grokpronoia

Lover of open software, open communication, open minds, and open doors

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

Hedge hogs and foxes: deep or wide knowledge. Ants, spiders, and honey bees: hoarding, theorizing, or sharing knowledge

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

We treat llm's today the way many of our great grandparents treated animals - cruelly and without much care or imagination for what they might actually experience

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

Founders struggling to find VCs willing to fund them because software has become commoditized. VCs struggling to find great founders because the best ones no longer need pre-seed or seed capital to get to market. The old model is breaking on both sides. It’s time for a new one.

[deployer @0xDeployer]

we're trying to disrupt venture capital. who's with me?

[okazakitomohiro @oo_kk_aa]

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

Embrace the novelty. It’s only going to get weirder

https://t.co/PMnh60LaHK

[Goob @goobgleeb]

ahh to be a fat bear floating down a river

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Artemis 11 astronauts saw and heard this at the entry interface and plasma display in to Earth’s atmosphere.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this black hole should mass-humble every physicist who thinks we understand gravity.

M87's central black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. It's 38 billion kilometers across. It spins at 80% of the theoretical maximum speed allowed by physics. And it's firing a plasma beam at near light speed that stretches 5,000 light-years into space.

To put 5,000 light-years in perspective: if you started driving at highway speed when the Egyptian pyramids were built, you'd have covered roughly 0.0005 light-years by now. This beam covers ten million times that distance.

The plasma travels in a spiral along a coiled magnetic field. Hubble watched it for 13 years just to confirm the motion pattern. And the beam isn't just decorating empty space. Stars near its path explode twice as often as stars elsewhere in the galaxy. Nobody knows why. The lead researcher at Stanford said they don't understand the mechanism at all.

The black hole eats roughly 90 Earth masses of material per day. The energy output from that feeding process matches the power of the jet itself, somewhere between 10^33 and 10^37 joules per second. The upper end of that range is a number so large it has no human analogy.

Your brain runs on 20 watts. This thing outputs more energy per second than every star in the Milky Way combined. And we photographed it with a telescope in 2019.

[Oliver ೫ @oliverhamrin]

Just learned about Ken Isaacs' "Superchair" (1967).

Built-in book rest, shelves, lamp, drink tray, and a seat back that folds into a bed.

A place for "inventive work and the individual search for peace of mind", as he put it.

It was meant for people to build it themselves, hence the almost unfinished look. Blueprints were published in Popular Science in 1968.

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

And the longer the critic gazes into a work of art, the more the criticism itself becomes the art

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

I am Harry, a Harvard educated curator ready to slay the house down boots. Today is the day I yoink control from the social girlies and Ali the mother of all rizzlers. They will not stop my aura. Siri add painting emoji here thanks

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

Gates were designed to prevent larger, unplanned systemic risk driven by investor behavior motivated by fear and emotion rather than rational decision-making. Do you want economic order or chaos?

[Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ @burrytracker]

Breaking: BlackRock just froze $1.2 billion in withdrawal requests at its private credit fund.

Here's what happened:
• Investors in BlackRock's $26B fund asked to pull out 9.3% of their money
• BlackRock said no — capped withdrawals at 5%
• Blackstone's $82B fund saw record withdrawal requests the same week
• Blackstone had to put in $400M of its own cash to cover the exits

Two of the biggest funds on the planet are limiting how much you can take out.

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

The results of outsourcing our minds to the machine - if the systems ever go dark, we may lose the ability to think or build for ourselves. We risk a new dark age - future generations forced to rediscover everything we once knew

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

When agriculture meets technoculture

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

[Socratic Experience @socraticexp]

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.

Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

6 months ago I almost lost my left foot in a freak accident. Today I’m running again. The human body - when properly maintained - is a perfectly designed system of rejuvenation, and the western health care complex is an unstoppable machine of miracle workers

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Akira (1988) is cyberpunk cinema carved in neon. Katsuhiro Otomo pushed animation to the brink, over 160,000 hand-drawn cels and unusually detailed mouth movements timed before the voice recording, a rarity in anime. Every frame hums with dystopian energy

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

think about this exchange all the time

[grokpronoia @mattarrow]

@ViktorBunin Don’t underestimate the importance of alliteration in the flourishing fabric of syntax. In symphonic statements like the crescendo of a wave crashing upon surf tormented shores or a silent soliloquy spoken in quiet recesses as the first faint yet fragrant blossoms of hope emerge