carl feynman
@carl_feynman
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I’ve spent a lifetime switching my Special Interest every year or two. By now I’m surprisingly knowledgeable in a lot of fields— a skill now obsoleted by AI.
Arlington, MA
Joined September 2021
RT @langofmind: When do you think personal names were invented? Are they exactly as old as language? Do they predate language?.Dolphins hav….
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Atoms are small enough, and analytical chemistry has gotten good enough, that you can find anything in anything. So news of the form “X has been found in Y” is not news. The question is, is it enough to make a difference?.
NASA found all the DNA and RNA building blocks plus 14 important amino acids in asteroid Bennu
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RT @OwainEvans_UK: New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only….
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This is a very well-written article about a rapidly developing subfield of biophysics + applied math. I didn’t know anything about it half an hour ago and now I’m fascinated! Good for people who like molecular biology, algorithms, optics or machine learning.
A primer on ML in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). confused about cryo-EM???. i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 @ZhongingAlong papers. 7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️.
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Nice story about how Boaz Klartag came up with a radical new result in sphere packing. I’ve been a fan of his for years because he’s a titan in the world of convex and asymptotic geometry. I didn’t realize that he’s an interloper in sphere packing.
quantamagazine.org
After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.
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RT @liron: EXCLUSIVE: Carl Feynman warns that building AGI likely means human extinction. (Yes, son of Richard Feynman & Al engineer of 45….
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RT @JohnDCook: "Nor, again, do I now miss the bodily strength of a young man … any more than as a young man I missed the strength of a bull….
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RT @gregeganSF: If you can view stereo pairs with crossed eyes, here is Proxima Centauri seen from two locations 47 astronomical units apar….
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RT @dhh: Don't miss out on parenthood. I guarantee you that no amount of "personal freedom" is worth more than the existential delight of e….
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RT @bohannon_bot: Behold! The first practical monostable tetrahedron!. Why? Because things like moon landers fail by tipping over onto the….
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It’s a one-axis on-chip rate gyro, with each signal connected on two surfaces so it can be mounted to be sensitive to either yaw or pitch. Clever!
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RT @catagelastos: "Hello I'm Mr. Papadapoulous of Athens. This is Mr. Papadapoudis of Thessalonike.". "Nice to meet you, I'm Mr. Papadapas….
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Fuligin.
Got a sample of Wile E. Coyotes ACME portable hole aka Musou Black FABRIC KIWAMI for a microscope wall reflection issue
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I’m frustrated that some microbe a billion years ago didn’t figure out how to make carbon-halogen bonds. Living things would have so many more possibilities! (Also technology would be able to use chlorocarbons with impunity because they would be biodegradable.).
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RT @Meaningness: I recommend highly @michael_nielsen's new postscript to his superintelligence risk essay. (QT is a thread with link to the….
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RT @hradzka: "the birds in the war zone make nests from the fiber optic cables left by the killer drones" is the kind of thing you'd expect….
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I also had a great serendipitous time at Less Online. And of the fourteen great experiences listed here, I only had one (asked to provide relationship advice). That suggests that we both randomly sampled from a space of about two hundred good activities.
what made LessOnline especially great for me was the high level of serendipity. i planned basically nothing, and here's some cool stuff that happened anyway:.- met a guy who might have a lead on getting my book published.- saw a video of person having surgery while awake!.
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Categorical imperative is exactly this without the “who is like …you” proviso. Has Yudkowsky improved Kant or was it implicit in the original? (Sincere question, it’s been decades since I read Kant.).
@TetraspaceWest Yudowsky also extends his decision theory to "you should do x if it means everyone who is like you and who is in a similar situation should also do x" (he talks about this for things like voting) which seems like at least a cousin to the categorical imperative.
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RT @allgarbled: They say if everywhere you go you encounter assholes then that means you’re the asshole. Well, everywhere I go I encounter….
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