It's remarkable that a Steve Bannon gayop from 5 years ago to rehabilitate the image of Harvey Weinstein was so successful that it made rightoids unironically pro-rape.
@alz_zyd_ Not winning a Nobel prize does not mean you did not contribute to physics or science. There would be no General Relativity without differential geometry or QFT without group theory. Mathematicians develop the framework that physicists need to describe material reality.
@TheLaurenChen Eh not really. Boomers are basically leaches. While there are some immigrants that are leaches they leach much less collectively than older whites. If welfare is cut for immigrants and the poor in general (probably gonna happen at some point) then this would basically be true.
Zebrafish NN
It’s pretty amazing to learn that efforts to map the fruit FLY connectome (brain synapses) were successful and its amazing to see the digital fly brain successfully complete a whole series of tasks, including complex navigation of open worlds.
The fruit fly is 160,000 neurons and 10^7 synapses.
Teams are currently doing the same thing with a zebrafish which has a similar scale neuron count but 10x more synapses. Fly was 100TB raw data and Zebrafish is 200TB, so about 2x the raw data.
For context a rodent is 70m neurons and 10^11 synapses. Rodents will come later.
But this method looks like it creates totally outsized results with absolutely miniscule models.
Zebrafish NN is a vertebrae connectome, it has much of the same basic structure as other vertebrae, unlike FLY connectome.
We are just about used to LLMs and coding, but AI is really just beginning and there is a lot more, and a lot weirder stuff coming down the pipe.
These connectomes have already shown to be incredibly resilient, you can blind their sensors and injure their outputs and they still succeed.
They are incredibly compact.
A whole lot of inanimate objects are going to get complete autonomy, totally offline, air gapped autonomy. They will be delivering pizzas and fighting wars.
Connectomics is an opposite approach to LLMs but you can of course use LLMs to help develop connectomes.
It’s amazing that you can take a biologically evolved brain, map it, produce a digital twin, and then run it at machine speed.
Imagine a human brain accelerated from 100Hz neuron fires to 3,200,000,000Hz that a typical CPU runs at. That’s 30 million times faster. But would need 1-2 exabytes to map.
Anyway “Zebrafish” is next.
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@DeItaone We are probably getting another round of Epstein file drops to pressure Trump into the war. After that I doubt he has any value left as an asset to anyone.
@RBehiel@GavinSBaker Tl;dr there is too much data to send back to earth so it makes sense to process some in space and just send back what is important to earth (GPS coordinates, missile launches, movements of people/cars/ships etc)
@RBehiel@GavinSBaker FWIW I was wrong about this. They are a spy satellite constellation for NATO. NoiseInSpace has a video on this.
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Twitch streamers are arguably the worst social class in the world. From men shilling gambling sites to kids to live lavishly, to women monetizing para-social romantic relationships, to political grifters. Oligarchs are parasites as well, they at least organize society and run it.