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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Your concern is the environmental impact? Why pick on LLMs vs Amazon or your local drug store? Or a local restaurant, for that matter? Do the calculations for how much LLM use is required to equal one hamburger worth of CO2 — or the CO2 of
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The difference between hype and reality is productivity—LLMs are productively used by hundreds of millions of people. Block chain is useful primarily in the imagination. It’s just really not comparable.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Check out the open letter to ban geoengineering research by European scientists https://www.solargeoeng.org/
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It just seems collectively insane to NOT be researching the hell out of the possibility that we could regulate our global heat balance issues for a cost of a few tens of billions of dollars a year. Especially when the alternative solution t
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The key point here is that we should be researching this stuff as fast as possible.
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Yes, I think it will be taking place for the remainder of our lifetimes. Solar growth is likely to remain exponential for the next decade or so, which will create a number of new opportunities. Other energy sources will also come online. Bu
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
… this points to the importance of studying the effects of deliberate atmospheric aerosol injections… I think calcium carbonate is very promising—but we need to start doing tests asap to learn the effects.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Im working on this challenge with the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam… hit me up if you are interested. Curious which books you are starting with!
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I wish there was a central way to track the books that have never been scanned or translated— just to show the work we have to do. My guess is that the majority of Neo-Latin works are unscanned and untranslated.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The thought of having kids is frankly terrifying. (It was for me!) I think most responsible people wait until they are “ready.” But, despite advances in fertility science, it can be truly challenging to have kids in your 40s.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
8bit Vibes Party in Amsterdam this Saturday, swing by! https://lu.ma/l4074pxg?locale=en-GB
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The Mouseion of Alexandria (the larger institution around the more famous library) was arguably the origin of the research university. Scholars there published scholarship in the humanities and sciences — and it lasted hundreds of years. h
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It’s driving a lot of interest in quantum computing, too. For better or worse.
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Pits of grease, with hot rocks—could they have fried food in it?
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
If I recall, there are hundreds of thousands of untranslated cuneiform texts—and less than 10% have been translated. I wish there was a resource that tracked all the untranslated classical texts. For instance, only about 10% of Neo-Latin te
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
In addition, we might consider writing the scientific papers ChatGPT hallucinates!
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Which is a more useful mental model for the user? 1. It’s a neural network predicting the next token 2. It’s like a person 3. It’s like a magical genie I lean towards 3.
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https://aixd.substack.com/
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All those guys had “beliefs in the occult”
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AI and experience design
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The principa and the scholium were written in NeoLatin, the version of Latin adopted from the Renaissance through the 1900s to write scientific, philosophical and other treatises
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And since I know the word “magic” is triggering, here’s a magical book by one of the founding members of the Royal Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Magick
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Yeah, so I’m working on a piece about this. Of course, “cosmic sympathy” and “harmony of the cosmos” goes back to the stoics and Pythagoreans. The direct use of the term vibration in the context of mental activity (“thought vibrations”) is
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Agreed, it’s astonishing intuition. It’s hard to call it a lucky guess when it is the last paragraph of Newton’s magnum opus. But very hard to explain. Choosing my words carefully, I think it was a kind of deep and deliberate magic. Of the
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
And, in the last paragraph of the general scholium, the appendix of the Principia, Newton describes electromagnetism and the role of electrical oscillation in the nervous system. It’s actually the root of the the history of “vibes” “And now
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“…the Nuwayrat individual is predicted to have had brown eyes, brown hair and skin pigmentation ranging from dark to black skin, with a lower probability of intermediate skin colour”
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Ohhh… cool!
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Hence, the lack of European innovation in AI
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“I’m going to be a few minutes late” Riiight
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Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal LLMs(nature.com)
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