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A lot of the advice about academia on here either warns against going into it because it's terrible or recommends it strongly because it's wonderful. I'm considerably more ambivalent about it, and I suspect I'm not alone. Here's a thread about that (1)

My timeline is once again flooded by "10 GPTs that blow your mind"🤢. Let's rain on their parades! The first step to solve any problem is to recognize there is one. A recent paper systematically reveals GPT-4V's limitations: - Text prior knowledge overrules vision: GPT-4V tends

Please help me protect life in Ukraine. Russia has targeted Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure. This means the water supplies and energy supplies that people need to stay alive, especially throughout the winter. Last winter Russia tried to freeze the Ukrainians. 1/

The Theological Metaphors of Marx by Enrique Dussel

Charles Joughin was the chief baker on the Titanic and one of its most unlikely survivors. He was interrogated by the British Titanic inquiry, which was tasked with finding out how the Titanic had sunk. Below is his interrogation by Mr. Cotter: "What did you do with the children

This is Princess Lili'uokalani. She would become the last sovereign ruler of Hawaii. The photo was taken in 1853 when she was only 15 years old. In 1874, Lili'uokalani's brother, David Kalakaua became king, and a few years later, she was named the heir apparent. She spent the

My PhD supervisor told me ‘Philosophy books don’t sell many copies’ Also, Wittgenstein said it’s impossible to get to the moon.

“If I could prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. ...there is too much noise.” --Søren Kierkegaard

Zooming into my latest gigapixel moon photo. Created using around 150,000 individual images and two cameras/telescopes to get the most obscenely detailed image I could. Zoom in yourself using the link in the second post.

Helena Vlahos performing her famous nine quarters belly dance act, 1979

The Wilderness Orion uses Pure Fusion devices made from materials scraped out of the ices of any common asteroid. Here's an annotated version of the fantastic art prepared by Daemoria for the ToughSF blog post explaining the concept: toughsf.blogspot.com/2022/03/fusion…

Language Models can be Logical Solvers paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2311.06… Logical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and a key component of tasks like problem-solving and decision-making. Recent advancements have enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to

Wow! These researchers really cracked ChatGPT. They created an effective data extraction attack by querying the model. As a result, they extracted several MBs of ChatGPT’s training data for ~$200. They estimate they could extract even more:

Speaking of paying our share… If the US gave as much/GDP to Ukraine as does Denmark or Slovakia, Ukraine would win easily. If we gave as much/GDP to Ukraine as Estonia does, Ukraine would likely have won long ago. Ukrainian victory is what matters and we are the slackers.

Ten interesting things we learned about phages while editing this article for Asimov Press: 1. You can buy phage therapies over-the-counter at some pharmacies in Georgia. (The country. Not the state.) 2. An oft-cited estimate is that by 2050, at least ten million people could

This is Dubai's artificial rain which happens because of cloud seeding

Leibniz's writing is so clear, deductive and logical. I love finding his major and minor premises and of course his long winded conclusions. This is truly philosophia!