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@raph.bsky.social
colorless blue skeets sleep furiously
landmarks:
- TfT, future of code, PL
- spatial / social software
- embeddings, LLMs, NeRFs, NCAs, diffusion
- prompting as bci
- bio, consciousness, qualia
landmarks:
- TfT, future of code, PL
- spatial / social software
- embeddings, LLMs, NeRFs, NCAs, diffusion
- prompting as bci
- bio, consciousness, qualia
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The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and The Ecosystem of Agents
Guided Meditation: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and the Ecosystem of Agents
In this guided meditation Andrés walks you through QRI's recent work on:* The Thermodynamics of Consciousness: how energy flows from energy sources (sensory ...
youtu.be
October 27, 2023 at 11:09 AM
The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and The Ecosystem of Agents
incredible - first letters found in the vesuvius challenge
October 12, 2023 at 4:02 PM
incredible - first letters found in the vesuvius challenge
if you are interested in hearing firsthand accounts from survivors of the nova massacre take a look at instagram.com/survived.to....
October 11, 2023 at 4:35 PM
if you are interested in hearing firsthand accounts from survivors of the nova massacre take a look at instagram.com/survived.to....
posted to my instagram last night. 1/3
October 11, 2023 at 4:31 PM
posted to my instagram last night. 1/3
writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:
October 10, 2023 at 7:25 PM
writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:
Unlikely that digital computers experience relevant levels of consciousness
Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust.
If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"
Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust.
If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"
October 8, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Unlikely that digital computers experience relevant levels of consciousness
Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust.
If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"
Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust.
If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"
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Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.
Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs
Metabolic networks are probably among the most challenging and important biological networks. Their study provides insight into how biological pathways work and how robust a specific organism is...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2023 at 9:22 PM
Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.
conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory}
vibrations flowing through it
a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow
hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp
what's the shape of a vibration through a point?
what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands}
every shape, infinite res-and-dim?
vibrations flowing through it
a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow
hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp
what's the shape of a vibration through a point?
what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands}
every shape, infinite res-and-dim?
October 8, 2023 at 7:09 AM
conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory}
vibrations flowing through it
a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow
hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp
what's the shape of a vibration through a point?
what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands}
every shape, infinite res-and-dim?
vibrations flowing through it
a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow
hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp
what's the shape of a vibration through a point?
what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands}
every shape, infinite res-and-dim?
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Words are an extremely lossy projection of reality
Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words.
It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life
Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words.
It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life
May 3, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Words are an extremely lossy projection of reality
Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words.
It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life
Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words.
It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life
Reposted by raph
returning to twitter after the bluesky instrumentality project is complete
May 5, 2023 at 3:45 AM
returning to twitter after the bluesky instrumentality project is complete
Reposted by raph
Hard at work on a problem I got part way with in 1981 ... and am now finally getting much further with thanks to ideas from our Physics Project!
September 25, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Hard at work on a problem I got part way with in 1981 ... and am now finally getting much further with thanks to ideas from our Physics Project!
Reposted by raph
Hello, Bluesky. What should I post here? Maybe about the livestreams I do every day or two? Maybe about ongoing work I'm doing? Events I'm going to? Let me know what you think...
September 25, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Hello, Bluesky. What should I post here? Maybe about the livestreams I do every day or two? Maybe about ongoing work I'm doing? Events I'm going to? Let me know what you think...
Reposted by raph
Reposted by raph
thinking about this tweet again
September 26, 2023 at 9:13 PM
thinking about this tweet again
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📢 1.51 (cont.)
• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
September 26, 2023 at 11:16 PM
📢 1.51 (cont.)
• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
Very exciting - API Routes in Expo Router
- Less context switching 😌
- Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev
- React Native Server Components?! 🤯
S/O @bacon.bsky.social
- Less context switching 😌
- Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev
- React Native Server Components?! 🤯
S/O @bacon.bsky.social
RFC: API Routes
Bringing server-side development to React Native with Expo API Routes
blog.expo.dev
September 18, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Very exciting - API Routes in Expo Router
- Less context switching 😌
- Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev
- React Native Server Components?! 🤯
S/O @bacon.bsky.social
- Less context switching 😌
- Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev
- React Native Server Components?! 🤯
S/O @bacon.bsky.social
Welcome @stephenwolfram.bsky.social!! 😊
a cool recent post of his
- minds, ai images, perturbations
- vast interconcept space
- {points,movement} in concept/rulial space
- mind2mind concept transfer/loss
- symbols
- attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops
- diffusion vs automata
a cool recent post of his
- minds, ai images, perturbations
- vast interconcept space
- {points,movement} in concept/rulial space
- mind2mind concept transfer/loss
- symbols
- attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops
- diffusion vs automata
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AI and the ruliad in the Wolfram Physics Project provide a new way to consider how alien minds might perceive the world. Stephen Wolfram explains how this artificial neuroscience experiment works.
writings.stephenwolfram.com
September 15, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Welcome @stephenwolfram.bsky.social!! 😊
a cool recent post of his
- minds, ai images, perturbations
- vast interconcept space
- {points,movement} in concept/rulial space
- mind2mind concept transfer/loss
- symbols
- attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops
- diffusion vs automata
a cool recent post of his
- minds, ai images, perturbations
- vast interconcept space
- {points,movement} in concept/rulial space
- mind2mind concept transfer/loss
- symbols
- attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops
- diffusion vs automata
My custom instacart usability script
- Gives sponsored items low opacity
- Gives out of stock items a pink background
- Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load
Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price
- Gives sponsored items low opacity
- Gives out of stock items a pink background
- Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load
Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price
September 12, 2023 at 3:59 PM
My custom instacart usability script
- Gives sponsored items low opacity
- Gives out of stock items a pink background
- Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load
Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price
- Gives sponsored items low opacity
- Gives out of stock items a pink background
- Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load
Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price
Took apart a speaker and it was full of fiberglass
Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant
Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.
Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant
Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.
September 12, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Took apart a speaker and it was full of fiberglass
Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant
Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.
Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant
Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.
exorcising that dog in me
September 8, 2023 at 2:44 PM
exorcising that dog in me
do other people see these hyperbolic-cell-like squiggles when they scrunch up their hand and look through the aperture?
I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed
I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed
amazingly captures a hyperbolic-bio vibe
looks like the countlessly-many squiggles i see, from my eye or my mind, when i curl up my hand like this 👌 or this 🤏 + look through it at a blank white wall with good ambient light as I make the hole / distance between my fingers get smaller
looks like the countlessly-many squiggles i see, from my eye or my mind, when i curl up my hand like this 👌 or this 🤏 + look through it at a blank white wall with good ambient light as I make the hole / distance between my fingers get smaller
September 6, 2023 at 7:28 AM
do other people see these hyperbolic-cell-like squiggles when they scrunch up their hand and look through the aperture?
I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed
I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed
Taking apart a big LCD TV
September 3, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Taking apart a big LCD TV