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by joak 4y ago
First author: GPT-3 Abstract:"GPT-3 is a powerful artificial intelligence system that can generate text. In this paper, we explore GPT-3's ability to write about itself. We find that GPT-3 can generate clear and concise descriptio
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Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?(hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
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by joak 4y ago
So GPT-3 writes a paper about the ability of GPT-3 to write a paper about... Hofstadter strange loop
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by joak 4y ago
The paper is here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250v1 Title:"Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?" Abstract: "GPT-3 is a powerful artificial intelligence system
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We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself–Then We Tried to Publish(scientificamerican.com)
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Giant calamitous snails that spew parasitic brain worms, in Florida(arstechnica.com)
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by joak 4y ago
Excerpt: Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. It converts heat to electricity with over 40% efficiency—making it more efficient than steam turbines, the indus
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Thermophotovoltaic converts heat to electricity with over 40% efficiency(technologyreview.com)
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NASA Announces Artemis Concept Awards for Nuclear Power on Moon(nasa.gov)
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by joak 4y ago
Excerpts: the researchers identify the number of minutes that people waste on pointless activities each working day [...] then extrapolate these figures to come up with a “weighted total futility” (wtf) lifetime estimate of time -- Correcti
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Work, the Wasted Years(economist.com)
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by joak 4y ago
By thought I meant "process happening the brain". It is not metaphorical, it's a very concrete physical process. A perception is a particular thought originated directly from a physical phenomenon (eg. pressure on the skin, l
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by joak 4y ago
We can run profilers and debuggers on themselves. We can imagine a model taking as input its own internal data. Doesn't seem a big deal...
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by joak 4y ago
Regarding consciousness: we don't know how consciousness is implemented in the brain, that's true, but we might be able to implement it quite easily in a computer. I'm not sure if there is definition of consciousness everyone
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by joak 5y ago
Producing electricity from Brownian motion ?!
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by joak 5y ago
Excerpts： "A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current." "The idea of harvesting energy fro
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Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene (2020)(news.uark.edu)
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OneWeb turns to a competitor–SpaceX–to complete its constellation(arstechnica.com)
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by joak 5y ago
The Apple II, and most home computers of that era, use a TV as a display. So if you pushed the signal power high enough, what you typed was visibly on all TVs around. As a teenager I remember sending love messages to the neighbor. She was m
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Bellingcat Open-Source Intelligence: Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War(time.com)
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by joak 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'm still puzzled.
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Even when it's windy?! How the windchill effect does work? I thought it was because it accelerates the evaporation. Not sure though...
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by joak 5y ago
Yes, exactly. If you pour water on you and sit in front of a fan, why the windchill effect wouldn't work anymore?! I think this stuff only happens in absence of wind...
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I dunno, I think that evaporation happens even if there is a lot of humidity in the air. The fastest (hottest) water molecules are going to escape the liquid water. The wind will carry them away. I think this phenomenon does not take in acc
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by joak 5y ago
I'm not sure of that. If you wet your body (or clothes) and sit in front if a fan (or in the wind of there is some) you will cool down. Why? The fastest molecules tend to jump out of the surface of the liquid water. The wind push them
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Robert Zubrin: Fusion Power Is Coming(quillette.com)
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by joak 5y ago
Ginkgos are peculiar plants, with ovules and spermatozoids. I don't know if the term "seed" applies well. You need an (fertilized) egg to grow the plant. https://kwanten.home.xs4all.nl/ovule.htm
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by joak 5y ago
Cheaper than building new roads for sure. Also the traffic lights AIs would be able to talk to their fellow robotaxis. And improve traffic further.
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AI traffic lights could reduce waiting times at intersections(newatlas.com)
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by joak 5y ago
Excerpt: "As solar power gets cheaper and oil becomes more scarce, at some point this decade it will be cheaper to extract carbon from the air than to drill mile-deep holes in the crust on the other side of the world. Synthetic fuels a

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