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9% of global CO2 emissions come from blast furnace steelmaking. these guys just made 1 ton of the highest grade steel on Earth in under a year, fully electrically, with less than $2 million. congrats Morgan and team!

@laurentdelrey this is lovely :)

had fun working on my first hardware project recently with my son, we built a little radio transmitter that sends messages into space! we hooked it up to hellooo.space if you want to send one

@elocinationn yea every era latches on the main technology as the root metaphor for life and i agree that more metaphors means more ideas! @jordanstrasser had one with cells to societies iirc

All models are wrong but some are useful, yes. Levin talks as if the pervasive view is life-is-not-machine, when in reality if you’ve had you’re eyes open for the past 3 years it’s the opposite problem, the machine/computer being projected onto biology is the one that’s being constantly over extended. This has been the case since Descartes’ clockwork universe imo. I think it constrains our imagination to what we’ve created. I’ve read a lot of his work and like the way he thinks about the world! I am of the view that more breakthroughs in biology will come when we focus more on how life analogizes with things like economies and societies and countries etc. will add that I’m thinking a lot about this in the context of cancer and how to treat it, which might not be obvious from the post. Everyone’s thinking a lot about consciousness atm, not rly my train of thought.

Living things: born incomplete, grow to maturity, compete for resources, decay, die, self-recycle, constantly in flux Machines: born complete, static, reducible to the same components across time I still struggle to understand how we analogize so readily between the two. Life really does not feel machine-like at all. What machines have features like the first category above? (RL is the absolute weakest version of ‘grow to maturity’ I can think of and it’s a stretch)

@ilanbigio reads very well, thanks for writing!

back in 2019 i reverse engineered the lyft bikes api to unlock them from my bed. it's one of my favorite stories, and I just wrote up the whole thing up this is my first personal technical writeup/adventure story, so let me know what you think! links below

@poetengineer__ super cool!!

also really fun to spin the wheel to go through the podcast ideas like a dj 😎

seeing a podcast before listening to it 👁️🦻 been working on a podcast timeline visualizer that shows: - what books/ideas/ppl are mentioned and how often - key concepts and moments across the whole episode - interactive scrubbing thru the ideas to get more context

thanks to @alexeyguzey for the encouragement :) x.com/alexeyguzey/st…

The idea stemmed from discussions with @matthieulc, inspired by DeepMind’s Genie to build a music world model that learns latent actions in musical space. He wrote a technical post about it! matthieulc.com/posts/melodjin…

Music is one of the most practical and scalable forms of experience exploration technology humans have. But it’s hard to make and find great music. AI music means tools that can navigate feeling space better than existing tools. (more below)

@rgblong not a playlist but an album. on the music sheet, Satie wrote «In order to play the motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities» and performers took this seriously.

I love randomly coming across absolutely unhinged playlists on Spotify other good ones?

@honualx congrats!

I've thought a few times about going startup before. With Gradium, the perfect opportunity arised. We're building unmatched speech products, now open to anyone. I will keep an active role leading ambitious research at Kyutai, while devoting most of my time as CSO of Gradium.

@simonsarris @Nico__Chuan tbh i like the intersections. how the weird-takes-simon takes on photography, how the flowers-simon takes on building tech. these are the parts where I find the most new things

@Nico__Chuan a big % of my followers only want weird takes, another % only want photography, another % only want tech posting, another % only want...

meetinghouse .cc just hit 1000 users and 212 pins no more updates for a while I'm sure you're tired of this! But it's exciting to me.

we've just achieved one of the highest iron purity available on the market. insanely proud of the team, thank you to the day one believers!

how to win cells and influence tissues

@micheli_vincent congrats vincent!! super excited to see what you'll build

We’re starting a company to build the next frontier of embodied intelligence - General Intuition We believe the time has come to move from words to worlds, and we’re developing foundation models capable of acting in any environment. Starting with video games!

pulling up this thread in honor of his nobel prize!

@sebkrier @deanwball what’s the cause?

@deanwball not AI caused

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@jesseengel super cool

Realtime interactive generative models FTW! Announcing a new 🌊 of details and features for Magenta RealTime, the open weights live music AI model from GDM! * Live Jamming with audio input 🎤🎸🎵 * Personalize your own models 🔧 * Tech report 📜 Links below in the 🧵...