I hope so too.Brandon [00:47:12]: How fast can we Like when are we looking at that in terms of like horizons years?Yaroslav [00:47:18]: Like technically, it could be done now. The question is of course, there's, some engineering work to be done. The bigger challenge is deployment. Right? So okay, technically Like operation in Iran, right? They, the publicly, it was claimed that I think Palantir system was used for target designation, et cetera, et cetera. So it is not exactly as you say, the AI makes all the decisions, but basically AI goes through all the data you have, gives you these 1,027 different targets and says, “You-- To confirm, please press Okay.” And you look at the targets and you're like, “Yeah, sounds right. Press Okay.”so that's, I think that's where we are now already, or we were a couple weeks ago as we're recording this on April 10th. Another question is how massively deployable it is. Is it, like, every decision being made like that or is it, like, just some of the decisions made like that? And then different levels of command and control. There you have, like, the platoon, the company level, the battalion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the tricky thing here when we get into that territory, the tricky thing is If your enemy is getting advantage of being Thousand times faster than yourself by deploying such systems What do you do?Yaroslav [00:49:10]: You got to-Brandon [00:49:12]: The if the enemy is a thousand times faster than you at deploying those systems?Yaroslav [00:49:16]: Like, if enemy starts deploying level six autonomy, as you call And you have not started doingBrandon [00:49:22]: You're in troubleYaroslav [00:49:23]: Yes, exactly. So you have to catch up. So my point is that it is very important to think about the safety of these systems, but that thinking should not slow you down in developing them because they are critical for your existential, survival, right? And like, one person who doesn't think, doesn't get to think about the ethics of the war is a dead person. That person surely doesn't get to think about that.Brandon [00:49:52]: What would be the safety risk of such a system?Yaroslav [00:49:55]: Of course-Brandon [00:49:56]: Friendly fire?Yaroslav [00:49:56]: Just wrong decisions, right?Brandon [00:49:59]: I see.Yaroslav [00:49:59]: Maybe, these decisions-AI Command Decisions, Dead Zones, and Complex BattlefieldsBrandon [00:50:06]: Skynet AI decides it's going to useYaroslav [00:50:08]: No, these-Brandon [00:50:08]: Drone army to kill usYaroslav [00:50:09]: Decisions will not only be made about drones. They are likely to made about what the humans should do on your side as well. Then obviously some environments are more like Ukrainian-Russian war, where you haveBrandon [00:50:26]: It will have to choose to risk lives. It will have to choose to sacrifice human lives-Yaroslav [00:50:28]: Of courseBrandon [00:50:29]: On your side.Yaroslav [00:50:29]: Of course. And then some environments are just, like, dead, like, dead zones and there are no civilians there, or virtually no civilians close to the front line because, like, super dangerous. Everyone has evacuated from there. But there are other environments which are more like, okay, there's a counterterrorist operation. There's, like, a group of terrorists or a group of civilians. Or like, it's like the recent operations in Iran, I imagine that the US and Israeli forces do not want to harm civilians. They only targeted the military targets there, right? So in those situations, it's a different level of responsibility for that decision-making as well. And then there is just such a big variety of those military missions, and I'm not even, like, well-informed or well-educated in military science to tell you about all those scenarios. We would need to put some general besides me, and maybe a Ukraine general and American general would have told you very different stories about these things.Brandon [00:51:34]: Got it. Can I ask a few more questions? All right. So in 2013, I wrote one of my first, paid articles ever was about how the era of drones will change human society. I was just sitting around bored thinking about things.Yaroslav [00:51:54]: You were way ahead of your time.Brandon [00:51:55]: I said, I said, “The following will happen.”Yaroslav [00:51:57]: It's, this article is real. I've read it.Yaroslav [00:51:58]: It's actually-Brandon [00:51:59]: I said small autonomous, suicide drones, will cleanse the battlefield of human infantry. Human infantry will not be able to stand against swarms of AI-powered, suicide drones. That was I didn't even know about, like, AlexNet at the time, I think.Yaroslav [00:52:19]: You're just an avid sci-fi reader.Brandon [00:52:23]: I'm an avid sci-fi reader, but also, like, it's not Like, there will be a way to do that. It's a it's a nonlinear multidimensional search problem, and you get enough compute, you'll find some search algorithm that will get you there. And soBrandon [00:52:38]: I, yeah, I think that one sentence describes the bitter lesson right there.Brandon [00:52:41]: It's just like it's a multidimensional search space. You search it somehow. I don't know. Figure out some get a grad student-Yaroslav [00:52:47]: Sooner or laterBrandon [00:52:47]: To make a search algorithm.Brandon [00:52:48]: It's not that hard. Anyway, so but then, but I guess the point is The point is that human infantry on the battlefield will be will be gone at the end. I wrote that in 2013. Many people on social media laughed at me for that called me hysterical, said things like, “Electronic warfare will knock all the drones out of the sky.”like, “You need humans to hold ground.”that's something you still hear from a lot of people on social media today. I feel that this article that I've written has never been directionally wrong. It has gotten more and more right steadily over time, and that we're very reading the battlefield reports from Ukraine, where, human infantry are basically guy, like a few guys hiding in dugouts for months, and I'm not sure what they're doing.Yaroslav [00:53:35]: That's on Ukraine's side. On the Russian side, that's just like a zerg rush.Brandon [00:53:38]: The zerg rush, and then they just die. Then, but they have some guys in dugouts too, right? Like hiding in dugouts for months.Yaroslav [00:53:45]: They have. Yeah.Brandon [00:53:45]: Like, but that like, what are those guys doing in the dugouts? Are providing, like, frontline, like, reconnaissance? Like, what are they doing?Yaroslav [00:53:54]: If there is a guy in a dugout with some bullets and automatic weapon, the other guy cannot come and take the that dugout. That'Brandon [00:54:07]: I seeYaroslav [00:54:08]: They are they're establishing control over territory.Brandon [00:54:10]: I see. So that is so there still is a use for human infantry on the battlefield as of today.Yaroslav [00:54:15]: LikeBrandon [00:54:15]: How long will that last?Yaroslav [00:54:17]: I think it will last for a while. This is funny. There's this whole Layer of the modern culture, a modern Ukraine culture built around the war-related stuff. So there is this -Punk rock band, that is called SZC, I guess in English that would be. Which stands short for like a deserter or something like that. So anyhow, this band has a song titled “2030.” It's basically about the year 2030, and the war still goes on as like the whatever, third world war or whatever. And they basically, they, sang about the AI and like cyborgs and everything, but the simple infantry is still needed, and we're still, like, getting cold in those dugouts, and we're still doing our job. That's sort of the theme of the song. And it seems like that's actually what's going to happen. There areGround Robots, Simulation, and the Limits of World ModelsBrandon [00:55:30]: Ground robots will not replace humans in the dugouts soon.Yaroslav [00:55:34]: I'm very much interested in following the whole humanoid robot theme andBrandon [00:55:39]: What about like a dog robot?Noah [00:55:41]: Or just mobile controlled platforms or something.Brandon [00:55:44]: Spider robot, yeah.Brandon [00:55:45]: Everything evolves into a crab.Brandon [00:55:46]: You build a crab robot.Yaroslav [00:55:47]: A humanoid-Noah [00:55:48]: The carcinization of warfare.Yaroslav [00:55:51]: There is a lot of utility in humanoid robots because the world is designed around humanoids. So I would not, like, 100% disqualify the possibility that sometimes 10 years in the future, humanoid robots, will be actually fighting. So that's an actual Terminator kind of scenario.Brandon [00:56:14]: Yeah, in the first Terminator movie, you look at what they've got on the battlefield, they've got flying bomber drones and humanoid robots.Yaroslav [00:56:20]: Look, the cost of large language models of running them is getting so low, you can have basically an inexpensive computer running, what was a state-of-the-art model a year and a half ago, running it locally on a device with an open source model, which also means that the Chinese can have it, the Russians can have it, the North Koreans can have it, et cetera. So that is already possible. And with when we're looking at the acceleration of the neural nets, I would've, if not the acceleration of the large language models, I would've said that I don't think that