<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Before we get ahead of ourselves:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;The participant, who asked to be referred to as BRAVO1, worked with the researchers to create a 50-word vocabulary that Chang’s team could recognize from brain activity using advanced computer algorithms.&lt;p&gt;Fifty words, that&amp;#x27;s it.  For comparison, a nurse a laminated piece of A4 paper and a patient who can blink get about 15 characters per minute from the English alphabet.&lt;p&gt;Great PR, but not a substantial improvement over the BCIs from the past 15 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>This is significant computationally in placing human thought unambiguously  into the digital realm because it shows the data protocol between thought and output is machine learnable.&lt;p&gt;The protocol for sensory input has likewise been prosthesised by Paul Nach-y-Rita’s tongue grid array for vision.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.researchgate.net&amp;#x2F;scientific-contributions&amp;#x2F;Paul-Bach-y-Rita-75345859&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.researchgate.net&amp;#x2F;scientific-contributions&amp;#x2F;Paul-B...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paul_Bach-y-Rita&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paul_Bach-y-Rita&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis</url></story>