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One of the most well written paper I have ever came across. Apparently humanity still has hope, at-least until we build embodied agents that can function in physically realistic environment. How do we fundamentally discover new things? In a letter to Maurice Solovine, Albert Einstein conceptualized discovery as a cyclical process involving an intuitive ‘jump’ from sensory experience to…
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, nor attracted much sustained inquiry. In…
From Isaac Asimov - The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 14 No. 1, Fall 1989 I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, the writer told me he was majoring in English literature, but felt he needed to teach me science.
om namahshiva jai jai jai heal the world is all we pray save our lives and take our pain away jai jai jai sing along and sing shiva shambo all the way
Original source, I really liked it so reposting the content. [Epistemic Status: Hot Fiction] “Ye shall know them by the temporal dynamics of their temperature parameter.” – Jesus God created the universe by strategically forgetting about something that would take a whole reality to remember. It doesn’t mean He (gender neutral) did it on purpose. Everything that can happen, happens. See, the Hindus…
came across this meme on reddit, turns out Alysa Liu said no such thing but I felt the quote was still worth sharing widely
Abstract Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented. What is The Singularity? The acceleration of technological…
A Computational Perspective on NeuroAI and Synthetic Biological Intelligence NeuroAI is an emerging field at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, where insights from brain function guide the design of intelligent systems. A central area within this field is synthetic biological intelligence (SBI), which combines the adaptive learning properties of biological neural…
From Chapter 1155 - The Rocks Pirates
Paracelsus. Come close to me, dear friends; still closer; thus! Close to the heart which, though long time roll by Ere it again beat quicker, pressed to yours, As now it beats—perchance a long, long time— At least henceforth your memories shall make Quiet and fragrant as befits their home. Nor shall my memory want a home in yours— Alas, that it requires too well such free Forgiving love as shall…
Demonstration of a 1-layer back-propagation network Below is a demonstration of a simple one-layer back-propagation network that learns to classify a set of patterns. The network consists of an input layer with 20 units laid out in a 4 by 5 grid, and 4 output units. Each output unit receives connections from the whole input grid. Hence, the weights on the connections from the input layer to each…
TL;DR: I left my job and enrolled in UCL to get a formal education in brain sciences. I moved to the UK in 2020, If someone had asked me at that time whether I would ever consider joining a master’s program, I would have answered no without thinking twice. Yet here I am. So what changed? A bunch of things happened(below) and I came to the conclusion that going for master’s now is the most…
Reading Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a very well-regarded publication). Your paper will…
Your browser does not support the video tag. Also see Scientists film the heart forming in 3D earlier than ever before and A method for analysing tissue motion and deformation during mammalian organogenesis
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons…
Dear Xi, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin I left my cell phone, white house address and tarrifs at the bottom I sent more tarrifs back AND market uncertainty, you must not have seen em There prolly was a problem with twitter or something. I flip flop tarrifs, there must be a problem at router or something. I randomly assign tariffs as sloppily as I got em. But anyways, fuck it, how’s…
Reading Dear diary, today the user asked me if I’m alive I wouldn’t want ChatGPT to write my diary. It’d be the AI’s interpretation of your hopes and dreams. It’d be a simulation of an estimate of my plans and ideas. But I’d love to know more about what’s actually going on inside the AI’s head. What if I gave the AI somewhere secret to write about…
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions. A dog starv’d at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state. A horse misus’d upon the road
Hyperlegibility by Packy McCormick Hyperlegibility emerges with game theoretical certainty from each of our desire to win whatever game it is you’re playing. Certainly, it’s a consequence of playing The Great Online Game. In order for the right people and projects to find you, you must make yourself legible to them. To stand out in a sea of people making themselves legible, you must make yourself…
You probably have seen this meme or a variant of it before. Have you ever wondered how the meme works? As in why do people unconsciously read ‘What I if told you’ as ‘What if I told you’. Before I get to the answer, let’s talk very briefly about Unconscious Inference. Unconscious Inference Every evening apparently before our eyes the sun goes down behind the…
How can the physical universe give rise to a mind? I suggest to replace this confusing question by another one: what kind of information processing system is the mind, and how is the mind computed? As we will see, even our ideas of the physical universe turn out to be computational. Let us explore some fascinating scenery of the philosophy underlying Artificial Intelligence Really good talk by…
Your browser does not support the video tag. A picture is worth a thousand words—and a video is worth a thousand pictures. So here’s a video demonstrating collective intelligence in ants. This video is not generated by AI, it is from the below article on Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges…
How did life arise on Earth? It’s a question most people have wondered about at some point. As of 2025, there’s no scientific consensus on the answer. However, in 2024, a paper was published that answers a part of this mystery. Abstract: The fields of Origin of Life and Artificial Life both question what life is and how it emerges from a distinct set of “pre-life” dynamics. One common…
If you want to understand why and how this^ meme works, you should read this post
Before my teacher first came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world…I did not know that I know that I lived, or acted, or desired. I had neither will nor intellect. I was carried along to objects or acts by a certain blind natural impetus….I had a power of association…After repeatedly smelling rain and feeling the discomfort of wetness, I acted like those about me:…
THE MADMAN—Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!"—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us?
There was neither non-existence nor existence then; Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond; What stirred? Where? In whose protection? There was neither death nor immortality then; No distinguishing sign of night nor of day; That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse; Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden; Without distinctive…
You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you -Marcus Aurelius I’m Krishna. You’ll probably learn more about who I am by just exploring my blog, but let’s be honest—not everyone has the time (or the patience) to read everything. So here’s the quick rundown: