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Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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Post by mdp2021 »

throwuwu wrote: post #15
palad1n wrote: post #7

Well, that's horrifying

It’s a funny one. At first: how horrifying to subject brain cells to the world of Doom! After more info: oh, they don’t perceive the horrific setting nor possess the context to know they are in a simulation. They just have inputs and outputs, comfort and discomfort. That’s not so bad. Upon deep reflection: oh God! We are just a scaled up version of this! Our perception of the world is just a tiny slice of reality fil…

"On that day, throwuwu discovered philosophy. He immersed himself in Descartes, Kant and Schopenhauer - in a world of doubts and cheating demons, phenomena and noumena, representations and suggestions of transcendence. Things would never be the same for him."

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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Post by jona-f »

mcast wrote: post #19
guptarohit wrote: post #10

Other videos on his channel is also quite interesting

Thought Emporium, Nile Red, and Styropyro are YouTubers who are a few degrees away from being dangerous criminals (I say this in the lightest way possible) but channel their talents for educational videos.

Are you serious or trying to make a joke? I don't get it. Generally nice people, maybe slightly narcissistic, like any youtuber, maybe irresponsible. These people are nowhere near being "dangerous criminals", that's just slander.

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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Post by eurekin »

mdp2021 wrote: post #29
eurekin wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So much good information is presented now as videos... I'm thinking of automating that. A service, which follows your watched yt videos feed and automatically saving a transcript. Maybe with some LLM summary and few screenshots - as simple html page. I believe people keep producing videos, since it can be monetised nicely

You should work on an engine that adds punctuation to the subtitles. They are pretty raw as they come - they normally require some post-production to be made into structured text. Probably something already exists? LLMs could be good for heuristically obtaining punctuated text - but since real understanding is required, other systems should be employed - such as a transformers based ANN (speech + raw_transcript → pun…

I did some initial tests and found that whisper.ai gets transcripts a loot better. Might improve punctuation.

Also, when asked to summarize, even Vicuna removed all portions of irrelevant talking (like to the crowd on a meeting) and jokes.

Might be worthwile to finish that

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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Post by boondoggle16 »

Narishma wrote: post #36
akomtu wrote: post #31

This was the plot line of Quake: an unholy union of organic lifeforms and machines went rogue.

I think that's Quake 2. I don't think Quake 1 had any kind of plotline.

Untrue, you kill the big demon at the end. Spoiler alert? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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Post by mrtksn »

guptarohit wrote: post #10

Other videos on his channel is also quite interesting

Interesting is understatement, it's a channel which is one of the closer ones to hard science on the hard science - pop science spectrum and still having more than a million subscribers.

Some outstanding videos IMHO:

The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

How exactly the Covid Tests work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_usIkrVQwE

Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g

Especially the Covid test video was eye opening against the conspiracy theorist propaganda during the pandemic because knowing how tests actually work on practical level makes you see through the claims effort free.

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