humanoid robots will be able to be useful in the battlefield earlier than in 10 years. But if you account for the exponential, it might be five years or so. The problem with all of the autonomous systems, and it's like starts with self-driving cars and even with all the AI, like modern day AI agents, to make them really, useful, you have to solve such a long tail of edge cases, that it's really difficult to make them useful. Like we were promised, self-driving cars, what, like 2007, Sebastian Thrun and Google, and even before that all the challenges, everything. And Elon of course told us it's going to be one year from 2014, and now we still don't have self-driving Teslas everywhere. We have Waymos in SF and some other places, but they're still, like, not perfect. So I think, I expect something similar from self-flying drones and fully autonomous drones, and we saw that firsthand as with each level of autonomy that we're adding, there is a very wide distance between a prototype and something that is ready to be scaled to millions of units and something that has been scaled to millions of units. But the race with like AI coding tools is just insane. So things might accelerate very fast, faster than we can imagine.Noah [00:58:46]: I think your point is that with due to this long tail behavior Level one autonomy as you've defined it, is actually very natural. Like you basically are just solving an image recognition and tracking system.Yaroslav [00:59:02]: It's actually interesting that you say it that way, and I thought about this the very same way, and we have this joke that there are like 200 companies in Ukraine which are trying to solve last mile, targeting or terminal guidance. It seems like we're like the only company that actually solved that because even that problem-Noah [00:59:22]: I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's at least something that you imagine given our current state.Yaroslav [00:59:26]: Like us and Eric Schmidt, like Eric Schmidt's companies are pretty good.Yaroslav [00:59:29]: Like, I actually have lots of respect to what they're doing, and they're, they have been practically influential and helpful on the battlefield, and they have good engineering.Noah [00:59:38]: I wasn't, I wasn't saying it's trivial. I'm just saying this is a something naturally adaptive based upon things that we know work, well. But some of the other domains that where you do have to make decisions and you have a long tail become much harder, and you worry about edge cases more.Yaroslav [00:59:57]: Like the more, the more complex behavior you're trying to simulate, the more edge cases there are right? The more ways to do it wrong there are. And then there are different approaches. It's like if you think about, if you read academic papers about robotics, right? You sort of the robot is represented as something that has the sort of sensor input, and then you have three, levels of sort of logics or decision-making, which are perception, planning, and control, and then you have actuators as output.So pre-neural nets, you would do perception output and control all with classic logics, right? Then, with AlexNet and computer vision, you could do perception with neural nets and the rest with logic. You cannot currently do each of those separately with neural nets, each of those separately with logics, or you can just have one huge neural net that just takes lots of sensory data. It's not just pixels. Could be sound, could be accelerometer, could be everything, as input, and just outputs the controls. And some of the self-driving car companies are doing that or like, experimenting between different ways of doing that. So you can also, like, think about that and the way you implement those features, also influences how much degrees of freedom the system would have, right? Like control, you can do it classical algorithmic control with common filters and PAD filter, PAD controllers, et cetera, or you can do a neural net, that was trained in a gym with a reinforcement learning, et cetera. And those would be two different behaviors of a system.Noah [01:01:53]: I-- Maybe my point was just much more high level. It'Yaroslav [01:01:56]: Or you can If you go even like, if you go high level, you can, you can like train to like have whatever, like Feifei Li and folks who are doing like physical, sortBrandon [01:02:08]: World modelsYaroslav [01:02:08]: World models, right, physical intelligence, they're trying to make these big models and sort of understand the world and then supposedly you have such model and you can tell a drone, “Okay, like, go over that hill and like, find the bad guys and then get them,”or “Make me a video, make me a photo of the guy smiling and get back to me.” Right? That's one way. Another way you have like these subsystems, like one is navigation, another is finding the person, another is like getting to them to take a photo. And those are again, very different behaviors. And then it's not that one is necessarily better than the other, and we might have more technological ability to do one or another. But all of those systems will exist. And then again, you should always keep in mind that it's only the not only the good guys that are developing these systems, the bad guys are developing these systems as well.China's Drone Supply Chain and the West's Manufacturing GapNoah [01:03:00]: I guess where I'm going with this back to Noah's original thought with the end of the end of the soldier. And so in order to replace-Brandon [01:03:10]: Or at least the end of the rifleman.Noah [01:03:11]: Or the end of the rifleman, yeah.Yaroslav [01:03:13]: I'm not seeing that very close, and it was like I'm, as much as I'm a lover of sci-fi and all of that and a technologist, the more I try to beYaroslav [01:03:27]: Like the I try to have certain humility about these things, and like the military, domain and there was just so much human history and blood and tears, dedicated to sort of understanding this art of war and perfecting it and so on. There is so much knowledge in there that I don't feel like I even started to comprehend, a lot of that. But one thing that I really understood is that even though drones are now making eighty percent of the casualties, you go to the actual officers, you talk to the actual, like, brigade commanders, corps commanders, and they explain to you, how all of it fits together, how when you're thinking about an operation that involves a couple thousand people to get this piece of land, out of the enemy's hands, deoccu deoccupy it, how it is so complex, it involves, dozens of different types of drones and then land operations and reconnaissance operations, psychological operations and then aviations and tanks and logistics and all kinds of these different assets. So modern warfare is really very complex, and the fact that the drones are the latest, coolest thing, and then the AI is latest, coolest thing, doesn't mean that now it's that and only that right? So yeah. Whoever's looking into that I think should realize that it's not just what the press talks about, that the reality is much more difficult, much more complex.Brandon [01:05:17]: Let's talk about China and China's manufacturing capabilities. So suppose that someone, like suppose the United States went to war with China. AndYaroslav [01:05:26]: I hope not.Brandon [01:05:27]: I hope not as well. And then but suppose that drones were very essential to that war of all the types of drones that we're talking about here, and that suppose that China said, “All right, well, you need X and Y and Z, to make those drones to fight us, and we control the production of X and Y and Z, so we're just going to cut you right off, and now you have no drones.”Brandon [01:05:47]: I know that a number of countries, including Ukraine and Taiwan, have been making moves to China-proof their drone productions that China couldn't do that. Examples of things they might be able to cut off might include rare earths, fiber optic cable that you were talking about before, various other things that where even if they don't control one hundred percent of the production, they control enough of the production that would be extremely expensive to produce it without relying on Chinese sources. Or the market's fragmented enough, et cetera. What do you see as China's key bottlenecks, and how easy are those to overcome in terms of China-proofing drone production in case of a war against China?Yaroslav [01:06:30]: Let me start with a saying that -Although China does not sell directly to Ukraine and it does sell directly to Russia, a lot of Ukrainian supply chains, they start in China, right?Yaroslav [01:06:49]: We're not in a conflict with China, and we would not want to be in a conflict with China. And we'd hope that China stays a neutral power between Ukraine and Russia and the US as well. That said, the scenario that you're describing, everything is much worse.Yaroslav [01:07:11]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced four million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world.Yaroslav [01:07:19]: China can produce four billion of these FPV drones.Yaroslav [01:07:23]: China can make them not drones with propellers, but fixed-wing drones, which go not forty kilometers far, but maybe two to three hundred kilometers inland.

