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So one of my old profs in grad school was Konstantin Likharev, and put together his notes into a set of free to access books. They are pretty great (grad level), if you ever want to take a look. commons.library.stonybrook.e…
No gatekeeping :)
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I can't wait for the day that "AI" learns how to do pcbs so @i2cjak finally stfu
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"P(doom) estimates tend to ignore secular trends in-"
You snap awake. You're going to Matt's house to play Wii bowling tomorrow. Your Facebook feed is blowing up because John posted a funny "numa numa" video". Drama nerds in the distance are singing '525,600 minutes'. It's 2006.
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“When the higher order perturbations became nontrivial, war broke out in Europe. Since the end of WW2 we have made sure only the quadratic terms have remained active, ensuring a stable equilibrium. Thus the neoliberal order is founded on the simple harmonic oscillator”
Can insights from Quantum Physics re-invent how we think about history?
Coming soon from Slavoj Žižek 👉 Quantum History
In this work, Slavoj Žižek traces a path from the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality.
Pre-order: bit.ly/47qNuTh
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Listen to me now: Never, never take these computer people at face value. As soon as they build a machine of overwhelming might they are going to send it against you and everyone you love. Not to kill you (unless you live in a certain part of the world where it is legal to kill as many people as you want) but to make your life just a little bit worse, a little bit more undignified every year. They already have. Your mother will drive herself into spasms of religious hysteria over reels, your father will not watch TV anymore, he will watch precariously aged AI golfers hit the skimpiest of shots out of the bunker, your brother will come home from work on friday and wire his salary directly into a 19 way parlay. It doesn't matter how many cars drive themselves, it doesn't matter how many solar panels we build, it doesn't matter how high the Sea Wall goes, it doesn't matter how low the delivery prices get. Every dream of prosperity is backed up by your perpetual shitdrinking out of the piss trough. You're going to pay for it all with, in the most literal and straightforward sense, brain damage. Their bag is secured by your future head injuries
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> selfie w/ satan in the depth of hell
“Enjoyed my discussion with Satan, Lord of Darkness, on how embracing the virtues of humility, kindness, and God-fearing devotion will keep our free societies ahead”
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New paper & surprising result.
LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data.
Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
