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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I agree it is underhyped. Many are like “oh, this is like blockchain, web3, ar/vr, quantum”— but whatever the promise of those technologies, AI is the only one with hundreds of millions of people productively using it everyday.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Like PHI — textbooks are all you need. You can create entirely synthetic yet high quality training data with a strong model (the generated textbooks) and make very small models like PHI.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
And Cornelis Drebbel invented the first thermostat and the first chemical air conditioning system in the early 1600s. Cybernetic alchemist.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Except it inadvertently showed that LLMs might be more flexible thinkers than most people. Everyone knows…
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starkey Man is amazing. Bummer about the plague.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Man, this is definitely a 2025 hacker news comment. Amazing.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
“Our whiskey is carcinogenic but it’s ok because…” Said every whiskey manufacturer ever.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
You can ask this lady: https://concettaantico.com/
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Some people with two X chromosomes have this ability. And all birds. If you are bored, try to get Gemini/claude to make a color wheel for birds or tetrachromats. An aside: Recently I learned that birds are reptiles. That hurt my brain
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
“how much of this is ‘seeing’ and how much is emergent in the brain” Yeah… it’s gonna be hard to distinguish those in the best of circumstances.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I wish there was a tracker showing all the unscanned and untranslated books in the world. I was astonished to discover that less than 10% of Neo-Latin books have been translated (ie, most of everything published, from the renaissance to mod
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
But public transport in the Netherlands works because society as a whole isn’t broken. There aren’t even any noticeable homeless populations, for godsakes. Which is why I’m happy to pay taxes there. It’s really worth it in quality of life.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Mitochondrial health is definitely going to be a big theme in the coming years.
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And, avocados are actually as radioactive as bananas (high potassium)
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Fuck, yes, this is the future I want. Great job guys, keep at it! Also—I appreciate the alchemical aspects. A nice aesthetic for a future vision.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
$50 million! Now we can bring back USAID, PBS and… Oh fuck, this is going to be a hard road.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Source?
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Wikipedia on Pharos says “height estimated at between 115 and 145 meters (384 – 469 ft)” At the upper bound, it was (almost) taller than the great pyramid (146m originally).
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I guess it’s the sort of thing that encourages secrecy even into the far past — from both the takers and those from which it was taken from. How to know mining yields and extrapolate past mining? https://chatgpt.com/share&#x
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
That’s what he disputes…
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
It was the tallest building in the world? And it survived till the 1300s?? Wild.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
What about the platonic bits? Any other articles that give more details there?
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
That’s my understanding of how modern money laundering works. Can’t move your money out of a particular bank due to regulations? Use it as collateral to loan money to any other entity you wish. Fancy. I talked to someone recently who claime
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The pie can always get bigger.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
No wheel, no bronze/iron and lots of child sacrifice… But great architecture and urban planning… plus writing and math. It’s wild.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I was encouraged to leave my wallet and phone on the table of time out, while we went and got food. My friends rationale was: there are CCTVs everywhere and thieves are dealt with very harshly. So eff it
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Remember reading “highlights” and getting scholastic magazines where you could choose which books to buy? Good luck finding that kind of ambient infrastructure for pleasure reading today…
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Yes! I’ve been prototyping dreaming LLMs based on my downloaded history—and motivated by biomimetic design approaches. Just to surface ideas to myself again.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
> People most often burn out because of the lack of agency, not hours worked.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
It also correlated with the discovery that voluntary carbon credits weren’t sufficient for their environmental marketing. If carbon credits were viewed as valid, I’m pretty sure they would have kept the programs.

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