Diana Palotaș îl introduce pe Mihai Morar în culisele celui mai important eveniment al neuroștiinței, găzduit de România.Brain mapping, neurofeedback, longevitate. Termeni care au intrat deja în vocabularul uzual. Cel mai mare pariu pus de știință, într-o industrie mondială care antrenează trilioane de dolari și promite... cel mai de preț dar: prelungirea vieții în condiții optime! Pentru brainmapping și neurofeedback în România, fă primii pași la Neuros: www.neuros.ro Podcastul de azi ne prezintă cele mai noi descoperiri ale neuroștiinței. Iar ele sunt... incredibile.Intră pe www.brain-event.com si descoperă și tu o lume care bate filmele SF și află cum poți lua parte la cea mai mare conferință din domeniu; pe 20 iunie, la Sala Palatului, Diana Palotaș aduce cei mai mari specialiști în neuroștiință ai momentului! Rezervă-ți de acum biletul pentru viitor.La Fain & Simplu, cu Mihai Morar.

In this episode of the Living Well podcast, host Liv Hill and guest Tiffany Bingham explore the intricate connections between recovery, addiction, neuroscience, and mental health. They discuss the reasons behind repetitive health behaviors, the challenges of forming new habits, and the importance of understanding the relationship between nutrition and mental health. The conversation also delves into the concept of rest, self-care, and the role of willpower in maintaining healthy habits, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to well-being. In this conversation, Tiffini Bingham and Olivia Hill explore the intricate relationship between willpower, stress, nutrition, and addiction. They discuss how willpower is a finite resource that can be depleted by stress and decision-making fatigue. The conversation delves into the emotional roots of addiction, emphasizing that addiction is often a trauma response. They highlight the importance of replacing unhealthy habits with healthier ones and the necessity of addressing emotional issues to achieve lasting change. The discussion encourages listeners to seek help and develop supportive habits for a healthier lifestyle.

Enjoying the podcast? Tell us what you think below and give us a review or rating. As always we'd love to hear your suggestions and feedback. Send us an email: podcast@pensionbee.com. ADHA can affect how your brain handles things like planning, focus and organisation, which can make it particularly challenging to stay on top of your finances. Things like paying off debt, saving into a pension, paying a bill on time can feel really overwhelming.  In this episode we explore exactly why money and ADHD can clash, find out what can help, and take a look at how to build systems that could work for you.  Join our host, Philippa Lamb, and our expert panel as they break it all down. Dr Tara Quinn, Registered Practitioner Psychologist; Krystle McGilvery, Financial Strategist and Behavioural Expert; and Emily Tribe, Head of Culture, Inclusion and Wellbeing, PensionBee   Episode Breakdown: 01:27 What is ADHD?  05:13 Managing money with ADHD 06:33 The ADHD tax 07:57 Executive dysfunction  09:53 Impulsivity 13:38 Time blindness  18:37 Body doubling 20:19 Emotional dysregulation 22:06 Support and resources 23:45 ADHD and the finance industry   Further reading and listening: To learn more about ADHD and finances, check out these articles from PensionBee: Episode 40 transcript (Blog) E15: How can we achieve financial inclusion? (Podcast) 8 easy steps to build an effective budget (Blog) The effects of debt and how we can break the cycle (Blog) How can I improve my credit score? (Blog)  How PensionBee's supporting vulnerable customers (Blog) Savings and investments  Pension contributions (Pensions Explained)  Pensions Age (Pensions Explained)   Other useful resources: The ADHD Tax (ADHD Traction) “I've lost over £4000 because of the ADHD tax” (BBC) Our view of ADHD needs to change – the disorder presents differently in women and girls (The Independent)  The ADHD Tax study (Monzo)  Harnessing neurodiversity to create accessible banking (NatWest) Neurodiversity at Barclays (Barclays)  UK challenger bank Neuros to offer money management for neurodiverse users (FinTech Futures) ADHD and Money (Think ADHD) How to be financially responsible whilst having fun (Female Invest) ADHD in adults (NHS)  ADHD UK ADHD Foundation    Catch up on the latest news, read our transcripts or watch on YouTube: The Pension Confident Podcast The Pension Confident Podcast on YouTube   Follow PensionBee (@PensionBee) on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Threads. Follow Dr Tara Quinn on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and X. Follow Krystle McGilvery on Instagram and LinkedIn.  

Cet épisode est fait pour toi si tu te sens bloquée dans tes projets et que tu as du mal à comprendre ce qui t'empêche d'avancer. On y aborde des sujets essentiels tels que pourquoi tu te sens coincée malgré tes envies, comment retrouver ta neurosérénité pour calmer ton esprit et t'épanouir pleinement dans tes projets personnels et professionnels. Mayanick, coach et experte en estime de soi, décortique les mécanismes intérieurs qui freinent ton élan et te donne des clés concrètes pour enfin libérer ton potentiel.Bonne écoute.Rejoindre le Cabinet des curiosités Suivre Mayanick sur Instagram ---Et si tu souhaites soutenir Ambition Digitale gratuitement

I got to sit down with Squaaud again! Neuros! Wanna talk to all of you. 

In this episode, Matt Iorio at Neuros Medical and Duane Mancini discuss his background in the Medtech space, the collection of clinical data, the importance of clinical data for regulatory and commercial purposes, and so much more.

80-talet! Var tog du vägen?! Oskar & Fabian välkomnar Carina Sandqvist Olander, som i över 40 år jobbat inom sjukvården och idag som omvårdnadschef på en medicinavdelning i Sthlm. Utbildningen till SSK förr. Vad är långvård för något? AIDS-vågen och medicinska bad! (rättning: Carina började som USK i slutet av 70-talet). Tack till Redgert Comms för ljud och Fabian Ovik Karlsson för musik! (Att plugga till sjuksköterska)

Holy SH*T, These two words have been said on this episode multiple times, way more than ever before I want to say, and it's because we got 2 incredible exciting breaking news announcements in a very very short amount of time (in the span of 3 hours) and the OpenAI announcement came as we were recording the space, so you'll get to hear a live reaction of ours to this insanity. We also had 3 deep-dives, which I am posting on this weeks episode, we chatted with Yi Tay and Max Bane from Reka, which trained and released a few new foundational multi modal models this week, and with Dome and Pablo from Stability who released a new diffusion model called Stable Cascade, and finally had a great time hanging with Swyx (from Latent space) and finally got a chance to turn the microphone back at him, and had a conversation about Swyx background, Latent Space, and AI Engineer. I was also very happy to be in SF today of all days, as my day is not over yet, there's still an event which we Cohost together with A16Z, folks from Nous Research, Ollama and a bunch of other great folks, just look at all these logos! Open Source FTW

Rohan Kalahasty is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vytal.ai. He has been a researcher at the Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab for three years, where he led and incubated NeurOS and worked on projects leveraging mathematical, statistical, and artificial intelligence modeling to enhance eye disease diagnosis. Furthermore, he served as an incubation lead at Roivant Sciences, leading the early stages of a potential new vant. He has also researched at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT, where he dedicated his time to studying human intelligence and memory utilizing artificial intelligence. While working with these groups, he has developed a deep insight into the intersection of AI and Medicine and the creation of digital biomarkers, an insight which has proved crucial for the development of Vytal. He has a focus on interdisciplinary endeavors that have the potential to make an impact in the world. He is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.Sai Mattapali initially focused on behavioral neuroscience, Sai was a research intern at the Neurophysiology Lab at Georgetown University, where he built behavioral paradigms to test auditory learning in Zebrafish. Later pivoting to entrepreneurship and finance, Sai served as a business growth intern at Quantbase (YC W23) and was a part of DMV's Finest, the winners of the Wharton Investment Competition. The amalgamation of his experiences led him to where he is today, leading Vytal with Rohan, with aspirations to be an entrepreneur in the medical space. https://vytal.ai/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The impact of stress is not a new topic. However, have you stopped to think about all the tiny, almost unrecognizable things that happen in the course of the day. They hardly register as typical stress but they do add up. The phenonmenon is called “Microstress”. Tune in to hear what you can do about it.

