Tomy Ames

Philosophizing @WUSTL #Philosophy-#Neuroscience-#Psychology on #perception, #memory, & #AI. Former VP, #DataScience; AI Consultant; #Healthcare Administrator.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

Reverse ChatGPT called SocratesGPT where you make some claim and it responds by incessantly asking you questions that show you're wrong.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

That student who didn't read the text after being called on.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@LedermanHarvey @dioscuri @davidchalmers42 Good question. I think the skills necessary to do good philosophy overlap with those which are most valuable in AI fields. Things like seeking clarity, understanding nuance, finding problems, gaps & novel solutions. Unsurprisingly, the pragmatic parts are where the value is, imo.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@svershbow Also, at the end of the visit I said, "Given how many allergies I have, should we test for food allergies?" And she looks me dead in the eyes and goes, "Let's not go looking for trouble."

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@svershbow I remember when my doctor came in and said, "So, when did you realize you're allergic to everything?" I was there for a reaction to a hair care product. Turns out I'm allergic to 54 of the 62 things they tested me for. Great times.

[Michael Andregg @michaelandregg]

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action.

A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@gwarrar02_don That's awesome! I still put up a lot of stuff on Insta. I have so many videos I need to post. Just never got around to doing it. Someday... lol. Thanks for the kind words!

[Daniyal | Markets @DaniyalMarkets]

@elonmusk It’s easier to be philosophical when rent is covered.

[Abakcus @abakcus]

The Extinction Illusion. Your brain swears the right side has more dots — it’s actually exactly the same as the left. https://t.co/8SRpF98FGx

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
https://t.co/yBLcagKgOR

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

This is the textbook I wrote to support the most advanced high school math/CS sequence in the USA.

It's freely available. Link in first reply.

In Math Academy's (former) Eurisko program, which ran from 2020-23, we scaffolded high school students up to doing masters/PhD-level coursework: reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python.

We currently have all of Eurisko's math prerequisites available on the Math Academy system (which is where Matteo and other Eurisko students learned it).

Eurisko ended in 2023 when I relocated because nobody else in the district had the requisite knowledge to teach it.

But we will eventually have the entire Eurisko curriculum, and more, on the Math Academy system.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@d08890 This man has clearly never read Andrea Potochnik and it shows.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

Well shit.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime numbers? The institutionalized, paralyzed man who tapped out allusions to Rilke? Made up to embellish the stories. Probably also: the aphasic patients who detected lies better than neurologically intact people, including Ronald Reagan's insincerity. https://t.co/77nQRF8kp6

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@morallawwithin Literally has never happened to me.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@morallawwithin The unmoved mover.

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

@dioscuri I’ve been thinking about this a lot in reference to memory. How can I have a whole ass different family, house, job, even identity in a dream and think *nothing* is odd about this until I wake up? Bizarre detachment.

[Kourken Michaelian @mnemosim]

Eurasian Memory Meeting 2026

05-07/03 in Tokyo!

https://t.co/wZWox24yfO

[Tomy Ames @tomyames]

A truly beautiful display of emotion -- one that I fear is impossible in philosophy by its very nature, where our solutions never quite resolve but invite critique, inevitably deepening the question rather than closing it.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Andrew Wiles on the morning he discovered how to fix his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem