mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org

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#AmazingCat
#AmazingReading
🐈Black cat and books. Handmade poster.Size : 11.3 x 17 inches - size 16x24. in .
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3208900389223007/permalink/6824620487650961/

Margaret Bourke-White preparing her shot of NYC from the Chrysler Building gargoyle, 1935

When a high energy #cosmic ray collides with the #Earth's #atmosphere, it generates an enormous number of particles known as an extensive air shower.
#Astronomy #SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/astr10122301.html

Today's music:

Through the Mirror | Elvann

https://youtu.be/4iapUhWBcbk

#mastomusic #metal #music #np #NowPlaying #SymphonicMetal #harp #canada

Charlton Heston, Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson, 1962

If you're a published author and you haven't given permission for your book to be fed into Meta's AI training system, please check the database in this article. If your work is there, you may want to join in on the lawsuit. This corpus has (pirated) 183,000 titles.

#AI #Bookstodon #Books #Meta #Authors

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

2 openings for assistant professor and associate professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department where I’m currently at at Dartmouth College, USA, in Systems/Behavioral Neuroscience:

https://pbs.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/08/inviting-applications-professor-psychological-and-brain-sciences-systemsbehavioral

Please share to find me great future colleagues :)

“For a complete description of the Assistant Professor position, see http://apply.interfolio.com/130063.
For a complete description of the Associate Professor position, see http://apply.interfolio.com/130080.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.”
#NeuroJobs #Neuroscience #Neuroscientist

Holy moly. The Warning are superb.

https://youtu.be/7hbBa1-1p7M?si=6rXl9Nxks50CfbAv

#Music #TheWarning #Live

The pamphlet lists this as one of the bad signs, but I'm telling you -- same room #texting rocks for sharing plans without interruption in a room full of kids #HealthyLiving #DigitalDetox #PrivateInPublic

Song of the Day: Linda Purl, “Let Me Down Easy” https://www.jazziz.com/song-of-the-day-linda-purl-let-me-down-easy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=song-of-the-day-linda-purl-let-me-down-easy #music #jazz

Yearly Croissant harvest in France

(No this is not real)

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When will AI become sentient?

(please boost)

#AI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #transformer #AGI #intelligence #HAL9000 #sentience #consciousness