The impact of stress is not a new topic. However, have you stopped to think about all the tiny, almost unrecognizable things that happen in the course of the day. They hardly register as typical stress but they do add up. The phenonmenon is called “Microstress”. Tune in to hear what you can do about it.

No episódio dessa semana, o InfectoCast traz esse tema tão fascinante dentro da Infectologia: a Neurosífilis! Iremos discutir sobre os conceitos da doença, as apresentações clínicas, o diagnóstico e tratamento. Vem com a gente!

Census was launched today: https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/post/syngapcensus-2022-update-70-in-q1-2022 Industry news! - Fintepla for LGS! Great news for our LGS folks. https://twitter.com/cureSYNGAP1/status/1508573464810074113 - Tevard licensed tech from Prof. Jeff Coller. https://twitter.com/TevardB/status/1509511595663282178 We announced models to two labs with RDMM and Hasan, thank you! https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/post/syngap-research-fund-srf-announces-grants-to-dr-kurt-haas-and-dr-graziella-dicristo-in-partnership-with-canadas-rare-diseases-models-and-mechanisms-network-rdmmn Thank you Julie for your help making mice, we are really having fun accelerating science. Thank you JR, Hans and Marta for joining meetings with a company to talk about other options for SRF. All costs $. Global: Victoria is at Dravet in Spain with Katrien from the Netherlands. How cool is that? Denmark is next week. BTW, remember episode 48 (google #S10e48) I got another call, the ICD-10 debacle continues. We are so lucky to have this code, USE IT. I had two meetings this week looking at health economics, this code is showing up and it is going to help us understand cost and find doctors. USE THE CODE… F78.A1 Probably Genetic, our partnership there continues and good things are coming, over 1,000 people have taken that survey and we are going to reach out to 40 people who we think need to pursue testing… PUSH OUT THIS LINK: https://syngap.fund/maybe Advice time: Build #TeamYourKid Our kids don't get simpler or smaller Babysitters and community members who know them now are their advocates later Double up on Neuros (unless you being seen by rockstars who are close) Everyone needs a good local neuro, few have them, so keep that relationship, both for higher quality care and for someone close in emergencies. If you have the time and the insurance, it's also a good idea to also be seen by a regional medical center. This is for three reasons Second opinions never hurt The regional folks will see more patients and are in an academic setting, so they are more likely to see patterns and publish case studies. When it's clinical trial time, companies won't call local doctors, they will call regional medical centers, you want to be on their list. Reminder in last episode (google #S10e53) for all the events this year, but coming up fast: Jackie's webinar on Severe Behaviors, Wednesday April 6th. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ojt2t3PSCWqGROpGaxVEw Dr. Anderson's webinar on Stem Cells, Thursday April 28th. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_23J7Zy22R_-yDrz8RJHXHg 2nd Annual #Sprint4Syngap is coming April 30, 2022, help us raise funds by starting a team and/or donating! Sign up now: https://syngap.fund/sprint2022 This is a podcast: subscribe to and rate this 10 minute #podcast #SYNGAP10 here https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/syngap10-podcast Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syngap10-weekly-10-minute-updates-on-syngap1-video/id1560389818 Episode 54 of #Syngap10 - April 1, 2022 #SYNGAP1 #Syngap #epilepsy #autism #intellectualdisability #id #anxiety #raredisease #epilepsyawareness #autismawareness #rarediseaseresearch #SynGAPResearchFund #CareAboutRare #PatientAdvocacy #GCchat #Neurology --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/syngap10/message

Census was launched today: https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/post/syngapcensus-2022-update-70-in-q1-2022  Industry news! - Fintepla for LGS!  Great news for our LGS folks. https://twitter.com/cureSYNGAP1/status/1508573464810074113 - Tevard licensed tech from Prof. Jeff Coller. https://twitter.com/TevardB/status/1509511595663282178  We announced models to two labs with RDMM and Hasan, thank you! https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/post/syngap-research-fund-srf-announces-grants-to-dr-kurt-haas-and-dr-graziella-dicristo-in-partnership-with-canadas-rare-diseases-models-and-mechanisms-network-rdmmn Thank you Julie for your help making mice, we are really having fun accelerating science.  Thank you JR, Hans and Marta for joining meetings with a company to talk about other options for SRF.  All costs $. Global: Victoria is at Dravet in Spain with Katrien from the Netherlands.  How cool is that?  Denmark is next week. BTW, remember episode 48 (google #S10e48) I got another call, the ICD-10 debacle continues.  We are so lucky to have this code, USE IT.  I had two meetings this week looking at health economics, this code is showing up and it is going to help us understand cost and find doctors.  USE THE CODE… F78.A1 Probably Genetic, our partnership there continues and good things are coming, over 1,000 people have taken that survey and we are going to reach out to 40 people who we think need to pursue testing… PUSH OUT THIS LINK: https://syngap.fund/maybe Advice time: Build #TeamYourKidOur kids don't get simpler or smaller Babysitters and community members who know them now are their advocates later Double up on Neuros (unless you being seen by rockstars who are close)Everyone needs a good local neuro, few have them, so keep that relationship, both for higher quality care and for someone close in emergencies. If you have the time and the insurance, it's also a good idea to also be seen by a regional medical center. This is for three reasonsSecond opinions never hurt The regional folks will see more patients and are in an academic setting, so they are more likely to see patterns and publish case studies. When it's clinical trial time, companies won't call local doctors, they will call regional medical centers, you want to be on their list. Reminder in last episode (google #S10e53) for all the events this year, but coming up fast: Jackie's webinar on Severe Behaviors, Wednesday April 6th.  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ojt2t3PSCWqGROpGaxVEw  Dr. Anderson's webinar on Stem Cells, Thursday April 28th. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_23J7Zy22R_-yDrz8RJHXHg  2nd Annual #Sprint4Syngap is coming April 30, 2022, help us raise funds by starting a team and/or donating!  Sign up now: https://syngap.fund/sprint2022  This is a podcast: subscribe to and rate this 10 minute #podcast #SYNGAP10 here https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/syngap10-podcast  Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syngap10-weekly-10-minute-updates-on-syngap1-video/id1560389818  Episode 54 of #Syngap10 - April 1, 2022 #SYNGAP1 #Syngap #epilepsy #autism #intellectualdisability #id #anxiety #raredisease #epilepsyawareness #autismawareness #rarediseaseresearch #SynGAPResearchFund #CareAboutRare #PatientAdvocacy #GCchat #Neurology

Neuros kommunikatör och PR-strateg, Alfred Skogberg, i ett samtal kring hur man kan minska fördomarna kring MS, vårdförbättran och hur Neuro arbetar för oss med en neurologisk diagnos.

Lisbeth Löpare Johansson samtalar i detta avsnitt med Lise Lidbäck, ordförande Neuroförbundet. De pratar om engagemang och möjlighet att påverka. Att det händer saker hela tiden men också att det går för långsamt. Om en av de viktigaste frågorna för Neuros medlemmar - tillgång till individanpassad och livslång rehabilitering med ett gott exempel från Norge. Samtalet kretsar kring vikten av att hitta det gemensamma - utgå från mänskliga behov - samverka med andra och att det är i samskapandet som vi kan göra något bra. Lise beskriver att den nära vården måste vara ett team som finns där för att man kan fungera så bra som möjligt och ger stöd till den viktiga egenvården.

In leading and influencing people, having a better language to describe individual styles helps get the best out of yourself and others. Better understanding leads to better conversations and better conversations ultimately drive performance. Tune in to hear the 5 leadership archetypes, the 4 devils of people stuff and how to keep your composure under pressure.

In leading and influencing people, having a better language to describe individual styles helps get the best out of yourself and others. Better understanding leads to better conversations and better conversations ultimately drive performance. Tune in to hear the 5 leadership archetypes, the 4 devils of people stuff and how to keep your composure under pressure.

