USB over UTP cable: Testing Voltage Drop and Transfer Speed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jk1r3Puzw Thank Ron Mattino: This makes sense, since more people use and rely on low loss ethernet. It is highly optimized. I wish you had tried 100 meters or 20 meters or 1 km. And computer to computer USB peer networking. Richard Collins, The Internet
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100 car batteries wired in parallel! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaTX-nLm6Y You forgot molten glass, molten salts! How do you charge 100 batteries? 50,000 Amperes at 12 volts is 6,000,000 Volt*Amperes. 6000 KiloWatts 14 cents per KiloWattHour would be $0.14*6000 = $840/hour if you have a 6 MegaWatt 12 volt DC charger, (I am tired, so check my
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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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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Is the division between India and Bangladesh primarily religious, ethnic and language? Or it is just a jumble of historical periods of dominance by others and arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft Bing CoPilot: The division between India and Bangladesh is a complex interplay of several factors, including religious, ethnic, linguistic, and
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