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@Jediwolf @SHL0MS Ain't no bias like TechBro selection bias, none whatsoever. Their entire petty world is built of selection bias and can't wait for LLMs to spoon at night.

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

@AlysssaHazel Have you tried The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?

Well Lads, As of page 233 and chapter 16, I'm tapping out of Blood Meridian. I may return, but (not to get graphic) I've thrown up multiple times since starting the book. My stomach issues didn't start with it, but it isn't exactly helping. It resulted in me starting to skim, and I didn't think that was fair. Here are my thoughts on what I did read; Cormac McCarthy is a prose master, creating incredibly vivid imagry (for better or worse) in compact executions. Part of the reason Blood Meridian is so effectively gruesome is how quickly and smoothly the startling details enter the text. There's also a overarching dread to the whole piece, built with an overwhelming oppression which McCarthy carried over from The Road. I personally can't comment on the nihilism because I didn't finish it, so I can't comment if anything good comes of any of it. I just felt incredibly worn out, though that could be whatever I'm sick with. Is it worth reading? I think it's a well-crafted book, and I think the reason McCarthy resounds with people is that he forces you to feel something, even if it's revulsion. Which is unique in the world of SSRIs and content slop. If you did finish the book, feel free to let others know how you feel. I'm gonna go...hold Squirmy or something. Lol.

@MyNamesGuy @DannyDrinksWine A well reasoned argument, you must have a very big brain.

@DannyDrinksWine I feel embarrassed, as a member of the human race, that so many people thought that this was a great film.

Joel Coen on the works that inspired "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000): "'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000) started as a ‘three saps on the run’ kind of movie, and then at a certain point we looked at each other and said, ‘You know, they’re trying to get home — let’s just say this is ‘The Odyssey.’ We were thinking of it more as ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ We wanted the tag on the movie to be: ‘There’s No Place Like Home." ("The Coen Brothers and George Clooney Uncover the Magic of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ at 15th Anniversary Reunion", Zack Sharf, 2015) P.S: On this day, 26 years ago, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

Years ago I tried to start a non-profit that delivered tampons and sanitary pads to homeless women (these supplies are often overlooked) anyway we had everything lined up, companies were going to donate the supplies, we would package and distribute. LA shut us down because we couldn’t guarantee how they would be disposed of. In fact the city fought us on it and called it an environmental hazard. Why are diapers any different? They aren’t, we just didn’t have the elite on our side.

I am old enough to remember when people used to believe every word of Sam’s bullshit (and to call me a “hater” for doubting him).

@AmerSongwriter "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash was written backstage in Gladewater, Texas, in 1956. Written in about 20 minutes as a pledge of devotion to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, it became his first number-one hit.

Dreams always served Johnny Cash well. The melody for his 1956 classic “I Walk the Line” came to him in a dream-like state, while he was serving in the Air Force in 1955, with the lyrics written later. In 1959, Cash gathered words following a deep slumber for his single “You Dreamer You“ (also known as “Oh, What a Dream”). Years later, Cash also got the idea to add mariachi horns to his 1963 classic “Ring of Fire” from a dream. In another dream, toward the end of his life, Cash found himself inside Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II, telling him he was like a “thorn bush caught in a whirlwind.” At first, Cash didn’t understand what the words meant until he later found similar passages in the Book of Revelation in the bible. As he put the pieces of his dream back together, Cash started writing “The Man Comes Around.” Read more below: americansongwriter.com/johnny-cash-wr…

@weasel_catcher You understand nothing of Platonism, where Science exists in the head, anti-Empirical at its core. And the very foundation of Western Bloviation.

@d4 I guess in your own head you thought that tweet made sense. It doesn’t.

A new article by Zeynep claims that scientists lost the public's trust, enabling covid conspiracy theories to form. I think it's a bad take, and it's mostly missing the story. archive.is/UZSwC

@Outlaw__Mike @CalumDouglas1 They usually do the math on check-outs. No check-outs in a N-years -- to the deposit library it goes (storage), a few more years and its gone, unless it gets a label.

