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is this a conspiracy? is my guru @yacineMTB telling me the truth?
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all timelines considered, the dice roll on who ends up as the "CEO of Big AI Lab" would've been the most favorable if we got someone who truly believes that AGI will make money obsolete, yet was also ideologically invested in making it available for everyone. that person would probably have invested in coding (like anthropic did), but would also make it accessible (like openai did). if we were lucky enough, perhaps we'd even get someone who'd figure out how to OSS it all without going bankrupt. that's an impossibly rare personality though. if chasing products accidentally gets us at least the availability, then I'd rather have that CEO than one who's more and more appearing to have kira complex
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@claramilinski dentro de um meio material, vc pode pode considerar que a velocidade da luz é a velocidade de grupo, a velocidade da envoltoria do pacote, e essa velocidade pode ser praticamente zero mesmo sem reflexao. então a luz entra no modo, mas praticamente nao se propaga
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É sério isso? Com partículas carregadas okay, mas fóton?
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Amazing Physics@amazing_physics
BREAKING🚨: For the first time in history, scientists in Italy have succeeded in "freezing" pure light and making it behave like a solid. (NATURE)
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@isahermanx e quando você viu o raio mas ainda nao ouviu o trovão? e se você não ver o raio mas ouvir o trovão?
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eu não consigo processar a ideia de que eu olho pro céu e vejo o passado
tipo a estrela que eu vejo hoje pode nem existir mais ela é só uma imagem a milhões de anos luz de delay por isso ela tá lá
se eu tivesse na estrela entao eu iria ver a terra na era dos dinossauros????
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@VictorTaelin i find plausible that local models can happen eventually. they just can't happen as much as the two companies can happen
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@MacroJason i can't confirm, but i've seen someone online claim to have had access to the raw data on brazilian iq and concluded that the distribution is actually bimodal, with one of the modes corresponding to random guesses. i.e. lots of people just don't try to get the answers right
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🇧🇷 When I posted about Brazil's low median IQ problem - many Brazilians engaged positively with my post and we had a nice exchange of ideas. Very surprised.
If I did this with nearly any other low median IQ country - I would just have tons of people crying in my replies.
Brazil is special in that it is a huge country - with illiterates and favelados but also an outsized number of bright people (more so than any other LatAm country in absolute terms). Under a different political system - they would be running things.
Jason - macro / offshore / investing@MacroJason
I like Brazil but when your population has a median numerical IQ of 83.5 - democracy and liberalism becomes a bug, not a feature. $EWZ
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let's not forget that physics is not just theory, and in a bachelors at uni you also have courses where you do experiments. i took 5 of those, plus time working in a professor's lab. all this makes a difference.
Deivon Drago@DeivonDrago
This. 👇 I can’t imagine learning undergrad physics without all the structure. Problem sets and exams are hell, but they help you understand the foundations. Grad studies becomes much easier if you do this right.
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asked 4.7 if an algorithm I wrote satisfies a bunch of requisites. while thinking, it realized I broke one important invariant. this was very helpful. on the final answer, though? it just said my algorithm is brilliant and flawless!!
wtf?
glad I read the thinking traces...
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Brazil could be a superpower, except it’s missing . . . what?
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The reason symmetry is so important in physics is because symmetry is a highly effective compression operator. If a system is invariant under some symmetry, you only need to explain one axis of it. Scientific models represent the systematic exploitation of the universe's internal redundancies through symbolic logic.
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We should view the history of physics as a long-running program synthesis task. Kepler and Newton were searching the space of possible symbolic models to find the simplest one that would best satisfy available observations.
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i did my master's in an experimentalist's lab, and i found extremely impressive how much the professor knew about everything: physics theory, small details about theorems, hardware, low-level programming, details about energy levels of specific chemical elements, the experimental setup itself, the literature. he basically knew everything related, from the most abstract to the most concrete level, and when trying to understand something he could think across all those levels without delay, on the fly. that was just a quantum optics lab, what happens in CERN must be absolutely insane to see
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Physicists can seem almost insane—in the best possible way. The level of engineering and depth of physical understanding required to master these systems is far beyond what most people can imagine. It’s a combination of abstraction, intuition, and precision that feels almost unreal from the outside.
In a very real sense, this is what it looks like when humans begin to truly understand the universe. Not control it, but decode its rules at a fundamental level.
If you want a glimpse into that world, I can’t recommend enough Veritasium Youtube channel enough.
Their videos do an exceptional job of translating deep physical ideas into intuitive insights, giving you a feel for how the universe actually works beneath the surface.
Link in the comments.
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the same goes for entanglement. when a photon is emited by fluorescence, this means there's entanglement between the modes of the field, because this photon is in one of the modes, but not in two modes, and you get the entanglement superposition
Cosmos Archive@cosmosarcive
A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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@Rafa_Schwinger @elliotarledge translate/rotate/zoom/make a decision on what's under focus
prepare/evolve/measure/make a decision conditioned on outcome
it's more or less the same, it's also kinda describing a rewriting system (of states), which is like lambda calculus / turing machine
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anthropic wants to hire people who love to play with the internals of models, aka mechanistic interpretability.
do yourself a favor. close the app and search up neel nanda and sparse autoencoders. this is what dario is talking about
AVB@neural_avb
I love that Anthropic is the only big AI lab thats seriously explores mechanistic interpretability at this level. I remember Dario Amodei (Anth CEO) speak about this in the Lex podcast when asked what advice he would give to young AI researchers.
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@Rafa_Schwinger @elliotarledge the measurement is the activation function
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It is bizarre that in physics quantum systems have more or less a similar structure as LLMs but no one takes it seriously anymore to model them with dense matrices
AI feels like a serious echo chamber of egos full of low hanging fruits, mathematically speaking
People need to remember that the fundamental objects are networks and information theory and linear algebra is used just to encode them.
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what about human's built in sycophancy
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.” You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening. The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement. Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year. Source: @heynavtoor
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