-Det här är mitt nya jag. Jag har blivit uppgraderad från Rut 1.0 till Rut 2.0 och fått helt nya möjligheter i livet, säger språkläraren Rut Bjerhagen. Knappt två år gammal fick hon våldsamma feberkramper och i den processen uppstod ett epileptiskt aktivt centrum i Ruts vänstra hjärnhalva. Så länge hon minns har hon ofta drabbats av epileptiska anfall i form av obehagliga frånvaroattacker. Hon upplever ett inferno inom sig och är helt slut efteråt. Hon minns inte vad som hänt under anfallen och dessa oförutsägbara krissituationer blev allt mer svårhanterliga. Men den allt mer utvecklade hjärnkirurgin gjorde att Rut till slut fick möjligheten att genomgå en utredning för att se om hennes epilepsi kunde behandlas kirurgiskt. Och efter noggranna undersökningar gav neurokirurgen på Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Lund klartecken. Vinsterna för henne skulle med all sannolikhet bli större än eventuella komplikationer och förluster i förmågor. Sedan operationen efter midsommarhelgen 2019, behöver hon inte vara rädd för att när som helst få ett epileptiskt anfall. -Jag är oerhört tacksam för vad min neurokirurg och vårdpersonal gjort för mig. Det känns helt fantastiskt men är inte helt lätt att inse att jag fått ett nytt liv och att jag förmodligen kommer att slippa epileptiska anfall framöver. Nu vill jag gärna fortsätta att bidra till forskningen och berätta för andra som undrar och som ska genomgå en liknande behandling. Läs mer om den neurologiska diagnosen epilepsi på www.neuro.se, som förbundet Neuro äger. Här kan du som medlem i Neuro få råd och hjälp av diagnosstödjare och juridisks stöd från Neuros rättsombud. Du kan också bidra till neurologisk forskning genom Neurofonden och det arbete som Neuro har runt om i sina Neuroföreningar.  En podcastepisod i Neuropodden december 2019, producerad av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia kommunikation, Neuro. www.neuro.se

Acko Ankarberg Johansson utnämndes för ett år sedan till ordförande för riksdagens socialutskott, som hanterar för oss alla viktiga frågor inom hälso- och sjukvård och vår välfärd. För ett år sedan fick hon dessvärre ofrivillig insyn i vården, när hon inom loppet av en vecka fick två stroke. Men tack vare professionell vård och rehabilitering av riktiga stroketeam var hon redan tillbaka i riksdagsjobbet efter bara några månader. Hon lyfter, precis som Neuros medlemmar i Neurorapporten 2019, att rehabiliteringen är viktig för individens framtid. Då och då hörs riksdagsledamoten Acko Ankarberg Johanssons småländska dialekt i TV och radio när hon svarar på medias frågor. Hon har många års erfarenhet av politiskt arbete både på riksplan och dessförinnan i sin uppväxtkommun Jönköping. Hennes gång är åter stabil när hon vant rör sig uppåt i Riksdagshusets vindlande korridorer i huvudstaden. Utåt märker man inte att hon haft två stroke, hjärninfarkter i höstas och dessutom några TIA-attacker under våren. Men inombords kämpar hon för att hantera de växlande situationer hon hamnar i och alla möten med människor. – Jag har nu också diagnosticerats med hjärntrötthet och det innebär att jag har behövt hjälp med rehabilitering för att klara ut livet, säger Acko Ankarberg Johansson. Två dagar i veckan har hon varit dagpatient på Rehabmedicinska kliniken vid Ryhovs sjukhus under en period. – Det har hjälpt mig ofantligt mycket! Arbetsterapeut, fysioterapeut, kurator och läkare har tillsammans gett mig verktyg för att klara hjärntröttheten på ett uthärdligt sätt. Mitt liv innebär idag många kognitiva begränsningar jämfört med tidigare men tack vare de rehabmedicinska insatserna har jag fått strategier som hjälper mig varje dag, säger Acko. Mer om förbundets Neuros arbete och för att bli medlem och bidra till den neurologiska forskningen: www.neuro.se Det här är en episod av Neuropodden, en podcast om att leva med en neurologisk diagnos, i det här fallet stroke. Producent Håkan Sjunnesson, Neuro Läs artikeln på: https://neuro.se/artiklar/diagnos/riksdagsledamot-trots-stroke/

Från att strokepatienterna tidigare var de med lägst prioritering på akutmottagningarna, så har strokepatienter fått ett helt nytt fokus. -Det är de patienter vi kan göra de allra största insatserna för i vården idag, för att minimera framtida skador, hävdar professor Bo Norrving, nestor inom svensk strokevård. Samordnade reviderade strokeriktlinjerna Neurologläkaren Bo Norrving vid Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Lund har varit primus motor i arbetet med att ta fram de nya reviderad riktlinjerna för strokevården i Sverige. Enligt honom är det mest revolutionerande i den akuta strokevården, den relativt nya behandlingen med så kallad trombektomi. I bara två av tio strokefall handlar det om en hjärnblödning, medan den absoluta majoriteten av strokefallen beror på en propp. Det innebär att ett vitalt blodkärl har täppts igen och förhindrar syresatt blod att nå hjärnan. En mycket allvarlig situation som tidigare bara behandlades med blodförtunnande medel med varierad framgång. Kräver snabba ambulanstransporter  Med den nya behandlingen trombektomi används en lång manövreringsbar tunn kateter med en liten korg i änden. Den förs in genom en artär i ljumsken och sedan kan kirurgen mekaniskt plocka ut den koagulerade blodproppen i huvudregionen. En revolutionerande utveckling enligt neurologen Bo Norrving. Men det bygger på mycket snabba ambulanstransporter till de centrala sjukhus som kan utföra den här behandlingen inom några få timmar. Där har debatten om fler resurser inom ambulanshelikopterverksamheten blivit en het fråga för politiken att lösa. Intensiv rehabilitering också framgångsrik En annan viktig faktor inom strokevården är att rehabiliteringen kommer igång så snabbt som möjligt för patienten. Och det handlar om en intensiv, kontinuerlig och långvarig rehabilitering, där ett multiprofessionellt vårdteam omsluter varje patient. Då finns det stora möjligheter för en person att komma tillbaka till ett funktionellt liv, även om strokeskadorna varit relativt stora. Hör intervjun om dagens och morgondagens strokevård med professor Bo Norrving i Neuros webbradiokanal Neuropodden! Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia

Efter den kanadensiska förlagan "Ms Walk", startades Neuropromenaden av Neuros förening i Göteborg för fem år sedan. I år arrangerades den på 8 platser och detta är ett arrangemang som förbundet Neuro driver till förmån för insamling till neurologisk forskning och för att visa upp hur det kan vara att leva med någon av de neurologiska diagnoser som över en halv miljon i Sverige har. I det här podcastavsnittet intervjuas deltagare i 2019-års Neuropromenad i Slottsskogen i Göteborg. För medlemskap i förbundet Neuro och för att bidra till den neurologiska forskningen gå in på www.neuro.se  En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson NeuroMedia för Neuropodden.

