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#mathfolk #programmer #reader #traveller #researcher
header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
Just learned there's a guy named Project #Pat ...
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When will AI become sentient?
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#AI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #transformer #AGI #intelligence #HAL9000 #sentience #consciousness
#Work is really a curse.
It keeps #accumulating, no matter how much effort you put on it.
Then I decided to create an archive for "all the things I will never be able to do."
Well, guess what... That's more work.
So, I decided to quit and keep doing as usual - meaning, #postponing indefinitely some things *I should do*.
But I'm really #curious about how you're dealing with this. 😅
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New 📄: Rights for Those Who Unwillingly, Unknowingly and Unidentifiably Compute!
People's devices are silently co-opted for collective computation which promises data confidentiality. But what happens when ppl don't agree with the computation's ends? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4ugxd 🧵
> Since Pines' Demon is predicted to play an important role in a wide range of phenomena, such as #transitions in particular kinds of #semimetals and #superconductivity , the work has important implications for material #physics .
> Usually in science, a "demon" is a hypothetical opponent for scientists and philosophers to argue against in a thought experiment, but Pines' Demon is quite different.
It's actually a type of #plasmon – a discrete unit of waves among rippling through a population of electrons . Plasmons have been described as the #quantum analogue of an #acoustic sound in a classical gas.
#Physicists Have Observed a 'Demon' Plasmon in Strontium Ruthenate
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-observed-a-demon-plasmon-in-strontium-ruthenate
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Thank you mastodon people. You just made me win a dinner.
When I told my friend I was going to post this here she asked me not to do it, because "it would start a war". So, I bet with her a proper dinner (not pizza or burgers) that this post would have 2 comments or less. 
😋
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'New Scientist' is carrying an interesting article this week on gravitational memory, which also has an electromagnetic counterpart.
There are tests planned using "short pulses into very long antennas".
Some background here:
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/455d39b9-01eb-411a-b47e-be53619cc9a6/content
"The promiscuity between banks and tax administrations is now so complete and shameless that they no longer are able to hide it."
(quoting a journalist friend of mine)
My comment was: "As I see it, money as debt can only be advantageous to the creditors, right?"
Disclaimer 1: I'm not an economist, I only took two semester courses in economics during the first two years of my undergraduate degree.
Disclaimer 2: It is not my wish to start a discussion about 'capitalism' vs 'socialism'. 😅
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Elliot Reid, Peter Sellers and Benny Goodman arrive in Washington to perform at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, April 1962.
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The #BBC Proms is underway and French horn player Felix Klieser will be making his debut on August 2 playing Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4. The German virtuoso performer was born without arms, so he plays the instrument with his left foot. He spoke to the BBC's Access All podcast about his exceptional career.
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Inside the incredible science of using music to restore the memories of people with dementia
#science #neuroscience #psychology #music
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/dementia-music-healing-brain-neurology/
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I still need to add some short blurbs about each chapter, but here's the website for Exploring Graph Theory With Julia, complete with my lazily-designed temporary cover "art": https://leanpub.com/exploring-graph-theory-with-julia
I would love to know if this book sounds interesting to you!
(Boosts welcome 🙏 )
You may not know that #Batman uses #Julia as an all-purpose #programming #language .
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I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is *SO GOOD* and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been **perfect** for the examples in the Fonts chapter.
Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.
Describe myself in 5 tag words:
#mathfolk #programmer #reader #traveller #researcher
header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