@CalumDouglas1 'withdrawn from a university library' Which proves that universities are not immune to having complete idiots on the payroll. As has become abundantly clear the past few years, I might add.

Yes that is what I’ve got, the all five volumes of the immortal Ker Wilson vibration books. THE definitive knowledge base for all vibrations of rotating machines. You will be lucky to find a full set for any money. Vol 1 is readily available used or as pdf online but the full set is incredibly rare and very expensive. Of course they were all withdrawn from a university library 😑 and I bought them for peanuts as the seller thought they were a load of obsolete doorstops. Do not withdraw these from your engineering department library !!!!!!

an LLM, but processing tokens middle-out

@cqcqcqdx at least it's grounded... wait

The electrical outlet from hell! 🔥☠️💥 Who does this?

@FriedrichFiles @robbertleusink @grok Even grok algorithmically decides who's worthy of a reply.

@robbertleusink @grok was this an act of sabotage by Russians 😾

A worm ended 600 years of Dutch engineering... Dutch coastal dykes used to be made of dried seaweed Compressed seaweed base, wooden framework, and topped with boulders Flexible enough to absorb wave energy They lasted six centuries Until the 'paalworm' (shipworm) arrived... It ate the wooden foundations from inside And the dykes collapsed...

@sfiscience Paging Karl Popper, paging Karl Popper.

How can we best learn about the world? A new paper applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that scientists consider gold standards for designing experiments perform worse than random choice. In other words: random exploration may produce better theories than carefully-planned experiments. “These results contradict some common intuitions about the scientific method,” says lead author and SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@dubova_marina). santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

@JohnDCook Also that 35K is almost touching the 100K line, so the graphic is bit sus.

@JohnDCook If drugs/therapy worked to keep people functioning, you'd expect a similar chart.

I’d like to believe the people who would otherwise be in mental institutions were healed, but data say they’re either in prison or living on the street.

@marklit82 If the disease has many remedies, there is no cure.

The churn in the Python-based time series forecasting world is crazy. These are commit counts for a bunch of packages I went through this morning.

@davepl1968 But can you sum the arc length of an ellipse?

I can do a derivative. I can do an integral. But I can't solve a complex two-variable integral that requires substitution or any other tricks. I think solving integrals is like long division. You should spend a month doing it by hand to understand how it's done, and then use a calculator. Solving calculus functions is now easy. Knowing how and when to APPLY calculus is hard. THAT is what they should be teaching... not symbol processing.

@SterlingCooley @StuartHameroff If they prove it's conscious, then it's unethical to unplug it, and all the world must be taxed to keep it alive, and the founders rich to feed it power. It's a shakedown play.

@StuartHameroff What I want to know why are these people so desperate to claim AI is conscious ? Could it be... idk, money related ? Would someone financially gain big time if the majority of people believed that ChatGPT was conscious ?

Alex’s argument here is: 1) we’re clueless about consciousness, 2) therefore panpsychism must be correct, 3) and then AI must also be conscious. You’re not following the clues. The neurorepresentation of Alex’s ‘mental triangle’ is a distributed interference pattern encoded in dendritic-somatic microtubules inside brain neurons. When a coherent recall signal illuminates the interference pattern, a three dimensional hologram of a triangle is projected. That’s consciousness. pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/articl…

@NonsenseIsland I think he's saying "shinny sticks" as in Native American hockey game of shinny.

Speaking of films from 1930 now that they're in the public domain... I've always wondered, is comedian Charley Chase saying "shitty" in this scene from ALL TEED UP (1930)? I'm not sure what else he could be saying.

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@PhilosophyOfPhy Someday string theory will not be an opinion, just you wait! Someday all that money won't have been wasted on destroying the opinions of others.

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense! - Brian Cox