A Magnificent Wreckage
@magwreck.bsky.social
Neuromorphic Computing researcher and Neuroscientist. Defense industry. Like rock climbing, Philadelphia Football, the Palm Desert Music scene and pre-Nirvana Grunge, camping, hiking and cats.
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I wrote a simple guide for getting started with Neo4j Graph Database exploration. We explore a Knowledge Graph of 30 years of Artificial Life research references! Please read and learn along with me! This is useful in Data Science and AI Engineering.🧪
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
Day 52 of #100daysofnetworks
Cypher Queries: Getting Started with Neo4j Queries
100daysofnetworks.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I wrote a simple guide for getting started with Neo4j Graph Database exploration. We explore a Knowledge Graph of 30 years of Artificial Life research references! Please read and learn along with me! This is useful in Data Science and AI Engineering.🧪
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
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Another popular press book I thoroughly enjoyed reading as a grad student in the 1990s www.amazon.com/Artificial-L... #artificiallife #digitalbiology
Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology [Levy, Steven] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
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October 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Another popular press book I thoroughly enjoyed reading as a grad student in the 1990s www.amazon.com/Artificial-L... #artificiallife #digitalbiology
Epic.
Are you paying us? Where?
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Epic.
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it is occasionally exhausting to be in the party that tends to attract people with generalized anxiety disorder
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
it is occasionally exhausting to be in the party that tends to attract people with generalized anxiety disorder
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🇬🇧🇺🇸💥📈 UK & US forge a "major partnership" in a "new 'golden age' of nuclear power"! This deal aims to boost reactor construction and fast-track approvals in both nations. "Energy superpower mission" in full swing!
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NucNet
🇬🇧🇺🇸💥📈 UK & US forge a "major partnership" in a "new 'golden age' of nuclear power"! This deal aims to boost reactor construction and fast-track approvals in both nations. "…
www.nucnet.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🇬🇧🇺🇸💥📈 UK & US forge a "major partnership" in a "new 'golden age' of nuclear power"! This deal aims to boost reactor construction and fast-track approvals in both nations. "Energy superpower mission" in full swing!
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Some important findings in this paper:
1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions
2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems
3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more
4) People who are good with AI gain most
1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions
2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems
3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more
4) People who are good with AI gain most
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Some important findings in this paper:
1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions
2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems
3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more
4) People who are good with AI gain most
1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions
2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems
3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more
4) People who are good with AI gain most
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I'm probably going to echo this at least 150k times between now, the 2025 elections in 49 days & the 2026 midterms.
But THERE ARE LITERALLY ELECTIONS HAPPENING NEARLY EVERY WEEK IN AMERICA! Dems LITERALLY just flipped a seat in the IA Senate A WEEK AGO!!
Takes like this are just so unhelpful...
But THERE ARE LITERALLY ELECTIONS HAPPENING NEARLY EVERY WEEK IN AMERICA! Dems LITERALLY just flipped a seat in the IA Senate A WEEK AGO!!
Takes like this are just so unhelpful...
September 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm probably going to echo this at least 150k times between now, the 2025 elections in 49 days & the 2026 midterms.
But THERE ARE LITERALLY ELECTIONS HAPPENING NEARLY EVERY WEEK IN AMERICA! Dems LITERALLY just flipped a seat in the IA Senate A WEEK AGO!!
Takes like this are just so unhelpful...
But THERE ARE LITERALLY ELECTIONS HAPPENING NEARLY EVERY WEEK IN AMERICA! Dems LITERALLY just flipped a seat in the IA Senate A WEEK AGO!!
Takes like this are just so unhelpful...
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Shut up Tom, we were in on 3rd down!
September 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Shut up Tom, we were in on 3rd down!
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1/2 AI pipe dreams. ‘[N]anotechnology-based manufacturing devices in the 2020s will be capable of creating almost any physical product from inexpensive raw materials and information,’ Kurzweil wrote in his book The Singularity Is Near (2005).’ aeon.co/essays/no-su...
No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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September 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
1/2 AI pipe dreams. ‘[N]anotechnology-based manufacturing devices in the 2020s will be capable of creating almost any physical product from inexpensive raw materials and information,’ Kurzweil wrote in his book The Singularity Is Near (2005).’ aeon.co/essays/no-su...
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ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health
Six questions worth digging into more.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
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Local AI researcher exhausted as AI keeps telling people things.
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Local AI researcher exhausted as AI keeps telling people things.
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Vision-Language-Action models are the foundation of a new wave of generalist robots: networks that take in images from robot cameras (vision) and instructions (language) and produce robot trajectories. We are seeing a remarkable convergence in how these work; more: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Vision-Language-Action Models and the Search for a Generalist Robot Policy
VLAs are general-purpose robotics models. But how are VLAs doing in the real world. and which ones are people using?
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Vision-Language-Action models are the foundation of a new wave of generalist robots: networks that take in images from robot cameras (vision) and instructions (language) and produce robot trajectories. We are seeing a remarkable convergence in how these work; more: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Why is my pool so goddam cold?
August 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Why is my pool so goddam cold?
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We have a lot of fun tripping up AI with this, but asking it to parse a word by individual letters is kind of a nonsensical question given how tokenizers operate. It's like asking a Chinese speaker how many G's are in 中国, that's not how they process language.
August 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We have a lot of fun tripping up AI with this, but asking it to parse a word by individual letters is kind of a nonsensical question given how tokenizers operate. It's like asking a Chinese speaker how many G's are in 中国, that's not how they process language.
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Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/10/supreme-court-keeps-removing-guardrails/
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/10/supreme-court-keeps-removing-guardrails/
August 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/10/supreme-court-keeps-removing-guardrails/
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/10/supreme-court-keeps-removing-guardrails/
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One thing that really does help me sleep at night is, I remind myself that this first year is almost certainly going to be the worst of it. Something to consider:
- We have Nov's elections
- We roll right into midterm primary season
- After midterms, it will already be time to start talking 2028
- We have Nov's elections
- We roll right into midterm primary season
- After midterms, it will already be time to start talking 2028
July 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One thing that really does help me sleep at night is, I remind myself that this first year is almost certainly going to be the worst of it. Something to consider:
- We have Nov's elections
- We roll right into midterm primary season
- After midterms, it will already be time to start talking 2028
- We have Nov's elections
- We roll right into midterm primary season
- After midterms, it will already be time to start talking 2028
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A while ago I came up with the Stancil rule that you could have any normal opinion of Stancil and thats fine but if you're dedicated to hating him that signifies far worse about you and I should treat "vocally hates Stancil" as "block immediately". I honestly didn't expect it to apply to LLMs too.
hey guys if you’re a leftist and you spend all your time being utterly weird about me, specifically, maybe reflect on the fact that when Elon made his AI evil, in addition to becoming racist and antisemitic, it also immediately got utterly weird about me, specifically
July 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A while ago I came up with the Stancil rule that you could have any normal opinion of Stancil and thats fine but if you're dedicated to hating him that signifies far worse about you and I should treat "vocally hates Stancil" as "block immediately". I honestly didn't expect it to apply to LLMs too.
Anthropic is full of shit.
June 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Anthropic is full of shit.
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Will is wrong about many things but he's right that there's a lot of leftists on here who lack basic emotional regulation
June 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Will is wrong about many things but he's right that there's a lot of leftists on here who lack basic emotional regulation