🌞Phillip Somerville

An idea whose time has come? Semantic compression, correlation and Real-Perfect hashing — with worked example, bounds testing and conjecture of O(1) order contextual memory for LLM’s. #AI #LLM #semanticmemory #hashing #RealPerfect #bijection unitambo.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/a-w…

Last week I ran the numbers on what a plausible collapse in fertiliser supply would do to global agricultural production and by extension the likelihood a famine. The results made me feel physically sick And we are slowly moving toward that playing out reality Graphic: U.K FT

@StrewthQueen Fuckin’ hilarious when you run out of food.

Gotta say it is kinda funny watching the same people who've fought against investing in renewable energies chuck a tanty now it's biting them in the arse

I realise this website is dominated for #Auspol by urban/suburban folk (often with esoteric obsessions) but ours is a massive country & many people drive long distances not just as farmers & truckers but as parents, carers, etc. The Federal Govt needs honesty & a sense of urgency

Sometimes I get the feeling that part of the issue with AI is that it confidently delivers answers, even when that answer is completely wrong. Humans tend to gravitate toward confidence and the approach to AI is no different. I've seen some obviously wrong AI analysis shared in recent weeks that has garnered millions of views.

"Australia is the most diesel-dependent economy in the world... if the shipping channels are cut to our North, we will be on our knees within days." John spoke to @Channel7 last night about Australia's fuel crisis. See link in comments below.

The Tomago aluminium smelter looks like going under. It’s Australia’s largest. Our industrial base has been decimated. Even though I fundamentally disagree with state bailouts I feel an exception should be made for heavy industry. We cannot keep doing this and be a real country.

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@elonmusk @yunta_tsai Funny you should mention it that way. *see pinned post

@yunta_tsai Intelligence seems to be semantic compression and correlation

One of the main ceilings of training is long data context. For LLMs, you can scale this window to almost infinite while still getting good trajectory samples, but for the real world this is yet to be the case. The major problem is compressibility. The longer the context of the data, the more storage it takes—given the limits of compressibility. Furthermore, the more interesting the data, the less compressible it is. For example, driving down a smooth highway is highly compressible, but adversarial scenarios are less so. Thus, even if your hardware is equipped with awesome sensibility, the dynamic range after compression is what you are left with. The limit also applies to generative models since the models themselves are a form of compression. Even if you force them to run at double precision, it doesn’t change the fact that they are super-resolving a quantized observation. Hence, the more sensing you integrate—especially different modalities where their quantum distributions are inherently different, as any sensing in any shape or form is quantum—quantizing the uncertainty to a number, the less information they preserve given the compressibility (and/or quantization) budgets. There is a reason why human eyes are designed the way they are, not because we could not add ultraviolet or near-infrared sensibility to the cells—it can be done—but because of the compressibility we could achieve in our neuron pathways while providing the best signal-to-noise ratio for long context reasoning. Insects, on the other hand, have a very small context window but higher sensibility—yet they cannot reason.

@yunta_tsai A quadratic iterator with ternary error-control produces a scalar digest that encodes full context history — O(1) memory, O(n) recompute. The compression is lossless if you keep the control stream. *see pinned post

@makoado157949 @AlexTaylorNews The not-so Europeans not-so much.

@unitambo @AlexTaylorNews Europeans do not migrate to the USA due to the lower standard of living, let alone to Australia.

Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children

The complete lack of self-awareness of Americans will never cease to amaze me. The US just launched a war of aggression against Iran, which it started by murdering its entire leadership in the middle of negotiations. A few weeks earlier, it had attacked yet another country and abducted its leader in the middle of the night. At the same time, it's strangling Cuba, a country that poses no threat whatsoever to the US, by imposing a strict embargo on it, while openly threatening to use force against it unless the government does as Trump says. But despite all of that, they still think they're in a position to castigate "rogue states", lmao.

I know of near-exact similar case, even same agent name! Expect it is legion.

@PawlowskiMario Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can't deliver them. So Switzerland said then we won't pay. The US have now seized the funds we paid for the F-35s (which we probably won't get as well) instead. srf.ch/news/schweiz/z…

Not in the headline: Police arrested a man named Ori Solomon, a 55-year-old Israeli citizen, investigators found a cache of weapons and arrested Solomon on federal weapons charges. This should be a major story.

The fact that Israel and the US are killing civilian officials is already crazy enough, but I don't think people realize how utterly insane it is that Israel even put Aragchi, a diplomat, on a kill list. Even Attila and Gengis Khan respected the immunity of diplomats.

Of course. It’s couched in terms of restriction to professional & business visas but we’ve seen how that gets abused on an industrial scale in education and itinerant workforce recruitment. I’d imagine Euro businesses are rubbing their hands at rotating expat area-managers through their branch offices. At least zee Hugo Boss boss vill be German now, ja?

Is the reverse also true?

Pain on the outside of your shoulder is also one of the most common problems I see in my practice. Lifters get it. Swimmers get it. Pickleball players get it. People who haven't lifted their arm overhead in years get it. For decades, we called it impingement and blamed a bone spur. That led to many unnecessary bone removal surgeries. We were treating the wrong thing.

The idea that first world countries had less than two weeks of fuel reserves is just baffling to me. The modern world is built on eggshells and spit.