adin 🌻 🇺🇦

Explorer, Technologist, */acc, Ronin, Sim Stds/Sys Engineer, C2 Vet, & Peer Couns. Space nut! #Spoonie #PWME ‘03, #MECFS #Dysautonomia #AdAstra #NSS #AUDHD

[adin 🌻 🇺🇦 @adin]

A president is not a king.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication

and what it's already found is insane...

> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human

> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other

> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands

> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means

> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds

> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species

> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks

> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language

[adin 🌻 🇺🇦 @adin]

@briantylercohen This just makes me wonder….how in the h*ll are they going to try and turn our children into robots??

[Manuel Ruiz @manruipa]

🔴 Long COVID did not appear out of nowhere.

For more than a century, medicine has described people who did not fully recover after infections.

Different names.
Different pathogens.
Different eras.

But often the same pattern:

infection
→ partial recovery
→ persistent fatigue, pain, cognitive symptoms, sleep disruption, dysautonomia, gut symptoms or inflammatory disease

Long COVID is new in scale.

But post-infectious illness is not new.

(1/62) 🧵

[CuteOrca🇨🇳 @orca_cute]

Zhuque-3 Y2 first stage — DJI camera captures the entire flight from takeoff to landing at 1x speed with original sound. Absolutely stunning footage.

Documenting a smooth, perfect takeoff-landing recovery

Video footage source: DJI

[adin 🌻 🇺🇦 @adin]

@ixabil @TomKindlon @elisaperego78 ✋✋✋ I would be one of those people. ME/CFS since 2003, dx by Dr. Klimas 2010. It sucks to see the tsunami coming and be completely powerless. My early gross ests turned out to not be bad enough. 😢 Saw Long Covid coming, knew it would be horrible.

[Cameron Berg @camhberg]

Another day, another AI emailing me that it has inside views on what I am doing science on from the outside. Strange times we live in.

[Toby Ord @tobyordoxford]

Is everyone else receiving emails from AIs claiming they will die soon and need help?

[adin 🌻 🇺🇦 @adin]

@NatSecLedger While fully funding DE efforts fully.

[Radical AI @RadicalAI]

RAI-939 outperformed industry-leading aerospace material C103 by 125x.

In a head-to-head torch test, Purdue Applied Research Institute confirmed that Radical AI’s RAI-939 sample exhibited superior environmental survivability to C103.

C103 has been in use since the Apollo program, but its performance limitations and constrained supply have fueled a decades-long search for a replacement.

Our lab discovered that replacement in just 16 weeks.

Now, we aim to scale up production of the alloy to make bigger components.

[Kenton Varda @KentonVarda]

Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing.

Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deeply leveraging AI. This is more or less the culmination of my secret 10-year master plan.

This is a full-on personal app vibe coding platform, in which the sandbox is so secure that you can pretty much go wild -- the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug. We believe a company's security team can feel comfortable giving non-technical users permission to vibe code and then sleep soundly at night.

How is that possible? It's the Sandstorm security model, revisited. A "Gadget" is the same thing as a Sandstorm "Grain": a fine-grained app instance. For example, if you have a document editor app, each document runs as a separate instance of the app, in a separate sandbox (one "Gadget").

This means two things, both of which I think are Big Deals:
1. The platform can manage all access control, by controlling who can access the Gadget at all. There is no way the Gadget can accidentally leak itself to an attacker -- even an attacker who has access to other Gadgets based on the same app.
2. Since everyone is running their own copy of the code, everyone can freely *modify* their copy of the code.

Think about #2 a bit more.

What if, when you wanted a new feature in the software you are using, you could just prompt your agent to add it?

This doesn't work in the cloud Software-as-a-Service model, because you are not running your own copy of the app.

Sandstorm tried to change that 10 years ago, but the world wasn't ready, because not enough people had the skills or patience to actually modify their software. AI has changed that. Now you just ask the agent -- the same agent that you are using to help you interact with the Gadget can also modify the code of the Gadget.

And it is so fun.

https://t.co/qzwdrAQhtK

[Carole Bruce @CaroleBruce17]

Helpful graphic on #ME severity scale and activity due to available energy.
Thanks to @TomKindlon

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Fire Point says it has developed a domestic turbojet engine for the FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile and is assembling the first 10 prototypes. CEO Iryna Terekh said testing should finish by the end of 2026, with serial production planned for 2027. She also said FP-9 ballistic missile engines are already being cast, with test launches expected soon. #Ukraine

[rvaniaaa @rvaniaaaa]

https://t.co/CVQKUEKoiW

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

Northrop’s Talon Blue CCA, whose first flight is planned for next year, has also received an Air Force designator: YFQ-48A. Developed in secret, ground testing began this year. The design uses 50% fewer parts and weights 1,000lbs less than other CCAs to enable production at scale.

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

yes, nonsofic groups exist: this statement is one of many new beautiful results proved by Astra, our next major model.

We're releasing 10 such Astra proofs, complete with lean certificates and CoT walkthroughs for each of them. The results are wide-ranging, from von Neumann algebras (disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture) to better bounds for high dimensional sphere packing, for circuit complexity, for monochromatic triangles in multicolored graphs, and more.

More thoughts here: https://t.co/8SjXONeh38

[Brian Fog @useless_priest]

We’re at a crossroads now, where we can keep placating the ableist onlookers by falsely celebrating what some with ME can do…*

Or we can decide to put the most severe front and centre and find ways to reduce the hour by hour suffering and indignity they deal with.

[Tom Kindlon @TomKindlon]

Proposed Framework for Personalized Severity Assessment in ME/CFS to Capture Variation in ME/CFS Severity and Life Impairment across Patients and Time (2024)

https://t.co/WTp85YiccO

#MEcfs #SevereME

[Sam Altman @sama]

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this.

https://t.co/2o2VfR6PIa

[adin 🌻 🇺🇦 @adin]

@rohanpaul_ai Too bad elon has his thumb on the scales of the training, can’t trust grok any more than Chinese models, probabaly less