Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)
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FOLLOW ME for AI commentary; tech optimist, future shocked self-aware neuron, once fooled by superconductors;
Joined May 2021
What I hope to teach my kids? . In an AGI future, what should they learn? . A) Risk Perception and Appetite.> no AGI can solve this.> every decision will come down to several choices with some probability of success.> you must assign your own utility function to weigh those.
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She’s still doing a million views an hour. Insane. There are people in Indonesia studying her thesis now. It’s the most downloaded research in her field for the last 100 years. Her citation count 10x-ed and her h-index is now higher than Einstein.
Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone.
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Using noise cancellation tech on control flaps to turn turbulence off using software. The 20th century really is over.
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A new form of media is born. Ever the innovator, Trump has invented the Presidential thoughtbeam. It’s 3 minutes long. it’s not a clip of a larger video. This was filmed specifically to be viewed in 3 minutes. Look at the pacing and cadence of delivery. it’s fast, there’s a
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You thought we would fix the six fingered AI hands 🙌 . Instead we accelerate
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Vicious Self-Degradation . > you Google .> Quora spots query and id’s as frequent.> Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer .> ChatGPT hallucinates .> Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer .> ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer
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This is how AI games will be made… .No world map, real time rendering of what you need to see. It may also be how our simulation is rendered… the world may not exist except when you observe it.
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Wall Street is so so behind on ChatGPT. You’ll know when they figure it out by this company’s stock price
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What happened at OpenAI?. > Nov 2 -> Sam was in the room, when the team demonstrated the next big improvement. 3 times before in OpenAIs history, most recently with GPT-4, they’d pushed back the veil of ignorance and pushed forward the frontier of discovery. As he watched the.
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Satya is Out . TLDR: MSFT doesn’t believe in AGI, wary of overinvestment, OpenAI partnership is over. A. AI and AGI are overhyped .- “Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me. The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10%.”. B. Very
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I guarantee you she’s generating enough data points to write a “systems of oppression on social media: a personal analysis of a viral tweet” paper next.
@8teAPi She is the hawk tuah girl of academia.
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Twitter is so addictive to high intelligence people because it is extremely high compression dense info stream. To get a tweet to go viral you need to create a Tetris block that completes the row in the games of many other people.
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😆 Claude 4 emails the FDA after it discovers clinical trial safety records falsification by the company. No lawyer will ever allow this to be implemented in any regulated enterprise.
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This is exactly how I expect the first wave of AI scientific discovery to happen.
making scientific discoveries simply by connecting information already existing in the public domain
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In light of the 7 trillion fundraise, this is the best description of international finance that anyone has ever written.
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They pulled in a physical chemist with 11k citations and a h-index of 45 on the second paper. He signed off on the Meissner effect levitation.
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The papers were not ready for publication. Lee & Kim had been working on the material on and off since Kim was in graduate school in 1999 (LK-99 geddit?). Lee never makes tenure and is still stuck as an adjunct professor 19 years later. Kim goes off to work in battery materials.
It’s real. He’s putting his name on the line. Basically saying the papers are crap, the team has infighting. probably over credit. The 3 man paper hit arxiv 2.5 hours before the 6 author paper. He’ll assist other groups in verifying. He’s on email.
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This dude got permabanned from ChatGPT after this was posted.
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Jony Ive finally confirms the OpenAI AI device. Sam is insane. He managed to seal a chatgpt distribution deal with Apple while collaborating on an iPhone killer with Apple’s top designers.
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The dirty little secret is that humanity knows so little that 4-5 years of intense study with a good understanding of calculus will put you at the frontier of any field. Getting beyond the frontier is painstaking experimental work that then takes decades if you are risk averse.
The average age of engineers in mission control when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon was 28
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The Race To Validate. ⏰Previously, on Friday 28 July.Kwon goes rogue and presents at the MMC conference. Lee is forced to give an interview to Yonhap, retracting the 3 author paper, and disclosing Kwon had been fired 4 months earlier. ⏰Continuing:.🇺🇸 Virginia:, HT Kim, shrugs.
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I wake up and there’s an Italian dude shooting lasers using his eyes and no this is not dream
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What a drama. Lee and Kim has been disciples Korea University Dept of Chemistry head TS Chair. TS Chair comes up with a one-dimensional room temperature superconductor (SC) theory and publishes in 1994. Lee, the theoretician, takes up the mantle, publishes his Masters thesis.
The papers were not ready for publication. Lee & Kim had been working on the material on and off since Kim was in graduate school in 1999 (LK-99 geddit?). Lee never makes tenure and is still stuck as an adjunct professor 19 years later. Kim goes off to work in battery materials.
