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@mattarrow

Lover of open software, open communication, open minds, and open doors

Katılım Temmuz 2009
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okazakitomohiro
okazakitomohiro@oo_kk_aa·
ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています
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Goob@goobgleeb·
ahh to be a fat bear floating down a river
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
Artemis 11 astronauts saw and heard this at the entry interface and plasma display in to Earth’s atmosphere.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
The math on this black hole should mass-humble every physicist who thinks we understand gravity. M87's central black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. It's 38 billion kilometers across. It spins at 80% of the theoretical maximum speed allowed by physics. And it's firing a plasma beam at near light speed that stretches 5,000 light-years into space. To put 5,000 light-years in perspective: if you started driving at highway speed when the Egyptian pyramids were built, you'd have covered roughly 0.0005 light-years by now. This beam covers ten million times that distance. The plasma travels in a spiral along a coiled magnetic field. Hubble watched it for 13 years just to confirm the motion pattern. And the beam isn't just decorating empty space. Stars near its path explode twice as often as stars elsewhere in the galaxy. Nobody knows why. The lead researcher at Stanford said they don't understand the mechanism at all. The black hole eats roughly 90 Earth masses of material per day. The energy output from that feeding process matches the power of the jet itself, somewhere between 10^33 and 10^37 joules per second. The upper end of that range is a number so large it has no human analogy. Your brain runs on 20 watts. This thing outputs more energy per second than every star in the Milky Way combined. And we photographed it with a telescope in 2019.
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Oliver ೫
Oliver ೫@oliverhamrin·
Just learned about Ken Isaacs' "Superchair" (1967). Built-in book rest, shelves, lamp, drink tray, and a seat back that folds into a bed. A place for "inventive work and the individual search for peace of mind", as he put it. It was meant for people to build it themselves, hence the almost unfinished look. Blueprints were published in Popular Science in 1968.
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grokpronoia@mattarrow·
The results of outsourcing our minds to the machine - if the systems ever go dark, we may lose the ability to think or build for ourselves. We risk a new dark age - future generations forced to rediscover everything we once knew
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT. What they found should concern every single person reading this. ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months. Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months. The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time. Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there. It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed. Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch. The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own. MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back. The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

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grokpronoia@mattarrow·
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
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Socratic Experience
Socratic Experience@socraticexp·
If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
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grokpronoia@mattarrow·
6 months ago I almost lost my left foot in a freak accident. Today I’m running again. The human body - when properly maintained - is a perfectly designed system of rejuvenation, and the western health care complex is an unstoppable machine of miracle workers
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Marlow Stern
Marlow Stern@MarlowNYC·
think about this exchange all the time
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grokpronoia@mattarrow·
@ViktorBunin Don’t underestimate the importance of alliteration in the flourishing fabric of syntax. In symphonic statements like the crescendo of a wave crashing upon surf tormented shores or a silent soliloquy spoken in quiet recesses as the first faint yet fragrant blossoms of hope emerge
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Viktor Bunin 🛡️🇺🇸
Viktor Bunin 🛡️🇺🇸@ViktorBunin·
Most of my writing advice comes down to three points: 1. Immediately get to the fucking point 2. Be specific and direct in what you're saying 3. Keep it as short as possible
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grokpronoia@mattarrow·
Microscopic bacteria are the original architects of all higher orders of consciousness and intelligence. Their presence in the topsoil flows into our food, our belly, our brain. You are what you eat! One of the best podcasts to explain this subtle nuance open.spotify.com/episode/4Upe2z…
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