Serdar

Science & Philosophy
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Dream, try & learn

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

If you'd like to listen as a podcast https://t.co/Y7hgUHgNdX

#NotebookLM

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

I’ve been gathering my thoughts on where science stands today—how we got here, where we may have gone off course, and what might come next.

#Science #Physics #AI #HistoryOfScience #Philosophy https://t.co/2AuRCbT5eB

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

This is a major step for EU AI scene. Congrats to the team behind this.

[Aleph Alpha @Aleph__Alpha]

Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.

78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe.

Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.

[samim @samim]

water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light".

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

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[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Her is the #NotebookLM created audio if you want to listen as a podcast. https://t.co/lYCDWgDQPc

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

So the parallel is not a cute coincidence. It is evidence that the way we face the dark has barely moved in 700 years.

We still start in the mud.
We still build a spinning machine to get out.
We still reach the edge of proof.
We still come home talking about each other.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Which leaves the only question that matters. If our architecture for the infinite has not changed since Dante, what does the next epic look like — 700 years from now?

A new blueprint? Or the Divine Comedy again, written from a dish pointed at another star?

Link for the famous The Contact movie
https://t.co/9FfBm5outc #SciFi

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

This is not one author secretly agreeing with the other.

Both end believing they have found the actual truth about existence. Dante’s truth is a divine order that closes. Sagan’s truth is that we are not alone in the asking — and that no one, not even the older species, has the final map.

Same longing. Different answer. Both held as true.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

And both come back with the same sentence, in different centuries.

Dante: the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

The alien, wearing her dead father’s face: in all our searching, the only thing that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Both hit the same wall. Virgil, human reason, can guide Dante through Hell. He cannot enter Paradise. He disappears.

Ellie’s cameras record nothing. The pod, to everyone on Earth, fell straight through. Static.The woman who once said “prove it” has to say: I can’t prove this. I know it was real.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Contact is sold as hard sci-fi. Radio telescopes. Atheism. An alien signal from Vega.

Its floor plan is a 14th-century poem about Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. A glass observatory and a stone cathedral. Same structure underneath.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Then the same engine.

Dante climbs through nested spinning spheres.Ellie drops into a machine of spinning concentric rings.

Not a ladder. Not a rocket. A circle. The shape with no beginning and no end.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Both protagonists start in exile.

Dante: stripped of his property, sentenced to death if he returns to Florence, writing a custom Hell for the men who destroyed him.

Ellie Arroway: pushed out of the labs, sent to the desert to listen to static, dismissed for not doing “practical” science.

You do not get a cosmic journey until the world has already shut the door.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

I am amazed when I realized the undeniable similarities between the Carl Sagan's Contact and the Dante's Divine Comedy. Decided to share for all sci-fi fans and philosophy lovers.

How could two minds, 700 years apart, imagine the same journey through the cosmos?

Dante’s ordered universe and Sagan’s world of radio signals. Coincidence — or the same question?

#Contact #SciFi #Philosophy

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

@MizzyMogs Escape from Monkey Island

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I’m a scientist. I need to say this because the AI hype is getting ridiculous.

AI can design a molecule in seconds.
That doesn’t mean it discovered a drug.

It discovered something we scientists have never been short of:

Something to test.

Someone still has to make it.
Run the experiment.
Measure whether it works.
Check whether it’s toxic.

And ultimately prove it works in the real world.

AI hype tells us:
“Prediction is discovery.”
“Simulation is experimentation.”
“Generating a molecule is developing a drug.”

It isn’t. AI is making ideas incredibly cheap.

But every new idea creates something AI cannot generate: Evidence.

And the more hypotheses AI produces, the more experiments we’re going to need.

That’s the irony nobody seems to be talking about.

AI may not make laboratories obsolete.

It may make them more valuable than ever.

You can speedrun the thinking.
You can’t speedrun reality.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

@chacon A few years ago, I had to decide whether to launch my new startup in London or Berlin. I chose London, and have never regretted it since hearing similar stories from founders in Berlin all the time.

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

Are humans simply just the courier between AIs anymore?

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

Yeah, it's actually sad. Just 4 years ago I was a PhD candidate and a reviewer actively involved in research. Now, I don't remember the last time I read a research article. Ive lost all interest in that model. I think its dead and theres no coming back

https://t.co/nBWBjyWIN0

[Serdar @serdaryaman]

"...solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. ... the mass production at faster of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas."

https://t.co/7vzMMSrAsH