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🇦🇱 🇺🇸 “How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?”
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This is just like being alive in the 1600s when they got good at making complicated clocks and deduced that every complicated thing in the universe probably functioned exactly like a clock
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
There's a quadrillion-dollar question at the heart of AI: Why are humans so much more sample efficient compared to LLM? There are three possible answers: 1. Architecture and hyperparameters (aka transformer vs whatever ‘algo’ cortical columns are implementing) 2. Learning rule (backprop vs whatever brain is doing) 3. Reward function @AdamMarblestone believes the answer is the reward function. ML likes to use pretty simple loss functions, like cross-entropy. These are easy to work with. But they might be too simple for sample-efficient learning. Adam thinks that, in humans, the large number of highly specialised cells in the ‘lizard brain’ might actually be encoding information for sophisticated loss functions, used for ‘training’ in the more sophisticated areas like the cortex and amygdala. Like: the human genome is barely 3 gigabytes (compare that to the TBs of parameters that encode frontier LLM weights). So how can it include all the information necessary to build highly intelligent learners? Well, if the key to sample-efficient learning resides in the loss function, even very complicated loss functions can still be expressed in a couple hundred lines of Python code.
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Serbian crimes in Kosova 🇽🇰🇦🇱.
This mother hugs her baby for the last time 💔
Photo: Esat Shala.
Nora@noraleonora94
The Beqiri brothers, Halim and Hasan, were killed by the Serbian criminal army in Kosova🇽🇰🇦🇱 Photo: Esat Shala.
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Incredible that Gen Z is recreating the Desert Fathers’ attitude towards sex from first principles
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More people Trusting the Science (of near-death experiences):
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Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
The share of Americans believing in life after death in 1972: 76.3% The share of Americans believing in life after death in 2024: 82.4%
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Arthur Machen is a good example of this - a major writer in the decadent movement, and a high church anglican who joined the order of the golden dawn and ended his life as a Catholic.
David Quinn@DavQuinn
Why did so many self-styled 'Decadents' like Oscar Wilde eventually becomes Catholics? As 'Converts' author Melanie McDonagh explains, their decadence and then their Catholicism were partly reactions against the utilitarianism of the Victorian age. (Full talk in replies).
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A historic energy agreement signed today in Tirana 🇦🇱🇺🇸🇬🇷. The 20-year partnership for LNG supply from the United States, with a $6 billion commitment, is an investment in Albania’s energy security and that of the entire region.
Our country, and especially #Vlora, is positioning itself as a hub in the new energy architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean. When cooperation with our strategic allies translates into concrete projects, all of Southeast Europe benefits.
#Vlora #Albania #USA #Energy #Security
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated the Trump administration is being outwitted by Iran's leadership after negotiations in Islamabad collapsed without progress. The German chancellor's sharp criticism is expected to worsen already-strained relations between Washington and European NATO members.
The reality is that Germany’s disastrous economy needs Chinese market, cheap Iranian and Russian fuel as its leadership is incapable of changing course. So it makes sense that Merz would make such comments.
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I’m tired of the Aristotelian physics slander. Yes, heavier object fall faster than light ones, all else equal, *when immersed in a fluid* which is every environment Aristotle had access to. Do the experiment yourself. Drop a bowling ball and a same-sized ball of foam.
There’s a great paper called “Aristotle’s Physics: a Physicist’s Look” that demonstrates how Aristotelian physics is a special case approximation of Newtonian physics in the same way Newtonian physics is a special case approximation of relativity and QM.
Aristotle’s physics reigned for so long not because people were unthinkingly dogmatic, but because it was genuinely hard to come up with better models.
Aristotle had to model celestial objects separately from terrestrial objects because his terrestrial model is describing *terminal* velocity and breaks down in the zero-friction limit. So he had two incompatible models. Newton unified them. Now we have two incompatible models - QM and GR - and are looking for unification. The more things change…
Daily Roman Updates@UpdatingOnRome
Lmao.
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As to the shape of a woman's creative potential, Paglia devotes the final chapter of Sexual Personae to Emily Dickinson, "the greatest of female poets," whose writing has a "stupefying energy" and who can "sexualize any situation, even the picking of a flower"
Dickinson is (half) the face of the book cover and Paglia also decides to close the book probing what makes this woman "frightening" and how she makes "sterile with her own desire"
The final sentence:
"Voyeurism, vampirism, necrophilia, lesbianism, sadomasochism, sexual surrealism: Amherst’s Madame de Sade still waits for her readers to know her."
priscilla (alt)@seashell_luvr
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.” Paglia talks about how women don’t have to prove herself in order feel sense of worth due to our ability to grow life, while many men are driven by an intensity of alienation from nature and a need to assert form against it. She argues how in this way, artistic and scientific pursuits are a form of fetishism, perverted male intelligence, compensatory obsession that leads to extremes. She contrasts this with women, who, as life-bearing, remain more continuous with nature and therefore not compelled toward obsessive overproduction. But what if there was a distinctly female form of creative urgency, not a stemming from compensation, but direct transmission? If women are more receptive by nature, wouldn’t that receptivity allow for a different kind of creation: less driven by anxiety, and more by a sense of attunement, insight, or even duty to the collective to express what is perceived?
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Reputation laundering by Claret and Stewart
The Rest Is Politics@RestIsPolitics
🚨NEW EPISODE: Leading🚨 President Aleksandar Vučić joins @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret to discuss Serbia’s place on the global stage. How does he balance relations with Russia, China and the EU? What happens if EU enlargement stalls and could the US step in? And can Serbia join without recognising Kosovo’s independence? Link in the replies👇
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"When she [Andromache] first sees Aeneas, she faints, believing him to be a ghost. Upon waking, she delivers her lament, which focuses on her survival of the fall of Troy, her enslavement, and her grief for her lost husband and son." From The Passage (Aeneid, Book III).
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Philosophers were replaced by scientists who fail to grasp Dasein. Heidegger was right: Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht (science does not think.)
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Lord give me the confidence of a physicist who's read 0 philosophy
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‘[The] scientist is never more deeply under the sway of his metaphysical presuppositions than when he is unaware of their very existence.’
– Ludwig Klages
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The final scene of Wim Wenders' 1984 film 'Paris, Texas'
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"The difficulty is that all art is both abstract and suggestive at the same time. You can’t show everything. If you do, it’s no longer art. Art lies in suggestion. The great difficulty for filmmakers is precisely not to show things. Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible...”
- Robert Bresson
*Pickpocket 1959
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@Cryptosavv2 that is true dumbass but nobody is moving to shithole Greece
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In a decade they'll grow up to be this absolute chad.
constans@constans
It’s not a Balkan parade without a float reminding people of an irredentist cause
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