Ett av Neurofondens senaste stora forskningsbidrag har delats ut till professor Susanne Iwarssons forskning om boendemiljöer för personer med funktionsnedsättningar, som vid Parkinsons sjukdom. Hennes forskargrupp vid CASE, Lunds universitet, stöds med 300.000 kronor från Neurofonden.  -Ekonomiskt stöd från en patientorganisation som Neuro betyder mycket, eftersom vår forskning verkligen berör många personer med funktionsnedsättningar, säger Susanne Iwarsson. Ett tjugotal personer i en forskargrupp på Lunds universitet samlades för höstupptakt på CASE, Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments ”Centret för stödjande miljöer för den åldrande befolkningen” den 27 augusti. Finalen på mötet blev Neuros utdelning av ett forskningsstipendium på 300.000 kronor till Susanne Iwarsson, professor och koordinator för CASE. Professor Susanne Iwarsson påminner om att med stigande ålder blir bostaden den plats där äldre människor spenderar det mesta av sin tid och därmed får hemmet allt större betydelse för hälsa och livskvalitet. Boendemiljön påverkar också äldre människors dagliga aktivitet och delaktighet och att bostadens utformning påverkar personens självständighet. Därför har hennes forskargrupp i ett flerårigt forskningsprojekt valt att studera det komplexa samspelet mellan hälsa, funktionsnedsättning och boende bland personer som åldras med Parkinsons sjukdom. Detta eftersom forskargruppen funnit att kunskapen är otillräcklig och det vill professor Susanne Iwarsson ändra på. God vård och omsorg Det aktuella forskningsprojektet bidrar med viktig kunskap för planering av god vård, omsorg och boende med livskvalitet, både på individ- och gruppnivå samt ur ett övergripande samhällsperspektiv. Och detta är mycket viktigt också för patienternas närstående och vårdare. - Det är naturligtvis både hedrande, glädjande och mycket betydelsefullt att få motta ett av Neurofondens stora bidrag 2018, säger Susanne Iwarsson. - Forskning om åldrande förutsätter att man samlar in data över tid, helst vid ett flertal tillfällen under många år. Med det bidrag vi nu får från Neurofonden kommer vi att kunna finansiera en uppföljning sex år efter det att deltagarna undersöktes första gången, vilket är mycket värdefullt för projektet, säger Susanne Iwarsson. - Det känns mycket bra att Neurofonden kan vara med och stödja just det här projektet, säger Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck. Att få vardagen att fungera i det egna hemmet är så otroligt viktigt för livskvaliteten, inte bara för den som åldras med Parkinsons sjukdom utan för alla som lever med en neurologisk diagnos. Fakta om Neurofonden Neurofonden delar årligen ut bidrag på cirka fyra miljoner kronor för att stödja medicinskt forsknings- och utvecklingsarbete om neurologiska sjukdomar och/eller funktionsnedsättningar.

Möt Patricia Moore - som kallas The Mother of Universal Design här i Neuropodden. Hon är numera verksam på flera kontinenter inte minst i Kina och brinner för ett användarvänligt samhälle på olika nivåer. Hon har de senaste tio åren jobbat på hög nivå med regeringar i världen och reser 250 dagar om året. Patricia Moore är en välkänd aktad amerikansk industridesigner, gerontolog och författare och brinner för att göra samhället så tillgängligt och användarvänligt som möjligt för alla medborgare. När hon nyligen besökte designutbildningen vid Ingvar Kamprad Center på Lunds Universitet fick Neuropoddens redaktör Håkan Sjunnesson tillfälle att göra en intervju på engelska med denna guru inom praktisk universell design. Patricia Moore har erkänts av ID Magazine som en av de 40 mest socialt medvetna designerna i världen. År 2000 valdes hon av ett konsortium av nyhetsredaktörer och organisationer som en av de 100 viktigaste kvinnorna i Amerika. ABC World News presenterade henne som en av "50 amerikaner som definierar det nya millenniet." Moore började arbeta med Raymond Loewy International i New York City 1974. Loewy är allmänt känt som fadern för industriell design. Patricia Moore kallas därför modern för universell design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Moore Patricia Moore is an American industrial designer, gerontologist, and author. She has been recognized by ID Magazine as one of the "40 Most Socially Conscious Designers" in the world. In 2000 she was selected by a consortium of news editors and organizations as one of the "100 Most Important Women in America." ABC World News featured her as one of "50 Americans Defining the New Millennium." Moore began working with Raymond Loewy International in New York City in 1974. Loewy is widely recognized as the Father of Industrial Design. Patricia Moore is called The Mother of Universal Design. NeuroMedias reporter and editor Haakan Sjunnesson met her at Lunds University for this podcast interview in the Swedish Neuropodden. För mer information om Neuros arbete, för att bli medlem och/eller stödja den neurologiska forskningen www.neuro.se    

På 2019-års mässa MVTe -”Mötesplats välfärdsteknologi och e-hälsa” i Kista norr om Stockholm, medverkade Neuro i ett seminarium om e-hälsa, utifrån den e-hälsorapport som togs fram 2018. Neuros utredare Ida Malm höll presentationen av rapporten och Neuros e-hälsovision 2025. Grunden för detta är en stor medlemsundersökning 2018, om hur olika e-tjänster används idag via Internet. En av slutsatserna som Neuro drar av resultaten är att okunskapen är stor. Dessutom saknas det vettiga snabba Internetuppkopplingar för nästan en miljon personer i Sverige. Sammantaget gör detta att Neuro alltså har tagit fram en vision om e-patient 2025, som lyder: ”År 2025 ska patienter i Sverige vara bäst i världen på att tillgodogöra sig e-hälsans möjligheter. Detta uppnås genom att alla patienter har tillgång till bredband och utrustning samt e-hälsans tjänster och verktyg. Patienterna erbjuds dessutom riktad information och utbildning, anpassad efter var och ens intresse och förmåga. ”  E-hälsa innebär att använda digitaliseringen och elektroniska tjänster för att främja god och jämlik hälsa. Landets nationella e-hälsovision innebär att Sverige till år 2025 ska bli bäst i världen på att använda digitaliseringens möjligheter för att uppnå just god och jämlik hälsa samt välfärd. Därigenom kommer också individernas egna resurser att stärkas så att ökad självständighet och delaktighet i samhällslivet uppnås. Men om en e-hälsovision inte inkluderar även en e-patient riskerar grupper av människor att hindras vara delaktiga. I 2018 års Neurorapporten om e-hälsa ser vi att det finns en stor nyfikenhet på e-hälsa, men att behovet av riktad utbildning är omfattande. De undersökningar som Neurorapporten bygger på visar att patienterna behöver kunskapsrustas för e-hälsa. Rapporten visar att e-hälsa inte kommer alla till del, av flera orsaker. Det krävs insatser på många områden om e-hälsovisionen ska bli verklighet. Förutom utbildningsinsatser är även infrastrukturen, tillgång till teknisk utrustning och utbudet av e-hälsa viktiga faktorer. Bredband och tillgång till digitala tjänster inom hälso- och sjukvården är ojämnt uppbyggt över landet. Den vision för e-patient som Neuro förespråkar kan motverka ett utökat kunskapsglapp och överbrygga den klyfta som finns och riskerar att vidgas mellan människor som har olika kunskap och möjlighet att använda Internet beroende på var i landet man bor. Medverkande i denna podcast är Lise Lidbäck ordförande i Neuro, Ida Malm utredare i Neuro och Kristina Niemi, kanslichef Neuro. Dessutom medverkar utställare. Denna podcast är producerad av Håkan Sjunnesson NeuroMedia för Neuropodden. För mer info, medlemskap i Neuro och för att stödja den neurologiska forskningen via Neurofonden; www.neuro.se      

