John L. Taylor @johnnylogic@qoto.org
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Data scientist, fraud researcher, bibliophile, humanist.
Joined Nov 2022
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New study: "Between 2018 and 2021, the excess death rate for Republican voters [from #COVID19] was 5.4 percentage points, or 76 percent higher, than that of registered Democrats. The majority of the difference, though, was concentrated after the introduction of COVID-19 #vaccines: after vaccines became available, the death rate gap between #Republicans and #Democrats widened from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points."
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/12/02/yale-study-identifies-partisan-disparity-in-excess-covid-19-death-rates/
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Oliver G. Selfridge, “Pandemonium: A paradigm for learning,” Proceedings of the National Physical Laboratory Symposium on the Mechanisation of Thought Processes, 24-27 November 1958 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1959) pp. 511-527.
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A man feeds swans in the snow.
#interesting #cool #amazing #incredible #pics #photos #rare #rarepics #rarephotos #amazingshots #photography #swan #swans #snow #animals #nature #animal
“I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.” -- George R.R. Martin, Attributed (I could not confirm a source)
"Archaeologists have found two dozen bronze figures, more than 2,000 years old and perfectly preserved in the hot mud and waters of an ancient, sacred pool [in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy]."
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1138904735/italy-ancient-bronze-statues-discovery-tuscany
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This robot confabulates like a human
As a philosopher, I am often asked about the nature of truth. What is truth? How do we know what is true? These are questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries, and they continue to be the subject of intense debate and discussion.
Eric Schwitzgebel has gotten GPT-3 to write blog posts in his style, so I asked OpenA
https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2022/12/03/this-robot-confabulates-like-a-human/
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RT @DrYohanJohn
"Very nice video debunking the idea that life is solely about competition and harsh struggle."
Last bit of ChatGPT fun for the evening. I asked it to write an argument for the government regulating artificial intelligence.
I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about self-organization and fractals.
I asked ChatGPT (a large transformer-based language model created by OpenAI) to write a python script that takes a file and splits it into train and test samples with a 80-20 ratio.
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Friction, a YouTube channel devoted to philosophical interviews, has posted a supercut of philosophers (and Steven Pinker) explaining the value of philosophy.
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My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.
We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.
Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!
Download it here:
https://is.gd/lqGw9q
In a recent article Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed, writes about what America can learn from Germany’s memorialization of the murders of Jews, Roma, gays, and other victims of the holocaust. It is an excellent reflection on the use and abuse of memorialization by states and peoples.
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Amazing new result about Conway's Game of Life! You can build anything you want by colliding 15 gliders together: https://b3s23life.blogspot.com/2022/11/in-conways-life-fifteen-gliders-can.html
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This result was a long time in the making. Read the article to find out how it works, and why 'anything' is not actually everything.
This blogpost breaks down the construction even further: https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
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The New York Times headline is funny, but the quote by Scott Aaronson is better - that is, more accurate:
“If this experiment has brought a wormhole into actual physical existence, then a strong case could be made that you, too, bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper.”
This is a fascinating documentary about the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000-year-old mechanical computer. I was aware of the mechanism and its place in computing history, but this documentary tells of the intellectual adventure of the mechanism’s initial discovery, and the gradual discernment of its origins, operations, and purpose through the combined efforts of mathematicians, archeologists, astronomers, radiologic technologists and historians of science. Highly recommended if ancient technology, the history of computing, or scientific sleuthing is your thing.
#Antikythera, #Computing, #Greece, #History, #Technology #Video
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Turing Tests "ignore or sidestep many aspects of current AI research, such as vision and robotics, and seem too closely bound up with natural language understanding to now be a beacon for the entire field. These are familiar objections, but there are deeper ones."
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In light of recent media coverage on neural implants for humans: Embarrassingly, I don't read much cellular neuro anymore. Aren't there still issues with glia (encapsulation, disruption, etc.)? Or are those pretty sorted out already?
- Home
- Portland, OR
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- http://www.johnnylogic.org/
Data scientist, fraud researcher, bibliophile, humanist.
Joined Nov 2022
