Muhammad Faseeh Farrukh

Math, Physics, Analog/RF circuits and systems, Causality, Philosophy, Theology, Monism

[FP4 Brain @thefp4brain]

@TivadarDanka Can't recommend The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow enough for this, such a great read

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

People think analytic philosophers are too enamoured with funny titles, but they forget that after Al-Ghazali wrote "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" (c.1095), Ibn Rushed retaliated with "The Incoherence of The Incoherence" (c. 1180).

[Aeneas @SonOfAnchis3s]

I had a PhD student once cite a “Kierkegaardian leap of faith to me” in defense of atheism.

My response was “Notorious Christian Danish philosopher Kierkegaard?”
He says “Ummm… yes”
I say “Have you read Kierkegaard?”
He goes “Yeah”
I go “Great. Do you know where the leap of faith is from?”
He says “No”
I say “It’s from Fear and Trembling. Would you like to know what Fear and Trembling is about?”
He says “Yes”
I say “It’s a 300 page philosophical analysis of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac.”

That was the end of that debate. All I could think about was how many times he’s gotten away with the high and mighty language or a simple citation (which he knows nothing about beyond its impressive sound) against other people who yielded the floor to him, presuming that he was far more knowledgeable than them. Countless people had thought that he was far above their pay grade, playing in a different league and necessarily correct as a result, when in reality he was simply saying the magic words that sound impressive without the faintest clue of their origin or their meaning.

The worst part is these people get away with it over and over because only a select few actually do the reading and it’s only the “expert’s” catastrophic bad luck and hubris that accidentally leads to a run-in with one of these people.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

I love the story of how after winning the Nobel, he visited Calcutta to visit his ailing mathematics teacher, Anilendra Ganguly and placed the medal on him as a gesture of gratitude for instilling a love of the subject in him.

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

To all math fans: This is going to be an incredible movie when it comes out. Can't wait!

It's about Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal.

MARYAM: The Mirror and the Map

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

The Kalman Filter was once a core topic in EECS curricula. Given its relevance to ML, RL, Ctrl/Robotics, I'm surprised that most researchers don't know much about it - and up rediscovering it. Kalman Filter seems messy & complicated, but the intuition behind it is invaluable

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[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

BREAKTHOUGH: A first hint that 5G and 6G networks could help devices run AI without needing powerful chips.

"Scientists at Duke University and MIT built a system called WISE that sends AI models through radio waves, similar to how 5G/6G signals work. Tiny devices don’t store the model, they pick it up from the air."

“In early tests, the system maintained about 95.8% accuracy on image recognition tasks while using more than 10× less energy than conventional AI hardware.”

"The researchers showed that future 5G/6G base stations could broadcast AI models so drones, cameras, and sensors can think smarter without big processors or heavy batteries."

Bro if this grows, our wireless networks might become giant AI engines that power everything around us.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The infinity symbol (∞) was introduced by the English mathematician John Wallis in 1655. The symbol, which is a horizontal figure-eight, is thought to have been derived from the Roman numeral for one thousand (M) or the Greek letter omega (ω).

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator, they got a call from Bell Telephone.

The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see, when they were creating the first push-button phone, they did extensive tests to determine the exact best pattern for the numerical buttons - the pattern that would be easiest for people to tap in the dark or by muscle memory.

But now they were concerned they’d completely blundered, because they saw that TI’s machine had the exact opposite layout.

“So,” they asked. “What did your tests show?”

The guys at TI just stared stupidly and said “Tests?”

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Beyond her acting career, Hedy Lamarr co-patented a “frequency-hopping” spread-spectrum system for guiding torpedoes in 1942—technology that later formed the basis for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—and was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

[Neto @docneto]

The deeper you go in math and science the more blurred the lines are between those subjects and philosophy. Easy to see why the early scientists were philosophers and vice versa. The humanities and the natural sciences are not as far apart as we like to think. We should give people solid foundational education in both so that we are all rounded and grounded.

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Kevin Spacey fought to scrub his name from the opening credits and posters of Se7en (1995). He wanted the killer's identity to remain a total mystery until the end. The studio was furious, but the surprise became legendary.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I was inspired by this so I wanted to see if Claude Code can get into my Lutron home automation system.

- it found my Lutron controllers on the local wifi network
- checked for open ports, connected, got some metadata and identified the devices and their firmware
- searched the internet, found the pdf for my system
- instructed me on what button to press to pair and get the certificates
- it connected to the system and found all the home devices (lights, shades, HVAC temperature control, motion sensors etc.)
- it turned on and off my kitchen lights to check that things are working (lol!)

I am now vibe coding the home automation master command center, the potential is 🔥.And I'm throwing away the crappy, janky, slow Lutron iOS app I've been using so far. Insanely fun :D :D

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

Lovely to see Lahore lit up for Christmas. Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating—wishing you peace and joy

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

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[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

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[Spacey McFarthing 🏴‍☠️ @SpaceyMcF]

@alz_zyd_ basically causality with funny all kind of notations :P

[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

Demis Hassabis says world models are his longest standing passion and explains benefits vs. language models:

▫️ “I think language models are able to understand a lot about the world. More than we expected because language is actually probably richer than we thought. But there's still a lot about the spatial dynamics of the world, spatial awareness and the physical context we're in — and how that works mechanically — that is hard to describe in words and isn't generally described in corpuses of words.

Alot of this is allied to learning from experience. There's a lot of things which you can't really describe something. You have to just experience it. Maybe the senses and so on are very hard to put into words.

Whether that's motor angles and smell and these kinds of senses, it's very difficult to describe that in any kind of language.”▫️

This is what Demis and Google Deepmind is trying to solve with Genie. He also says that the video models (Veo) will play a part in training the world models and this is all key for AI robotics.

[Zach Vorhies / AI Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

This is the technology the MIT scientist specialized in: magnetic reconnection - essentially cracking a whip through a plasma field using high voltage switching.

The electric field bends an electric current sheet, the changing field flips that sheet on itself, and it snaps into a new position so fast it causes a fusion event in the enveloping deuterium-rich-plasma.

The fact Nature Physics suddenly publishing this now is amazing coincidence.

[Nicolas Rouleau @DrNRouleau]

My essay on the brain as a electromagnetic receiver of consciousness, entitled "An Immortal Stream of Consciousness" was one of the winners of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) @BigelowInst Essay Competition. Is survival possible?

Read it here: https://t.co/GgzPVNHpsO