Phosphenes

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This is a good fit for technology that is adept at finding things but is also often wrong.

If a neural network is only right 75% of the time, but we run it 100 times per day, that still translates to an explosion of astronomical discoveries once we investigate and throw out the 25%.

Much better than putting it in charge of my car brakes or heart pacemaker.

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@bruces so far, so good...

@bruces this story had a profound impact on me as a child. I still think about it.

@bruces I leave the link to the Soviet animated short based on the story here for whoever wants it: https://youtu.be/4oxP3TyuQx0?is=BgrXdIlanh_0CJG6

Based on the poem

'There Will Come Soft Rains'
by Sara Teasdale

(War Time)

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

#poetry #nature #gone @bruces

@bruces and that makes today's AVvCX crossword make a lot more sense

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Very reassuring when you can, in fact, judge the book by its cover. Saves a lot of time.

@bruces I don't know if calling it "futur" was meant to be any pun. Looks more like embarrassingly mistyped.

@bruces many years ago, just as the current hype boulder was rolling into the foothills, I used a pre-LLM language model to generate 9012 weird, improbable DJ names: https://gist.github.com/prehensile/3050aefd0296d44469e0022864a92edc

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We have automated crackpot physics.

@bruces The deeper we probe the Simulation the more detail it needs to conjure up.

@bruces Noting clearly "not an LLM". A machine learning neural network (Something we've known how to build for quite a few years).

Maybe each use of "AI" by journalists should be required to have a reference to what type of mathematical model is being used and how

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It's a very readable open access paper!

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505725122

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or provably natural?

@bruces once more, no critical thinking from the press :ffs:

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What is the context for this? Are these military or cyber attacks?

The map doesn't open for me.

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Sounds like Dune Coriolis winds that strip the meat off your bones.

@bruces Sounds like the planet Henriada, in Cordwainer Smith's “Quest of the Three Worlds”.

“Can I go out?"

"Why not, sir? You are a true man. You can do what you wish."

"I mean, is it safe for me to go out?"

"Oh, no, sir! The wind would tear you apart or carry you away."

"Don't people ever go out?"

"Yes, sir. With groundcars or with automatic body armor. I have been told that if it weighs fifty tons or better, the person inside is safe.”

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Great cover. I like my aliens nice and alien.

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Artificial Chinese Intelligence (ACI) =
the intelligence of artificial Chinese.

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I asked the Chinese AI salesman if I was allowed 1 from Column A and 2 from Column B.

He told me that was NOT funny.

But his AI disagreed.

Turns out their AI is racist.