Neuropodden/Neurologipodden: Det har i flera år talats om att vi i Sverige måste få till en mycket mer värdebaserad och personcentrerad vård. I praktiken är sjukvården svår att reformera, och mycket blir inte som det var tänkt. Men nu kommer förändringen. Den drivs av krafter utifrån, av ny teknik, av patienters förväntningar och av innovatörer som utmanar traditionella hierarkier.  Därför arrangerade Dagens Industri Health Care denna seminariedag om hur patienterna ska bli delaktiga, vården ska bli jämlik och hålla hög kvalitet och det ska ske samtidigt. Neuroförbundets, Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck medverkade som patientrepresentant och berättade om sin egen starka patientberättelse. Om att få vården att fungera när man lever med en neurologisk diagnos och blir svårt skadad i en bilolycka. Det skakade om konferensdeltagarna. I denna podcast medverkar också Anders Henriksson 1:e vice ordförande SKL om hur sjukvården ska omstruktureras, Mårten Blix vid Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) föreläste om digitala sjukvårdskontakter, om Nätdoktorn – fripassagerare eller frälsare? Anna Krohwinkel, forskningschef vid Stiftelsen Leading Health Care gav sin och tankesmedjans syn på spetspatienter som innovatörer. Vidare intervjuas Yvonne Haglund Åkerlind, vd Danderyds sjukhus, Kristina Niemi kanslichef på Neuro och Maja Flodin moderator på Dagens Industri Health Care. Detta är ett podcast-reportage producerat för Neuropodden av Håkan Sjunnesson NeuroMedia 2018. För mer info om Neuro (Neuroförbundet), bli medlem och/eller bidra till den neurologiska forskningen och vården: www.neuro.se  

69.000 vuxna och 12.000 barn har diagnosen epilepsi i Sverige. Det här podcastreportaget från Dagens Medicins Neurologidag 2018 fokuserar på epilepsiforskningen. Neurokirurgen och stamcellsforskaren Johan Bengzon intervjuas om epilepsikirurgi och framtidens genterapi. Även neurologen Ulla Lindbom intervjuas om epilepsibehandlingar och berättar om de kommande nationella riktlinjerna för epilepsivården nästa år.  Neurologen Jan Lycke berättar om forskningen kring multipel skleros, ms och kollegan Dag Nyholm om Parkinsonforskningens front 2018. Dagens medicins chefredaktör Christina Kennedy delar med sig av sina tankar om morgondagens utmaningar inom neurosjukvården och Neuros kanslichef Kristina Niemi om vilken roll Neuroförbundet kan spela för utvecklingen av morgondagens neurosjukvård. En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson NeuroMedia för Neuropodden-Neurologipodden För mer info om neurologisk forskning, att leva med en neurologisk diagnos, att ge en gåva till den neurologiska forskningen via Neurofonden och bli medlem i Neuro (Neuroförbundet) www.neuro.se  

Vissa människor drabbas av en svår outhärdlig smärta i huvudet och då kan det vara frågan om Hortons huvudvärk eller trigeminusneuralgi. Trigeminus är den stora tredelade känselnerven från hjärnstammen upp till ansiktet. Den kan bli påverkad och orsakar då trigeminusneuralgi eller trigeminusneuropati. Det är som att ansiktsnerven går till attack.  I den här Neuropoddintervjun reder neurologen och överläkaren Elisabet Waldenlind vid Karolinska sjukhuset i Huddinge i Stockholm ut begreppen och redogör för behandlingar. Trigeminusneuralgi är en smärta som kommer från trigeminusnerven, den stora ansiktsnerven, som normalt förser ansiktet med känsel och signalerar smärta vid skador. I vissa fall kan nerven bli "sjuk" och ge smärta, fast det inte finns skada i vävnaderna. Elisabet Waldenlind är docent och överläkare med specialisering på huvudvärk och smärta vid Karolinska sjukhuset i Huddinge, Stockholm. Här i denna Neuropodd reder hon ut begreppen kring svår värk i huvudet och hur behandlingarna sker. En podcast för Neuropodden av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia. För mer information, medlemskap i Neuro och för att stödja den neurologiska forskningen via Neurofonden: www.neuro.se. Läs en artikel där Elisabet Waldenlind är intervjuad av Håkan Sjunnesson för Neuros medlemstidning Reflex Magasin och NeuroMedia:  https://neuro.se/artiklar/diagnos/ansiktsnerven-gaar-till-attack/  

Inför Valet 2018 har ordförande Lise Lidbäck tillsammans med övriga förtroendevalda och kanslipersonalen i Neuro (Neuroförbundet), jobbat intensivt med att försöka föra fram angelägna vårdfrågor. Det handlar framför allt om rehabilitering och att snabbt få rätt diagnos ställd. Mycket viktigt för den som har konstiga neurologiska symtom och för att kunna påbörja en behandling. I den här Neuropodden intervjuas Neuros ordförande Lidbäck om Neuros krav på politiken, när det handlar om neurosjukvården. Det gäller framför allt att alla som behöver rehabilitering vid en neurologisk skada eller sjukdom ska få det. Behovet är stort och tyvärr skiljer sig möjligheterna mycket i landet. Värst är det från Uppsala och norrut, där många medlemmar är besvikna över den bristfälliga och i flera fall i princip obefintliga möjligheten till sammanhållen intensiv rehabilitering under individuell ledning. - Detta är oacceptabelt eftersom alla människor med neurologiska diagnoser mår bättre med rätt sorts individuell rehabilitering. En förutsättning för ett så bra liv som möjligt, säger Lise Lidbäck. Neuro kräver också att en parlamentarisk utredning ställer diagnos på den neurologiska rehabiliteringen i Sverige och kommer med åtgärdspaket för att den ska bli acceptabel. En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia för Neuropodden #funkpol #neuro #neuromedia #val #valet2018 #vård #riksdagen #sjukvård #rehabilitering #rehab #godochnäravård #ms #stroke #als #dm_agenda

En medborgarstyrd sjukvård där läkarna får betalt för hur väl de lyckas med att ge patienternas vård och hur personerna mår efter sin vård. Det verkar Dr Vivek Reddy och hans kollegor på CHIO Intermountain Health Center i Utah i USA ha lyckats med. Ett av seminarierna under Almedalsveckan 2018 hade fokus på patientmedverkan för att utveckla vården. Neuros kanslichef Kristina Niemi medverkade och huvudtalare var Dr Vivek Reddy från CHIO Intermountain Health Center i Utah USA. Där i delstaten Utah har de enligt honom fått till ett system med väl fungerande värdebaserad vård med patienterna i centrum.  Deras arbetsmodell, som enligt Dr Reddy fungerar väl för alla personer som behöver vård där, har de tagit fram genom en stor frågeundersökning bland invånarna. Och det handlar ju om alla invånarna, eftersom alla är presumtiva patienter. Resultatet har blivit en medborgarstyrd sjukvård där läkarna, som är knutna till deras system, får betalt för hur väl de lyckas med att ge patienternas vård och hur personerna mår efter sin vård. I detta Neuropoddreportage intervjuas först Neuros kanslichef Kristina Niemi på svenska och sedan på engelska neurologläkaren Dr. Vivek Reddy, som har strokebehandling som sin specialitet. Därför handlar den intervjun också i slutet om hur strokevården i Utah, USA är uppbyggd. #stroke #intermountain #almedalen #almedalen2018 #dm_agenda #skl #lif #neuro #funkpol #neuromedia #sweden En podcast för Neuropodden av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia

Genom en så kallad trombektomi kan en stor blodpropp dras ur ett blodkärl med en tunn liten korg som förs in i blodådran och på så sätt förhindra neurologiska skador på hjärnan. En mycket effektiv behandling som kräver att patienten sjukhusbehandlas inom några få timmar. Neuros ordförande medverkade i ett kreativt samtal om framtidens akuta strokevård under Almedalsveckan 2018. Hör Neuropoddens reportage!   I dag är det kraftig underbehandling och ojämlik tillgång till mekanisk trombektomi vid stroke, trots evidens och Socialstyrelsens nya nationella riktlinjer. Och kring hur kan den vårdformen ska bli mer tillgänglig och användbar i framtiden, hölls ett kreativt rundabordssamtal under Almedalsveckan 2018. En av de medverkande var Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck och lyssna på hennes och några av de andras spännande tankar om akut strokevård i denna podcast. Medverkande i inslaget är Lise Lidbäck förbundsordf Neuro, Anders Henriksson 1:e v ordf SKL, Jesper Petersson ordf programråd nervsystemets sjukdomar, Per Arnell Ambulanshelikopterverksamhen VGR, Lars Rosengren ordf. nat. arbetsgrupp stroke. #dm_agenda #neuro #almedalen #almedalen2018 #neuromedia #stroke #funkpol #lif #vård En podcast för Neuropodden av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia 2018

