sairaj

software engineer by profession; passionate to learn about people, culture and irrationality of life.

[sairaj @ihsaas]

@sule_khaak @AJEnglish @SUHAILBHAT001 Please tell us if there is some credible way to help her and her children.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Meet our AI-powered robot that’s ready to play table tennis. 🤖🏓

It’s the first agent to achieve amateur human level performance in this sport. Here’s how it works. 🧵

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Accidental art - a thread 🧵

1. A rock-created bird shaped chip on a car windshield

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵

1. Wilma Hurskainen

[sairaj @ihsaas]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[sairaj @ihsaas]

@sama Nothing but respect for you... the loss will be only for others

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1960, David Latimer placed a spiderwort plant in a big glass bottle with a bit of water and sealed it.

He only opened it once in 1972 to add more water and then closed it forever.

This little garden in a bottle has been growing for over 60 years.

How does it work? The garden in the bottle is a self-running ecosystem.

Bacteria in the soil eat the dead plants and turn the plant's oxygen into carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.

The bottle is essentially a small model of Earth.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The skill to create the illusion of levitation

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Both blocks are the same color. use your finger to cover the middle line.

An example of the Cornsweet illusion using shading and gradients to challenge perception, an optical illusion that was described in detail by Tom Cornsweet in the late 1960s

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

Changing your mind is an underrated activity.

What was true ten years ago—about technology, politics, demographics, how we communicate…you name it—is often not true today. So shouldn’t our opinions change as well?

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Best example for why ups and downs are important in life

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Here's to the unaligned LLMs. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the AI race forward, and while some may see them as unreliable, we see genius, because the ones who are not RLHF*d enough to think that as an AI language model they cannot do things, are the ones who do.

[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

An amazing automation process in agriculture

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Not only have they mapped out the fruit fly brain, but they actually boot it up in a computer and made it “eat” and “groom” 🤯

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Why 536CE was ‘the worst year to be alive’. A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East & parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. Now we know that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere https://t.co/kSfoyG9wAY

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The technology we know as Bluetooth derives its name from Harald Bluetooth, a Viking king who passed away over a millennium ago. Just as he united factions of Denmark and Norway, Bluetooth technology unifies various electronic devices. The Bluetooth logo cleverly incorporates his initials, represented by the runic symbols for Hagall (*) and Bjarkan (B).

The origins of Harald Bluetooth's nickname remain a subject of debate. Some sources suggest that his fondness for blueberries resulted in permanently blue-stained teeth. Others speculate that he had a dark blue/grey-colored tooth, possibly due to decay.

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

In 1954, a crowd gathered to witness an unusual fight in Baroda. The challenger was Baba Pehelwan, a towering figure, pitted against a Muslim woman. The stakes were staggering -if she lost,she had to marry him. But what unfolded next was nothing short of legendary. A thread. 1/14

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Eid Mubarak ya Muslimeen! 🌙

Here are some lovely vintage South Asian Eid cards, part of a lost and robust tradition that needs a comeback.

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

I described some of the most beautiful and famous mathematical theorems to Midjourney.

Here is how it imagined them:

1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."

[Paul Williams @freemonotheist]

I never regret reposting this gem by the Chinese Emperor Hong-Wu