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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) are paused for four years of major upgrades. The High-Luminosity (HiLumi) LHC will provide 10 times more luminosity by 2030. In its lifetime, LHC delivered more than 54 million billion proton collisions … Continue reading →
Since the advent of AI summaries in search engines blog readership has declined sharply. The downward trend started some time ago when video platforms like YouTube started having compelling content. I admit I spend a lot of time on YouTube … Continue reading →
The instrumentation quality, measurement precision and data analysis in the gravitational wave detectors improved so much that they are now observing roughly 1 black hole merger every 3 days. LIGO detects changes in space-time smaller than 1/10,000 the width of … Continue reading →
The latest summary from https://epoch.ai/trends. Compute performance per watt Compute performance per dollar Total compute power Cost of data center Cost of training Cumulative funding Overall efficiency Other
Good old scientific method Bootstrapping In a recent essay Natalie Wolchover mentioned the “Bootstrapping” method. “Bootstrapping, on the other hand, involves starting with a list of desirable logical and physical principles — symmetry principles, for example, and unitarity (the rule … Continue reading →
Ask AI this question: “Is information quantifiable?“. You will get answers starting with “Yes” or “Yes, absolutely.” This is a naive answer. Quantifying “information” in terms of the negative log of the probability (Shannon 1948; Shannon & Weaver 1949, Rényi 1961) is … Continue reading →
Acyutánanda Avadhúta is a monk of the socio-spiritual organization Ananda Marga. He has worked for decades in Ananda Marga’s Publications Department, his main duty being to produce accurate English versions of the many writings, mostly on spiritual topics and mostly in Bengali and Hindi, … Continue reading →
The title of this post comes from an expression Richard Gauthier used in one of his papers [1] “By reconceptualizing perception as internal self-modulation rather than representational transmission, P. R. Sarkar’s philosophy of perception dissolves the traditional mind–body problem and … Continue reading →
My son completed this Lego project. It is beautiful! Lego Vincent van Gogh (LVG) is observing the universe and painting (modeling) it. This is a symbol of our cognitive process. We also observe the universe and model it in various … Continue reading →
. Original copy of the article: P. R. Sarkar’s Concept of Evolution through Clash and Cohesion and Microvita, and P. R. Sarkar’s Yogic Philosophy Solves the “Hard Problem” of Consciousness https://www.academia.edu/attachments/125409110/download_file?s=portfolio The article is also in the Talks section of … Continue reading →