Ian A. Stewart

🌎 Working towards becoming an engineer and working in software while continuing my education. End goal is research and development.

[anton 🇺🇸 @atroyn]

it's 2043.

agi has been with us for anywhere between ten and twenty years, depending on who you ask.

it's a sunny friday afternoon in san francisco. i'm walking to meet an old friend for coffee at flywheel.

it's still there, right at the edge of golden gate park.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

There are two parts of physics. The beautiful part does not require any rote learning to understand, because it can be reduced to a handful of elegant algebraic expressions. The ugly part is ignored by physicists and called chemistry.

[Ian A. Stewart @Ian_Alexanderz]

@Plinz @g###bgh@ hb@

[Ian A. Stewart @Ian_Alexanderz]

@ashrtth C++ 💻

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

Maybe my favorite AI generated video so far. Prompt: "A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop, close up, highly detailed, studio lighting, screen reflecting in its eye.mp4"
killer work @MetaAI !!

[steph maj swanson @supercomposite]

🧵: I discovered this woman, who I call Loab, in April. The AI reproduced her more easily than most celebrities. Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image she touches. CW: Take a seat. This is a true horror story, and veers sharply macabre.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

AI generated images may or may not be art, but Midjourney just won a 1st price in a major fine arts competition https://t.co/B8t3h28FAG

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

We are now officially in a cold war with China

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Maximizing agency is a much better general objective than maximizing happiness. Agency can be understood as the ability to control future states

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Reality shatter. The physics, biology, and mathematics of human vision as it relates to geometrical patterns.

The lines on this checkerboard pattern are straight. (Optical illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka), Source: https://t.co/yXEKghTBIS

[Ian A. Stewart @Ian_Alexanderz]

@Plinz So, is it conductors all the way down?

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Tomorrow (Friday) 9am pst: Live conversation between Adam Soccolich @theBestOfAdam and yours truly https://t.co/INhRKqZLDZ

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

Restore your sense of wonder! Read this interview with ⁦@eschwitz⁩, @philosophybites and then the five recommended books: https://t.co/yf2q2GZUgR

[Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine @philosophybites]

A ⁦@NewYorker⁩ interview with ⁦@PeterSinger⁩ https://t.co/N7aVN5nNn1

[neural oscillator of uncertain significance @mycoliza]

talking to my psychiatrist about how much i don’t want stimulants so they'll decide it’s safe to give me as many stimulants as i want. this technique is known as “reverse psychiatry”

[Katie Greifeld @kgreifeld]

I’ve been thinking about this meme a lot

[Chris Kalmar 🦋 @chriskalmar.dev @chriskalmar]

What technology are you learning or planning to learn in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣?

[CodeNewbie @CodeNewbies]

Our new friend Parker needs some help generating random numbers in Python.

Head over to their post on #CodeNewbie Community to leave an answer!

https://t.co/d7mszseHQI

[NASA @NASA]

Beginning at 4:40am ET (8:30 UT) watch live coverage of the Crew-2 astronauts arriving at the @Space_Station. Tune in for:

🌟 Docking – 5:10 am ET (9:10am UT)
🌟 Hatch open – 7:15 am ET (11:15am UT)
🌟 Welcome ceremony – 7:45 am ET (11:45am UT)

➡️ https://t.co/mzKW5uV4hS