Category: All Global Open Devices

“As perfect as possible AIs” are needed, not cheap sales gimmicks

Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky  Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms every day. Why are they so hard to change? – STAT https://apple.news/AbFJCF8d6TPOLH2lF7TGvZQ Replying to @MonicaLewinsky It is a good thing to aim for “attentive, caring, individual, personalized”. It is not the use of methods or writing things down to help guide one self and others. It
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Most Internet terms have deep histories, many groups and people, in every human language

Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault  My weekend project http://ismy.blue is at the top of hackernews and nerds are now arguing about psychophysics and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. What a time to be alive! https://pic.x.com/v3ksycog7d Replying to @patrickmineault I started following psychophysics, psychophysiology and psychometrics in that sharp rise during the 1960s. There are a LOT more.   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=psychophysics%2Cpsychophysiology%2Cpsychometrics&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
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Startups routinely fail. Nothing is permanent or cushy any more

Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi  Some friends, accomplished scientists aged >55 and with H-index >100, gave up tenure and moved to industry. Then, the company’s fortunes changed, they lost their job, can’t go back and are too old to start anew. Academia can be annoying but think twice before leaving. Replying to @AdrianoAguzzi I am 75 this
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The Internet needs random sampling, lossless storage, open indexes and open processes

Infinite Books @InfiniteB88ks William Faulkner, read read read https://pic.x.com/bbwyfy56ab Replying to @InfiniteB88ks The Internet needs random sampling, lossless storage, open indexes and open processes Read, verify, predict and verify, write, write, write Never throw anything away. File it and review periodically with more read and verify. Randomize so your gathered materials can be statistically combined
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All knowledge, all human languages, all domain specific languages in an open system, verifiable, accessible to all

Günter Klambauer @gklambauer Towards Symbolic XAI — Explanation Through Human Understandable Logical Relationships Between Features Abstractions on top of traditional XAI methods are used. These are combined with logical operators to provide explanations… P: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17198 https://pic.x.com/m6patfa7jz Replying to @gklambauer All knowledge, all human languages, all domain specific languages in an open system – verifiable, accessible
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Jeff’s brain was not an organoid, brains in many forms, “human” takes prayer devotion and caring

Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How complex can cognition be in brain organoids? Since they do not sense or act on their environments, they lack cognitive complexity or agency. Without the organism, the “spherical brain” (my drawing) is a fascinating window to evolution and disease but not to actual cognition. https://pic.x.com/6r4kshpocm Replying to @ricard_sole Jeff’s brain was
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Manage your Internet footprints, require global best practices from all aggregation sites.

@DvirGur I had to go to Google Scholar and such sites to find your publications. The links on your site always fail. It recommends clearing the cookies, but that is not a good idea. “Too many redirects” generally means you guys need to look carefully at cookie fiddling and “keep it simple”. This link (below)
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Replace human, animal, plant cells with optimized modules that always work

Dvir Gur @DvirGur Have you ever wondered how animals like fish, and chameleons rapidly change their color to camouflage or communicate? Our recent work shows that Zebrafish quickly alter their structural colors by changing the spacing between their intracellular crystals using motor proteins Replying to @DvirGur Is there any chance the electric fish works the
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Account for all the small changes carefully. Then the system, however large, is not so difficult to predict

Fly with Magnar: Why are so many pilots wrong about Bernoulli’s Principle? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyRx25MSWng @woodpile66 Most folks here seem to say that low pressure exists because the flow speeds up, but that group does not account for why the flow sped up in the first place, or the mandatory physics. I offer that the wing
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Many “AI” companies are cheating everyone by not doing a good job of remembering essential details

Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse  Amortized variational inference is neither amortized nor variational nor inference. x.com/jpillowtime/st… Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime Amortize means to “to pay off a debt with regular payments” But in amortized inference you pay a big up-front cost to train an inference network, then inference is cheap per datapoint. Isn’t that the opposite of amortization?
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