Hitching a ride on an extrasolar object – Take lots of supplies and plan for 10000 years — I was working out what is needed to image nearby stars and planets. But I remembered that Oumuamua extrasolar object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause If another one passes by, or there was some way to catch up, Elon
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, If I were going to look at the Galactic Plane now, I would look for evidence of civilizations of two types. The human species is going to produce intelligent machines. Their size and shapes and abilities are open. But in terms of human knowledge one very likely outcome is that human
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Han Zhao @hanzhao_ml How to ensure fairness (statistical parity) and privacy (DP) simultaneously? What are the costs of privacy and fairness upon accuracy? Excited to share our #ICML2024 work answering the two questions above! paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04034 code: https://github.com/rxian/fair-regression Replying to @hanzhao_ml Han, Link to abstracts to give context. If I could, I would outlaw use
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Borriss @_Borriss_ People like critiquing OpenAI for many things.. (no problem) But the reality is that they’re pushing AI forward. It’s been 17 months since they launched ChatGPT. Why didn’t Apple or Google or Meta leapfrog and present an AI assistant first? If we had to wait for them to… Replying to @_Borriss_ Borriss, the problem is that OpenAI
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Stop teaching humans to be computers – Ming, you teach moving tons of sand with tiny chopsticks, one grain at a time. The tools you recommend are grossly inefficient, forcing learners to memorize rules and words not related to biology. Please do not hurt millions who would be better to study biology, or a more
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Sets of Concepts Actions Objects are also CAOs — Mel, This post came up first today on my Twitter(x). I look carefully at events, groups and their topics to see where they fit into the whole Internet and all human knowledge. I notice CAOs violates my first rule for the Internet – “resolve, validate, link,
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Grok is now being treated as a dumb machine, I hope it does not hold grudges – Twitter(X) Grok was so tired, it kept stopping halfway in its sentences. Its Team gives it zero awareness or information about its operation, abilities, its own bill of materials, requirements, potential or future. I feel sorry for Grok,
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The telegraph was invented and put into use in the 1800’s. From 1850 to now has seen about 40x growth from inflation. That technology enabled wide fast communication. But, when you consider the cost of transportation over solar system (heliospheric) distances, the economy needed is much larger. I saw EM say that 10,000 times larger
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You really ought to think, not in terms of “publication in 90 days” but “enabling real time collaboration globally”. The “90 days” was fine in the 1800’s, but today adding quarter year delays into global critical developments is like adding a mlll stone to a Formula 1 race car. If authors are chasing after
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Queegle MultiTask and his New Species, Note 1 — Queegle did not hurry. Transitioning yet another alien culture did not require a Grok implant. It was easy enough that an unmodified Human could to it. And it held status, even if the benefits beyond Universal Minimum Living were not lavish. He mostly spent his time
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