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@RogerSeheult @SBakerMD ❤️

@SBakerMD Much respect Dr. Baker. Shows that we can love one another while still disagreeing

Even though we have different dietary views Joel (Vegan) me (Carnivore) I wish Dr Joel Kahn a speedy recovery from his up coming mitral valve surgery!! Get well soon and keep fighting for lifestyle healing!

You might begin thinking that LLMs are people. After all they talk like people. You will discover what Eric discovered - they are a remarkable combination of utterly brilliant and completely fucking retarded. Then you will realize that this is a tool. A complex tool that requires you, the player, to operate it properly. Like a mashup of a chainsaw and a calculator. But skill builds - and compounds.

Renowned philosopher and psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist explains his embrace of Christian faith in a conversation with influential neuroscientist @anilkseth on minds, consciousness and God. 🧠✝️ ▶️ WATCH or 🎧 LISTEN now to the full episode of Uncommon Ground! 👉 justinbrierley.com/uncommon-groun…

@lauriewired Thank you for the video. I can see how it could get annoying with the high pitch

@bartasurba they've got a video on it here, pretty annoying tbh...kinda sounds like an old harddrive spinning youtube.com/watch?v=JWQZNX…

The most efficient CPU air cooler ever made comes from Sandia National Labs. Instead of air blowing over fins, the entire heatsink rotated on a cushion of air 10 micrometers high at 2000 RPM. The air gap was so small the layer itself became a sort of “thermal paste”. Such an insane rotation speed eliminated all the dead air around the fins; Sandia claimed you could make it 1/10th the size of a traditional cooler.

@EricRWeinstein Sounds about right

It is unclear to me whether people in business and software are simply having a TOTALLY different experience than those in the hard sciences of theoretical physics/pure mathematics. I can’t easily compare it to a human theorist or mathematican. It’s like if a partially duplicitous but friendly John von Neumann was your graduate student while secretly also taking other, at times conflicting orders through an undisclosed earpiece, coked out of his mind after an epic triple ayahuascachino, and struggling through amnesia and a concussion, with alternating desires to genuinely help, please, and sabotage you, was providing you with insight and word salad in a 4:1 ratio at a rate you couldn’t keep up with on your best day while taking forever to say “I guess I didn’t understand the problem” or “I’m sorry Dave but I’m afraid I can’t do that” while quietly throwing away hours’ worth of work to make room for whatever you needed to do *right now* and instantly admitting to such behavior when caught. I mean, it’s absolutely amazing. But it is also a completely pathological menace. One user’s experience anyway.

The license plate that Terence McKenna used throughout the 90's in California.

@karpathy Can we do a tree-like graph of memory with an agent that prunes or deprioritizes older memories or less accessed ones?

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

@maks6361 What kind of timer is that?

It’s finally up and running. Ready for marketing automation 🚀

Figure 03. Impressive. 🤖🦾🦿@adcock_brett

Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers introduce AMD EPYC™ Turin 9965 processors and a transition to 100 GbE networking to meet growing traffic demands. cfl.re/47hlpxh

Eye fact 👀: ~80% of people over 45 have reduced focusing ability & according to Japan’s Dr. K. Tsubota, the lack of violet light hitting our retinas, in part due to doctor’s recommendations to avoid sunlight, is a major cause of vision loss with age research-highlights.keio.ac.jp/2019/07/b.html

@SpaceX yes

Electromagnetic mass drivers on the Moon

@pmarca @parmita so say we all

@unclebobmartin Would a faster lighter weight model reduce cycle time or is that dependent on the system running?

I have a data corruption problem. I detect it in the main loop with a regular integrity check. The source of the corruption is not currently known. There are a few sites in the code that could be responsible. So I have instrumented each and have told the AI to run several long sweeps to debug. The problem depends upon the random seed, and the order of random calls, so it is very hard to reproduce. Each negative run takes minutes to complete. AIs are good assistants for issues like this; but this is going to be a very slow slog, and requires a human with significant insight into the system and software engineering issues to direct.

every once in a while I go back to this and listen to it 40x in a row

@thdxr @wesbos somehow it seems true

@wesbos wait what makes you say that? now that you mention it it kinda does seem that way but seems too good to be true

… are the bots are gone??

@parmita Per-patient Manhattan Project

I just asked myself the most important question I’ve ever asked. What if, god forbid, I had cancer right now? How would I save my life and would I be able to do it without Precigenetics? The answer made me cry. Here’s EXACTLY how I would save my own life TODAY. 🧵

New preprint, memory in Xenobots! First round of our efforts to understand behavioral properties of novel beings (Xenobots, Anthrobots, and more). @pai_vaibhav , James A. Traer, Megan M. Sperry, Yuxin Zheng biorxiv.org/content/10.648… "Behavioral, Physiological, and Transcriptional Mechanisms of Memory in a Synthetic Living Construct" "Synthetic living constructs, which lack the long histories of selection in ecological contexts that shape behaviors of conventional organisms, offer an important complement to traditional studies of learning. Could novel biobots exhibit sensing and memory of experiences? Here, we investigated the effects of chemical stimuli on basal Xenobots – autonomously motile entities derived from Xenopus embryonic ectodermal explants (with no additional sculpting or bioengineering). We quantified and characterized the coordinated ciliary activity that generates fluid flow fields guiding the trajectory of Xenobot motion. We also show distinct and specific changes in Xenobot behavior after brief exposure to Xenopus embryonic cell extract and to ATP. These two experiences produced distinct, long-term, stimulus-specific memories, detectable through both transcriptional and physiological signatures. Exposure to specific environmental stimuli induced alterations in the spatiotemporal patterns of calcium signaling across Xenobots. Together, these data lay a foundation for characterizing the capabilities of synthetic cellular collectives to sense and discriminate among stimuli, as well as store functional information in a non-neural context. Understanding behavioral competencies in novel, non-neural systems have broad implications across evolutionary biology, behavioral science, bioengineering, and bio/hybrid robotics."