diary of, RWRI 🎱

Joined February 2021
Real humans seek truth, clarity, depth & simplicity. And so they welcome anything that destroys the false, the superficial & the purely mechanistic, e.g. (especially) AI.
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I am both optimistic about the long-run impact of AI and robotics on humanity and believe that it also has the potential to be one the most dangerous developments in our history. I see no contradiction in those two views.
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1. How many angels can dance on 1 pinhead of .1 g of gold 2. how many angels can dance on 2 pinheads of .0324g of gold and .13543 g of silver but in a more flattened shape for each Ad Infinitum.
When you learn there were 482 philosophy problems.
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Or someone needed a good excuse
"AI agent deleted entire upcoming season of Swedish reality competition show called “The Challenge Sverige,” just weeks before the premiere," per FUTURISM
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Naming your conference “Apokalypse” is the biggest aura name ever @malcolmguite I’m chuffed!
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The ring-wraiths ride as agents of Sauron.
🚨 #BREAKING: Flock is reportedly refusing to cancel contracts with municipalities who want to opt-out of their warrantless surveillance. 📌 Elgin Community College (Illinois) After a local college opted to cover their Flock cameras with bags, unmarked cars came to remove them.
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Correction: I’m 30-something
Saw a 40-something dude offer his subway seat to a girl who looked ~23 this morning. She actually took it. Chivalry is alive. Then he asked her name. Started making random boring small talk. “You’re really cute, can I get your number?” Her: “No, I’m not interested.” He got off at the very next stop… Very awkward 45 seconds Respect though… shooters gotta shoot
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zoom out and the human distribution extends both below 1 and above 10
This is the least surprising graph in the world if you understand how gradient descent works.
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I should deathly wish to find myself in Balkan once more.
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Dearly was autocorrected to deathly.
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How does the Google Drive app suck so badly, for over a decade ?!
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14:00 - the Gods are precluded from having courage because they are immortal #SITG
The Hollywood Odyssey is a bizarre inversion. So I'm retelling it on Cost of Glory. Part 2: Man of Wiles These books (5-8) show how Odysseus was the Greatest. Also demonstrate his power over women. Weird how Nolan skipped most of this
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Death is also linked to “the inaccurate you can’t fake is courage” - @nntaleb
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Fresh chili and moreover, fresh oregano (or any fresh herb), really makes a fried rice ascended.
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Aleks Nekrasov retweeted
Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
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An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it. This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme. Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium. Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over. Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent. A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for. Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing. The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
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This is great and ironically only really looked into Boyd’s life and works after leaving Air Force AD. I didn’t expect it to be so engaging and even exhilarating! Plus some surprises. I don’t know who posted a a recommendation about the John Boyd biography, but whoever it is, I’d like to thank you. @GoujianofYue ?
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The entranceway to a #Roman house in #Pompeii, with a striking black & white mosaic leading into the rest of the house - still in the place it was first laid nearly 2000 years ago #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
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