Personer med långvariga och kanske livslånga diagnoser vill jobba, om de bara får chansen. Men det måste vara på arbetstagarens villkor och ske med betydligt mer flexibla arbetstider än idag. I ett intressant seminariesamtal under Almedalsveckan 2018 möttes Lise Lidbäck Neuros ordförande Maria Kindahl Arbetsförmedlingen och Emma Carlsson riksdagsledamot i Socialförsäkringsutskottet.  Att ha ett arbete betyder mycket för självkänslan. Men dagens regelverk är för fyrkantigt tycker funktionshinderrörelsen, där det finns ojusterbara gränser på 100, 75, 50 och 25 procent, för hur mycket man bedöms kunna arbeta. Neuro menar att med en större flexibilitet där arbetsprocenten också kan variera periodvis, skulle det vara mycket lättare för många att arbeta. -Flexjobbsmodellen efter dansk förebild skulle vara en intressant arbetsmarknadsreform att pröva även i Sverige, hävdar Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck.  #almedalen2018 #Almedalen #neuro #funkpol #neuromedia #flexjobb #riksdagen #neuropodden   En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson / Neuropodden & NeuroMedia www.neuro.se  

Med en placering som nummer 33 på Dagens Medicins åtråvärda topp 100 sjukvårdsmaktlista, ser Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck mycket fram emot att medverka på en rad seminarier om neurosjukvård på Almedalsveckan 2018. Hon vill ge Neuros medlemmar en starkare röst och att det ska bli fokus för den personcentrerade neurosjukvården i framtiden.  En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia #Almedalen #almedalen2018 #neuropodden #neuro #vård

Inför internationella Als-dagen den 21 juni hölls en stor Als-insamlingsgala den 2 juni 2018 på Djurönäsets kursgård i Stockholms skärgård. Den fick stort genomslag, både med flera hundra deltagare, rörande berättelser, styrkande forskningsföredrag och upplyftande musik. Men också i media innan, där insamlingen "StoppaALS.se" lyftes fram i SR Ekot som intressant utveckling kring ideell forskningsinsamling. Lördag den 2 juni arrangerades en stor stödgala för forskningen kring den svåra och ovanliga neurologiska diagnosen als, amyotrofisk lateralskleros på Djurönäset. De insamlade medlen och biljettintäkten på 595 kronor per person förmedlas genom Neurofonden och fördelas till vardera ett nytt kliniskt behandlingscentrum på Karolinska Sjukhuset Huddinge och till Neuros diagnos- och anhörigstöd för als-drabbade familjer. "Als Treatment Center Karolinska" är under uppbyggnad av bland andra neurologen Caroline Ingre. Galan arrangerades av Djurönäsets kursgård och Susie Päivärinta, i samarbete med patient- och intresseorganisationen Neuro (Neuroförbundet) och uppropet Stoppa ALS. Galan leddes av Suzanne Axell från SVT:s program "Fråga Doktorn" och artisterna på Als-galascenen var Bröderna Rongedal, Lili & Susie, Tone Norum, Suzzie Tapper, Richard Herrey, Robert Hoffman och Gladys del Pilar med kör som kompades av The Playboys. Några av Sveriges ledande forskare och läkare kring als, Thomas Brännström och Caroline Ingre medverkade och mötte patienter, anhöriga och berättade om den senaste forskningen kring als. En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia för Neuropodden Vill du bidra till den neurologisk forskningen, veta mer om hur du blir medlem i Neuro och/eller få mer information om hur det är att leva med olika neurologiska diagnoser? På www.neuro.se hittar du då, vad du behöver. Läs mer på www.neuro.se och www.stoppaals.se  

Den 1 juni 2018 redovisade socialminister Annika Strandhäll och regeringen särskilda vårdutredare Anna Nergårdh, det andra delbetänkandet i utredningen God och nära vård i framtiden. Och på den välbesökta presskonferensen fanns Neuros ordförande Lise Lidbäck med, som tycker att det ser teoretiskt lovande ut, men att det är mycket som måste förbättras, inte minst inom primärvården. Något som ordförande för Sveriges Läkarförbund, Heidi Stensmyren håller med om. Och det är mycket som ska fungera för alla oss patienter och presumtiva patienter, när vi ska hålla digital kontakt med med vården genom våra smartphones och datorer. Och så gäller det att få träffa en specialist när man har symtom som är oförklarliga och varför är det så svårt för primärvårdsläkare att remittera vidare för en specialistkonsultation? En podcast av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia för Neuropodden

E-hälsa är temat för Neurorapporten 2018 som intresseorganisationen Neuro tagit fram. Alltså de förutsättningar för bästa möjliga hälsa och ökad tillgänglighet till vården som digitaliseringen erbjuder. Det handlar om kontakter mellan patienter och vårdgivare, patienter emellan liksom vårdgivare emellan. -Vår medlemsundersökning visar, tillsammans med fokusgruppsdiskussion och en specialbeställd rapport, att nyfikenhet på e-hälsa är stor. Men vi ser också att behovet av både information och riktad utbildning är omfattande, säger Neuros utredare Karin Månsson, som skrivit rapporten. Eva Helmersson är ett av patientporträtten i neurorapporten, som verkligen lever med e-hälsans möjligheter för optimerade vårdkontakter, trots en neurologisk diagnos. Men någonting måste göras åt kunskapsglappet för att överbrygga den klyfta som annars riskerar att vidgas. För att inte bli en ny ”postnummerfråga” krävs dessutom modern bredbandsutbyggnad och tillgång till såväl e-hälsotjänster som utrustning. Patienterna över hela landet måste bli delaktiga i detta med E-hälsa.   En podcast av NeuroMedias Håkan Sjunnesson Läs mer på www.neuro.se #neuro #neurorapporten #patient #Almedalen #neurologiveckan #neurologi #karinmånsson #evahelmersson #håkansjunnesson #neuromedia #neuropodden #2018  

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Neuropodden om hjärnforskningens frontlinje. Lunds universitet har nyss firat 350 år och därför arrangerades en Hjärnvecka för forskare och andra intresserade på olika platser i staden. En rad namnkunniga forskare höll korta föreläsningar och berättade om olika framsteg inom forskningen kring vår hjärnas funktioner och dysfunktioner. Ett podcastreportage av Håkan Sjunnesson / NeuroMedia För mer information om hjärnan och hjärnans sjukdomar och den neurologiska forskningen: www.neuro.se och här kan du också bli medlem i Neuroförbundet och bidra till den neurologiska forskningen. Medverkande i detta podcastreportage är: hjärnforskaren och nobelpristagaren Edvard Moser, neurologen och parkinsonforskaren Håkan Widner, hjärnforskaren Tomas Dejerby, strokeläkaren Isabelle Gonzalves, neurobiologen och epilepsiforskaren Mira Cocaja, Huntingtonföreningens Carina Hvalstedt, neuroforskningsprofessorn Miguel Nicolelis om att koppla hjärnan till teknik och Lundabygdens Neuromedarbetare Sylvia Hansson, Kristina Törnkvist och Katarina Nilsson. Bli medlem i förbundet Neuro! > Läs mer om en rad neurologiska diagnoser som Neuro har mycket information om och också att leva med> Läs mer om Neuros opinionsarbete för en rättvis neurosjukvård och rätten till personlig assistans för alla som behöver den>