Jeff Wasserman
@jeffwass.bsky.social
Quant, former physicist, aspiring author, amateur musician, all-around nice guy
My #AI prediction :
In the future people will need mental workouts to prevent brain atrophy because AI will have reduced the daily human need for mental exertion.
It parallels the need to go to the gym today as mechanized transport and industry removed the need for daily physical activity.
In the future people will need mental workouts to prevent brain atrophy because AI will have reduced the daily human need for mental exertion.
It parallels the need to go to the gym today as mechanized transport and industry removed the need for daily physical activity.
a brain is lifting a barbell with arms and legs attached to it
Alt: a brain is lifting a barbell with arms and legs attached to it
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January 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My #AI prediction :
In the future people will need mental workouts to prevent brain atrophy because AI will have reduced the daily human need for mental exertion.
It parallels the need to go to the gym today as mechanized transport and industry removed the need for daily physical activity.
In the future people will need mental workouts to prevent brain atrophy because AI will have reduced the daily human need for mental exertion.
It parallels the need to go to the gym today as mechanized transport and industry removed the need for daily physical activity.
“I never #guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive to the logical faculty.”
- Sherlock Holmes
Yet Holmes ignores the fact that there’s always a degree of uncertainty with any conclusion, excluding formal math and logic. The better question is - when is the risk of being wrong low enough?
#vss365
- Sherlock Holmes
Yet Holmes ignores the fact that there’s always a degree of uncertainty with any conclusion, excluding formal math and logic. The better question is - when is the risk of being wrong low enough?
#vss365
January 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The board was unimpressed as the robot spun in tedious circles.
“What is this travesty?” yelled the CEO.
“Exactly as commissioned. One fully functional #Turning Machine.”
“That’s Turing Machine, you idiot.”
“Not my fault your GenAI-produced contract had an obvious typo. Now pay up!”
#vss365
“What is this travesty?” yelled the CEO.
“Exactly as commissioned. One fully functional #Turning Machine.”
“That’s Turing Machine, you idiot.”
“Not my fault your GenAI-produced contract had an obvious typo. Now pay up!”
#vss365
a lego r2d2 star wars robot with a red light on its head
Alt: a lego r2d2 star wars Roblox spinning
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January 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our spinning ball of rock traversed another 2π radians around the sun.
The traditional time for bold planning, for course corrections on life’s journey.
This year I consider today the anti-Passover. I will be #resolute and ask why every other day is NOT different than 1st of Jan.
#vss365
The traditional time for bold planning, for course corrections on life’s journey.
This year I consider today the anti-Passover. I will be #resolute and ask why every other day is NOT different than 1st of Jan.
#vss365
January 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The final day of 2024 - a time of introspection as we #prompt ourselves to improve in the new year.
It’s easy to list ideas for embetterment. Eat healthier, exercise, do daily tasks #promptly instead of procrastinating with diversions.
But how to make habits that last beyond mid-January?
#vss365
It’s easy to list ideas for embetterment. Eat healthier, exercise, do daily tasks #promptly instead of procrastinating with diversions.
But how to make habits that last beyond mid-January?
#vss365
a man in a bathing suit is standing in front of a locker .
Alt: a skinny teen boy in a bathing suit is standing in front of a locker flexing
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December 31, 2024 at 9:33 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 25, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Wishing all my Bluesky friends and followers a happy holiday season be it Christmas, Hannukah, Yule, Kwaanza.
Let us #reflect on the past year and celebrate our successes, smile at our proud moments, but also consider where we can improve both ourselves and the world around us. Onwards!
#vss365
Let us #reflect on the past year and celebrate our successes, smile at our proud moments, but also consider where we can improve both ourselves and the world around us. Onwards!
#vss365
a man stands on a cliff overlooking a body of water
Alt: a man stands on a cliff overlooking a body of water
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December 25, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Really stoked to separately win these two books by SFF All Star duo @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @garethlpowell.bsky.social :
“The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern” from Jendia’s recent giveaway and “Stars and Bones” from a raffle at Novacon!
Thanks to you both for sorting my holiday reading!
“The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern” from Jendia’s recent giveaway and “Stars and Bones” from a raffle at Novacon!
Thanks to you both for sorting my holiday reading!
December 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Really stoked to separately win these two books by SFF All Star duo @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @garethlpowell.bsky.social :
“The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern” from Jendia’s recent giveaway and “Stars and Bones” from a raffle at Novacon!
Thanks to you both for sorting my holiday reading!
“The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern” from Jendia’s recent giveaway and “Stars and Bones” from a raffle at Novacon!
