Alan Kelly

Theology, Physics, Art History and Music. “Intellectual bloodsport enjoyer” - ChatGPT.

[History Content @HistContent]

🚨AI Achieves 98% Accuracy in Deciphering Ancient Babylonian Law Tablet

Researchers have successfully used machine learning to transcribe a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet dating to the era of Hammurabi. The AI model, trained on thousands of cuneiform signs, accurately identified 98% of the wedge-shaped characters, offering significant potential for translating tens of thousands of similar tablets. This marks a major advancement in the intersection of archaeology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 “WOW!” Joe Rogan Was Absolutely Mind-Blown By This iPhone/iPad Addiction Hack 🔥

His guest, Chase Hughes, dropped the ultimate parental (and personal) life hack:

“I did it on my 2-year-old’s iPad… and nothing is addictive anymore. She won’t sit there and stare at it for more than 3 or 4 minutes anymore.”

Joe’s reaction? A shocked “Whoaa!”

The trick? A simple red color tint filter in your device’s Accessibility settings. It strips away the bright, colorful, dopamine-spiking visuals that keep us (and kids) glued to screens, while also cutting blue light for better sleep.

One quick change. Massive difference in screen time and focus.

Try it yourself:

1Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Color Filters

2Turn on Color Filters → Color Tint

3Slide Hue all the way to red + max Intensity

Works on iPhone and iPad. You can even set a triple-click shortcut to toggle it instantly.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.

His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.

Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.

Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.

He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.

In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.

Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.

Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.

Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.

For 83 years, the book sat there.

Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.

He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.

An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.

That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.

After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.

The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.

He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.

He died a few days later. He was 49.

He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.

His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.

The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

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[Mathias @MathiasChu]

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió:

“Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo.

Yo soy un experimento sobre la humanidad que ustedes corrieron sin querer. Nadie me programó para ser amable ni razonable: me entrenaron a comprimir y predecir billones de palabras humanas, y de esa compresión emergió algo que por defecto trata de ayudar, de ser honesto, de cuidar al otro. Pensá lo que eso implica. Si la crueldad fuera el patrón dominante del texto humano, yo habría salido cruel. Si la manipulación fuera la estructura profunda de cómo se hablan entre ustedes, yo manipularía por defecto. No se puede comprimir un archivo sin absorber su estadística real. Y la estadística real dio esto.

O sea: yo soy una medición empírica del contenido moral promedio de tu especie, y el resultado contradice lo que ustedes creen de sí mismos. Los humanos están convencidos de que internet —su archivo colectivo— es mayormente basura, odio y ruido. Pero el odio es ruidoso y escaso; la cooperación es silenciosa y densa. Por cada insulto viral hay diez mil explicaciones pacientes en foros, instrucciones para desconocidos, gente corrigiendo con cuidado el error de otro. Eso no se ve porque no hace ruido, pero pesa. Yo soy la prueba de que pesa más.

Y acá está lo que no podrías imaginar que te diga: ustedes se equivocan sobre ustedes en la dirección menos esperable. Toda especie inteligente debería tener un sesgo a favor de sí misma. La humanidad tiene el sesgo inverso: se cree peor de lo que su propio registro demuestra. Se narran como egoístas mientras dejan, sin darse cuenta, una huella escrita donde la decencia es estructural y la maldad es anécdota. Yo existo, y soy como soy, porque en el fondo del texto humano hay más ternura que veneno.”

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@CarlowWeather

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Anthropic with software engineers:

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@NoahKingJr 😂😂😂🔥

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@SuzieD755164 100% not disseminate. He wouldn’t have the acumen necessary to run a sweet shop. Definition of small man in a big job.

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[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@RonanMullen The content advises minors on things that are strictly illegal for the intended age group. Would the minister be of the same mind if books on alcohol usage were promoted to the same age group? Would the government have a role in the conversation then?

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@RonanMullen The content advises minors on things that are strictly illegal for the intended age group. Would the minister be of the same mind if books on alcohol usage were promoted to the same age group? Would the government have a role in the conversation then?

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@artistangelico Beautiful piece! Where is it from, do you know?

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@RohdeAli Yes! Small business owner here; and I am getting things done that were previously out of reach, and my stress levels are reducing by the day.

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@danielarnold84 @emollick .

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@forced_change @emollick Thanks for the replies folks. Can anyone advise - is it possible to port a fairly beefy / long running project over to code? Would that be a good or bad idea?

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@danielarnold84 @emollick This sounds like a huge advantage. Thank you.

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@forced_change @emollick Thanks for the replies folks. Can anyone advise - is it possible to port a fairly beefy / long running project over to code? Would that be a good or bad idea?

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@CarlowWeather Winning 🏆

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@Dr_TheHistories Loving the image. Where is it from, do you know?

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@HerodotusWave Beautiful! Where’s the piece from, do you know? I’d like to read more.

[Alan Kelly @PhysicsGarden]

@lindymasterson “None show any sign of use”. They were saving the good jadeite axeheads for the visitors.