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[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

There are only 3 great scientific questions:
1. What's the universe made of?
2. What's life all about?
3. What is intelligence?

There are interesting sub-questions:
1.1 What's dark matter and dark energy?
1.2 how do you get "it from bit" to paraphrase John Wheeler
1.3 what is the nature of time?
2.1 is the emergence of life an intrinsic property of the universe?
2.2 how does complexity spontaneously form?
3.1 is the emergence of intelligent behavior an intrinsic property of the universe?
3.2 how does intelligence spontaneously form? (which is why learning is so fascinating)

At the core of all of these questions is the nature of information and computation.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

– Niels Bohr

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[collectiveconsciousness @conciouscreator]

You don’t have to call everything that you see into your experience

The Observer
Over
The Absorber

Filter
Over
Sponge 🧽

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

How many novels and movies use the following plot template:
1. Rookie graduates at the top of the class (military, medical, engineering, business, law,...).
2. Rookie confronts the Real World and realizes that practical experience is required, and formal knowledge from books is insufficient.
3. Rookie eventually gets out of an impossible situation with the help of Experienced Old Timer with considerably less formal training who saw Rookie as an arrogant prick.
4. Rookie ends up admiring Old Timer and vice versa.

This cliché is predicated on the idea that learning a skill cannot be done purely by reading text, or even through theoretical training. One needs hands-on experience, which cannot be acquired from language alone.

It's a fun metaphor for why LLMs trained purely from text cannot reach human-level intelligence.

[RB: Peace Coach @Peacecoaching]

A 10-year-old Ramanujan could have heard this directly from Swami Vivekananda: "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced."

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@PhysInHistory Agreed, but I believe there is a small caveat here one should be wary about.

“You could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!” - Hermione, Harry Potter.

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@elonmusk Clearly you aren’t a spiritual person :))

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@elonmusk College isn’t for everyone. That doesn’t mean it’s not for anyone.
Watch this opinion from Neil deGrasse Tyson, I believe it might change your opinion -

https://t.co/PB0vVMXXLW

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@AdamMGrant Thinking, fast and slow.

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@rashida_a_va @PicturesFoIder 😂😂

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@ProfFeynman Isn’t it interesting that none of these are after the year 2000?

[Mona @MonaLee41142040]

Love will find its way🪷
💛💛💛🦅💛💛💛
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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."

Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."

Embrace change. It's inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.

Read, Love and Learn

[Sankar Basu @SankarBasu8]

"The summary of the advice of all prophets is this: Find yourself a mirror." Shams Tabrizi

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Rumi❤️ #life

[Sankar Basu @SankarBasu8]

Each and every heart is beautiful. It is the mind that needs working on.

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#Meditation (and spirituality broadly) summed up beautifully❤️

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Here’s to appreciating what we already have❤️

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@marvinvonhagen Who else has the feeling that Microsoft tweaked the model on purpose to give such answers in an attempt to appear like it has created “Artificial general intelligence”?
No such thing as bad publicity in this context!

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Your 6 can be somebody else’s 9. Neither of you is necessarily wrong.

[Ananda @_anandaonly]

"To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders."

Chuang Tzu