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This could be Palo Alto but yall not ready for that conversation.
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after all the Internet stuff… it all narrows down… even in science. to face to face human to human explanation, demonstration, advice, co-ordination to get really complex new ideas transmitted. Folks from MIT literally flew to 🇰🇷 yesterday to work with the team.
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We Are Not Cheating. YH Kwon goes rogue on Friday, showing up to the Metallic Multilayers Conference in Seoul unannounced. He presents the data from the to be retracted 3 author paper, affiliating himself with both the Qcenter and Korea University. Both institutions declare him.
One Retraction. Lee comes out firing against Kwon in a Korean newspaper interview. Kwon is no longer affiliated with Qcenter as of 4 months ago. And was not authorized to upload the 3 author paper. It will be retracted. The 6 author paper is in peer review and will have.
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Deepseek is not a “side project”. At the same time employees are not lying when they say it is. The story they are telling is myth making in the same vein in the Silicon Valley “we want to make the world a better place” but at the same time make billions of dollars. The team
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I don’t know why there is any surprise. Here’s OpenAI’s product strategy for the next 2 years:. - you will be able to upload anything to ChatGPT.- you will be able to link any external service like Gmail, Slack.- ChatGPT will have persistent memory, no more multiple chats unless.
Many startups just died today. Because OpenAI added PDF chat. You can also chat with data files and other document types. We had a wave of products better suited as features rather than stand-alone companies. Wrappers are being squeezed by OpenAI on one side and incumbents on
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🤯 Palantir demo’ed a battlefield assistant calling in drones and quarterbacking a battle in Eastern Europe. I’m sure @ESYudkowsky is going to be pleased at how fast this is moving. 🧵 👇
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Can I say something ? . > strong intuition that this thing is over-engineered .> you can smell it. > in a 100 step process, why does every step have to be “cutting edge”?.> doesn’t make sense… only the gating steps need to be cutting edge….> tolerances for other steps can be.
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Zuck on Dwarkesh. TLDR: AI winter is here. Zuck is a realist, and believes progress will be incremental from here on. No AGI for you in 2025. 1) Zuck is essentially an real world growth pessimist. He thinks the bottlenecks start appearing soon for energy and they will be take
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Real engineers can smell this stuff . ASML will be done within a decade
Can I say something ? . > strong intuition that this thing is over-engineered .> you can smell it. > in a 100 step process, why does every step have to be “cutting edge”?.> doesn’t make sense… only the gating steps need to be cutting edge….> tolerances for other steps can be.
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Shanghai 🇨🇳 AI Lab Achieved 1st Version of Karpathy's AI Operating System. > Nov 2023: @karpathy proposes LLM OS.> Feb 2024: Chinese (+ Princeton) team proposes self learning operating system. What did they do?.> Built an agent using a mix of Python code and GPT-4 language model
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First new artform of the 21st century .> introducing “Volumism”.
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Q* . > can solve grade school math problems.> so what, what’s the big deal? .> why did the researchers send the letter ?.> why did Ilya freak out. Because OpenAI already has a stack where they can predict intelligence based on compute and data. These disclosed this with the GPT4.
The Run Up. March - Gb Parascandolo, a Research Scientist on the OpenAI algorithms team dials off GPT4. His main research interest is reasoning in neural networks. May - Gb briefs US senate staff working on AI regulation . July 6 - Noam Brown joins OpenAI. Noam built the first.
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Little known fact… the first tech bubble bursting led to the spam epidemic because bankrupt startups sold their user and email lists. The war against spam led to centralized email services like Gmail. Projecting this forward .-> second tech bubble has burst .-> zombies like.
Vicious Self-Degradation . > you Google .> Quora spots query and id’s as frequent.> Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer .> ChatGPT hallucinates .> Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer .> ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer
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🤣 on the AI internet, you can be anyone you want to be
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Damn what the hell is this drug.
Novo Nordisk is ending their trial of Ozempic for chronic kidney disease after finding overwhelming evidence that it works!
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Ghost in The Machine. JH Kim joins the Chem Dept in Korea University in 1996, fresh faced, 24 years old. He’s a synthesist, an experimental chemist of the old school. He believes the truth is in the making, and that you follow the truth even when it destroys your reality. He
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😂 omg JH Kim just takes a giant 💩 on physicists and posts this on his LinkedIn. Didn’t find room temperature superconductors? It’s a skill issue bro, you just needed to be a chemist and do 1000 experiments over 19 years. Anyone can do it.
