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I have started beating the hell out of Claude with stylometric analyses of writers I admire; usually technical writers like Terry Winograd, Leslie Lamport, Rodney Brooks. Then the …

Yep. Such a classic Claude flavored product. Good ideas wrapped in cotton candy. I often read as much as 1000 words thinking to myself: “this is smooth”, but then think to myself “…

Easy enough to change. I have a Stylometry Skill fit to my preferred style—a mix of me and Terry Winograd. Give Opus 10 of your best paper thst you wrote and tell it to build a mod…

You patent and protect (as best you can) the missing ingredients needed to get to AGI. Only half joking and also scary to contemplate. Qualcomm’s CDMA patent is on example. ARM and…

There is no one-size-fits-all, even for programming.

For my quirky workflows I need 100K even to prep Opus 4.8 or higher to begin good work. Not programming, but a complex synthetic architecture for implementing more attentional auto…

Not how I view it as a 74 yo. Patients get what their doctors want as part of a culture of minimal preventive care (it does not pay) and massive medical care (procedures pay handso…

Funny: This title is a classic statement of Martin Heidegger’s. Go programmers!

Share your concern. One point is that this is not “mind reading”. This is “motor command reading”. This is really no different than placing recording electrodes near motor neurons …

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In academic research I have seen this same trend, particularly intensely in IT and security. Lock it down, lock it up, and slow down research. A hierarchy of admins and techs taugh…

I initial thought this was a great tongue-in-cheek comment. I still think it is a joke.

Not how I see it. And I have seen Europe close up for 60 years. It is wealthier and happier than it was even 15 years ago. Visit Spain, Portugal, Greece, and of course the other la…

Yes, sure, but not efficiently. Even Pops will not want to run four hair dyer GPUs 24-7 in the garage.

I think you are right when you factor in the much more efficient newer high end GPU. That is what may make the current GPu investments obsolete in 2-4 years.

Yann is on the mark. Almost amusing to see the EU along with its many former “subjects” realize they are at great risk of joint Chinese-American hegemony in AI. We should all be mo…

Completely agree. This is what Hofstadter means by a strange loop. Our current LLMs have no attentional autonomy by design. The recursion is superficial and without its own Now. Ad…

You nailed it. Asking the question is asking to define from the outside what is an inner recursive process. The question is a simple confusion of domains. This is Humbert Maturana’…

Great, and won’t we all be just as surprised when human self-attentional control turns out to be just as simple or just as complex! Our minds as a strange fabric built of threads o…

Diderot’s Jacque, The Fatalist is a great example. Perhaps even moreso of endless recursion to the end.

Living downwind of Colossus I and Colossus II in Memphis has orders of magnitude more weight than even a convention large data center. On par with a large cargo airport like MEM (F…

What was the specific mathematical or factual error? It is not theoretical for me.

The newer location is about 3 miles southwest of the Memphis Airport (MEM), one of the world’s largest cargo airports and the center of FedEx operations (500 take-off and landings …

Not in my fields of science: Genetics and neuroscience. The combination of Opus 4.7 Adaptive used with well structure project folders is amazingly useful.

Completely on the mark! Algorithms can differ qualitatively. Recursion.