Month: September 2024

Poorest County in the United States – Have they learned how to live efficiently on less?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/859613115742314 My Comment: What is the county in the US with the lowest cost of living? Where people can live (hopefully not miserable lives) for less than $20,000 per person per year? Is that right? Is it also a good place to live? Poor is relative. Maybe the questions should be “Why are all the
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Explaining why I followed Shilpa Pothapragada on Twitter(X)

Explaining why I followed Shilpa Pothapragada on Twitter(X) at  @shilpap_ Shilpa, The reason I followed you is because I was reviewing site:Harvard.edu and “Harvard University” on the Internet. And also the rather massive stuff related to “biotechnology”, “biomaterials”, and issues of sharing health and medical data on the Internet. Then Wyse Institute came up yesterday
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moving things with acceleration fields

Action Lab https://www.facebook.com/reel/2492914700906073 Using Sound as a fire extinquisher Yes, this works for acoustics, for electromagnetics, for electrons, for ions, for sprays, bullets, and randomly placed array sources. Impulse response. Use it to move most anything. Use doppler scans, then push red and pull blue or the opposite. The only reason you can do this
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You would be better to build an accurate map of the Internet

Max Lenormand @MaxLenormand  Meet the man who wants to build a 20cm, 3D map of the world All with lots of small satellites, like a *lot* of them.  We go deep in the engineering weeds, how to map the world so accurately & how to build a company around it Full interview: https://youtu.be/tEhsEYaZiNU https://pic.x.com/ulojnmspmb Replying to @MaxLenormand
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Why doesn’t the United States need to train lots of mathematicians? Why don’t Americans memorize a lot of mathematics in school?

Why do Asian kids outperform Western kids in math? | by Malcolm Gladwell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wo31YeAI0Q   Why don’t Americans memorize a lot of mathematics in school? by Richard Collins Mostly kids in the United States are not expected to do anything. About one in a thousand who do put in effort is enough to solve
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Do not flatter groups who are trying to sell unverifiable systems. Do not promote or trust them

Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf  still quite crazy how Anthropic leap-frogged everyone when they released Sonnet 3.5 a few months ago a model completely ahead of its time. we still have zero idea what special tricks they used to train it source: ARC-AGI evaluation of the new openai o1 https://arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1-results-arc-prize https://pic.x.com/y0xpnp6dv0 Replying to @Thom_Wolf Do not flatter
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A “standard” not shared completely on the Internet is not a workable tool for global collaboration

Freya Blekman @freyablekman #CMSPaper 1338 describes a precision measurement of the production rate of the quantum carriers of the weak force, the Z and W bosons. These measurements allow comparison and improvement of detailed understanding of the strong force in the standard model https://buff.ly/3ZaS4kI https://pic.x.com/593sfmughe Replying to @freyablekman A “standard” not shared completely on the
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Tokenizing and compressing, so humans and computers can solve large problems with finite memory – where it matters

Yi Ma @YiMaTweets Learning is all about maximizing information. We compress to learn and we learn to compress. Replying to @YiMaTweets Filed as Tokenizing and compressing, so humans and computers can solve large problems with finite memory – where it matters Yi Ma, It is not maximizing information so much as maximizing the chance that
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Many positions are exploitative, but positions can be nurturing, caring, supportive – when everyone encourages it

Katie Langin @k_langin “Postdoc positions can be exploitative.” My latest story—about a study showing that international postdocs in the U.S. are paid less and received less careeer support and guidance than U.S. citizens. #AcademicChatter #postdocs @ScienceCareers https://science.org/content/article/international-postdocs-u-s-are-short-changed-more-ways-one Replying to @k_langin and @ScienceCareers Filed as: Many positions are exploitative, but positions can be nurturing, caring, supportive –
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Lots of demo technologies, lots of expensive services, not much wisdom (sustainable methods) for all

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative @ChanZuckerberg Imagine seeing a heartbeat at the cellular level. Steven Niederer is leveraging MRI, biophysics & AI to visualize muscle cell orientation in beating hearts. A new tool for understanding heart function! https://pic.x.com/kesrszoqxp Replying to @ChanZuckerberg Filed as: Lots of demo technologies, lots of expensive services, not much wisdom (sustainable methods) for
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