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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Most wet organic or biological materials will produce memristive (pinched hysteresis) IV curves when measured with macroelectrodes (1–20 mm contact scale) due to inherent interfacial electrochemistry, ion migration, or redox processes at th
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
The best source is the one that provides the widest breadth of information on a topic. This is a good use of wikipedia: "Like, if there's a subject about which you aren't personally an expert, and you have the choice between
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
How is this related to that at all? The fungi they used are clearly dead...
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
"Warts and all" says it all really. What are those warts? Who's responsibility are they? Wikipedia is really not ideal for the LLM age where multiple perspectives can be rapidly generated. There are many topics where clusters
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Preserved through dehydration? This means the fungus is dead.
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
"Wikipedia, in my mind, has two main purposes: A quick visit to find out the basics about some city or person or plant or whatever, or a deep-dive to find out what we really know about genetic linkages to autism or Bach’s relationship
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
The only successful experiments probing consciousness are in anaesthesia or psychedelics. Everything else is wonderful but theoretical.
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Was the fungus alive or dead? How did the memristive curve change depending on viability? Are all biological materials alive or dead memristors? In this case what is it about the property of the IV curves that is so ubiquitous? Is it actual
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
That is because it is cool theoretically but not useful in practice. Every organic material is a memristor and even good memristors are not scalable. RRAM resistive switching is the far more useful property and this has already been investi
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
You are discussing the possibility of a transit arrest for merely hosting a network for free and open-source software projects? No big deal? LOL
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Probabilistic Computing with P-Bits(arxiv.org)
2 points by physarum_salad 1y ago|0 comments
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Hilarious and also a great example of how stupid peer review is.
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Well its always funny to observe politicians/other VIPs use similar technologies to the most "loopy" prepper when they need to. Like actual faraday/signal jamming tents during negotiations or similar.
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
We should have access to a Borges/Thomas Pynchon style dictionary of many possible paths to information. That kind of thinking should be encouraged. It can be confusing and controversial. - I would avoid giving the impression that a si
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
What's ur opinion on adult neurogenesis? Do you think the progression of that article suggests that wikipedia is the model to follow for scientific information? What about important and controversial historical events? Do you think tha
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Academics with diverging views just started editing wikipedia to suit their views and the whole thing was very preliminary and not accurate for a long time. Then it was bailed into a "controversial" section. I intentionally picked
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Yes but with AI, in principle, there is more wriggle room to present a spectrum of opinions on a single topic. It is all about what is baked into the models. Like can it discuss x topic from multiple competing angles and capture the complex
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Definitely not! It will be better on certain topics and worse on others. It is all down to whether you think Grok is more thorough with controversial topics, scientific and medical information, etc compared with the current human edit-a-tho
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
For example, the page on Adult neurogenesis had an overreliance on early and limited evidence in 2010s with lots of editing wars occurring by academics. Then it got shifted to "controversial" which is better but the process for de
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
It is a great example of "objectivism" where on the surface it seems neutral and rational but actually is the subject of intense motivations that corrupt the content. This is particularly true for anything related to politics, his
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
scholarpedia is the best because it has almost zero biography pages/knuckleheaded political slants. However, it seems to have just have stopped in its tracks c. 2008
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Yes, I am interested to see if Grokpedia can live up to the initial hype. As much as I dislike wikipedia it is a difficult thing to get right. In particular where lots of political and business interests (and others, etc) apply pressure to
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Yeah let us find random ways, that we never used to care about, to ban all foreign websites so a "brit" can take over haha. This is quite authoritarian and corporatist and worthy of some criticism from more libertarian minded onlo
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Hopefully many more companies do this and British internet users migrate to use of VPNs. This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws.
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
"Computing with rocks"
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
Another option is to completely cover tick infested areas with suitable fungal spores: https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/fungus-potential-viable-al...
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by physarum_salad 1y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002228362... Bacteriophages might be an interesting approach to treating Lyme disease in future. Pretty speculative at this stage though and how do you even
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Ophiocordyceps use scramblase-binding peptide to manipulate zombie ants(biorxiv.org)
3 points by physarum_salad 1y ago|0 comments
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The Achilles' heel of memristive technologies(nature.com)
1 points by physarum_salad 1y ago|0 comments
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Analog in-memory computing attention mechanism for fast energy-efficient LLMs(nature.com)
5 points by physarum_salad 1y ago|0 comments

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