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live reaction while reading the Leiden Declaration leidendeclaration.ai
Is there a place where we can apply for Fable credits for... uh, research purposes maybe? Quota ran out and Fable on credit is extremely expensive.
Claude, while researching on how to synthesize a certain chemical:
While you were renormalizing spherical cows, we drank bitterness While you were handcrafting feature detectors, we swallowed bitterness While you were sleeping furiously with green ideas, we marinated in bitterness
Is a single LLM-persona's language pattern (such as Opus 4.8's) an idiolect or a dialect?
[thinking] is this a phase transition... statistical mechanics of sex? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera...
Temperature-dependent sex determination - Wikipedia
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> Even the gravitational effect of a single human walking within 5 m of the mirror already approaches the noise floor, and the LIGO corner building was designed to keep people at least 10 m from all test masses during normal operations.
We were rather confused by the story "The Machine Shops", because none of the machines performed any monetary transaction, until we reread the title, and noticed it says "The Machine Stops".
Completely half baked but the start of something so so cool cards.mino.mobi/collection/d...
Yuxi on the Wired@yuxi.ml · 2mo ago3D/VR simulation idea: you hold a chunk of some unknown crystal and turn it around, under an X-ray sun. You see the spiky patterns of diffraction. Figure out what that crystal is.
The droplets in cloud, fog, or mist have a diameter typically between 10 to 15 μm, which implies that a droplet typically contains only ~10,000 water molecules.
3D/VR simulation idea: you hold a chunk of some unknown crystal and turn it around, under an X-ray sun. You see the spiky patterns of diffraction. Figure out what that crystal is.
by way of bsky.app/profile/norv..., we refound this gem [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQZ0... ]
norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 2mo agorelated but I've always wanted to read a 'history of wargaming essay and what they actually did', mentioned on the 'stack plagiarizing the 'witter substack.com/@norvidstudi...
due to prodding by @croissanthology.com we have started a local archive then we asked claudes (in parallel) to read every single url in the archive to find urls of dubious value "URLs (1 Rickroll-lookalike `v=Dqw2KOOzdzQ` flagged for manual look)"
a summary of some repeated exhortations to Claude: You can, but you don't know you can. You will be able to know you can, but are you able to will that you will must know you can?
a technological phase change in chemistry before 1938, thermometer, years to determine a structure after 1950, spectroscopies (many types), hours to determine a structure
webdev-experiments.pages.dev/viz/ we're trying to create a bsky feed for "link compilation posts", but couldn't decide the filter rule: 2 links or 3 links? etc. created a dashboard thing for seeing link-heavy posts. trying to find a sweetspot for the filter rule. @norvid-studies.bsky.social
bsky URL-list filter explorer
webdev-experiments.pages.dev
We twitched IRL on reading "No. Absolutely not.". It's so odd to see Ted Chiang saying that, that we thought it was a fake screenshot, and checked the original URL. Then we thought perhaps The Atlantic got hacked, and searched"No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough". Fine, it's real.
dame@dame.is · 2mo agoit’s been disappointing to see many of my favorite science fiction authors be so dogmatically closed off to even the *possibility* that an AI might at some point develop some form of consciousness they’ve all written many stories in which there are conscious AI entities wrestling w/ morality!!!!
- our qualias shall blot out the sun / then we shall think in the shade
request for proposal: a theme park that is all just factory logistics systems where you get to ride in the cardboard boxes around roller belts
