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SE Gyges

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Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles. very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 51m

yeah it's really perfect for that

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 53m

if you're going to confront Death or something a shore is a perfectly good place to do it, it just seems like someone had to have had that idea first

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 56m

does (hat + man) equal (diphenhydramine), i wonder

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1h

Extremely funny from 3blue1brown

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 58m

this is what i am trying to get before actually! i have seen this motif at least three other places that are post-neuromancer and felt like it can't be totally original, I am convinced it's Bergman who is perhaps influenced by Wagner

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 1h

Neuromancer is from 1984 and this chapter is about 80% of the way through

And then, somehow, they stood in the surf, the three of them, and the boy's gums were wide and bright pink against his thin brown face. He wore ragged, colorless shorts, limbs too thin against the sliding blue-gray of the tide.
"I know you," Case said, Linda
beside him.
"No," the boy said, his voice high
and musical, "you do not."
"You're the other Al. You're Rio.
You're the one who wants to stop Wintermute. What's your name? Your Turing code. What is it?"

The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water.
His eyes were Riviera's, but there was no malice there. "To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case.
Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal.
True names ..."
"A Turing code's not your name."
"Neuromancer," the boy said, slitting long gray eyes against the rising sun. "The lane to the land of the dead. Where you are, my friend.
Marie-France, my lady, she prepared this road, but her lord choked her off before I could read the book of her days. Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead. But no, my friend," and the boy did a little dance, brown feet printing the sand, "I am the dead, and their land." He laughed. A gull cried. "Stay. If your woman is a ghost, she doesn't know it. Neither will you."

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 13h

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

wagner

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

ahahah. it's The Seventh Seal.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 7h

I have noticed sort of a pattern where a character ends up addressing a god or a supernatural being wearing a false face on a beach while in a dream or vision, generally towards the finale of a work. Is there an example of this one before about 1980?

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Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social · 8h

So guys, shining lasers at aircraft (any aircraft!) is a federal crime. You should not do that.

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OHSU air ambulance landings disrupted amid call to target federal helicopters with lasers

A call to shine laser lights into the sky to ground federal helicopters that have been flying over South Portland is sparking major concerns, and the possible d

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

gotta square it yeah, my understanding is that the order of growth being square is essential even if we are dividing by some n first

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

honestly leaky relu is much more intuitive to me and i feel like i want to try leaky relu^2 at some point

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

this is the first one i am finding but there've been a few of these. any time you a/b test relu^2 against the gated activation family it seems to win arxiv.org/abs/2402.03804

ReLU$^2$ Wins: Discovering Efficient Activation Functions for Sparse LLMs

Sparse computation offers a compelling solution for the inference of Large Language Models (LLMs) in low-resource scenarios by dynamically skipping the computation of inactive neurons. While tradition...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

yeah that seems right