Thanks to you both for sorting my holiday reading!
Recent conversation.
My Dad : Shoot, I lost one of my AirTags.
Me : If only there was some way to find a lost AirTag…
My Dad : Shoot, I lost one of my AirTags.
Me : If only there was some way to find a lost AirTag…
a close up of a man making a funny face with his mouth open .
Alt: a close up of a smiling man tipping his head.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Recent conversation.
My Dad : Shoot, I lost one of my AirTags.
Me : If only there was some way to find a lost AirTag…
My Dad : Shoot, I lost one of my AirTags.
Me : If only there was some way to find a lost AirTag…
The branches scrawled out dark #silhouettes against the sunset sky, and a snowy blanket dusted the sins of the land with a veneer of #purity. The #monochromatic landscape offering a #dramatic moment of winter beauty before the bitter freeze of the night.
4 days of #vss365
4 days of #vss365
December 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
The branches scrawled out dark #silhouettes against the sunset sky, and a snowy blanket dusted the sins of the land with a veneer of #purity. The #monochromatic landscape offering a #dramatic moment of winter beauty before the bitter freeze of the night.
4 days of #vss365
4 days of #vss365
Today I learned that the Alamo actually does have a basement!
a man is riding a bike with his feet up and the words little pleasures written below him
ALT: a man is riding a bike with his feet up and the words little pleasures written below him
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December 20, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Today I learned that the Alamo actually does have a basement!
I can only watch as the realm #descends into madness. The inevitable collision with the metaphoric iceberg we can all see yet most of my fellow countrymen refuse to acknowledge.
Most bleak is not the willful choosing of this trajectory, but the gleeful celebration of it.
#vss365
Most bleak is not the willful choosing of this trajectory, but the gleeful celebration of it.
#vss365
December 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM
What is the spark that drives humanity? Is it our impeccable curiosity, a #devotion towards reason, the perpetual seeking of logical truth? Or are we but a superposition of quantum eigenstates, oscillating through time in accordance with strict physical #parameters?
#vss365
#vss365
a man sits in a lotus position in front of an eye shaped galaxy
ALT: a man sits in a lotus position in front of an eye shaped galaxy
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December 6, 2024 at 9:24 AM
What is the spark that drives humanity? Is it our impeccable curiosity, a #devotion towards reason, the perpetual seeking of logical truth? Or are we but a superposition of quantum eigenstates, oscillating through time in accordance with strict physical #parameters?
#vss365
#vss365
Fed up?
Act! Do! Create!
Don’t whine, casting your laments into the cybervoid. The establishment feasts on your #complaints. They #harvest your moans and gripes into their toxic dynamo of negative energy, serving the malignant gruel to an eager audience.
Don’t feed the beast.
#vss365 #vssfantasy
Act! Do! Create!
Don’t whine, casting your laments into the cybervoid. The establishment feasts on your #complaints. They #harvest your moans and gripes into their toxic dynamo of negative energy, serving the malignant gruel to an eager audience.
Don’t feed the beast.
#vss365 #vssfantasy
November 27, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Fed up?
Act! Do! Create!
Don’t whine, casting your laments into the cybervoid. The establishment feasts on your #complaints. They #harvest your moans and gripes into their toxic dynamo of negative energy, serving the malignant gruel to an eager audience.
Don’t feed the beast.
#vss365 #vssfantasy
Act! Do! Create!
Don’t whine, casting your laments into the cybervoid. The establishment feasts on your #complaints. They #harvest your moans and gripes into their toxic dynamo of negative energy, serving the malignant gruel to an eager audience.
Don’t feed the beast.
#vss365 #vssfantasy
He met the devil at the #crossroads, the forsaken land sucking the light of the dim midnight moon.
One flourish of the pen and untold riches and wild success would be his. But so would that unimaginable debt.
His hand trembled, pondering, #delaying…
#BookishTues #vss365
One flourish of the pen and untold riches and wild success would be his. But so would that unimaginable debt.
His hand trembled, pondering, #delaying…
#BookishTues #vss365
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 AM
He met the devil at the #crossroads, the forsaken land sucking the light of the dim midnight moon.
One flourish of the pen and untold riches and wild success would be his. But so would that unimaginable debt.
His hand trembled, pondering, #delaying…
#BookishTues #vss365
One flourish of the pen and untold riches and wild success would be his. But so would that unimaginable debt.
His hand trembled, pondering, #delaying…
#BookishTues #vss365
We picked up the pace when the first drops fell. A typical reaction of the city dweller.
