mental illnesses can be acquired via memetic viruses Scott Alexander x.com/ChrisChipMonk/…

You can now see military flight paths up to -24 hours with a slider, and I added some graphs to display the collected aircraft data.

The best indicator for imminent AGI is reliably working printers

This new DeepMind research shows just how broken vector search is. Turns out some docs in your index are theoretically incapable of being retrieved by vector search, given a certain dimension count of the embedding. Plain old BM25 from 1994 outperforms it on recall. 1/4

🧵 Farming robots are no longer experimental. They're deployed, profitable, and reshaping agriculture. In orchards, vineyards, vegetable fields, and beyond, they're tackling labor shortages, precision spraying, and chemical reduction at scale. This is how robotics is quietly

LLM’s really show how valuable it is to be aware of one owns limits of knowledge to prevent producing bullshit.

It is remarkable how much writing stuff down and refining your mental models over subjects over long periods of time, helps to deepen your understanding and seeing things clear. Write it down and see if it still makes sense in a couple of months.

IMO — Fei-fei is spot on... and this is why #SyntheticData for LLMs is a weak strategy for AGI Consider the following example: - Step 1: take a large LLM training dataset (e.g. "the whole internet") - Step 2: remove every sentence with the words "Kim" or "Kardashian" in it

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“Columbus did not become famous because he was the first to discover America, but because he was the last!” One of my favorite Jürgen Schmidhuber talks from 2012 about AI-driven discovery, curiosity and creativity. Now at the heart of many AI debates in 2025!

The shades in They Live (1988) should become reality soonish with AR and AI technology. Ad blocker for the real world which translates ads into their subconscious messaging. Ah it is already done - great!

seanpedersen.github.io/posts/nutrition A strong mind needs a healthy body: - Whole foods beat processed food - Protein needs are high - Creatine benefits both muscle and brain - Magnesium - Vitamin D3 - Avoid plastic and sweet beverages TL;DR - drink water / tea and eat eggs with steak

On my way to jump through the last apple appstore review hoops to finally publish my first app: a location based social network. Stay tuned.