Benjamin De Baets

im-potential

[Benjamin De Baets @baetsie]

A reading of the facts of ethnology and culture history proves plainly that maxima of culture have frequently been reached in low levels of sophistication; that minima of culture have been plumbed in some of the highest. Civilization, as a whole, moves on; culture comes and goes.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

There are a lot of things wrong with this world…

but too much intelligence is not one of them.

[Leandro von Werra @lvwerra]

I put a fly into microduck's head and it now uses smell to find bananas.

[Georgia Channing @cgeorgiaw]

🌱🌱🌱 a HUGE step towards designing to food of tomorrow -- from the DNA up 🧬🧬🧬

🙏 BOTANIC-1 just dropped, a family of models to do just that (beating all prev models)

All open on @huggingface 🤗 + more useful than Millennium Problems

More in 🧵

[MattyG @meawoppl]

Wife told me these wouldn’t fit.

Little did she know I had trained for this moment for years.

[sankalp @dejavucoder]

incredible timeline

[Matty Hempstead @mattyhempstead]

I wireheaded the fly and forced it to doomscroll flytok.

Dopamine neurons are measured and artificially enhanced to ensure maximum enjoyment.

My goal is to create a fly that is happier than all other flies combined.

[Jim Bohnslav @jbohnslav]

in all my years of doing neuroscience, I never thought we would end up here

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

Solving Navier-Stokes by becoming a "wallfacer"

[APBMS @apbmsud]

Jean-Pierre Serre et Alain Connes sur Grothendieck : exil à Lasserre ; yin/yang et caractères masculins et féminins d'une œuvre mathématique ; devoir intellectuel ; force de travail ; humour.

[Ricard Solé @ricard_sole]

Can AI spread like a virus and erode cognitive autonomy? Our new paper models how LLM adoption can cross tipping points, triggering runaway dependence and tech lock-in, suggesting routes to "cognitive immunization". https://t.co/4e8ya6JNsW

[Andi Marafioti @andimarafioti]

Can you explain to me exactly what you want 4 microducks for??

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Remember, this is the technology that RFK and Trump are trying to kill.

[brett goldstein @thatguybg]

VCs using the word “we” talking about the one deep tech company they invested in

[Der Postillon 📯 @Der_Postillon]

Wegen Dürre: Behörden fordern Bürger zum Wildpinkeln auf https://t.co/SnARaIeTJN

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

An amusing anecdote, beautifully recounted. (From London Review of Books 1996).