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Marcus Aurelius Please Stop Owning Me From The Year Of Our Lord 170 CE challenge

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the Guardian

Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find

Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment

no gods no masters

My desk in October 2021

Impulse, instinct or intuition, Applied psychology, geometry and astronomy, 1919 

Earth fractals from above

“Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”

— Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading

NASA’s Webb Captures Dying Star’s Final ‘Performance’ in Fine Detail

I have a small jar on my desk where I just add new ideas, things I want to do more research on, books to read... So whenever I am bored and don't know what to do I can look for something in there.