Basic IPCC formula, in order 1) build massive amounts of (now cheap) sun and wind 2) Electrify everything to run on it 3) Conservation and efficiency 4) Research the hell out of the last hard stuff (planes, cement, etc) 5) Stop cutting down trees for cows (or anything else)

the Beyond Bayes ws chaired by Zenna Tavares Talia Ringer 💚 looks vv interesting 👀👀

if you look closer, we're still deep in the "uncanny valley". IDK maybe this stuff will become pleasant to look at in a few years, but for now I won't let my kid near it

me when the latest wave of deep learning art drops

Very cool! Language as a prior for exploring the world. It _feels_ right

program syntax is a distraction

I still haven't fully digested my reading list from NeurIPS'21, can everybody stop pushing out cool new stuff so I can catch up tyvm

it's the failure modes of #dalle that are most interesting.

Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said." We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized. - Ira Byock." 4/4

LLMs are great because they intersperse rubbish in the middle of a well-argued chain of thought and we're absolutely not prepared for their mass deployment

happening now ! lots of interesting work on multimodal grounding and reasoning, CSRR Workshop

I really don't see how the commercial rollout of Copilot is compatible with their ToS.

EDSL simplification à carte, very noice cc ⁦Philip Zucker⁩ github.com/alt-romes/hegg

now on mastodon too : sigmoid.social/@ocramz

"the young man and the sea", 6a-ish? #40th #birthdayboy