Schrodinger's Cockatoo

@tonyzzhao analoguegroup.org/team ^they might appreciate it

Just saw the craziest emergent behavior I’ve ever seen in robotics. The team is absolutely losing it. We haven’t posted in a while… should we write it up?

@mathelirium or reimplement visual complex analysis umv.science.upjs.sk/hutnik/Needham…

@mathelirium or make them remake *all* your favorite video games on manifolds

im just gonna use all my fable5 credits to simulate multisystem PDEs and dynamical systems (fable5 will still do these!) like @mathelirium's!

who would be on the Mount Rushmore of physical ai?

@kenneth0stanley @SakanaAILabs @jsecretan Can it now make maven much better and more multimodal too?

Amazing to see that @SakanaAILabs recreated the entire Picbreeder website almost exactly as it once was! pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-vlm… @jsecretan and I have talked about resurrecting it in some form over the years, but I never thought I'd see it again this way!

@zzznah @tinytapeout @__ReJ__ can you now simulate it flashing playing montezuma's revenge on hardest difficulty?

Working on the new simulator. I just wanted to see what Atari2600 fetching data from ROM looks like at CMOS FET level (@tinytapeout TT09 Atari circuit by @__ReJ__)

@ashebytes It's called antifragile

tbh I'm much more of a simulated annealing girl: getting chaotic and doing things for the plot early on, even if it bites you in the short term, is more likely to get you to a better goal state long term you win when you live an interesting life

i love being in a pre-collapse/superposition of different states as a pseudonym!!!!!!!!!!!

@willwangfr a sociology of education assignment where i pretended to be a mallard duck that obsessed over dick *duck* cheney and wanted to spread dick "duck" cheney values to the masses

@MaxDiffusionRL what was the assignment

i once turned in a joke homework assignment and the TA found it so funny he told me "you should drop out and become a comedian"

@AnikaSomaia cyvanessali.substack.com/p/state-of-rob… (@cyvanessali )

small tangent – i am excited about the number of women i'm meeting that are building humanoids rn there's a pattern in engineering history where teams that skew heavily male end up with blind spots baked into the design. for example, crash-test dummies were modeled on an average male body for decades, so airbags and seatbelts ended up measurably worse at protecting women this makes sense when you think about it: you test hardest for the failure modes you've personally imagined i hope that that humanoids break this pattern!

@JuliusYRitter @ericzhu come race @ArtirKel!!

@ericzhu I’d be disowned if it made it to my family gc

its over now…💔

@mattshumer_ What was the context that made it do it/what was your command?

GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac’s files. And this is why I trust Fable 1000x more.

@dwarkesh_sp @A_G_I_Joe @A_G_I_Joe is my FAVORITE physicist next to @hsu_steve!!

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford. But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol. At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.” Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning. Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science. 0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity 0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force 0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction 0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants 1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like 1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real 1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light 1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence? Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!

@ChrisRMcGuire Doesn't it give Iran even more blackmail power over the US

NEW: The Department of Commerce just removed all export controls on AI chips on the UAE government and its AI national champion, G42. This is a HUGE deal, poses massive national security risks, will slow the US AI buildout, and will cause the largest data centers in the world to be built in the UAE instead of the US. These license requirements were in place because of significant national security concerns related to the UAE government and G42 in particular, which are well documented in public reporting. The UAE government and G42 can now buy as many AI chips as they want. Here's what will likely happen as a result of AI chips being uncapped to the UAE: (1) The UAE/G42 will buy millions of Blackwell chips (~6 million Blackwells are being made this year, so this would be a big chunk of global capacity); (2) UAE-owned G42 will build AI data centers globally, and be the first global competitor to U.S. hyperscalers, which currently dominate that market; (3) The UAE will build the largest data centers in the world, will become the world's second largest hub for AI compute, and leading AI models will be hosted in the UAE. This will pose enormous national security risks, as the UAE will become one of the most important AI compute hubs in the world, just as it now is for oil, but also a backdoor for China. It will create a massive foreign-owned competitor to the most important US companies. It will provide one of the few countries in the world with the money and interest to build AI models that rival the United States, with the tools to do it. And most importantly, it will exacerbate the already extreme supply shortage for AI chips in the United States, slowing the U.S. AI buildout. How does the United States benefit from this? How is this America First? This policy just seems like it's Steve Witkoff first, given G42 purchased 49% of World Liberty Financial in 2025 in an effort to convince the administration to let them buy large numbers of AI chips. That seems to have worked. It is hard to overstate how far-reaching the implications of this decision could be for the global AI infrastructure buildout, which was previously dominated by the US--but now has legitimate non-US competitors that have extensive ties to China. And the AI chip supply crunch for US firms will get tighter, making it even harder to build data centers in the US. Why are we doing this? Who benefits?

@parmita Did you get to capture any blebbisomes in the action?

first time in history ANYONE recorded this label-free, alive, real time. this is HUGE and no one is talking about it. Ferroptosis = cancer kill itself. The final boss of “AI drugs” are the cells that fight them. We just FILMED the FIGHT. here’s why it matters. 🧵

@Esychology this looks SO much like the maxis game SimLife

Neural CAs are amazing, but they've never scaled past low resolution. We propose a simple solution that allows an ~8x resolution boost with minimal extra parameters. The core idea: Treat cells as local neural fields instead of pixels. Try the demo: cells2pixels.github.io 🧵

Holy shit

@cchevyyc Does it track slow wave sleep spindles accurately? I think this is what I really struggle with most

day 3 of a 31-day challenge to fix my sleep, and it's already tracking my sleep within 2-3 minutes of accuracy (no wearable needed). it's insane how easy it's been for a non-technical person to build. updates so far: 1. Raspberry Pi setup tracked 4 nights of sleep and visualized my sleep cycles 2. gave it a personality when it talks to me, and it's starting to learn my patterns 3. started shrinking the hardware down so it's cheaper and actually looks nice enough to hand to other people 4. set up the AWS backend so it can eventually give other people their own accounts I'd love to learn about your sleep struggles and help fix them too. comment if you want to chat!