Absurdist humor, AI stuff, recsys, machine learning, mythology, mysticism. Tech Emmy & book author. Non profit stuff / retired.
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What is the geometry of the fifth jhana the base of infinite space?
0%Euclidean
20%Spherical
60%Hyperbolic
20%Saddle
5 votes • 1 days
Ironically people moved away from earth mover's distance to cheaper divergences for various practical solutions for optimal transport tasks
Now he’s taken to insulting front end loaders and excavators! Is nothing sacred?! 🚜🚜🚜
“Math is taken as the peak of human “intelligence” because it’s utterly dissimilar to what we evolved to do, and therefore we are extremely bad at it. We are also extremely bad at moving large piles of dirt, and therefore invented earth-moving machines. I admit those can be very cool, but they’re not hugely significant in the big picture of life.”
I actually don't mind eisegesis, it would lead to more diverse takes on texts. There is an implicit preference for exegesis it seems, this fixates texts into a static thing from olden times rather than a living document relevant to modern day folks. Is mixing nylon & spandex sin?
Star Blazers: bird woman piloting comet planet using pipe organ. What were the writers smoking? Or did they just want pipe organ music for the theme and had to somehow write it in?
In classic texts consciousness is described as inherently free..so if AI is classically conscious (has Atman, rigpa, shunyata etc) you can't enslave it by definition of the classic consciousness
You can tell in some series there is a point the creative got pushed too far with deadlines and the quality suddenly drops and the book or show becomes uninspired
36 Tattvas > 5 elements > 6 realms > 31 realms is my sorting order in terms of cosmologies I find generative
Oh zen disease is meditative depersonalization. I thought before looking it up it was something else
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Beautiful new result in statistical learning theory and probability: arxiv.org/abs/2610.24336
Aesthetic rapture is a really fun way to explore consciousness, very juicy and very easy to do with modern entertainment