Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather? nautil.us/is-consciousne…

Getting large language models working in mission-critical applications.

This is the only pattern of its kind

Self-replicating pattern in discrete CA, a very rare (if not the first of its kind) finding by my friend Bo Yang. Unlike von Neumann's self-rep machine, "Outlier" is entirely emergent during a search for open-endedness, & shows signs of robustness. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.19504

Monday. When their job was to be voting on Privilege Committee's Report about Johnson, 1st Prime Minister to be thrown out of parliament, these cowardly Tory MPs stuck two fingers up at the electorate & went for @conhome drinks instead. Watch to the end (skip 30p Lee cos he's

Breaking news: Angry commuters show admirable determination in confronting, head on, Stop Oil’s pernicious and harmful myth of “climate change.”

Annual cost of helping 23,000 hugely wealthy families by abolishing inheritance tax: £7.1bn Annual cost of lifting 250,000 children out of poverty and reducing poverty for a further 850,000, by abolishing two child benefit cap: £1.3 billion. We have the wrong priorities.

High winds at the perfect time of day created a rare Rainbow Waterfall in Yosemite National Park

Why does he keep going on about people who give him their presents??? #Kingspeech

Lawrence Fox singing for Belgium #Eurovision2024

When does the public voting start? #ClosingCeremony

I’ve just seen this & wanted some deserved recognition for the staff at Longwell Green, Bristol Clarks Shoes for going above and beyond making adjustments for this #autistic customer. I realise it’s not always possible everywhere but this is top class customer care 😊

please Obi Wan you are our only hope #StrictlyComeDancing

#StrictlyComeDancing Motsi is being extremely rude this week stealing Craig's time 😡

#StrictlyComeDancing if it were the male judges talking over the female ones....

Judges you have your own space, stick to it. Bad example for my kids #StrictlyComeDancing

Nelly-licious #GBBO

Results shows this year are currently ranking below my dental experiences #StrictlyComeDancing

"Soccer "! ... #strictly