Smart Spacetime (book)

Popular science book by @markburgess_osl which explains the deeper meaning of space and time in physics, computers, and artificial intelligence.

[Ginestra Bianconi @gin_bianconi]

What a wodenderful collaboration with Riccardo Muolo and Timoteo Carletti @teo121270 defyining the three-way Dirac operator and discovering the amazing nature of Dirac induced dynamical patterns! Our paper: https://t.co/bFWZspsSJd

[John Preskill @preskill]

On everyone's Christmas wish list.

[Smart Spacetime (book) @SmartSpaceTime2]

Trust and trustability is also a manifestation of pride and prejudice - purposely ignoring new information out of indifference to attention expenditure

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

A final essay to close the @NLnetFDN supported project about Trust in the 21st century. This is a more philosophical overview of the results for the big thinkers who want to go a little deeper... pls share
https://t.co/WLyBay0p5y
cc @JimRuttShow @DanielMezick @kelseyhightower

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

A final essay to close the @NLnetFDN supported project about Trust in the 21st century. This is a more philosophical overview of the results for the big thinkers who want to go a little deeper... pls share
https://t.co/WLyBay0p5y
cc @JimRuttShow @DanielMezick @kelseyhightower

[Alex😎 @alexclemm]

@markburgess_osl You have left quite a legacy with CFEngine, sometimes underappreciated but groundbreaking with the underlying concepts still very relevant to this day. Congratulations; what an amazing accomplishment!

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

This year is the 30th anniversary of @CFEngine -- and it's worth recalling how it started as an experiment in AI control using weird techniques like machine learning and semantic networks as well as principles of security only common 25 years later ..
https://t.co/Gtib4apNu3

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

https://t.co/Gtib4apNu3

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

Can we learn when to trust? New research on relating trust, (machine) learning, and heuristics ... a new popular report on the trust research I've been doing with @NLnetLabs
https://t.co/0ZcEuL09LL

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

‘The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn’

Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients

The term emanates from latin- ōsculārī, to kiss

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

My talk is here https://t.co/RZTqcUqsNh and detailed papers etc are here: https://t.co/J1E5tv0IbW

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

Wrote a paper with Robin Dunbar on the promise/trust derivation of the social group hierarchy and the social brain hypothesis! Preprint here..
https://t.co/kM1lafmo0H

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

A throwback from my music catalogue for this darker Friday night of the autumn festival - enjoy this mystery tale...
The Cupid Conspiracy (The Mystery of the Disappearing Dreams) [2023 reissue] https://t.co/pFa9bdzNlm

[Smart Spacetime (book) @SmartSpaceTime2]

@nattyover @AstroKatie The problem is calling them particles in the first place. These are properly dynamical *processes* in a hierarchical structure.

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

@WKCosmo @ckinsmagoo Lol, agreed. In @SmartSpaceTime2 I suggest that the clue to conscious might be in looking for a process that builds stories. Even when dreaming, the brain doesn't do random access lookup, it curates a timeline from non-ordered memory. I reckon that's what no one is talking about.

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

This part, I love in particular...

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

New PT study based on Wikipedia (non)collaboration process data: social group dynamics--it's not trust that determines the size of editing rounds but mistrust. PT predicts detailed balance of accretion and dispersion (looks a bit like a Planck spectrum)
https://t.co/cnDVEuqSqS

[Edmund Humenberger @ico_TC]

on Wikipedia: "Groups only attract new
users when they are very small. As soon as they exceed about 4 users, the tendency is for the group to break up." @markburgess_osl

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

Afternote: First, I'd like that thank everyone for their positive and interesting replies to this thread. Based on requests, I wrote a more detailed version of the software experiment here, for those who would like more words and details around this: https://t.co/ItpLIsDZU2 😇

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

1. This is a thread about Quantum Mechanics and how we interpret it. The way QM is presented bothers me from time to time (at least when I have time to think about it). Indeed, time plays the key role in the whole issue.

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

After much brow beating, and thanks to ML tools now available (albeit quite imperfect), I bit the bullet and added subtitles to my 3 documentary films. I definitely think it helps. Forced to watch them again, they're not as bad as I expected (zero budget)
https://t.co/8mQdNCukEq