I have seen a surprisingly upbeat post from Sonia Poulton about Sam Smith’s appeal against her. In fact, like so much of what she says, she is misleading her followers. To explain briefly, earlier this year Sam and I applied to strike out parts of Sonia’s case in the ongoing lawsuit between Sonia on one side, myself Sam and Darren Laverty on the other. Sam helped with both applications along with two barristers. They were heard on 1 May 2024. The first application won - part of Sonia’s case was struck out as inconsistent with an earlier witness statement. Some would call that, “lies”. Sonia did not appeal. The rest of the strike-outs failed. After taking advice from counsel, Sam appealed and got permission from Mrs Justice Steyn DBE. The appeal failed, except that the judge ordered Sonia to clarify her case in a formal statement called a Part 18 Response. In effect, she abandoned 11 of the 21 pleadings we were trying to strike out, promising not to rely on them or file evidence on t...
Biohacking to Improve Everyone's Health Reaches Top Ten in 2nd Round of Biomarkers of Aging Competition
Biohacking to Improve Everyone's Health, the team of Biohackers intending to compete in XPRIZE Healthspan, have reached the top ten in prediction of mortality using methylation data in the second round of the Biomarkers of Aging competition. The contest aims to use data on methylation of DNA sites and other biomarkers to determine the biological age of individuals and predict outcomes such as mortality. The Biohacking team, including software developer and machine learning expert Samuel Collingwood Smith, used their own proprietary software called LearnSilver to develop their prediction models, in combination with other tools. LearnSilver is a .NET C# / C++ / CUDA software library that allows execution of complex neural networks, including recurrent networks, on consumer hardware along with efficient serialisation. The library can execute in single-threaded mode on a CPU, or multi-threaded mode and it can also leverage nVidia hardware for massively parallel operations. Sam Smit...