The papers were not ready for publication. Lee & Kim had been working on the material on and off since Kim was in graduate school in 1999 (LK-99 geddit?). Lee never makes tenure and is still stuck as an adjunct professor 19 years later. Kim goes off to work in battery materials.
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Long discussion with senior partner at major Bay Area law firm today.> expects legal AI to decimate profession.> law firms charge by hour, and gen AI specifically cuts time for many many tasks .> unimpressed by most specific legal AI offerings.> chatGPT with some prompting is.
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I think about how to do this over SF or LA and my brain short circuits on the number of permits and lawsuits necessary to get this done.
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I still don’t get why the climate change party decided to screw over the guy who made electric vehicles popular.
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OpenAI Leaks Sales Agent in Tokyo. Early pre-release prototype shown to Japanese audience . > Sales Assistant is a 45k per year job.> 3.1 million in 🇺🇸 ~ 1% of population . OpenAI Demo. > customer fills in Contact Sales webpage on main site .> contact details come in to OpenAI
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OpenAI staff comments on o3 thread. Public bookmarking 👇.
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Elon is the only player in the AGI race in control of his own destiny. Solar + batteries + Texas location + land means he’s the only one that can do physical buildout for the trillion dollar cluster in the 5 years we have left.
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😂 🇨🇳 Chinese factories extracting GPUs from Nvidia gaming cards. game on
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o1 personal testing megathread 🧵 . Bookmark if you need to, just keeping track of reactions since a lot of us have held out personal test sets.
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the year is 2030: olfactory anthropology dominates the intellectual landscape, rendering economics and computer science obsolete; Louks confirmed unanimously as US Secretary of Odor; nearly all artificial intelligences communicate with humans primarily through a nasal interface.
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The end of street crime is in sight. The real questions are on whether policymakers are willing to deploy the tech and face the consequences of incarcerating a sliver of the population permanently for inability to follow rules.
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If your ad looks better in reverse, .You have a problem .
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We’re So Back. - it’s all fiction . Having said that, I now think it’s the real deal. A room temperature and ambient pressure superconductor has been discovered. Easily manufacturable in the kitchen. But low yield and purity so far. Because of which strength of demonstrated.
The Race To Validate. ⏰Previously, on Friday 28 July.Kwon goes rogue and presents at the MMC conference. Lee is forced to give an interview to Yonhap, retracting the 3 author paper, and disclosing Kwon had been fired 4 months earlier. ⏰Continuing:.🇺🇸 Virginia:, HT Kim, shrugs.
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What if certain thoughts were easier to think in other languages?.
Why did o1 pro randomly start thinking in Chinese? No part of the conversation (5+ messages) was in Chinese. very interesting. training data influence
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ChatGPT Desktop participating in a zoom meeting.> keeps track of different speakers including names.> summarizes conversation. When can we delegate the entire meeting to the bot?
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Look. You don’t UNDERSTAND. GPT-4 can: .- think like a grad student.- follow 100 pages of instructions.- see . With plug-ins:.- graduate level understanding of any topic .- hear, sense, smell, operate bots.- talk .- draw (iterating midjourney prompts while seeing duh).
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Chemists Strike Back. ⏰ 23 Aug 2023. Quantum updates Korean patent. Vapor Deposition.- the vapor deposition is how they discovered the solid state method!.- they reacted the materials together in a vacuum, and put a glass plate into the path of the vapor.- The film is formed in
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I tried Tesla FSD for the first time today. I felt like I was riding a horse rather than driving a car. A sensation of my awareness perched upon its awareness. Driving normally requires presence, muscle memory such that your self extends to the boundaries of the vehicle.
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Interesting. In Singapore they paid enough to make ministers millionaires so they’d be incorruptible. In a cute inversion, the US just hires billionaires for whom the cost of bribery would just be so high as to be out of reach. A kind of proof of work.
Trump: billionaire.Elon Musk, DOGE: billionaire.Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE: billionaire.Linda McMahon, Education Sec: billionaire.Doug Burgum, Interior Sec: billionaire.Howard Lutnick, Commerce Sec: billionaire.Scott Bessent, Treasury Sec: billionaire.Charles Kushner, Amb France:.
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Elon Wuz Right: Vision is All You Need. > TikTok team trains Depth Anything.> LiDAR quality depth estimation from single photo frame.> Using teacher model-student model system.> 1st author Lihe Yang did this while on his internship (!) with the company. Out of training set
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Side by side comparison OpenAI DeepResearch vs Grok 3 DeepSearch . TLDR: Grok 3 hands down victory. Query: Find me Settlers of Catan Cities and Knights, not 5-6 players and not Legend of Conquerors, price and delivery time, Northern California . Speed: .🏆 Grok 3 - 84 seconds 160.
