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My usage this week: - 80% Deepseek v3 / R1, I'd say mainly R1 - 15% Claude Sonnet until I run out of tokens - leftovers go to ChatGPT - playing around on runpod / local model for random experimentation etc, LM studio, ollama, stable diffusion, etc I can't believe how much i'm using DS
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Testing initial production prints
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A useful framework for myself: Checking in / tracking on 2x2 matrix of energy contribution vs intrinsic motivation
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I’m fascinated by “semantic fossils” that exist in the world I.e. where we use a phrase / word like “hot off the press”, “floppy disk icon”, “riding shotgun” or “horsepower” but we don’t use a shotgun in cars anymore, or horses for measuring power or floppy disks anymore One day, we’re going to be on another planet, and some kid who’s never been on earth is gonna wonder why some things are still measured in 365 days
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All acts of creation require courage to be cringe and anything else The fear is more like -- a weird friend who is just riding along in the car, sitting in the back staring out the window. If you focus on staring at your back mirror too much you will probably crash - just acknowledge its existence and move on
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That being said this is what I mostly think about 80% of the time
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https://x.com/Pharrell/status/1655274152088203264
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topics of interest (out of curiosity) recently: - reinforcement learning & deep RL, especially for robotics - sim2real - transferring RL policies to real world robots - world models, and training on them - for robots - latest frontier models - 3D gaussian splatting / NeRF - hypersonic space tethered orbital launch systems - synthetic biology topics - climate sciences
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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
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- A new kind of space, albeit virtual (internet) - A new way to standardize planetary shared trust (blockchain) - A new way to standardize super human reasoning (AI) Humans, working in concert with this new synchronization layer --I really think we will really see a new age, akin to the industrial revolution in the coming decades. We're going get our version of our jump from localized villages to interconnected industrial cities. What a time to be alive
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An idea that echoes in my mind is - one of the biggest innovations of the railroad was connecting train stations (in different cities) with a standard unit of time (with a clock) because trains had to run on the same shared time and that is actually what accelerated the industrial revolution to heights previously unseen at the time.
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I'm interested in a planetary level -- shared, immutable layer of truth that even AGI/ASI will have to acknowledge because: How else are we going to monitor and holding both ourselves and our continued advanced intelligences to be accountable to our own human-defined, and eventual machine standards of truth and ethics?
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Putting into words a gut feeling I had about Stargate
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Planetary level global coordination layer
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Crassus and Octavian The formation of the first triumvirate 60 BCE, colorized
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I’ve been reading more papers this year (mostly for fun) maybe I’ll just start casting about them here
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Re-reading attention is all you need How did they throw CNNs and RNNs out the window (kinda) and get to this conclusion that this self attention mechanism would work I.e. let’s just get every token to directly measure itself against every other token - I don’t get it It’s sort of going from - thinking about nature as being a subjective sequential experience (and seeing that as a bottle neck) and instead thinking about how every thing is connected to everything and what are those weights Mind blowing to be honest that this works
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Post a picture of you from a different era
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Our current brain is limited by processing power and RAM / storage One of the interesting things is increasing or upgrading our wetware is going to upgrade the ontological resolution of our perception and the “models” we can run on them What we see as being real is a subset of what objectively exists as Kant calls noumena
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