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“AGI around the corner” starts to feel a bit like “SUSY around the corner” before the LHC

@douglasduhaime 😮 Doug someday you'll have to tell me what this is all about.

My life is complete. I'm speechless. It would be an honor. Just let me know what you like to eat. P.S. one time I met your mom at a show and she was so sweet 🙏 ❤️ 🎵

@KyleCranmer @nyuniversity I sometimes wonder if I got COVID on the Metro North train home from this. At the time it was still supposed to be "only in China" but I never had such a bad cold in my life!

Two years ago we held Machine Learning for Jets @nyuniversity Little did we know…

I've been having fun using machine learning to make chiptune audio. I wrote up a little hello world guide in case others want to experiment too :) douglasduhaime.com/posts/making-c…

Have you ever wondered why you can't multiply and divide vectors? It turns out you can, they just don't teach it in school! mattferraro.dev/posts/geometri…

@DanielWhiteson @DanielandJorge "Caught mid extrusion"... did that happen when congress pulled the plug on the whole thing?

It's a pic from a @DanielandJorge listener, who got it at an estate sale along with this story:

Nerds, can you guess what this is? Hint: it's particle physics related.

@johncarlosbaez @gro_tsen Correct, at low wimp masses, the energy transfer to the target nucleus becomes too small to detect. For higher masses, the local DM energy density is known to be ~0.3 GeV/cm3, so as mass increases, DM particle density decreases, limiting the "luminosity" of the experiment

@gfodor As a professional physicist (not sure if hardcore) I wasn't sure whether I should feel attacked. But then I re-read... can you link to a definition of physist? Google tries to correct me and if I insist on this term I only find results where people have misspelled physicist

Hardcore physists are the most naked swimmers in our current epistemological tide pool.

This article also reinforces the common misconception that deep learning is all about flexibility. If that were true, we would only need RBF kernels, which are like infinite width neural networks. In actuality, inductive biases play a large role in the success of deep learning.

@BasicScienceSav "History of philosophy without any gaps" podcast is great! But it is LONG. The first ~40 eps are a nice intro of everything up to Aristotle though.

Anyone aware of good resources for philosophy learning? I’ve been feeling like I need to refresh and deepen my knowledge but I’m not ready to commit to auditing a whole university class yet. Also if anyone is interested in a reading group hit me uppp

@johncarlosbaez Hmm I guess not? But it could be related to some kind of topological space.

@johncarlosbaez Out of curiosity, is there a name for the denominator term? It kind of looks like a 2-norm turned inside out.

OMG we're album art!

WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence

@BasicScienceSav Didn't they try this with cryptography and it didn't really work? It just made things a pain for companies, i.e. Java couldn't ship w/ crypto libs so you had to download open source ones separately

Thoughts on the draft #ai regulation principles? IMO, pretty limited and dissapointing...they're designed to protect industrial innovation not citizens. And of course they punt the issue of governmental use of AI... whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

@KyleCranmer Vidyo conference

FILL IN THE BLANK: A pod of whales. A murder of crows. A __________ of high-energy particle physicists.

From @skdh’s brilliant “Lost in Math”. All physics curricula should include these lines, which should also be inscribed in all physics departments as a reminder.