But after a few hurried minutes we slowed, demoralised, exhausted, collectively realising we had ten mountain trail miles in the #rain ahead of us before arriving at camp.
#vss365
But after a few hurried minutes we slowed, demoralised, exhausted, collectively realising we had ten mountain trail miles in the #rain ahead of us before arriving at camp.
#vss365
a river surrounded by trees and rocks on a cloudy day
Alt: a river surrounded by trees and rocks on a rainy day
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November 22, 2024 at 10:43 AM
He flipped the ship upside-down. Very disconcerting, what was downwards became the new upwards.
However seasoned space pilots are used to it. In zero-g there's no #reason for one direction to be “up” over another.
-From my WIP
#BookishTues
However seasoned space pilots are used to it. In zero-g there's no #reason for one direction to be “up” over another.
-From my WIP
#BookishTues
November 19, 2024 at 6:26 AM
He flipped the ship upside-down. Very disconcerting, what was downwards became the new upwards.
However seasoned space pilots are used to it. In zero-g there's no #reason for one direction to be “up” over another.
-From my WIP
#BookishTues
However seasoned space pilots are used to it. In zero-g there's no #reason for one direction to be “up” over another.
-From my WIP
#BookishTues
Why do people back into parking spaces?
And who designed the awful charging port of the Apple Magic Mouse?
Oh wait, this is BlueSky, no need for cliched gripes just for engagement…
And who designed the awful charging port of the Apple Magic Mouse?
Oh wait, this is BlueSky, no need for cliched gripes just for engagement…
a woman is sitting on a couch with a hair roller on her head and says so refreshing .
ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with a hair roller on her head and says so refreshing .
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November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Why do people back into parking spaces?
And who designed the awful charging port of the Apple Magic Mouse?
Oh wait, this is BlueSky, no need for cliched gripes just for engagement…
And who designed the awful charging port of the Apple Magic Mouse?
Oh wait, this is BlueSky, no need for cliched gripes just for engagement…
One @bsky.app feature I am missing from the other place :
The ability to save a post as I’m constructing it and come back to it again later.
The ability to save a post as I’m constructing it and come back to it again later.
November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
One @bsky.app feature I am missing from the other place :
The ability to save a post as I’m constructing it and come back to it again later.
The ability to save a post as I’m constructing it and come back to it again later.
I don’t just write, I also play the keys, both solo and with the band Liquorice Moon.
Here’s a snippet of my take on the Messaround in Dr. John’s style.
Full version and other vids on my WasserKeys YouTube page.
#piano #keyboards #music
Here’s a snippet of my take on the Messaround in Dr. John’s style.
Full version and other vids on my WasserKeys YouTube page.
#piano #keyboards #music
November 17, 2024 at 11:38 PM
I don’t just write, I also play the keys, both solo and with the band Liquorice Moon.
Here’s a snippet of my take on the Messaround in Dr. John’s style.
Full version and other vids on my WasserKeys YouTube page.
#piano #keyboards #music
Here’s a snippet of my take on the Messaround in Dr. John’s style.
Full version and other vids on my WasserKeys YouTube page.
#piano #keyboards #music
A group of Centaurions sat in a corner watching them. One jumped up, his face covered with strange tattoo line drawings.
“Humans. Bless my lucky stars. Your Earthly horoscope, just two credits.”
Adam and Liza ignored him and he followed. “Okay, only one credit.”
- from my #WIP
#SciFiSunday
“Humans. Bless my lucky stars. Your Earthly horoscope, just two credits.”
Adam and Liza ignored him and he followed. “Okay, only one credit.”
- from my #WIP
#SciFiSunday
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
A group of Centaurions sat in a corner watching them. One jumped up, his face covered with strange tattoo line drawings.
“Humans. Bless my lucky stars. Your Earthly horoscope, just two credits.”
Adam and Liza ignored him and he followed. “Okay, only one credit.”
- from my #WIP
#SciFiSunday
“Humans. Bless my lucky stars. Your Earthly horoscope, just two credits.”
Adam and Liza ignored him and he followed. “Okay, only one credit.”
- from my #WIP
#SciFiSunday
I too am concerned about BlueSky becoming a gecko chamber
November 17, 2024 at 11:39 AM
I too am concerned about BlueSky becoming a gecko chamber
Admit it - you have no idea which hobbit is Pippin and which is Merry.
two men are standing next to each other in a dark room and the words hxcfairy are on the bottom right
Alt: two hobbits are standing next to each other in a dark room.
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November 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Admit it - you have no idea which hobbit is Pippin and which is Merry.