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I have something to do with books. 𓈌 ∧ ∆ ◯ ⊣◯ ⟐
#talesfromtheshed✨ Katılım Nisan 2010
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Mathematical beauty is a compass.
Experimental survivability is the territory. #talesfromtheshed✨
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If the structure disappears when translated into equations and observables, it was probably aesthetic coherence rather than physical coherence. #talesfromtheshed✨
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Deep-earth diamonds are revealing minerals never before seen in nature.
Not because the minerals suddenly formed —but because the diamond preserved them long enough for us to notice. This is remarkably close to the story of quasicrystals. #talesfromtheshed✨
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Generation is cheap. Continuity is expensive. #talesfromtheshed✨
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If the pattern disappears when the medium changes, it was probably notation. If the pattern survives transformation, scale, and experimental load, it may reflect structure. #talesfromtheshed✨
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Omar Yaghi’s metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) reveal a profound principle: the strongest structures are often mostly empty. Not emptiness as absence—but emptiness as permission. #Chemistry #MOFs #MaterialsScience #talesfromtheshed✨
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Perfectly sealed systems become brittle.
Perfectly open systems dissolve into noise. The interesting structures appear in between: bounded instability, constrained turbulence, governed resonance. Not chaos replacing order.
Constraint permitting coherence. #talesfromtheshed✨
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@anirbanbandyo A resonant cavity with a small leak is a surprisingly deep metaphor for reality. #talesfromtheshed✨
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nature makes cavity and adds two things, a little leak and little trigger to add chaos, you can make thousands of modes
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Detuning a resonant cavity lets the chaos organize itself into those glowing sheets and filaments that 'ignite' as you turn up the topological forcing
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The health of a border may be measured not by the absence of strain, but by whether the strain can be carried without rupture. #talesfromtheshed✨
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The bad faith and misleading claims on lawful access from Public Safety are very disturbing. The Bill C-22 metadata demands are not in line with key allies and raise serious privacy and Charter concerns that the government ignores.
michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/slick-…
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Public Safety Canada@Safety_Canada
(1/1) Fact or Fiction? Bill C-22 would require electronic service providers to keep all user data for a year. Answer: Fiction! Providers would only need to keep specific metadata of greatest value to investigators.
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One of the most important developments in modern physics and materials science is precisely this realization: topology and geometry constrain behaviour before chemistry fully specifies it. #talesfromtheshed✨
JJ@JosephJacks_
In the early 1970s, @StuartHameroff began writing about microtubules as molecular computers. By the mid-1980s, he was writing Ultimate Computing. When the book was published by Elsevier in 1987, it had cited no fewer than 14 scientists who would go on to win Nobel Prizes — in physics, chemistry, and medicine — across the following four decades. This may be the only book in human history with such profound prescience across so many domains. Future Nobel laureates in Physics cited: •Roger Penrose (2020) — cited for his 1957 Nature paper with his father Lionel on self-reproducing mechanical analogues •John Hopfield (2024) — Hopfield nets discussed across multiple chapters •Geoffrey Hinton (2024) — Boltzmann machines, parallel associative memory •David Wineland (2012) — 1986 paper on observing quantum jumps in a single atom Chemistry future laureates cited: •Robert Huber (1988) — protein conformational flexibility •Thomas Cech (1989) — catalytic RNA / ribozymes •Ahmed Zewail (1999) — picosecond spectroscopy of DNA/RNA torsional dynamics •Gerhard Ertl (2007) — STM surface topography of Pd single crystals •Martin Chalfie (2008) — C. elegans neuronal branching •Martin Karplus (2013) — protein dynamics simulations •Michael Levitt (2013) — protein normal mode dynamics •Eric Betzig (2014) — near-field scanning optical microscopy Physiology or Medicine future laureates cited: •Eric Kandel (2000) — cellular basis of learning and memory •John Sulston (2002) — C. elegans neurogenesis Hameroff also explicitly discusses the 1986 Physics Nobel (Binnig/Rohrer for STM) in the book — and a 15th future laureate, J. Georg Bednorz, would win the Physics Nobel later that very year (1987, high-Tc superconductivity), with his silver-films STM paper already cited in the nanotechnology chapter. drive.google.com/file/d/1_x1K_4…
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Intelligence is not proven by generation alone. It is proven by survivable continuity under interruption. #talesfromtheshed✨
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” —Buckminster Fuller
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The future likely belongs not to pure scaling or pure symbolism, but to systems that couple representation tightly to interaction.
Wonder without rigor drifts.
Rigor without wonder dies.
#AI #Cybernetics #Embodiment #MachineLearning #talesfromtheshed✨
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Current AI systems are astonishing pattern predictors—but prediction alone is not the same as grounded intelligence.
Hallucinations are not “bugs” in the narrow sense. They are symptoms of insufficient constraint. #Cybernetics #Embodiment #MachineLearning #talesfromtheshed✨
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@AnatoliKopadze Both paradigms are incomplete because both treat intelligence as primarily internal. One emphasizes symbolic manipulation. The other emphasizes adaptive statistical learning. But neither fully centres constraint-governed interaction with reality. #talesfromtheshed✨
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Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."
This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months.
It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it's going.
Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.
The part nobody wanted to hear:
> AI is already developing abilities its creators didn't intend
> in most cognitive tasks it's already ahead of us
> the question is no longer if it surpasses us but when
> the only decision left is which side of that line you're on
Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab.
They think they're using AI. they're using maybe 10% of it.
I went through his entire lecture, built a practical system from what he was describing.
18 steps to actually use Claude the right way, with copy-paste prompts that work today.
Full guide in the post below.
Anatoli Kopadze@AnatoliKopadze
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At quantum scales light and matter begin behaving less like separate categories and more like coupled excitations exchanging momentum, phase, and information. Coherence that appears weak at one scale may become governing at another. #talesfromtheshed✨
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Recent quantum circuit and spacetime research does not prove mysticism or simulation theory. But it does suggest something profound: the universe may be less object-like than relational.
Less machine. More field. #talesfromtheshed✨
phys.org/news/2026-05-q…
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Coherence is not the removal of limits.
It is what appears when the right limits hold. #talesfromtheshed✨ #amaximization
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The Shed has always resisted the idea that knowledge belongs exclusively to specialists. Expertise matters deeply—but wonder cannot survive if guarded like private property. #talesfromtheshed✨
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