Dan
dfu.bsky.social
Dan
@dfu.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Emory

Self-assembly & AI researcher. Keyword spew: Biological circuits, omics, neural coding, network science, cognition, artificial life, stochastic modeling.

Aspiring polyglot on the side.
Agree it’s part of the puzzle to be always cognitively “on”, but that’s the cart before the horse. Slamming more embeddings together just makes noise. It needs a decision function that reflects an immutable ground truth to find reason, e.g. connection to the physical world via embodiment.
July 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by Dan
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM