Flowers @flowersslop Except GPT-4 is around 21 million times bigger than this. Our brain is also magnitudes bigger, more complex, and still more efficient than GPT-4. But at the level of the neurons, both do nothing fundamentally different. And *something* emerges from all this. In both cases. Machines are only as smart as their designers and handlers,
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Since the Solar Photography group is using Facebook methods. When any of the group runs into things, it is also a Solar Photography group issue. Is “joining” the same as following? One day it might be useful for the group to use servers that support sharing and collaboration on solar images. I think about things
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Mark Riedl @mark_riedl HIVE MIND: I saw an interesting-looking paper on Twitter within the last few weeks that was trying to quantify generalization in LLMs. I didn’t grab it at the time, and now I cannot track it down. Any thoughts on what it might have been? Thanks! Replying to @mark_riedl ( quantify generalization in
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Flavio Donato @FlavioDonato82 How can memories persist in the brain when their properties and supporting biological substrates change over time and experiences? Our latest work newly published in @ScienceMagazine proposes that a balance between memory dynamics and persistence is achieved through the divergent recruitment of multiple memory traces established in parallel upon memory encoding. https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk0997
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The Otorongo Lodge @OtorongoLodge Another dead Electrophorous varii. Not really sure what did this one in, I can only hypothesize that a bank collapsed on it and remained buried long enough to drown it 😬 https://pic.x.com/8owkk3gvjy Replying to @OtorongoLodge ( “Electrophorus varii” ) has 2,240 entries ( “Electrophorous varii” ) has 2 entries ( “Electrophorus
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Cin-Ty Lee @CinTyLeeEarth I used to be a big fan of interdisciplinary science, but not anymore, at least not in practice. We r seeing too much performative interdisciplinary science now and they are not producing much to get excited about. The reason why they often fail is that interactions are forced by Replying to @CinTyLeeEarth
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Bureaucracies have IQs: Business processes depending on humans memorizing and processing symbols will almost always fail During the really cold war, it was impossible to study nuclear reactions. So everyone studied and wrote about astrophysics and stellar models. Science fiction just uses “alien species”. Jonathan Swift used fictional worlds. Perhaps you all can write about
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@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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Debra, I read your message again. Yes join the group on GedMatch and learn what it can do. But it is only about 2 Million Tests, so do not expect magic solutions. Ancestry DNA Painter https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Chromosome-Painter?language=en_US DNA Painter Example on DNAPainter.com https://dnapainter.com/example Adding 23andMe Data to DNA Painter https://www.familysearch.org/to/rootstech/session/adding-23andme-data-to-dna-painter Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches:
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David Ho @_david_ho_ Anyone else notice that search doesn’t really work anymore? It used to be great. https://pic.x.com/8ip2boegma Replying to @_david_ho_ In the 26 years of the Internet Foundation, I have seen the Internet as a whole get worse. The terms I mostly use for myself are like “co-opted”, “fiddled” “manipulated”, “gamed”, “biased”. True random
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