Agastya
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Agastya
@botanisant
Consolidate the surface of human knowledge . Synesthesia can be taught . I like the technovitalists
Katılım Şubat 2022
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if you were going to write a book based on an idea or concept that feels central to your life, and then a sadistic man put a gun to your head and said: "summarize your book in one sentence. make it perfect, or else 🔪"
What would your one sentence be?
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The little blue ‘save’ ribbon is less of an “I’ll go back to this later” and more of an “if I tap a second, different color button, I’ll be less likely to forget this post”
Some day I’ll go thru my saves and, having never optimized the process, drown in noise and walk away empty
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Do you think the clover are under evolutionary pressure to expose the bunny to the hawks?
horse dentist@equine__dentist
oh to be a bunny hiding in a patch of clovers
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Rare tweet that just made me stop
Ryan Moulton@moultano
Do you think the clover are under evolutionary pressure to expose the bunny to the hawks?
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@QiaochuYuan AHHHH ITS EVEN WORSE IT IT ITS BECAUSE
ITS BECAUSE ZERO IS IMAGINARY
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Shegun 🌪️🌟@ShegunTweets
billy asked sheldon to prove that zero exists, and when he tried he kept contradicting his own statements. so he went to two of his professors, and they ended up realizing they couldn’t prove it either
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@QiaochuYuan Oh WOW so x^2=-1 is imaginary because NEGATIVE NUMBERS ARE IMAGINARY
HOLY F UUUUUCK
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funnily enough the deeper you go into mathematics the more suspicious negative numbers seem. it becomes increasingly meaningful that there's no such thing as, like, -1 apples, as they say. addition is very straightforward but subtraction is surprisingly often bizarre black magic
i can't think of a really simple example but here's a calculus example. so the taylor series of e^x goes
e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ...
and so forth. when x is positive this is all fine and dandy, each of these individual terms is an increasing function and you add them up and you get a really quickly increasing function, an exponential curve
when x is negative something really strange happens. e^x decreases as you get negative, e^{-10} is really small, e^{-100} is tiny. but the individual terms of the taylor series are getting much larger! the taylor series expansion
e^{-100} = 1 - 100 + 100^2/2! - 100^3/3! +-...
results in a number whose decimal expansion starts with 44 zeroes, it is absolutely tiny. and yet the largest term in the taylor series expansion (it's a nice exercise to figure out what term this is and why, take a few seconds to try before reading on) is 100^100 / 100! which is a 1 followed by 42 digits
it's almost a googol times bigger than the final result! which means this whole taylor series expansion involves a really insane amount of very precise cancellation, even though if you didn't know this was the taylor series expansion of e^x you'd have no way of knowing this a priori and it wouldn't be remotely obvious staring at the series from first principles
davidad 🎇@davidad
It seems odd that there’s a rough societal consensus that 1+x=0 needs to have a solution—and that it’s not just an imaginary number to appease the accountants—but 1+x²=0 need not have a solution, unless it’s an imaginary number to appease the physicists and electrical engineers.
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@madeofmistak3 If you account for the clock drift in the entangled minds it is simultaneous
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are psychic communications instantaneous or are they limited by the speed of light?
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"Metropolis II," by Polish painter, Jacek Yerka, 1989.
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A.I. is soulless, no matter what generation.
If you want to see actual art in this peculiar style, made by a real human being with a camera, then watch Patrick Bokanowski's La Plage (1992), Au Bord du Lac (1994) or Flammes (1998).
hunny@Hunnyindapants
Bring old a.i art back! There was something uniquely artistic about it, it felt like the computer had a soul
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In this case I’d say the caption does take away from the impact
I may have felt some dread before I saw someone telling me explicitly to feel dread
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Utah teapot 🫖@SkyeSharkie
What? Legit can someone explain why this image would make anyone feel existential dread?
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@taijitu_sees @agraybee Oh wow yes it is the LLM bouncing off the walls of the topic
Ricocheting
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@botanisant @agraybee I was talking to marine biologist and they were researching seaweed for human consumption and said it's a good source of protein. Asked for the amino acid profile and they blanked out and started talking about its iodine content and other nutrients.
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So why does AI love this so much if it wasn't that common before?
Daniel Wortel-London@dlondonwortel
It’s not just new, it’s newspeak
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@noveltokens Someone had Melody Rotator as their bio and I was like “follow”
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Pinning this because conspiracy theory in reverse is wonderful I shall think on it
Oliver Traldi@olivertraldi
The notion that there is a discipline whose practitioners can, despite deep theoretical disputes and uneven training, solve every emotional and interpersonal problem of every person who chooses to avail themselves of their services is almost a kind of conspiracy theory in reverse
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@eshear Words are shadows of high dimensional shapes, projected onto a low dimensional screen
I like this model bc it tracks with how shifty/subjective the meaning of words can be, and why it’s so difficult to model this
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Taijitu Observer@taijitu_sees
Turns out everything in existence is connected. There's probably some fairly low level of semantic space that's in common with humans. This can be interesting, but the uncommon areas might be even more fascinating.
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Numbers are (potentially very large) points in some state space. Words are shapes, which is to say high dimensional subspaces or distributions, in those same state spaces. So the real question is whether you can get your precision high enough to start rotating words directly.
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LLMs predict the next token in the same sense that humans predict the next body motion
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