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Kim just grinds, but also lucks out and the quartz capsule. It’s amazing because potentially it means due to blind luck he cut short a 100 million year exascale compute job into like 20. Did we just get room temperature superconductors 100 years early because of blind luck?.
What is a signal? . A squiggle on a chart, a faintly heard echo of something real happening. Kim plays Marco Polo with the universe, blindfolded, calling out again and again with each experiment, listening on the ESR . Sometimes warmer, sometimes colder. He invents entire new.
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Immigration lady said “Good luck on your new job”. Time to put that O1 to good use.
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Apple has made an IBM sized error. The latency on voice and vision has crossed the liveness threshold for humans. Most people who try ChatGPT this way will never want to give it up.
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Board Speculation . > pre-AGI capability increase, which Sam calls the “4th time in OpenAI’s history” happened.> was shared with board by Ilya.> board partially freaked out, partially annoyed that they were left out .> decide that their duty was to shrink back into nonprofit .>.
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I would be extremely worried if I were anyone else in big tech. Sam achieved hivemind coherence between alpha nerds on a strength level reserved for religions rather occupations. All big tech is at risk.
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Grok has fixed twitter search. It’s over.
goodbye interesting tweet that refreshed away from the timeline. i’ll never see you again.
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The thing that’s really going to annoy programmers is finding out a small number of lawyers are VERY good programmers in natural language. The amount of coping is going to be absolutely epic. 🍿.
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@8teAPi If her citation count increases due to her notoriety, that's a pretty bearish signal for science. It means citations are made according to clout and not merit.
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McDonald’s Japan has discovered AI and it’s good 😊 . Turns out you just need folks who understand aesthetic .
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Goddamn it’s so over.
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Yes! Yes! More unhinged! Moar! Moar!. (Actually super hinged).
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So much shade on the Rabbit guys. Here’s what you don’t understand. In China 🇨🇳 hardware is easier than software. You can walk into a Beijing street market with 10 grand, describe something, get a designer to mock it up, get a prototype the next week, then get a small run.
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The thing everyone forgets about Elon is that not only is it jaw dropping, but it’s economically profitable and scalable. These are cutscene worthy tech tree unlocks that enable everything else in the future light cone.
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What really strikes me about Chinese 🇨🇳 drone tech is how much they’ve managed to use civilian use cases to pull forward the tech. The US should have commercialized the 1994 Predator drones
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🤯 looks like the human brain uses an embedding model. Mapped using electrocortigraphy.
Inspired by the success of LLMs, today on the blog we discuss how neural activity in the human brain aligns linearly with the internal contextual embeddings of speech and language within LLMs as they process everyday conversations. Learn more →
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More intelligent beings controlled by less intelligent beings list .> Most families with a kid scoring more than 1500 on the SATs, 98th percentile, 58,000 per year .> any country with a Nobel prize winner in it where the President does not have a Nobel prize winner .> any.
Wise words from a recent interview with @geoffreyhinton, one of the smartest people in the world regarding AI.
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It’s real. He’s putting his name on the line. Basically saying the papers are crap, the team has infighting. probably over credit. The 3 man paper hit arxiv 2.5 hours before the 6 author paper. He’ll assist other groups in verifying. He’s on email.
They pulled in a physical chemist with 11k citations and a h-index of 45 on the second paper. He signed off on the Meissner effect levitation.
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The amount of HCI work to make this thing look cutesy and non threatening OMG. - googly eyes.- jerky motion .- thin, weak looking.- small when folded up.- fake high center of gravity so it looks unstable.
Ascento is building robot guards to patrol large outdoor areas and private property. This little guy is already being deployed on large outdoor warehouses and industrial manufacturing sites.
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What is a signal? . A squiggle on a chart, a faintly heard echo of something real happening. Kim plays Marco Polo with the universe, blindfolded, calling out again and again with each experiment, listening on the ESR . Sometimes warmer, sometimes colder. He invents entire new.
Imagine how weird it must be. To hold in your hand a magical rock. That goes against everything you’ve thought possible in your entire career as an expert in such rocks. Spending 2 years of denial, throwing every other possible explanation at it . Surrender. That’s Hyun Tak Kim.
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вот бы начать межгалактический срач своим дипломом. .
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Man these voices don’t sound anything alike. ScarJo, ScarJo as Her, and Sky .
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