Could traveling waves be phase decouplings of deeper faster dynamics inside neurons in microtubules? The brain has to ‘slow down’ from terahertz, gigahertz, megahertz and kilohertz for cognition in hertz. Kinda like music, or holography. Predictive coding all levels.

let's do this (solve problems on multiple scales using collective dynamics)

Which came first? Consciousness or life?

Stuart Hameroff discusses this question in this clip from his presentation at Mindfest 2024

claude does not have a simple world model

this paper was just laying around the strange-loop world-sim backrooms

Thesis on DNA from Pompeii suggests, like the Rome & Etruria papers, that migration from eastern Mediterranean largely replaced the population of the old republic: hdl.handle.net/1889/5556

1) Gemini 1.5 is incredible for apolitical code. Has a waitlist, though. blog.google/technology/ai/…

2) Mistral releases great open models and their Large is more suitable for devs. mistral.ai/news/mistral-l…

3) Claude is the most similar to ChatGPT in that you can just sign up and…

Since we’re posting fun stuff that was never intended to see the light of day: here’s the result of a rabbit hole where I found mechanical analogies to superconducting qubit designs. The Zero-Pi qubit analog involves differential gearboxes (like from an automotive drivetrain).…

Cryogenic electron tomography (CryoET) + protein databank (PDB) + Unreal Engine =

rendering protein structures inside cells with unreal engine. i want to play this game.

Huh - Unreal as data vis tool. H/t Jeremy Howard

Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine
Step closer to the Matrix

🔥 github.com/enjalot/latent…

Spent roughly 3 hours playing with Apple Vision Pro today. Some thoughts

1) the pass-through fidelity is impressive, but not yet ready for mainstream adoption. Things are still a little too grainy

2) the hand tracking is butter smooth, no matter where you have your hands (in…

Magic Keys Beta is OUT NOW on Meta Quest!

Learn Piano in Augmented Reality!
🔊 Midi Keyboard Support (via Cable or PC Companion)
🎼 Real Piano Support (through Audio and Hand Tracking)
🎹 Virtual Keyboard (if you don't have one)

#VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #piano #quest2

Announcing surya - a multilingual text line detection model for documents. It gives you accurate line-level bboxes and column breaks.

Find it here - github.com/VikParuchuri/s… .

Silly questions are often the best

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR) has influenced numerous disciplines of research. Here is an overview of 22,000+ articles cited alongside SSR by 17,780 publications between 1980 and 2021. The layout is automatically optimized for the eyes.

youtu.be/WizvhSSuuRQ

Extracellular Vesicle (2015-2023)
g-index (k=100), LRF=3.0, LRF=3.0, LBY=10, e=1.0
N=4,987, E=34,689 LCC=4,692 (94%)
Q=0.7432, S=0.8132, H=0.7766

PyTorch's design origins, its connection to Lua, its intertwined deep connection to JAX, its symbiotic connection to Chainer

The groundwork for PyTorch originally started in early 2016, online, among a band of Torch7's contributors.

Torch7 (~2010-2017)
These days, we also…

The ACT has released their scores for 2023, so I thought I'd put everything in familiar terms and make some plots.

This thread will include lots of pictures!

So, how did everyone do nationally?